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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

… healthy concen- trations of biodiversity, livelihoods, ecosystem services, natural habitats, and food security can … these are far outweighed by the value of the ecosystem services provided by forests. �is report finds that … phosphates from detergents, and the conservation and restoration of wetlands. • Increasing efforts to identify and …
21 Jun 2026 Literature

State of Biodiversity in Africa

… disruption to local communities, the economy and the ecosystem. Source: http://ramsar.org/key_montreux_record.htm … reefs continue to decline, threatening highly valuable ecosystem services, including the removal of significant … the impacts of agriculture and extractive industries; the restoration of degraded ecosystems; the Namib Desert, Namibia …
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Managing Natural World Heritage - World Heritage Resource Manual

… Rights in Relation to Protected Areas • Jon Day, Director, Ecosystem Conservation and Sustainable Use, Great Barrier … International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM) UNESCO World … the long-term conservation of nature with associated ecosystem services and cultural values’, and has defined six …
21 Jun 2026 Document in Biological Diversity

European models of good practice in protected areas

… dead wood, show- ing the importance of that element in the ecosystem. Many are very immobile and so may well have died …
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Identification and gap analysis of key biodiversity areas : Targets for comprehensive protected area systems

… D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund, the Gordon and Betty Moore … www.biodiv.org/doc/publications/pa-text-en.pdf Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund: www.cepf.net Global Amphibian … (Tucker and Evans 1997). In the longer term, habitat restoration will be essential at this scale (Dobson et al. …
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Chemicals for a sustainable future; Report of the EEA Scientific Committee Seminar (Copenhagen, 17 May 2017)

… continue to affect the long-term human health and ecosystem resilience, in Europe and globally. Pollution is … the overall environmental burden of chemicals on human and ecosystem health, broader approaches are needed. Assessing … In environmental policies, mitigation, adaptation, restoration and avoidance are typical risk governance …
21 Jun 2026 Document

Explaining Ocean Warming: Causes, scale, effects and consequences

… to coral reefs, but stories to changes across species and ecosystem scales, and across geographies and the world. It is … are melting and biological processes at cellular to ecosystem scales are altering, all of which are strongly … assisted breeding and selection of resistant genotypes, restoration through translocation or substitution with …
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The IUCN Red List Index for monitoring extinction risk

… Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), United Nations Environment …
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Evaluating effectiveness : A framework for assessing management effectiveness of protected areas

… targets (e.g. number of patrols run, paths built or restoration activities achieved). Outcomes reflect whether … areas - 2nd edition Ecological Socio-economic and cultural Ecosystem services/ functions Catchment management and water … mitigation Clean air/pollution mitigation Biodiversity Ecosystem level Species level (rare and threatened, indicator …
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Effective planning strategies for managing environmental risk associated with geophisical and other imaging surveys - A resource guide for managers

… and biological data – biotic and abiotic features of the ecosystem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . … and biological data (biotic and abiotic features of the ecosystem), including the identification and evaluation of … sensitive species and other species that may be impacted, ecosystem features, and physical aspects of the environment; …
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