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Governance of Protected Areas: From understanding to action
… Parties in the summer of 2012, and to the WCPA Steering Committee and Members of the ICCA Consortium at various … felled. The government could propose to keep their forest standing as a protected area and, for that, offer to the … voluntary conservation must be both binding and capable of standing up to legal challenges by opponents (e.g., from …
Wildlife and Forest Crime Toolkit (Revised Edition)
… may present. Critical in this regard is an adequate under- standing of different legal traditions, as well as basic … heritage” and submit their proposals to the World Heritage Committee.45 The Committee collects information about … for example through addressing poverty and under- standing traditional habits, may be more appropriate. A …
An introduction to the African Convention on the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources
… Furthermore, it establishes a specialized technical committee on natural resources and environment (Article … close depend- ence on natural resources and their under- standing of the reasons and rules for the sustainable use of … Definition Area of land and/or sea possessing some out- standing or representative ecosystems, geo- logical or …
World Wildlife Crime Report - Trafficking in protected species
… research, they can provide a key data source for under- standing the mechanics of wildlife crime. Comparing and … Declara- tion.18 In Nigeria, there appears to be a standing log export ban (1976), but log exports are … No.1 (2012), pp. 16-26.. 27 Ibid. 28 See CITIES Standing committee 66 Inf.20: Concerns about the Production and Trade …
Addressing the problems of access : Protecting sources, while giving users certainty
… be functional in the absence of generally agreed under- standing regarding the legal principles underlying ABS. Other … would not really need the involvement of the inter-agency committee, and could serve as a purveyor of information about … national, local and project levels, including: under- standing and recognition of property rights, including …
Beyond access : Exploring implementation of the fair and equitable sharing commitment in the CBD
… GEF Global Environment Facility IGC WIPO Intergovernmental Committee on Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and … of the countries and region with the longest standing legislation – e.g., Costa Rica (whose ABS forerunner … Knowledge and Folklore (IGC), the discussions in the WIPO Standing Committee on Law of the Patents (SCP), in FAO and …
Review of Statutory and Customary Law in the Xe Champhone Ramsar Site, LAO PDR - Implications for a rights-based approach to conservation
… Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) for its long-standing support of the IUCN and the provision of financial … Xonbuly. In 2011, the government established a National Committee for Wetland Management of the Ramsar Convention in … Xe Champhone and support the integration of peoples’ long-standing customary laws with statutory laws. The goal is to …