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Dramatic growth in laws to protect environment, but widespread failure to enforce, finds report

24 Jan 2019 News in

Wildlife law and the empowerment of the poor

… see wildlife as a source of food. Some see wildlife habitat as potential timber or farmland. And some see … as well as any actions that remove a species from its habitat, destroy critical habitat, or otherwise harm, harass, … necessary, and provide full compensation for any resulting loss or injury (article 16). Other useful standards can also …
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Framework for Assessing and Improving Law for Sustainability - A Legal Component of a Natural Resource Governance Framework

… and hunger, achieving justice and equality, and halting loss of biodiversity. These goals are the most ambitious … surveys); biophysical evidence such as species or habitat loss, or other environmental outcomes; or economic … provided specifically for the protection of the aquatic habitat in South Australia through the creation of Aquatic …
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Transboundary Water Governance - Adaptation to Climate Change

… Coastal areas concentrate a rich diversity of natural habitat areas such as salt marshes, sea grasses, and … on canopy From intercepted TranspirationInterception loss Direct throughfall Source: Adapted from: FAO Mountainous … also contains a new provision for environmental flows and habitat restoration, which adds to a 2008 base-flow …
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Farmer's Rights in the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture

… are location-specific, evolving in time in a particular habitat and culture, but many of these knowledge systems … to formal breeding processes. It has been noted that the loss of biological diversity is parallel by the loss of traditional knowledge.14 . Traditional knowledge …
22 Jun 2026 Document in Biological Diversity

Free Prior and Informed Consent - An indigenous peoples' right and a good practice for local communities - Manual for project practitioners

… accessible to them and their lands, or the fish and animal habitat on which they customarily rely. • An aquaculture … fish escape or are accidentally released into wild fish habitat, they could destroy the habitat, inter-breed with and … of small farmers and landless peasants. The resulting loss of biodiversity (from replacing instead of improving the …
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Governance of Shared Waters - Legal and Institutional Issues

… 2 Water stress can be measured as follows: low (10% loss of total available water), moderate (loss of 10 to 20%), … of International Importance, especially as Waterfowl Habitat • (Ramsar, Iran, 1971); The 1992 Convention on the … of International Importance, especially as Waterfowl Habitat, was adopted in the city of Ramsar, Iran, on February …
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Introduction to International Environmental Governance (IEG) - extract from InforMEA e-learning course

… degradation manifested in problems such as deforestation, loss of biodiversity, pollution, soil erosion, decreasing …
01 Sep 2017 Course lesson in Environmental Governance

The Aarhus Convention:An implementation guide. UN/ECE Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-Making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters

… among those members of the public who have had to suffer a loss as a result of the final decision. In the absence of … of International Importance Especially as Water- fowl Habitat has set up a scientific and technical review panel …
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The Aarhus Convention: An implementation guide. Securing the public's rights through access to information, public participation and Access to justice for a healthy environment

… our world today, including climate change, biodiversity loss, poverty reduction, increasing energy demands, rapid …
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