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Conservation and sustainable development in mountain areas
… 24% of the Earth’s Land Surface WCF Theme 3: Biodiversity Loss and Species Extinction – Managing Risk in a Changing … They can minimise fragmentation and the loss of habitat, and provide for the conservation needs of large and … for rural and indigenous communities, and providing habitat for threatened species. In spite of their …
Poverty and conservation: Landscapes, people and power
… widespread illegal use, which in some cases is leading to loss of biodiversity (Carey, Dudley and Stolton 2000). Recent … is not found anywhere else in the world, and provide the habitat for a freshwater plant with medicinal properties. … functions like carbon sequestration, watershed protection, habitat for endangered species, maintenance of landscape …
Global Warming of 1.5°C - an IPPC special report on the impacts of global warming
… impacts may be long-lasting or irreversible, such as the loss of some ecosystems (high confidence). {3.2, 3.4.4, … ice sheet instability in Antarctica and/or irreversible loss of the Greenland ice sheet could result in multi-metre … aquaculture via impacts on the physiology, survivorship, habitat, reproduction, disease incidence, and risk of …
Poverty, equity and rights in conservation : Technical papers and case studies
… of the property holders in the institutional framework, loss of exclusivity over material and/or immaterial yield), … (scrub oak, mixed coniferous and alpine meadow) provide habitat for many species. The timber mafia has plundered the … in cotton production, thereby exacerbating wildlife habitat loss from encroachment and uncontrolled fires. There …
Judges and the rule of law. Creating the links: Environment, human rights and poverty
… erosion, deforesta- tion, declining water tables and the loss of flora and fauna and the consequent subsis- tence … The statutory definition of “take and kill” included habitat destruction. The appellant citizen, who had objected … eagle in the world, the Philippine Eagle, a bird with a habitat range of some 5,000ha. What is interesting about this …