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Guidelines for Applying Protected Area Management Categories. Best Practice Guidance on Recognising Protected Areas and Assigning Management Categories and Governance Types

… Protected Area Guidelines are the world’s authoritative resource for protected area managers. Involving collaboration … equitable sharing of the benefits derived from the use of genetic resources. With 193 Parties, the Convention has near … in coastal and marine areas. Many of the world’s wild plant and animal species do not have viable populations in …
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ASEAN Handbook on legal cooperation to combat wildlife crime

… the compilation of a set of ASEAN wildlife and forest resource protection mechanisms and relevant enforcement … of an animal, was bred in captivity; b. in the case of a plant, was artificially propagated; or c. is a recognisable … 11 / 2013 on Ratification of Nagoya Protocol on access to genetic resources and the fair and equitable sharing of …
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Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

… the development progress made in recent decades. Natural resource depletion and adverse impacts of environmental … improve land and soil quality 2.5 By 2020, maintain the genetic diversity of seeds, cultivated plants and farmed and … Development 16/35 managed and diversified seed and plant banks at the national, regional and international …
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Wetland ecosystem services Factsheet 6 - Reservoirs of biodiversity

… – or biodiversity – is the term given to the variety of plant and animal speciesfound in a particular area, whether … wetlands, meaning they are found nowhere else on Earth. S Genetic variation – safeguarding the variety of life in … or Purple Loosestrife Lythrum salicaria, a Eurasian plant of freshwater marshes that has run rampant across North …
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Guidelines for Protected Areas Legislation

… Group • Lisa Watts, Principal Advisor, Environment and Resource Management, Queensland Government, Australia. Other … the term ‘nature’ always refers to biodiversity at the genetic, species and ecosystem levels, and also often refers … through goods and services flowing from tourism or plant and animal products from locally managed species, as …
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Case studies on bioenergy policy and law: options for sustainability

… gas emissions and reduced pressure on the natural resource base. The conversion technology is expensive, … permits measures "necessary to protect human, animal or plant life or health", while Article XX(g) permits measures … and instead advises sustainable use of the country's genetic resources. It calls for the technical and financial …
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Wildlife law and the empowerment of the poor

… principles aim to help decision-makers, legal drafters and resource managers to understand wildlife legislation, engage … magnitude of such addition determined by the need for new genetic material; 2. to dispose of confiscated animals; or 3. … value for humanity. "Ecosystem" means a dynamic complex of plant, animal and micro- organism communities and their …
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Nature-based solutions to address global societal challenges

… Union for Conservation of Nature IWRM Integrated Water Resource Management MINIRENA Ministry of Natural Resources … issues. These include, for example, protecting wild genetic resources (animal and plant), managing wild species (especially fish), and …
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World Wildlife Crime Report - Trafficking in protected species

… area of organized crime and a signifi- cant threat to many plant and animal species. In response to this growing … Mailand, S. Mondol, W. Clark, C. Laurie, and B. S. Weir. ‘Genetic assign- ment of large seizures of elephant ivory … not controlled, by mankind. Their harvest makes use of a resource that is renewable, but only if not overex- ploited. …
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The Status and Distribution of Freshwater Biodiversity in Western Africa

… 8.2.3 Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM) and Environmental Flows … There are an estimated 2,614 aquatic vascular macrophyte plant species within the two better-known plant divisions … cichlids and cyprinids (Helfman 2007). It can also reduce genetic diversity, especially when the stock size is greatly …
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