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Dramatic growth in laws to protect environment, but widespread failure to enforce, finds report

24 Jan 2019 News in

Rights-based approaches - Exploring issues and opportunities for conservation

… by Cam pese, et al. The links between human rights and biodiversity and natural resource conservation are many and … and proposed reduced emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD) mechanisms. No one blueprint for … Chapter 12 Reduced emissions from deforestation and forest degradation 269 (REDD) and human rights Kathleen …
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Community Protocols for Environmental Sustainability: A Guide for Policymakers

… LifeWeb Initiative is a partnership platform for financing biodiversity that promotes protected areas conservation and … services; • Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+ schemes); • environmental … including rewards for enhancing carbon storage through forest restoration, rehabilitation and afforestation/ …
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Conservation with justice - A rights-based approach

… 60 vi 4 A Rights-based Approach to Forest Conservation … 65 II RBA in the Community Forest Management Context … considered as priority issues under the Convention on Biodiversity (CBD), with clearly rights-related challenges. … obligations.4 Conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity and ecosystems generally have to be taken into …
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Recognizing the indigenous territories as conservation areas in the Amazon Basin

… CONSIDERING that the Amazon Basin is the largest tropical forest ecosystem in the world, covering an area of 7.8 … million km2, and that it holds the greatest terrestrial biodiversity on the planet, for which it is a region of … have conserved and continue to conserve the ecosystems and biodiversity of their ancestral territories as a guarantee of …
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Judges and the rule of law. Creating the links: Environment, human rights and poverty

… forestry, land, water, fisheries, wildlife, food, biodiversity and genetic resources – literally hundreds of … big chunk of mineral wealth has already been extracted. Forest was destroyed for building ships and railways. … elite is the main beneficiary while the large rural and forest populations surviving on nature feel neglected. Thus, …
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Principles and concepts of international environmental law (Part 2) - extract from InforMEA e-learning course

… http://leo.informea.org/terms/forest http://leo.informea.org/terms/desert … Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention; also the 1992 Forest Principles 2(d), 5(a) and 12(d) refer to the … are not clearly defined. http://leo.informea.org/terms/biodiversity
21 Jun 2026 Course lesson in Environmental Governance

Compendium of Good Practices on Human Rights and the Environment

… environmental contamination and illegal logging and forest degradation in a national park, violated the … particular arable land, forests and the reserves of water, biodiversity, in particular native plant and animal species, … N H U M A N R I G H T S A N D T H E E N V I R O N M E N T forest protection and land protection. He also received a …
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On dangerous ground _ Global Witness

… de Dios on 19 November 2015. He led a movement to resist forest invasions into the biodiverse Tambopata region by … tirelessly to defend the Gurupi Reserve, a hot- bed of biodiversity in the province of Maranhão in Brazil’s Amazon … logging is rampant in Maranhão, where much of the Ama- zon forest has already been felled.36 At the frontiers of …
21 Jun 2026 Document in Environmental Governance

Compendiums on Human Rights and the Environment - Selected International legal materials and cases (Advanced Version)

… degradation. Air and water pollution, loss of biodiversity, land degradation, climate change, and other … erosion, as sources of clean water, food, wood and other forest products as well as having spiritual, cultural and … equitable access to and sharing of benefits derived from forest resources, including but not limited to genetic …
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