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Managing Natural World Heritage - World Heritage Resource Manual

… Office • Barbara Engels, German Federal Agency for Nature Conservation – Bundesamt für Naturschutz (BfN) • … Banc d’Arguin (FIBA), Mauritania • Khaled Allam Harhash, Nature Conservation Sector, Egyptian Environmental Affairs … (Convention on Wetlands) recognized wetland, a Biosphere Reserve or have had a management category assigned to them …
18 May 2026 Document in Biological Diversity

UN Treaty Handbook

… designating the Secretary-General as such. In view of the nature of the Secretary- General’s role, the … may request a clarification from the declarant on the real nature of the statement. If the declarant formally clarifies … by depositary notification. A reservation of this nature does not require any subsequent acceptance by the …
18 May 2026 Document in Environmental Governance

Sources of international law (Part I) - extract from InforMEA e-learning course

… Assembly (“UNGA”) (article 96). The ICJ, by the very nature of its functions, plays an important role in the … “agreed minutes” or “Memorandum of Understanding”. So, the nature of the labelling used to describe an international … the term “treaty” indicates an agreement of a more solemn nature, and is usually reserved for regulating matters of …
18 May 2026 Course lesson in Environmental Governance

MEA Negotiator’s Handbook

… 1-1 2. Forms, nature, principles and elements of MEAs … ............................................ 1-8 2. Forms, nature, principles and elements of MEAs … to consult with national authorities as required, and to reserve the right to re-open debate, but otherwise not impede …
18 May 2026 Document in Environmental Governance

A2 - Integrating Environmental Concerns in National Water Law

… Ecological flows of watercourses 5.3. The environmental “reserve” 5.4. Environmental water entitlements 5.5. … harm or to restore environmental quality under the African Nature Conservation Convention, 2003, Arts. VI(3)(b)(iii), … and to protect the aquatic environment, under the African Nature Conservation Convention, 2003, Arts. VII(1)(a) and …
18 May 2026 Course lesson in Environmental Governance

Document - The Ramsar Convention on Wetlands: its History and Development

… over twenty years ago as the first of the modern global nature conservation conventions. The period when the treaty … able to break important new ground in global efforts for nature conservation and sustainable development. Indeed, much … was rejected. It was another workshop, on “Flyways and reserve networks”, which proposed that the order of the three …
18 May 2026 Document in Biological Diversity

Ramsar Convention Manual, 6th Edition

… contract by IUCN–International Union for Conservation of Nature in Gland, Switzerland. 1 The Depositary receives, … Contracting Parties have also undertaken to establish nature reserves in wetlands, whether or not they are … April 2011 74 Cabo Pulmo Mexico Nov 2011 75 Indus Dolphin Reserve and Taunsa Pakistan Oct 2012 Barrage The Convention …
18 May 2026 Document in Biological Diversity

On dangerous ground _ Global Witness

… Amazon. Raimundo worked tirelessly to defend the Gurupi Reserve, a hot- bed of biodiversity in the province of … is widely used to manage and analyse material of this nature. While we have made every effort to identify and … 2016) 180 Mongabay Environmental News (25 September 2015), Nature guide freed in Madagascar 5 months after arrest for …
18 May 2026 Document in Environmental Governance

Case Study - Inland Wetlands in India

… wellbeing amidst a cultural tradition of reverence for Nature are integral to India’s developmental philosophy. … stresses that the most secure basis for protection of nature is to ensure that people dependent on natural … service (cultural) of forest ecosystems in Corbett Tiger Reserve, Uttarakhand and Borivili National Park, Maharashtra. …
18 May 2026 Document in Biological Diversity

Conservation and Sustainable Use under the International Treaty

… or recommended by FAO in preference to others of a similar nature that are not mentioned. The views expressed in this … as defined by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), as well as different levels of management … CWR.46 Nevertheless, a few examples exist: Erebuni State Reserve in Armenia was established in 1981 specifically to …
18 May 2026 Document in Biological Diversity