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The Status and Distribution of Freshwater Biodiversity in Western Africa

… 3.4.2 Water pollution … 7.4.1 Water abstraction and drought … habitat which only covers an estimated 0.8% of the world’s surface area (Gleick 1996). 1.1.2 Major threats to freshwater … as exemplified by Lake Chad, which has shrunk from a surface area of 25,000 km2 in the early 1960s to around 1,350 …
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Global Re-introduction Perspectives: 2011 - More case studies from around the globe

… EAD also works to ensure integrated and sustainable water resources management, and to ensure clean air and … 80 g - 180 g quail carcasses are placed on the soil surface for the beetles to bury and prepare as a food source … after stocking, generally preferring the middle surface areas of the river. Other NSH waited until dawn …
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Legal aspects of Connectivity Conservation Volume 1 - A Concept Paper

… ecosystem processes, and meet human needs, including water production, soil conservation, and marine nutrient … grazing by domestic animals, and hunting; and 6) surface water and rain quality (for example, sediment load. … the protected areas. Indeed, the bulk of the Earth’s surface is not in protected areas. This means that the future …
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Avoiding extinction in limestone karst areas

… which in most situations hold vast amounts of clean water within a groundwater aquifer held within the limestone … contain unique ecosystems, which are very susceptible to water quality and quantity changes, for example contamination … forests, and many other extractive uses; and that ensuring water resources are uncontaminated in these limestone areas …
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Increasing marine protected area coverage for effective marine biodiversity conservation

… NOTING that the ocean covers 71% of the earth’s surface; CONCERNED that pollution, over-exploitation, … By 2020, at least 17 per cent of terrestrial and inland water, and 10 per cent of coastal and marine areas, …
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Connectivity Conservation: International Experience in Planning, Establishment and Management of Biodiversity Corridors

… areas too small to allow them to find adequate food, water, mates, or refuge from predators. As habitats continue … connections between habitats. Corridors provide land or water pathways that link protected areas with one another, … in 1994. Although covering only 0.5% of the world’s land surface, Mesoamerica is home to about 7% of the planet’s …
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Special Issue on Wildlife Trafficking II

… a poultry processor pleaded guilty to violating the Clean Water Act and the ESA after it discharged polluted storm … masking the sometimes dire situation lurking below the surface and causing fishery management schemes to fail. … any African elephant tusk, and any piece thereof, the surface of which, polished or unpolished, is unaltered or …
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International ocean governance: Using international law and organisations to manage marine resources sustainably (revised)

… a series of relationships between large marine ecosystems, water- sheds, national boundaries, and regional ocean … predators are removed that feed on algae attached to the surface of corals, allowing algal growth to smother the … assessment of organic car- bon accumulation in surface coastal sediments; changes in plankton community …
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Best practice guidelines for the re-introduction of great apes

… latter is chosen, indefinite provisioning with food and water, and active population management of the re-introduced … proposed release site, including seasonal availability of water and foods (phenology studies) preferred by the great … this with certainty with our current testing (the surface antigen testing is highly sensi- tive, but not very …
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Reference Guide - European Union Wildlife Trade Regulations

… of pieces only if the coral specimens are transported in water. Culture CUL no. of flasks, etc. Cultures of … animals and plants. Specimens of live coral transported in water should be recorded by number of pieces only. Leaf LVS … feathers, scales small, sometimes tiny pieces of skin surface in a tube (up to 10 ml in volume) with or without …
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