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Values of protected landscapes and seascapes: protected landscapes and agrobiodiversity values

… Protected Landscapes and Agrobiodiversity Values1 Values of Protected Landscapes and Seascapes Edited by Thora Amend, … tion and sustainable development that they deserve special protection. Where effective national or local conservation … in particular: (1) the wild relatives of domesticated species (for example crop wild relatives from which …
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Factsheet - Protected Areas

… effective means, to achieve the long-term conservation of nature with associated ecosystem services and cultural values. The establishment of comprehensive, ecologically representative, effectively … food and health security by maintaining crop diversity and species with economic and/or subsistence value n Protected …
25 May 2026 Document in Biological Diversity

Wilderness Protected Areas: Management Guidelines for IUCN categories 1b protected areas

… equitably and sustainably, and to cope with the myriad of challenges faced in practice. They also assist national … use and impacts are controlled and limited to ensure protection of the conservation values Ib Wilderness area: … large-scale ecological processes with characteristic species and ecosystems, which also have environmentally and …
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Forests and protected areas : Guidance on the use of the IUCN protected area management categories

… international priority for conservation. The IUCN system of Protected Area Management Categories is an important tool … project teams and action groups, focusing in particular on species and biodiversity conservation and the management of … 3 Basic concepts 3 The value of forests 4 Forest protection, management and restoration 4 Challenges and …
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Guidelines for Protected Areas Legislation

… Françoise Burhenne Author Project Director The designation of geographical entities in this book, and the presentation … Precautionary approach 33 3.5 Managing for invasive alien species 34 3.6 Managing for climate change 37 3.7 Taking an … on Biological Diversity 48 5.1.2 Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage 50 …
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The Futures of Privately Protected Areas

… Kent H. Redford and Nigel Dudley, with the assistance of: William (Bill) M. Adams, Elisa Corcuera and Brent A. … use and impacts are controlled and limited to ensure protection of the conservation values Ib Wilderness area: … large-scale ecological processes with characteristic species and ecosystems, which also have environmentally and …
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Supporting privately protected areas

… areas ACKNOWLEDGING the valuable work and the report of the Futures of Privately Protected Areas project and its proposed concept … (UNFCCC), the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS), the Ramsar Convention and …
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Protected landscapes and cultural and spiritual values

… 1 Values of Protected Landscapes and Seascapes Values of Protected … O. Sarmiento, César Cotacachi and Lee Ellen Carter How protection took the beauty from the land: conflicting values … and which has impacts on the diversity of genes, other species and ecosystems” (UNEP 2008). Since there is this …
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Establishing marine protected area networks

… Many of these issues are highly inter-related, but have been … networks may have different uses and levels of protection within them, but all should include reserves or … and marine habitats, slow the loss of endangered marine species, and restore depleted fisheries. What is an mpa …
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Establishing an IUCN and World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA) Task Force on Protected Area Friendly System

… that biodiversity plays a vital role for the survival of human beings, but that, according to the 2015 WWF Living … Index, during the last 40 years, the global population of terrestrial vertebrates has been reduced by nearly 50%, … chemicals, the introduction of monocultures and alien species with high economic value, disturbance from excessive …
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