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Ecological Restoration for Protected Areas - Principles, Guidelines and Best Practices
… ecosystems, together with associated cultural values and traditional natural resource management systems. Generally … Africa: Poverty, carbon and restoration 80 6.5 Applying traditional ecological knowledge to forest restoration in … while providing local communities with a source of food, medicine, fuelwood and other ecosystem services during each …
Wildlife law and the empowerment of the poor
… management schemes; recognizing and supporting sustainable traditional use; and requiring participatory wildlife … and effective allocation of hunting rights 6.5.7 Traditional hunting 6.5.8 Regulating hunting tourism 6.6 … bone, and the animal parts should not be used to produce medicine (article 3). Medicinal research for substitutes is …
Green Infrastructure Guide for Water Management: Ecosystem-based management approaches for water-related infrastructure projects
… and rigid regulatory or funding policies that stipulate traditional grey approaches. Also, there is a need for agreed … purification either as an alternative or supplement to traditional water treatment infrastructure. GI can help to: ▶ … raw materials for fuelwood, construction, industry and medicine (Lewis 2005; UNEP-WCMC 2006). Mangroves also export …
World Heritage, Wilderness and Large Landscapes and Seascapes
… projects worldwide. Combining the latest science with the traditional knowledge of local communities, these projects … Indigenous stewardship and traditional governance of Okavango Delta, Botswana … They hunted big game, collected honey, berries and medicine from the vast forests that overlapped as their …
Water in drylands - Adapting to scarcity through integrated management
… projects worldwide. Combining the latest science with the traditional knowledge of local communities, these projects … agencies (Laban et al, 2005). Agreements, including traditional customary rules, are sometimes formalised, for … water. They can bring together indigenous knowledge or traditional governance systems with formal laws and …
Adapting to Climate Change - Guidance for Protected Areas Managers and Planners
… ecosystems, together with associated cultural values and traditional natural resource management systems. Generally … . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 Box 7.2 Including traditional ecological knowledge in the monitoring plan . . . … NAS (US National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine). 2015. A review of the Landscape Conservation …
The legal framework for the management of animal genetic resources
… Measures TBT Technical Barriers to Trade Agreement TK Traditional Knowledge TRIPS Agreement on Trade-Related … from the registration and description of local breeds and traditional knowledge 1 Köhler-Rollefson I. 2004 Farm animal … for non-infectious disease, zoo hygiene and veterinary medicine; an office for veterinary and sanitary expertise and …
IUCN Information Papers on Marine Genetic Resources
… ex-situ collections, etc.; Objective: health and medicine, commerce, conservation, etc.; Specific … pathways are accessible either through culture- dependent (traditional) or culture-independent approaches. The latter … further details). These newer methods are complementary to traditional culturing techniques, as they remove the …
Introduction to the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture
… Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore WTO World Trade … be commonly referred to as the ‘Green Revolution’ – many traditional crop varieties were replaced by modern improved … At the same time, improvements in sanitation and medicine increased life expectancy worldwide. It was in this …