Search results
16 Results
Sorted by relevance
Increasing marine protected area coverage for effective marine biodiversity conservation
… marine protected area coverage for effective marine biodiversity conservation NOTING that the ocean covers 71% of … pollution, over-exploitation, warming, acidification and biodiversity loss in the ocean are occurring at rapid or … rates and human impacts have reached the distant polar regions and the high seas; AWARE that effectively …
Protected Areas in East Asia: Evaluating and strengthening implementation of the CBD Programme of Work on Protected Areas and the East Asian Regional Action Plan
… of such reviews should be used in developing National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (NBSAPs) and … a range of workshops on wetlands, global warming and polar conservation, and implementation of the PoWPA Number of … a range of workshops on wetlands, global warming and polar conservation, and implementation of the PoWPA • Climate …
World Heritage, Wilderness and Large Landscapes and Seascapes
… the role of the Convention in protecting the planet’s biodiversity and in positioning the worlds’ most iconic … Central Pacific 17,414,445.1 1,876,671.8 10.8% Antarctic Polar Front 2,248,136.2 1,002,555.5 44.6% Subantarctic … very large wilderness areas are found in the Antarctic Polar Front (1 million km2, 44.6%), Subantarctic (802,858 …
Achieving representative systems of protected areas in Antarctica and the Southern Ocean
… networks of marine protected areas (MPAs), Aichi Biodiversity Target 11 on terrestrial and marine protection … having no extractive activities; RECOGNISING that Aichi Biodiversity Target 11 further recommends that conserved … Treaty); and c. include Antarctica in its policy and polar priorities and to mobilise adequate resources for this …
Adapting to Climate Change - Guidance for Protected Areas Managers and Planners
… below. Ia Strict nature reserve: Strictly protected for biodiversity and also possibly geological/ geomorphological … ecological regions are rapidly changing, especially in polar, alpine, coral and forest ecosystems. … and the addition of freshwater from melting glaciers and polar ice caps. There is evidence that global Protected areas …
African solutions in a rapidly changing world: nature-based solutions to climate change by African innovators in protected areas
… Global Protected Areas Programme & Global Marine and Polar Programme Rue Mauverney 28 1196 Gland Switzerland Tel … local responses that also achieve mutual benefits for biodiversity conservation and community resilience. Inger … species (octopus, holothurians) and provided strict biodiversity havens within the Mohéli island ecosystem. • The …
Forests and protected areas : Guidance on the use of the IUCN protected area management categories
… and action groups, focusing in particular on species and biodiversity conservation and the management of habitats and … policies. They play a critical role in conservation of biodiversity, maintaining genetic resources, protecting … and the vast boreal forests that stretch around the sub-polar regions. Through mangrove ecosystems, they even include …
International environmental governance: An international regime for protected areas
… culminating in the recognition, by the adoption of the Biodiversity Convention, that: n biological diversity … protected areas has come with the recognition that biodiversity is also crucial for human survival. As noted by Bernie and Boyle, ‘biodiversity is a non-renewable resource’.22 Along with this …
The Sacred Dimension of Protected Areas: Proceedings of the Second Workshop of the Delos Initiative - Ouranoupolis 2007
… play in envir- onmental conservation, the protection of biodiversity and, ultimately, the sustaina- ble management of … (Cerchneis tinnunclus). There is a unique colony of Polar tern (Sterna paradisea) on Malaya Muksalma island; … in Northwest Russia” in C. Hall and M. Johnston, (eds.), Polar Tourism – Tourism in the Arctic and Antarctic Re- …