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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

… 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 … phosphates from detergents, and the conservation and restoration of wetlands. • Increasing efforts to identify and …
25 May 2026 Literature

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 … 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

… International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM) UNESCO World … 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 …
25 May 2026 Document in Biological Diversity

European models of good practice in protected areas

… 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 … stone walls and stone- edged waterways. Fingers of grazed land stretch into the wooded hillsides. The relationship …
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Identification and gap analysis of key biodiversity areas : Targets for comprehensive protected area systems

… . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 17. How land tenure impacts the use of management data to delineate … (Tucker and Evans 1997). In the longer term, habitat restoration will be essential at this scale (Dobson et al. … area’ as used throughout this guide refers to “An area of land and/or sea especially dedicated to the protection and …
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Explaining Ocean Warming: Causes, scale, effects and consequences

… caused by ocean warming and expansion and the melting of land-based glaciers, insufficient attention has been given to … on climate change has focused on specific themes such as land surface temperatures, melting ice caps in Greenland and … assisted breeding and selection of resistant genotypes, restoration through translocation or substitution with …
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Evaluating effectiveness : A framework for assessing management effectiveness of protected areas

… 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 … targets (e.g. number of patrols run, paths built or restoration activities achieved). Outcomes reflect whether …
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Chemicals for a sustainable future; Report of the EEA Scientific Committee Seminar (Copenhagen, 17 May 2017)

… (February 2016); • Knowledge for transitions (May 2016); • Land as a resource (October 2016). 8 Chemicals for a … In environmental policies, mitigation, adaptation, restoration and avoidance are typical risk governance … cost to the federal government of remediating contaminated land and water — CAD 435 billion; • costs of pollution in …
25 May 2026 Document

The IUCN Red List Index for monitoring extinction risk

… manage forests, combat desertification, halt and reverse land degradation, and halt biodiversity loss"; AWARE that …
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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, … at finer scales for other applications, such as informing land-use planning at the local level. The methods are …
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