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Initiating effective transboundary conservation - A practitioner’s guideline based on the experience from the Dinaric Arc
… is mainly engaged in tourism, forestry and low intensity farming. On both sides of the border, there are great … were affected by the war events in the 1990s. Nowadays, farming is the most widespread activity, especially the …
Handbook for the 1979 Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution and its Protocols
… reduced by 70 per cent, emissions of non-methane volatile organic compounds have been cut by 50 per cent and nitrogen … of pollutants including ground-level ozone, persistent organic pollutants, heavy metals and, most recently, … V Protocol concerning the Control of Emissions of Volatile Organic Compounds or their Transboundary Fluxes, done at …
Covering ABS: Addressing the need for sectoral, geographical,legal and international integration in the ABS regime - papers and studies of the ABS Project
… Botswana, the majority of rural people practice livestock farming and subsistence agriculture. Often, land that is … Decreto No. 31 514, 2003, issued pursuant to the Organic Law on the Environment (No. 7554 of 4 Oct. 1995) §§ … Basel Convention), the Stockholm Convention on Persistant Organic Pollutants (the POPs Convention), and many others. A …
Technical guidelines on used oil re-refining or other re-uses of previously used oil (R9)
… stocks. 4. Hydrocarbon esters are reaction products of organic acids and alcohols and encompass a wide range of … oils represent a significant portion of the volume of organic waste liquids generated worldwide. The three most … maintenance) and industrial sources, and the rural farming population. Collecting used oil from non-industrial …
Guidelines for the application of IUCN Red List of Ecosystems Categories and Criteria (Version 1.0)
… Annual & Perennial Non-Timber Crops: 2.1.3 Agro-industry Farming; 2.3 Livestock Farming & Ranching: 2.3.3 Agro-industry Grazing, Ranching or … to capture resources, produce biomass, decompose organic matter and recycle carbon, water and nutrients, and …
UN Watercourses Convention User’s Guide
… river ba- sin from natural vegetation to arable farming and cattle grazing. Removal of the natural vegetation … pollutants, such as nutrients, heavy metals, nitrogen, organic compounds, suspended participles, contaminants and … and impacts of contaminants including sewage, persistent organic pollutants, radioactive substances, heavy metals, …
Governance of Protected Areas: From understanding to action
… in the community, particularly about issues relating to farming and ecotourism.24 Nature In this context nature … and environmental education programmes and runs an organic native plant nursery for educational purposes, … nutrients, including nitrates, phosphates and small organic matter. This fuels the growth of plants and …