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Global biodiversity outlook 4 - A mid-term assessment of progress towards the implementation of the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020

… Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, Food and Agricultural … taking steps to control and eradicate invasive alien species. For example, a growing number of eradications, … to reduce the likeli- hood of potentially invasive alien species being introduced, and making full use of risk …
17 Jun 2026 Literature

State of Biodiversity in Africa

… is home to some one quarter of the world’s 4,700 mammal species, including 79 species of antelope. It also has more … threat from rapidly increasing human-caused pollution. Alien invasive species have also contributed to biodiversity … impacts on the lake’s own fish species. Moreover, alien waterweeds, such as water hyacinth, are severely …
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Mapping Biodiversity Priorities - a practical, science-based approach to national biodiversity assessment and prioritisation to inform strategy and action planning

… biodiversity features. Additional biodiversity data e.g. species, ecological processes Ecological infrastructure or … cover change, overharvesting, water abstraction, invasive alien species) – What is the ecological condition of the … be focused? (e.g. through the removal of invasive alien species or rehabilitation of wetlands) ● Which sites …
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State of Biodiversity in Latin America and the Caribbean

… cent of its total mammals, 35 per cent of its reptilian species, 41 per cent of its birds and 50 per cent of its … pollution from nutrients, unsustainable use and invasive alien species). The third Global Environment Outlook report … by a combination of climate change, the introduction of alien species, pollution and unsustainable dam construction, …
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Evaluating effectiveness : A framework for assessing management effectiveness of protected areas

… project teams and action groups, focusing in particular on species and biodiversity conservation and the management of … the much more pervasive and damaging threat of invasive alien plants. So, as a direct result of the RAPPAM exercise, … attention to the issues of climate change and invasive alien species, but their relation to protected areas needs to …
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Explaining Ocean Warming: Causes, scale, effects and consequences

… warming: setting the scene 17 2 Cascading effects - from species to ecosystems to services 47 3.  … Changes in the Marine Vegetation of Atlantic Canada. In: Alien Invaders in Canada’s Waters, Wetlands, and Forests, … Kühn I, Zobel M, Bacher S, Botta-Dukát Z, Bugmann H. 2009. Alien species in a warmer world: risks and opportunities. …
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Climate Change and POPs: Predicting the Impacts

… down the food chain, i.e., whether top of the food chain species are most affected, causing a ripple down effect to lower trophic level species, or whether changes in lower trophic level species … A., 2007. Global change and marine communities: Alien species and climate change. Marine Pollution Bulletin, …
17 Jun 2026 Document

Managing Natural World Heritage - World Heritage Resource Manual

… of the site itself (e.g. tourism based on rare or iconic species, such as mountain gorillas, or important landscapes … diversity, including those containing threatened species of OUV from the point of view of science or … site; regulating agricultural practices to help prevent alien species or nutrient leaching into the site; • manage …
17 Jun 2026 Document in Biological Diversity

A moving target : Genetic resources and options for tracking and monitoring their international flows

… CITES Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora CSOLP certificate of source, … a terrible disease in an extract directly derived from one species, the reality of product discovery is far more complex … and Recommendations from the UN/Norway Conference on Alien Species, Trondheim, Norway; and GEF Evaluation Office, …
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Identification and gap analysis of key biodiversity areas : Targets for comprehensive protected area systems

… AZE site holds 13 Critically Endangered and Endangered species wholly restricted to it, more than any other AZE site … for conservation action based on irreplaceability, species-based vulnerability, site-based vulnerability and … Invasive and other problematic species and genes Invasive alien species Problematic native species Introduced genetic …
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