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Significant Trade in Wildlife: A Review of selected species in CITES Appendix II - Volume 2 Reptiles and Invertibrates
… required, as is clarification of the claimed ranching or farming operations in Argentina DISTRIBUTION Rather widespread in the dry lowlands of central South America, centred on the Chaco … deeper pallet is formed for shelter during cold and dry periods. Each tortoise has an activity range of about 30 …
Ramsar Technical Report 7: Ramsar Wetland Disease Manual
… water diseases to groundwater. • Variations in rainfall/dry season patterns – the Ebola virus is linked to unusual … and global movement of domestic animals for trade and farming can help to spread disease and also introduce novel … but that, as the hinterland of this wetland was rather dry, movements of >3 km were unlikely. This influenced the …
A guide to the complementarities between the Convention on Migratory Species and the Convention on Biological Diversity
… Biodiversity 20 4.4 Agricultural Biodiversity 21 4.5 Dry and Sub-humid Biodiversity 22 5.0 Intersections with CBD … ecosystems, forest ecosystems, agricultural ecosystems, dry land ecosystems, mountain ecosystems and even urban … for other uses such as wildlife viewing, hunting and game farming. Also recognised is the need for protected areas to …
Significant Trade in Wildlife: A Review of selected species in CITES Appendix II - Volume 1 Mammals
… achieved. REFERENCES Anon. (1984). A survey of wildlife farming operations. Confidential report by the Wildlife Trade … National Park; also ranges to the isolated patches of dry forest along the major rivers in the north of the park. … wet evergreen, moist evergreen, moist semi-dec iduots and dry semi-deciduous forest (Olson, 1976), also occurs in …
ASEAN Handbook on legal cooperation to combat wildlife crime
… of captive breeding, artificial propagation and wildlife farming operations shall be determined by a Prakas issued by … everywhere, including airports, seaports, river-ports, dry-port, territorial borders, bus stations, train stations … everywhere, including airports, seaports, river-ports, dry-port, territorial borders, bus stations, train stations …
Significant Trade in Wildlife: A Review of selected species in CITES Appendix II - Volume 3 Birds
… an irruption of birds from Tanzania during an exceptional dry period (Vande Weghe, 1981). Tanzania Widespread in the … Sick (1984) describes it as occurring in both humid and dry terrain. In Brazil it favours gallery forest, deciduous … of the Sierra de las Ninas, but did not see them in the dry winter months. Honduras Said to be generally the most …
World Wildlife Crime Report - Trafficking in protected species
… of the world. - -- Farm laundering. Captive breeding, or farming, opera- tions can be used to launder illegally … international controls are designed to protect the wild, farming would appear to be one answer. But in some cases, … legal trade in caviar comes from farmed sources currently. Farming represents yet another point of vul- nerability. …
Handbook 4: Avian influenza and wetlands
… infection on site, among which are: i) intensive poultry farming (chickens, turkeys, quail, ducks and geese); ii) … are considered suitable environments for free-range duck farming. In such cases, the options include: i) improving the … 22. NOTES the essential need for adequate standards for farming and aquaculture, and the need to develop strategies …
Explaining Ocean Warming: Causes, scale, effects and consequences
… damage (e.g. assisted evolution of corals and/or coral farming); and adapting (e.g. economic activities … with an alternation between cool, wet seasons and warm, dry ones (see Boero, 1994). Temperature rises can thus favour … species of cormorants, but at a cost of their needing to dry the plumage on a regular basis between foraging bouts. …