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… Centre Wetlands, Water and the Law Using law to advance wetland conservation and wise use Clare Shine and Cyrille de … Union Wetlands, Water and the Law Using law to advance wetland conservation and wise use IUCN - The World … No Net Loss Policies 230 18.3 Options for Wetland Mitigation, Compensation and Restoration 231 18.4 Future …

… climate change. Yangtze River: ‘soft’ flood control with a wetland ecosystem Prone to monsoon flooding, the Yangtze …

… Archaeology supplies ample evidence of the antiquity of wetland beliefs. Burial sites from 8,000 years ago in … religious taboos and local rules dictate the proper use of wetland resour- ces. At Lake Wassaya it is forbidden to hunt, … tems and traditions representing an important fea- ture of wetland cultural heritage – and at the same time often …

… throughout the world which have designated almost 600 wetland sites onto the Ramsar List of Wetlands of … the past decades. Ornithologists were the first to support wetland conservation, because they wished to maintain the … run to many hundreds of pages. In 1986 the subject was Mitigation of Impacts and Losses (456 pp.). With more than a …

… legal and institutional measures 11 3.1.1 Identify wetland-related legal and institutional measures 13 3.1.2 … base 15 3.2.1 Assess the effectiveness of existing wetland-related legal and institutional measures in promoting … wise use of wetlands, 4th edition 28 granted, any use of mitigation/compensation conditions and the use of monitoring …

… The wise use of wetlands 4.2.1 Establishment of national wetland policies 4.2.2 Knowledge of wetlands and their values 4.2.3 Action at particular wetland sites 4.3 Listed Sites 4.3.1 Criteria for identifying … for example, water storage; storm protection and flood mitigation; shoreline stabilization and erosion control; …

… photo: Spirit house next to a sacred tree in Xe Champhone wetland Photo credits: All photos © IUCN/Raphaël Glémet … 2011, the government established a National Committee for Wetland Management of the Ramsar Convention in Lao PDR and … to participate in activities related to protection, mitigation and restoration of the village environment …

… the region; RECALLING previous commitments to intertidal wetland conservation made by Ramsar Convention Contracting … for unavoidable residual damage, and monitoring to assess mitigation effectiveness and trigger adaptive management; e. …

… is located in a designated protected area or is subject to wetland preservation laws; The World Conservation Congress, … Charter, by the Ramsar Convention in its classification of wetland type, and by IUCN; 2. REQUESTS the World Commission … strategic actions of the FAO 'guidance for climate change mitigation by conservation, rehabilitation and sustainable …

… internationally on transboundary wetlands, shared wetland systems and shared species. www.ramsar.org World … The Ramsar Convention would like to see many more wetland sites receiving the protection that they need in … biological pest control, organic waste degradation, and mitigation of climate change effects. The harvesting of food …