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The Enivronmental Crime Crisis - Threats to Sustainable Development from Illegal Exploitation and Trade in Wildlife and Forest Resources. A UNEP Rapid Assessment
… and 660 arrests. On customs, the UNODC-WCO Container Control Programme (CCP) has been successful in targeting sea … led to the virtual collapse of existing manage- ment and control systems. These northern hemisphere fish stocks can be … responses must include frontline protection, customs control, investigation and prosecution of networks and …
A Review of Migratory Bird Flyways and Priorities for Management - TS No. 27
… efforts to reduce and reverse desertification and loss of flood plain habitat in the drylands of the African Sahel, … protect and restore native vegetation and conserve natural flood regimes 2.1.7 Key recommendations from the review Table … habitat provision, positive habitat management and the control of mammalian predators. The sheer scale of hunting …
Vital Waste Graphics 3
… Network and GRID-Arendal. The Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and … on waste man- agement. The Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and … aluminium sludge were released into the Danube river and flood plain, contaminating 800 hectares of fertile ar- able …
Review of laws, policies and economic instruments related to payment for ecosystem services in Vietnam
… carbon store, biodiversity, scenic beauty Wetlands Flood control, waste treatment, water supplies, biodiversity … Shoreline protection, nutrient retention, erosion control, fish breeding Coral Reefs Recreation, carbon store, …
Global biodiversity outlook 4 - A mid-term assessment of progress towards the implementation of the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020
… (Target 8). Governments are increasingly taking steps to control and eradicate invasive alien species. For example, a … of wetlands. • Increasing efforts to identify and control the main pathways responsible for species invasions, … for “biodiversity, landscape, climate change mitigation, flood risk management, farmland historic environment, soil …
Montenegro and marine protected areas: Legal and insituttional framework assessment for conservation of coastal and marine biodiversity and establishment of MPAs
… be more market oriented, but still under strong Government control. Also, the Law prescribes in more detail fees and … Rulebooks (bylaws) issued in 2004 provide for restriction, control and monitoring of different categories of marine … procedure. VII. Management and use of the protected area Control of protected areas Article 62 Protected natural asset …
Non-judicial grievance mechanisms in land-related disputes in Sierra Leone
… es of particular ethnic or tribal groupings that govern the control, … laws and their perceptions regarding ownership and control of land and land‐related conflict … Table 1: Authority to control and/or own land (2014 KAP Survey) … designated “family heads” wield enormous control over family holdings and make allocation …
Guidelines for public use measurement and reporting at parks and protected areas
… 5.4 SURVEY DESIGN, PRE-CODING AND PRETEST 58 5.5 QUALITY CONTROL DURING STUDY, EDITING 58 5.6 DESIGNING YOUR OWN … assembly has been installed with consideration of periodic flood levels and at such a point that it detects a relatively … economically in many ways including the benefits of flood control, air quality benefits of habitat maintenance, …
Improving governance of pastoral lands
… rely on communal rangelands. Many pastoralists do own or control individual resources, including parcels of land, … their ownership of water resources gives them de facto control. There can be important differences between seasonal … environment, bringing more powerful events like drought, flood or blizzard. The absolute extent of the rangelands will …
Governance of Protected Areas: From understanding to action
… of Congo (DRC) protected areas are formally under the control of the Congolese Nature Conservation Institute and … to indigenous peoples) and governments are often about control over natural resources and the neglect of customary … developed their own Everglades initiative, electing to re-flood and restore close to 1000 ha of original Big Cypress …