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Ecological Restoration for Protected Areas - Principles, Guidelines and Best Practices
… Park, Indonesia by blocking canals built to facilitate logging operations which took place in the area before … changes affect even well-managed protected areas, while illegal encroachment of people into the protected area, … local people as ‘honorary rangers’ to help remove illegal snares. More than 270 illegal snares have been …
Cost and benefits of ecosystem based adaptation: The case of the Philippines
… value of USD3, 300/ha (World Bank, 2009). • Tourism V Logging in Palawan A study was conducted in El Nido in Bacuit … 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 …
Global Land Outlook
… 200,000 km of unofficial roads,41 often associated with logging,42 and unpredictable in their development.43 Over 20 … 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 …
Legal aspects of Connectivity Conservation Volume 1 - A Concept Paper
… on-site stresses such as poor management, pollution, illegal logging or fishing, introduction of invasive alien species, … This may occur even where those activities are illegal and the resources are already depleted (Mora and …
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 … natural resources is a critical problem in Peru. Illegal logging, for example, is very hard to control and is … exploit specific valuable timber species. These selective logging activities accelerate ecosystem degradation. …
The green belt of Europe: From vision to reality
… forests started to become endangered due to excessive logging. Consequently an inventory project on border-forests … 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 …
Law, Policy and Dryland Ecosystems in the People's Republic of China
… protective land management measures or orders to restrict illegal conduct that is threatening sustainable use of … management has been poor and development uncoordinated. Illegal occupancy of grassland occurs due to unclear … have been launched, where the major policy instrument is a logging ban and a standard compensation scheme. The …
Helping nature help us - Transforming disaster risk reduction through ecosystem management
… challenges such as ecosystem loss and degradation, illegal logging, pollution, overexploitation of marine resources and … of biodiversity as a result of multiple threats, including illegal wildlife trade, habitat loss, climate change, air and …
Green Infrastructure Guide for Water Management: Ecosystem-based management approaches for water-related infrastructure projects
… kg per hectare per year, despite some tree losses due to logging and extreme weather events. Harmful pollutants … Hong and Tien’e Zhou have been seasonally re-opened and illegal and uneconomic aquaculture facilities and other … (such as replanting mangroves, reducing upland logging and replanting stream buffers) were several times …