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Document - The Ramsar Convention on Wetlands: its History and Development

… might be caught as adults in those of another, or on the high seas. Water birds, migrating over thousands of kilometres … management. Thus 3.9 million hectares were to be of high value (to waterfowl) and 5.5 million to be of moderate …
21 May 2026 Document in Biological Diversity

Sacred natural sites: Guidelines for protected area managers

… local communities, which account for an extraor- dinarily high level of both cultural and biological diversity. During … place, often for long periods of time, with resulting high levels of biodiversity. At some sacred natural sites, … occupied and used land, territories, waters and coastal seas and other resources and to uphold their responsibilities …
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Initiating effective transboundary conservation - A practitioner’s guideline based on the experience from the Dinaric Arc

… on initiating transboundary collaboration through a high-level regional political agreement . . . . . . . . . . . … is important in transboundary conservation is to secure a high level of participation of local communities and … been to resolve issues regarding the management of shared seas, mountain ranges or river basins, or to foster regional …
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Mapping Biodiversity Priorities - a practical, science-based approach to national biodiversity assessment and prioritisation to inform strategy and action planning

… Assessment Biodiversity assessment provides two useful high-level indicators of biodiversity status: Ecosystem … landscape or seascape gives even un-described species a high probability of being conserved. The approach also … data is often geographically biased towards areas of high sampling intensity (such as areas that are accessible to …
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Principles and concepts of international environmental law (Part 2) - extract from InforMEA e-learning course

… on the global environment and which command relatively high levels of technological and financial resources bear a … communities rely on natural resources such as forests, high deserts, wetlands, waterways, and fisheries for their …
21 May 2026 Course lesson in Environmental Governance

National Blue Carbon Policy Assessment Madagascar

… increase above the thermal limit of seagrasses leads to high levels of diebacks over time (Björk et al. 2008). … are subject to government authorization. Reacting to high rates of foreign fishing boat intrusions, the law … number of wild crab permits issued since 2012, pointing to high demand from Asia, in particular. The paper does not …
21 May 2026 Literature

Integration of groundwater management into transboundary basin organizations in Africa - Training manual

… groundwater, as a low-cost, drought-resistant and (mainly) high-quality water supply for urban and rural populations and … to changes Very slow Rapid Flow velocities Low Moderate to high Residence time Generally decades / centuries Mainly … / months Drought vulnerability Generally low Generally high Evaporation losses Low and localised High for reservoirs …
21 May 2026 Literature

Climate Change and the Human Rights to Water and Sanitation Position Paper

… Persons With Disabilities (CRPD) probably establishes the high-water mark in this respect. Article 32 of the CRPD calls … to rise over South Asia, parts of Central Africa and the high altitudes of both the northern and southern hemisphere; … the human impacts of disasters found that “countries with high levels of income inequality experience the effects of …
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Introduction to Freshwater Resources - extract from InforMEA e-learning course

… of the total of freshwater on earth. Therefore, a high percentage (about one-third) of the global population … 80 per cent of the world’s population lives in areas with high levels of threat to water security. The most severe …
21 May 2026 Course lesson in Marine and Freshwater

Introduction to the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits

… are also delicate and vulnerable. The earth’s oceans and seas need protection by and from the planet’s dominating … on average, only a few kilometres deep. Oceans and seas currently cover approximately 71% of the Earth’s … as well as areas beyond national jurisdiction, such as the high seas and deep seabed. The sovereignty of a state …
21 May 2026 Course lesson in Biological Diversity