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ASEAN Handbook on legal cooperation to combat wildlife crime
… any forest produce or minerals; e. clear or break up any land for cultivation or any other purpose; f. poison or … forest, in such a manner as to endanger the reserved land. Offences in reserved forest. Subject to the provisions … or erects any building or other structure on or over any land or waters within a marine reserve or marine park; e. …
Explaining Ocean Warming: Causes, scale, effects and consequences
… caused by ocean warming and expansion and the melting of land-based glaciers, insufficient attention has been given to … on climate change has focused on specific themes such as land surface temperatures, melting ice caps in Greenland and … month of record-breaking global temperatures on land. In the ocean, 2015 was recently analysed to have been …
Significant Trade in Wildlife: A Review of selected species in CITES Appendix II - Volume 1 Mammals
… beginning of the century. Trees are felled for timber, and land cleared for agriculture (Asibey, 1978). Access roads … and those below 2700 m in, or near, potential agricultural land are the most threatened. The forest on the Mau … pressure. Trees are felled for their timber, and the land cleared for agriculture and cocoa (Asibey, 1978). Roads …
Significant Trade in Wildlife: A Review of selected species in CITES Appendix II - Volume 2 Reptiles and Invertibrates
… that the distribution covered 29-30X of the continental land area of the country. Bolivia Although no published … and conversion of forest and scrub to agricultural land (Salas, 1985; Gruss and Waller, 1986); local utilisation … (Honegger, 1979). REFERENCES Auffenberg, W. (1969). Land of the Chaco Tortoise Geochelone chllensls. …
Significant Trade in Wildlife: A Review of selected species in CITES Appendix II - Volume 3 Birds
… and Balanites trees; in the west, heavily cultivated land dotted with baobabs. Usually seen in small flocks, but … central-western Mexico to Pacific lowlands of Guatemala (Land, 1970). Guatemala Confined to the western Pacific lowland and subtropics (Land, 1970). Mexico Recorded in Nayarit, Jalisco, Colima, …
A guide to the complementarities between the Convention on Migratory Species and the Convention on Biological Diversity
… forest ecosystems, agricultural ecosystems, dry land ecosystems, mountain ecosystems and even urban … hunting is allowed year round. 9 The insidious threats of land degradation, including desertification, deforestation … inter alia fishing, industrial and tourist activities and land-based and marine pollution. From this, remedial actions …
World Wildlife Crime Report - Trafficking in protected species
… wildlife-rich areas. Habitat loss due to unsustain- able land development often poses a greater threat than illegal … imprisonment, 43% Fine only, 31% 1 25 in regulating use of land and the marketing of wild species products. … - -- was felled prior to the controls; - -- resulted from land clearance for development projects, timber thinning, or …
Ramsar Technical Report 7: Ramsar Wetland Disease Manual
… back ‘upstream’ and finds an anthropocentric reason – land use, pollution, abstraction, livestock, introduced … of infection between livestock, people and wildlife. Local land use changes are also expected to exert temperature and … disease prevention in these habitats lies primarily with land users and managers, together with decision makers. Use …
Guidelines for species conservation planning - version 1.0
… to biodiversity are due to human activities. These include land use changes affecting habitats and ecosystems, hunting … carry on an undisturbed existence through a proposed major land use change, such as through infra- structure … climate change, or processes such as major landscape or land use planning in which biodiversity conserva- tion is not …
Wildlife Poaching: Africa's surging trafficking threat
… elephant range Exit point, by air Exit point, by sea Land route Main shipping route Other shipping route Ivory … and local leaders were central to many conservation and land-use decisions. Leaders would attend court during the … conservan- cies” now operate in a fifth of Namibia’s land area, and the conservation and tourism benefits have …