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Introduction to the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants

… serious threats to marine biodiversity are degradation and loss of habitats, overexploitation and indiscriminate fishing …
19 Jun 2026 Course lesson in Chemicals and Waste

Introduction to the Convention concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage

… serious threats to marine biodiversity are degradation and loss of habitats, overexploitation and indiscriminate fishing …
19 Jun 2026 Course lesson in Biological Diversity

FAO's work on Climate Change

… costs and USD 900 billion of social costs. å Global food loss and waste generate about 8 percent of total annual GHG … Between 2005 and 2015, 26 percent of the total damage and loss caused by climate-related disasters in developing … Central America, where a 2016 drought saw up to 90 percent loss of crop harvests and 1.6 million people facing food …
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Framework for Assessing and Improving Law for Sustainability - A Legal Component of a Natural Resource Governance Framework

… and hunger, achieving justice and equality, and halting loss of biodiversity. These goals are the most ambitious … surveys); biophysical evidence such as species or habitat loss, or other environmental outcomes; or economic … provided specifically for the protection of the aquatic habitat in South Australia through the creation of Aquatic …
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Initiating effective transboundary conservation - A practitioner’s guideline based on the experience from the Dinaric Arc

… areas have the ability to reduce the risk of biodiversity loss through common and coordinated cross-border measures. In … • reintroduced wildlife species requiring a large habitat range, such as large carnivores or birds of prey • … The MoU will provide information on the effectiveness of habitat preservation efforts in protecting endangered …
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Groundwater in international law: Compilation of treaties and other legal instruments

… the system; (f) "land degradation" means reduction or loss, in arid, semi-arid and dry sub-humid areas, of the … account their importance in particular as: - the natural habitat of species of fauna and flora, particularly rare or … purpose of preserving a specific ecosystem, the critical habitat of certain species of fauna or flora, a water …
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Effective planning strategies for managing environmental risk associated with geophisical and other imaging surveys - A resource guide for managers

… of local communities, these projects work to reverse habitat loss, restore ecosystems and improve people’s well-being. … to ensure a proper balance between risks to the habitat and benefits to a wide range of stakeholders, in an …
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A moving target : Genetic resources and options for tracking and monitoring their international flows

… R&D stages; - Serves as trigger for negotiations. Loss of a degree of control but promotes legal certainty for … begins with ethics. Non-negotiable is any further loss of habitat. Rather than calculating an optimum level of conser- … areas whenever opportunity costs are high; society suffers habitat loss and subsequent extinction. The logic above is …
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Concepts for Industry Co-Regulation of Bio-fuel Weeds

… such a strategy to energy crops is likely to cause the loss of the opportunity for primary producers in both … of weed invasion, is normally some combination of (1) loss of habitat and ecological service values from the contaminated …
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Aquaculture - site selection and site management

… to reach decisions aimed at avoiding biodiversity loss. This can be overcome through the integrated use of … in the Mediterranean Basin, this is directly linked to habitat destruction, pollution, intensive exploitation and … investigation to protect endangered species and their habitat or specific functions of the ecosystem (such as …
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