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Global Land Outlook
… of conservation, land and water management, and restoration, the core pathway to achieve the target on Land … events. Human-induced drivers such as deforestation, wetland drainage, overgrazing, unsustainable land use … local water availability and quality. The total value of wetland services is estimated at USD 70 billion per year for …
Law, Policy and Dryland Ecosystems in the People's Republic of China
… new national laws for water and soil conservation, wetland conservation, and soil pollution control; revision of … and the natural reserve system; closing forests for restoration; improving the EIA procedure and practical water … Inspection of Forest Diseases and Insect Pests Rules on Wetland Protection Administrative Regulations for Forest …
Land Degradation Neutrality: implications and opportunities for conservation - Nature based solutions to desertification, land degradation and drought
… Landscape Restoration … or net positive, outcomes through a combination of restoration and sustainable land management interventions. … to unsustainable outcomes. For example, degradation in one wetland should not be off-set by restoration of another wetland or degradation in a forest ecosystem should not be …
Wildlife law and the empowerment of the poor
… It focuses exclusively on the identification and restoration of species that have reached critically low … Selection for the Ramsar List should be based on the wetland's significance in terms of ecology, botany, zoology, … wise use; and have also a general obligation to include wetland conservation considerations in their national …
CITES and CBNRM. Proceedings of an international symposium on “The relevance of CBNRM to the conservation and sustainable use of CITES-listed species in exporting countries”
… latirostris) in Argentina: An economic incentive for wetland conservation by local inhabitants Alejandro Larriera … use of biological diversity; the rehabilitation and restoration of degraded ecosystems; the recovery of … latirostris) in Argentina: An economic incentive for wetland conservation by local inhabitants Alejandro Larriera, …
ITTO/IUCN guidelines for the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity in tropical timber production forests
… on natural production forests, planted forests, the restoration, management and rehabilitation of degraded and … 9. Yokohama, Japan. ITTO (2002). ITTO Guidelines for the Restoration, Management and Rehabilitation of Degraded and … incremental cost framework to biodiversity conservation: a wetland case study in Malaysia. CSERGE Working Paper GEC …
Integrating biodiversity conservation and sustainable use: Lessons learned from ecological networks
… areas managed for nature conservation purposes and nature restoration areas. The process of delineating the network is … programmes, awareness- raising, capacity-building, restoration of degraded lands Community-development projects, …
Drafting legislation for sustainable soils: A guide
… 1999, Wetlands, Water and the Law. Using law to advance wetland conservation and wise use, IUCN, Gland, Switzerland … productivity and profitability, enhanced protection and restoration of biodiversity, and more people taking an active … soil evaluation and planning, soil rehabilitation and soil restoration programs, including: ■ The administrative …
Biodiversity: My hotel in action - A guide to sustainable use of biological resources in the Caribbean
… in preference to man-made alternatives. For example, restoration of coastal marshes and vegetation is used as an … in Ramsar, Iran, in 1971. Currently there are 1,932 Ramsar wetland sites, totalling almost 188 million hectares. … celebrate Earth Day, International Biodiversity Day, World Wetland Day or World Tourism Day, or in cleaning up a beach, …
Implementing Sustainable Bioenergy Production. A Compilation of Tools and Approaches
… Resource tools 13 4.4 Forestry tools 15 4.5 Ecosystem Restoration tools 16 4.6 Protected Area tools 17 4.7 … objectives such as conservation and ecosystem restoration. 4 Environmental Tools Many of the current … on Biological Diversity, the Ramsar Convention on Wetland, and the Convention on Migratory Species (CMS) have …