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… commitments and goals, and especially the Convention on Biological Diversity’s Programme of Work on Protected Areas. … produced a distinct character with significant ecological, biological, cultural and scenic value: and where safeguarding … efforts to ‘remediate’ ecosystems (e.g., remove chemical contamination), or ‘rehabilitate’ ecosystems (e.g., recover …

… of people and nature over time, these places sustain biological and cultural diversity, as well as being valuable … ecological and/or cultural value, and often with high biological diversity. Safeguarding the in- tegrity of this … groundwa- ter aquifers are also highly susceptible to contamination and surveys by the Protectorate show that …

… to climate change. It refers to reduction or loss of the biological or economic productivity and complexity of land, … pro-actively in the implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and the United Nations Framework … of degradation. Some forms of degradation, such as soil contamination with heavy metals or extreme salinization, can …

… over time, they play an important role in sustaining biological and cultural diversity. The many different kinds … ecological and/or cultural value, and often with high biological diversity. Safeguarding the integrity of this … environmental problems, the most serious of which is the contamination of underground water by nitrates. At present, …

… Instruments Relevant to Wetlands 33 3.3 Convention on Biological Diversity (1992) 37 3.4 Action on the Ground: the … language. We have seen the adoption of the Convention on Biological Diversity and other instruments that extend … from roads and human settlements. The effects of such contamination are cumulative and can adversely affect …

… few of them endemic or endan- gered, attest to the site’s biological and ecological significance. Degradation caused by … from a Yolngu cultural perspective, in which cultural and biological values have been inextri- cably linked since time … in T. Schaaf and C. Lee (eds.), Conserving Cultural and Biological Diversity: The Role of Sacred Natural Sites and …

… <www.iucnredlist.org>. 7 Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (2010). ‘Executive Summary’. Global … key tool for protecting and conserving habitats and marine biological diversity. Much like land-based national parks, … the 10th Conference of the Parties of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in 2000 adopted the Aichi …

… of Sydney (IUCN 2014), and mirrored in the Convention on Biological Diversity’s Global Biodiversity Outlook 4 (SCBD … value (vii), geological value (viii), ecological and biological processes (ix) and biodiversity (x). The … pressure on the region’s Indigenous Peoples in the form of contamination, diseases and wildlife depletion. While …

… and includes the primary purpose of the Convention on Biological Diversity – “the conservation of biological diversity, the sustainable use of its components … of populations from elsewhere may result in the genetic contamination of local populations. Box 2.4 Promoting …

… instruments, terrestrial environments 57 1.1 Convention on Biological Diversity 58 1.2 Climate Change Convention 60 1.3 … of Atlantic Salmon in Scotland CBD Convention on Biological Diversity CIFOR Center for International Forestry … scale disturbances (such as over-harvesting, large-scale contamination) need different strategies to protect marine …