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Two dams on the Santa Cruz River in Argentina: Their impact on an irreplaceable ecosystem and on the hooded grebe (Podiceps gallardoi) population, a Critically Endangered species endemic to Argentina

… (Podiceps gallardoi) population, a Critically Endangered species endemic to Argentina OBSERVING that in 2012 a project … is a key site for the hooded grebe (Podiceps gallardoi), a species endemic to Argentina and Critically Endangered (IUCN Red List of Threatened Species); CONCERNED because the dams will involve …
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Guidelines for the application of IUCN Red List of Ecosystems Categories and Criteria (Version 1.0)

… By targeting a level of biological organisation above species, the IUCN Red List of Ecosystems complements The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™. The IUCN Red List of Ecosystems … Endangered (CR), Endangered (EN), Vulnerable (VU), Near Threatened (NT), Least Concern (LC), Data Deficient (DD), and …
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Legal aspects of Connectivity Conservation Volume 1 - A Concept Paper

… Climate Change Convention 60 1.3 Convention on Migratory Species 61 1.4 Ramsar Convention 63 1.5 World Heritage … land use plans 115 Box II(3)-12: Development control under threatened species legislation 117 Box II(3)-13: Development … sites in marine and coastal waters are even more threatened. In 2010, designated marine protected areas in …
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Urban Protected Areas: Profiles and best practice guidelines

… large-scale ecological processes with characteristic species and ecosystems, which also have environmentally and … and key educational and cultural institutions; • Are threatened by urban sprawl and intensifica- tion of urban … close to communications media and opinion leaders; • Are threatened by urban sprawl and intensification of urban …
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Ecological Restoration for Protected Areas - Principles, Guidelines and Best Practices

… large-scale ecological processes with characteristic species and ecosystems, which also have environmentally and … update calls for availability of at least 20 per cent of threatened plant species for recovery and restoration … and restoration may be needed to maintain or recover threatened populations. At a larger scale, protected areas …
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Global Land Outlook

… temperatures, changing rainfall patterns, soil erosion, species loss and increased water scarcity will likely alter … past decade, the future of small-scale farmers has been threatened by the rise of commercial value chains, driven by … many of which we take for granted and which are now threatened by land degradation and/or declines in …
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Building Resilience to climate change - Ecosystem-based adaptation and lessons from the field

… have shown significant changes in ecosystem and species distributions, principally due to increasing … is an area with (still) lots of great wetlands, threatened by population increases, migration and climate change. Some of the wetlands are probably also threatened by the construction of a dam in the Niger River at …
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European Union overseas coastal and marine protected areas - overview of coastal and marine conservation efforts in the European Union's overseas countries and territories and outermost regions

… in EU Overseas MPAs & MPA networks 131 5 Marine Invasive Species 136 5 1 The threat of invasive lionfish in the … particular species or habitats, such as hab- itats or threatened species or areas important for vulnera- ble life … EU Overseas marine conservation efforts IUCn Red list of threatened Species The IUCN Red List of Threat- ened Species, …
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Helping nature help us - Transforming disaster risk reduction through ecosystem management

… 3.1.1 Importance of species diversity for ecological resilience … and livelihoods of humans and ecosystems are not only threatened but vulnerability to natural hazards has also … 2% to 40% and approximately 95 million hectares of land threatened with irreversible degradation (UNEP, 2007). This …
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Shared resources: Issues of governance

… Law School, Washington, DC. 2 Convention on Migratory Species (1979), Berne Convention on European Wildlife (1979), … and sorting out the role for hatcheries in restoring threatened and endangered salmon populations are ongoing … remedial measures, such as restricting catches, restocking threatened populations, and habitat improvement projects, …
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