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Ecological Restoration for Protected Areas - Principles, Guidelines and Best Practices

… and Best Practices Prepared by the IUCN WCPA Ecological Restoration Taskforce Karen Keenleyside, Nigel Dudley, … protected areas in southern Australia 88 6.9 Restoring the land and honouring the history of Lyell Island in Gwaii … degraded. Humanity directly affects 83 per cent of the land surface (Sanderson et al., 2002) and 100 per cent of the …
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Guidelines for applying protected area management categories

… 66 Restoration and IUCN protected area categories … spiritual value. Covering almost 12 percent of the world’s land surface, the global protected area system represents a … be a general term that can embrace a very wide range of land and water management types that incidentally have some …
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Marine protected areas and climate change - Adaptation and mitigation synergies, opportunities and challenges

… to the influence of the shallow depths, and proximity to land and river flows. MAJOR CHANGES IN MARINE ECOSYSTEMS … of new designations of MPAs in the open ocean far from land. This report intends to provide the best available … of their degradation and take measures for their restoration to restore the health and productivity of the …
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Guidelines for Protected Areas Legislation

… 102 6.1 Easements and covenants attached to the land 102 6.2 Land trusts 103 Part III, Chapter 1: Generic elements of … be degraded could benefit from such initiatives as long as restoration focuses on primary conservation objectives, with …
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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

… coastal State comprises the submerged prolongation of the land territory of the coastal State - the seabed and subsoil … State, and are open to all States, whether coast- al or land-locked Freedom of the High Seas shall be exercised by … are needed for better balancing the preservation and restoration of coastal and ma- rine ecosystems with current …
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World Heritage, Wilderness and Large Landscapes and Seascapes

… Chapter 5: Implementing a wilderness and large land and seascapes approach under the Convention … International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property ICOMOS International Council … (SCBD 2014), were sobering: although more of the planet’s land and sea is under conservation management than ever …
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Sharing governance! A practical guide for marine protected areas in West Africa

… success or failure, humanity and the planet need as much land as possible that is unspoiled (or nearly un-spoiled), to … but have not benefited from conservation efforts like the land surface of the planet. Overfishing, the use of … includes the preservation, maintenance, sustainable use, restoration, and enhancement of the natural milieu”.4 The …
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Montenegro and marine protected areas: Legal and insituttional framework assessment for conservation of coastal and marine biodiversity and establishment of MPAs

… Mondial IMELS Italian Ministry of Environment, Land and Sea IUCN International Union for the Conservation of … of the western Balkans. The shoreline is a narrow strip of land (2-10 km wide) separated from the country by the high … by 2020, and as far as feasible, to provide for their restoration. This means that the NSSD and the goals of the …
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Framework for Assessing and Improving Law for Sustainability - A Legal Component of a Natural Resource Governance Framework

… and terrestrial ecosystems as well as weather patterns. Land, air, freshwater and marine pollution further threatens … biocapacity – the amount of biologically productive land and sea area that is available to regenerate these … and civil mechanisms that support the protection and restoration of the environment. It also includes mechanisms …
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Towards a strategy for high seas marine protected areas: Proceedings of the IUCN, WCPA and WWF Experts Workshop on High Seas Marine Protected Areas

… 80% of available volume compared to the 0.5% covered by land, oceans are the cradles of new species, habitats and … properly controlled and monitored. Waterborne rubbish from land and sea-based sources, especially plastics, harm marine … with the objective of implementing effective protection, restoration and sustainable use of biodiversity and ecosystem …
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