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Managing MIDAs - Harmonising the Management of Multi-Internationally Designated Areas: Ramsar Sites, World Heritage Sites, Biosphere Reserves and UNESCO Global Geoparks
… island off the coast of the Korean Peninsula. It has an area of 1,845.55 km2 and a population of 630,000 residents. … model conservation areas and an inspiration to our work in protected areas. IUCN is uniquely placed to support MIDAs. … Union for Conservation of Nature IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas Managing MIDAs vi Foreword by the …
Wetlands, water and the law. Using law to advance wetland conservation and wise use
… concerning the legal status of any country, territory, or area, or of its authorities, or concerning the delimitation … at National and Local Level 113 viii 9 Adapting Protected Area Instruments to Wetland Characteristics 115 9.1 Overview of Protected Area Objectives and Management Categories 115 9.2 …
Review of Statutory and Customary Law in the Xe Champhone Ramsar Site, LAO PDR - Implications for a rights-based approach to conservation
… concerning the legal status of any country, territory, or area, or of its authorities, or concerning the delimitation … 4 2.1 SPIRITUALLY PROTECTED AREAS … 11 2.4 NON-SPIRITUAL COMMUNAL PROTECTED AREAS … STATUTORY REGULATIONS THAT APPLY TO THE XE CHAMPHONE AREA ............................... 25 3.5.1 At Provincial …
Culture and wetlands: A Ramsar guidance document
… convinced UNESCO and UNEP to pursue joint work in this area. A 2003 UNEP Governing Council Resolu- tion5 on … The work of the CBD and its partners on inter alia protected areas and sacred sites, and on indicators towards … exhibitions; b) where fishing is an integral feature of protected wetland sites, favour tradi- tional sustainable …
Major components of the Ramsar Convention- extract from InforMEA e-learning course
… nature reserves for waterfowl either in the same area or elsewhere. The Convention classifies wetlands in … level dealing with water resources, development planning, protected areas, etcetera. NGO participation is also actively … https://www.informea.org/en/terms/protected-area …
Conservation of the East Asian-Australasian Flyway and its threatened waterbirds
… areas of most EAAF countries are Ramsar sites or protected areas; ACKNOWLEDGING the ongoing efforts of INGOs … at least 10% of the intertidal zone as sustainably managed protected areas; b. strengthening the Ramsar Convention … and capacity to manage them; c. strengthening protected area legislation and management, including increasing …
Securing the future for global peatlands
… that peatlands occupy 3% of the Earth’s land surface area yet store more carbon than all the world’s vegetation, … unless coincidentally peatland is located in a designated protected area or is subject to wetland preservation laws; … their legislation is strengthened to ensure peatlands are protected or managed through wise use principles; and 5. …
Note 5: Evaluating the risk to Ramsar Sites from climate change induced sea level rise
… (STRP), as part of its wetlands and climate change work area, for “information for wetland managers and … data is avail- able from the 2010 World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA). This yielded 466 official boundaries … through other mechanisms such as the World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA). …