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Protected landscapes and cultural and spiritual values
… of people and nature over time, these places sustain biological and cultural diversity, as well as being valuable … ecological and/or cultural value, and often with high biological diversity. Safeguarding the in- tegrity of this … groundwa- ter aquifers are also highly susceptible to contamination and surveys by the Protectorate show that …
Introduction to Human Rights and the Environment - extract from InforMEA e-learning course
… to remedy existing pollution and to prevent future contamination which would threaten the lives and health of … on Persistent Organic Pollutants, the Convention on Biological Diversity, the United Nations Convention to Combat … defines the environment as “all the physical, chemical and biological factors external to a person, and all the related …
The Sacred Dimension of Protected Areas: Proceedings of the Second Workshop of the Delos Initiative - Ouranoupolis 2007
… few of them endemic or endan- gered, attest to the site’s biological and ecological significance. Degradation caused by … from a Yolngu cultural perspective, in which cultural and biological values have been inextri- cably linked since time … in T. Schaaf and C. Lee (eds.), Conserving Cultural and Biological Diversity: The Role of Sacred Natural Sites and …
Indigenous and traditional peoples and climate change
… and ensure the conservation of natural resources and of biological diversity in particular. Finally, IUCN and its … fear expropriation of their lands, displacement or loss of biological diversity and self-determination through project … their mothers to complete these tasks. Availability of biological diversity Traditional and indigenous communities …