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Integrating mining and biodiversity conservation: Case studies from around the world

… Conservation 4 Management Tools 7 Mineral and Energy Resource Assessment, Canada 8 Exploration, Anglo American 10 … and breeders to alter and create new varieties by crossing genetic lines, thus boosting productivity and enabling the … Take, for example, a single crop such as wheat – the genetic diversity held within this crop and its wild …
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Introduction to the CMS Family - extract from InforMEA e-learning course

… They form a significant portion of its biodiversity and genetic resources and play a unique role as indicators of … http://www.informea.org/terms/genetic-resource … one of these languages. http://e-learning.informea.org/mod/resource/view.php?id=137 …
17 Jun 2026 Course lesson in Biological Diversity

Pastoralism and the Green Economy - a natural nexus?

… 16 Resource efficiency and Markets … to rangeland productivity and biodiversity. At the genetic level the opportunistic stocking strategies and … are the only livestock keepers actively maintaining this genetic diversity. These animals are uniquely adapted to the …
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State of Biodiversity in Africa

… the Move to 2010, UNEP 2008). 5. On the issue of access to genetic resources and the sharing of the benefits arising … in the unregulated exploitation of their biological and genetic resources. They have recognized that, without a legal … (Accessed 24 March 2010). World Resource Institute (2010). http://www.earthtrends.wri.org. …
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Compendiums on Human Rights and the Environment - Selected International legal materials and cases (Advanced Version)

… Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of … Kenya: Natural Resource Management Project (P095050) … free from toxic pollution, and property rights in valuable genetic material. At the same time, developing environmental … jurisprudence, namely environmental pollution and natural resource extraction. As noted above, the European Court of …
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The Use of Marine Organisms in Traditional and Allopathic Medicine

… may significantly reduce local populations, decrease genetic diversity and cause genetic drift (Benkendorff, 2002). In terrestrial systems … Johannes, R. E. (1998). The case for data-less marine resource management, examples from tropical nearshore …
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Manual of Compliance with and Enforcement of Multilateral Environmental Agreements

… 240 Review of Effectiveness of Mechanisms for Resource and Technology Transfer … Building under the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, Background Study … Glowka et al. (IUCN 1994). • Bonn Guidelines on Access to Genetic Resources and Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits …
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Guidance for identifying and designating peatlands, wet grasslands, mangroves and coral reefs as Wetlands of International Importance

… the peat-forming phenomenon and its ecological and natural resource functions; b) dependence of peatlands on their … changes that may otherwise lead to loss of habitat and genetic processes; and g) consideration of the possible … to human-induced change. The ecological, demographic and genetic processes should also be considered because these …
17 Jun 2026 Document

Introduction to the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands

… activities do not necessarily have to be related to resource exploitation, for example by oil rigs, but could … or uses of marine living organisms, parts thereof or their genetic material. While some regard it as marine scientific … of the ecosystems of which these species are part and genetic diversity within species. Concrete components of …
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Introductory Course to Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety

… activities do not necessarily have to be related to resource exploitation, for example by oil rigs, but could … or uses of marine living organisms, parts thereof or their genetic material. While some regard it as marine scientific … of the ecosystems of which these species are part and genetic diversity within species. Concrete components of …
17 Jun 2026 Course lesson in Biological Diversity