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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
… Biodiversity Outlook 4 (ISBN- 92-9225-539-8) is an open access publication, subject to the terms of the Creative … our planet by a greater population, by climate change, and land degradation. �e work of the Parties will need to … degrees Celsius warming and combating desertification and land degradation. However, reaching these joint objectives …
Voluntary Guidelines on National Forest Monitoring
… livelihoods and poverty reduction, governance and broader land use issues has become critical for national planning. … faces increasingly diverse information needs regarding land use and forest resources. This information is also … also use the information, for example, to track equitable access to forest benefits between men and women or between …
State of Biodiversity in Africa
… areas have been expanded in number and extent, both on land and in coastal waters. In Eastern and Southern Africa, 14.6 per cent of the region’s total land area is protected. This compares to 10.5 per cent of … on the Move to 2010, UNEP 2008). 5. On the issue of access to genetic resources and the sharing of the benefits …
Mapping Biodiversity Priorities - a practical, science-based approach to national biodiversity assessment and prioritisation to inform strategy and action planning
… condition where possible. Constraints e.g. conflicting land-uses Opportunities e.g. conservation initiatives Step 5: … document has broader relevance to anyone operating in a land, catchment or ocean management or spatial planning role, … developer was, and what format they are in. Promote easy access to the products, such as through an online repository. …
Guidelines for public use measurement and reporting at parks and protected areas
… Wayne Schmidt, all of the Department of Conservation and Land Management of Western Australia provided a coordinated … and traffic from residents of villages surrounded by park land. Traffic for which counts are adjusted includes traffic … activities. Measurements from zones of use and avenues of access indicate optimal fee collection locations as well as …
Managing Natural World Heritage - World Heritage Resource Manual
… aimed explicitly at World Heritage managers and staff. • Access to dedicated support units at UNESCO Headquarters in … an outstanding example of a traditional human settlement, land-use, or sea-use which is representative of a culture (or … often led to communities being forcibly relocated from land that had in some cases been their traditional homelands …
State of Biodiversity in Latin America and the Caribbean
… (namely, in Colombia, Brazil, Mexico and Peru). 14. Access and benefit-sharing and traditional knowledge, … trend in all the five main pressures on biodiversity (land degradation, climate change, pollution from nutrients, … the greatest risks to biodiversity stem from the change of land use, with the consequent reduction, fragmentation and …
Evaluating effectiveness : A framework for assessing management effectiveness of protected areas
… managing and monitoring impacts arising from rainforest access and visitation; conservation principles and … Protected areas now cover over 10 per cent of the world’s land surface and are increasing rapidly in marine areas as … managed. Unfortunately, the commitment to setting aside land and water has yet to be always matched with similar …
Identification and gap analysis of key biodiversity areas : Targets for comprehensive protected area systems
… managing and monitoring impacts arising from rainforest access and visitation; conservation principles and … . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 17. How land tenure impacts the use of management data to delineate … area’ as used throughout this guide refers to “An area of land and/or sea especially dedicated to the protection and …
European models of good practice in protected areas
… to local villages is ca. € 500,000 per year. In Zone A, access is only permitted by a per- mit, and then mainly for … Zone C obviously equates with Category V (Protected Land- scape) though the latter are usually much larger. And … of Opi. Zone C is a small part of the park, containing land farmed in traditional ways. Abruzzo has some of the …