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Review and Analysis of specific Transboundary Natural Resources Management (TBNRM) Initiatives in the Southern African Region

… include the territorial waters, the exclusive economic zone, the contiguous zone, the high seas and the area. The territorial … the coastal states have exclusive sovereign powers. The contiguous zone is adjacent to the territorial seas. In this …
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Biodiversity offsets: Views, experience, and the business case

… of its large bird reserve and eight-mile (14- kilometre) contiguous shoreline habitat. Sources: … RCW population at Southlands, and conserving the largest contiguous block of longleaf pine in the company's land base. … to the physical area of the installation and buffer zone, the value related to noise disruption around the …
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Towards a strategy for high seas marine protected areas: Proceedings of the IUCN, WCPA and WWF Experts Workshop on High Seas Marine Protected Areas

… deep-seabed communities of the Clarion-Clipperton Fracture Zone in the Equatorial Pacific Ocean. • beyond national … (off Canada in North west Atlantic) • Sub-Antarctic waters contiguous with existing French and Australian MPAs • Great … Islands region. Objective: Fisheries management crisis. Contiguous MPAs in French and Australian EEZs and HS …
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Conservation and sustainable development in mountain areas

… in the indigenous ethnic groups. In the Guatemalan zone, productive activities focus on basic food crops such as … areas in adjacent countries; the two former parks are contiguous. The Peace Parks initiative of IUCN’s Central … areas in adjacent countries; the two former parks are contiguous. The Peace Parks initiative of IUCN’s Central …
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Solutions in focus: Transboundary protected area solutions

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D1 - Ecosystem Approach and Ecosystem Services

… expanded the scope of the UNWC as to include land areas contiguous to international watercourses. [2] [1] The 1992 … “[a]ll States in whose territory a recharge or discharge zone is located … and which are not aquifer States …, “shall …
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Large-scale marine protected areas - Guidelines for design and management

… entire ocean territory of the country as a regenerative zone for sharks, whales, tuna and countless other precious … of Cetaceans of the Black Sea, Mediterranean Sea and Contiguous Atlantic Area (ACCOBAMS), Agreement on the … circumstances in which two LSMPAs that are not necessarily contiguous must still cooperate to sustain biological …
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Restoring Forest Landscapes - An introduction to the art and science of forest landscape restoration

… forest cover) in the tropics is still found in large, contiguous tracts. The forest estate of eight ITTO producer … degraded land is the derived savannahs in the high-forest zone of West Africa that are dominated by Imperata … the early stages of the frontier development process when contiguous areas of residual forest remain. Box 10.4 Species …
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Assessing forest landscape restoration opportunities at the national level: A guide to the Restoration Opportunities Assessment Methodology (ROAM)

… FLR sometimes involves the opportunity to restore large contiguous tracts of degraded or fragmented forest land (what … i.e. rehabilitation or restoration of land back to larger contiguous blocks of forest. These are generally identifiable … such as villages and road corridors, applying a buffer zone around and along these objects; or • unavailable for …
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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

… cases might imply its definition as a no-take management zone. Some countries have set this as two-thirds; IUCN … or authorities. There are three situations where single or contiguous protected areas may be assigned different … that “protected areas of different categories are often contiguous, while sometimes one category ‘nests’ within …
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