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Poverty and conservation: Landscapes, people and power
… and cultivation, the expansion of rice cultivation into wetland and floodplain areas may affect the wild fishery. … the widely diverse aquatic resources available in these wetland areas — including fish, snails, molluscs, crabs, … and capacities of local people to manage a wide range of wetland habitats has the potential to support a great …
Identification and gap analysis of key biodiversity areas : Targets for comprehensive protected area systems
… Conference of Parties, one of these being Criterion 6: “A wetland should be considered interna- tionally important if … of the 1% threshold approach to certain non-avian wetland-dependent taxa for which the requisite data have been … infor- mation on suitable habitat (e.g., montane forest, wetland), unsuitable habitat (e.g., secondary forest), …
Indigenous and local communities and protected areas: Towards equity and enhanced conservation. Guidance on policy and practice for co-managed protected areas and community conserved areas
… Moors National Park Authority, UK). The Chartang-Kushkizar wetland, extending some 9 km in length, has been since time … mobile pastoralists: the Kuhi and the Kolahli. The wetland is in the process of being offi- cially recognized by … oppor tu nity in this sense is the Chartang-Kushkizar wetland, extending some 9km in length, shared between the …
Transboundary Conservation. A systematic and integrated approach
… Fertő-Hanság National Park in Hungary are a transboundary wetland area in the western part of the Carpathian Basin, at … Parties commit to the conservation and wise use of their wetland sites. Of the 2,187 designated Ramsar Sites in 2014, … Site describes a situation where an ecologically coherent wetland system extends across national borders and the Ramsar …
Crossing Borders for Nature. European examples of transboundary conservation
… Greek Prespa. Moreover, Prespa Lakes basin as a whole is a Wetland of International Importance under the Ramsar … of land use. Today, a cross-border national park covers a wetland area of approximately 300 km2 shared by Hungary and … demonstrate the transboundary character of this protected wetland area, a joint opening ceremony was held in April …
Wildlife law and the empowerment of the poor
… Selection for the Ramsar List should be based on the wetland's significance in terms of ecology, botany, zoology, … wise use; and have also a general obligation to include wetland conservation considerations in their national … that the convention is applicable to all aspects of wetland conservation and wise use, recognizing wetlands as 9 …