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Urban Protected Areas: Profiles and best practice guidelines

… picnicking, exercise, camping, diving, boating, fishing and nature study. There are nature education centres … by water pollution, trash and trespassing, including for illegal fishing and bird-hunting. There is no guard station. … of the risk of fire. Offshore, the main threats are from illegal fishing and taking of coral, invasive alien species, …
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In the front line : Shoreline protection and other ecosystem services from mangroves and coral reefs

… by 2030. Threats include overfishing, use of destructive fishing methods, coral mining, pollution, sedi- mentation, … nets and nets that are dragged over the seabed, although illegal in many countries, are still used and cause … to rubble, large areas of reef. Although coral mining is illegal or regulated in most countries, it is still having a …
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Ecological Restoration for Protected Areas - Principles, Guidelines and Best Practices

… changes affect even well-managed protected areas, while illegal encroachment of people into the protected area, … in spillover beyond its borders that can supply local fishing communities with sustainable sources of protein. … local people as ‘honorary rangers’ to help remove illegal snares. More than 270 illegal snares have been …
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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

… Heritage Site ZPr Zone de pêche réglementée (regulated fishing area) x European Union Overseas Coastal and Marine … ment of marine conservation efforts and combat- ting illegal activities in EU Overseas waters • Giving special … 2020, effectively regulate harvesting and end overfishing, illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing and destructive …
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Cost and benefits of ecosystem based adaptation: The case of the Philippines

… (stable supply of good quality water, flood control, fishing and recreational value, biodiversity) to households … area was once 85.43 ha, today only 56 ha remain, due to illegal cutting and expansion of residential areas. Another … and which face a constant threat from encroachment and illegal logging; and 2) Mangrove planting: This is protecting …
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Global Land Outlook

… to the land during the rainy season, with varying types of fishing permitted; farmers plant crops during the dry season; … crop production.68 Mining – particularly when it is illegal and thus unregulated – also creates high levels of … low capacity of public agencies, corruption, and illegal activities have all been identified as indirect …
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The green belt of Europe: From vision to reality

… river, where the state border is. On the Austrian side, fishing has already been significantly restricted and may be … summer holidays. In 2003, in Albania for the first time illegal houses were destroyed and the Administration is … itself stayed in a close-to-natural condition, free of illegal building. Open shallow lakes in the depression …
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Payments for Ecosystem Services - Legal and Institutional Frameworks

… from one’s property, can here serve as a defence against illegal exploitation. As mentioned before in Chapter 3, … 95 3.5 Protection from Illegal … subsistence communities such as riverside populations, fishing communities, and extractive communities who live … their income from activities related to family farming or fishing. The programme did not define how someone was to …
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Shared resources: Issues of governance

… convention.11 The major problem has been unreported and illegal catches, most of them made by non-Parties to the … over half of the Patagonian toothfish catch is taken by illegal fishing conducted from countries that are not party to the …
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Safeguarding the contribution of wild living resources and ecosystems to food security

… and ecosystem services between small-holder farming and fishing systems and industrial large-scale food production, … cooperation frameworks aimed at reducing the impacts of illegal, unreported and unregulated fisheries, and to …
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