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The Status and Distribution of Freshwater Biodiversity in Western Africa

… 5.4.1 Habitat degradation … electric power. Major current threats are identified as habitat loss and water pollution, in particular from sedimentation … for the value of these systems has already allowed the loss of many of the world’s wetlands and rates of species …
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Advancing the Species Conservation Agenda. An overview of the IUCN SSC Network 2009 – 2012

… 3. SSC Goal The extinction crisis and massive loss of biodiversity are universally adopted as a shared … 67% were found to be threatened, especially by ongoing habitat loss and fragmentation as the nickel mining industry … engage the Membership with the Secretariat and each other. Habitat loss & fragmentation; human-elephant conflict; …
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Legal aspects of Connectivity Conservation Volume 1 - A Concept Paper

… resource use laws 96 3.1.8 Specific ecosystem or habitat-type legislation 101 3.1.9 Hydrologic connectivity – … of soils 100 Box II(3)-5: General protection of special habitat types or zones in Denmark 102 Box II(3)-6: … ‘ecological islands’, less able to stem the accelerating loss of terrestrial and marine biodiversity and less able to …
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The 2004 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. A Global Species Assessment

… OF A GLOBAL SYNTHESIS WORKSHOP ON 'BIODIVERSITY LOSS AND SPECIES EXTINCTIONS: MANAGING RISK IN A CHANGING … Pacific. Although forests are the most important habitat type for both threatened birds and amphibians, … and on the Caribbean islands. What are the main pressures? Habitat destruction and degradation are by far the most …
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Global Re-introduction Perspectives: 2011 - More case studies from around the globe

… specialists whose aim is to combat the ongoing and massive loss of biodiversity by using re-introductions as a … large acreages of open conservation land that provide habitat for numerous state and federally-listed species. … westward into Nebraska. Little is known about its former habitat-use but current populations persist in open …
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Guidelines for Reintroductions and other Conservation Translocations (Version 1.0)

… acute pressures on much of the world’s biodiversity due to loss of habitats and reduction in their quality, biological … to confirm previous occupancy, the existence of suitable habitat within ecologically appropriate proximity to proven … that are both far from current range and separated by non-habitat areas, to those involving small range extensions into …
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Best practice guidelines for the re-introduction of great apes

… the Proposed Release Site is Within Range and Has Suitable Habitat ...................... 7 Behavioural Assessment and … taxon to be re-introduced, and include sufficient suitable habitat to support a self-sustaining population. (There is … (2002), IUCN Guidelines for the Prevention of Biodiversity Loss Caused by Alien Invasive Species (2000), Translocation …
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Conservation of the East Asian-Australasian Flyway and its threatened waterbirds

… use in the EAAF (faster than the rate of tropical forest loss), thus generating an urgent need for specific research … on endangered birds and their habitats and develops habitat mapping as a tool and knowledge basis for selection, … investments, programmes and activities for strengthening habitat and species protection along the EAAF; and 4. FURTHER …
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Special Issue on Wildlife Trafficking II

… II Home, Sweet Home: Prosecuting Endangered Species Act Habitat Modification Cases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . … 1 Home, Sweet Home: Prosecuting Endangered Species Act Habitat Modification Cases Elinor Colbourn Assistant Chief … those listed species continue to be threatened by habitat loss. The ESA contains a full range of administrative, civil, …
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An Ounce of Prevention: Snow Leopard Crime Revisited

… of law enforcement in the Snow Leopard’s remote montane habitat. Indeed, the survey found that an average of 23% of … trade may be more driven by rural people in Snow Leopard habitat attempting to make money and make up for livestock … results in an opportunity to make up for the financial loss by selling the captured or killed Snow Leopard. Figure 1 …
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