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Speaking a common language: The uses and performance of the IUCN system of management categories for protected areas

… to bring some order into this rapidly developing use of land and water, IUCN The World Conservation Union developed a … to regulate activities 21 Interpreting or clarifying land tenure and governance 22 Use of the IUCN categories for … core areas, buffer zones ecological corridors, ecological restoration and an integrated range of land uses outside …
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Spring: Managing groundwater sustainability

… unwanted impacts on others. Zoning is used to ensure that land uses are compatible with protection of vulnerable … to extract groundwater, mechanisms to control pollution, land-use zoning and the means of enforcing rules through the … an ecological reserve to protect ecosystems Remediation Restoration of groundwater quality or aquifer storage • …
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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

… 80% of available volume compared to the 0.5% covered by land, oceans are the cradles of new species, habitats and … properly controlled and monitored. Waterborne rubbish from land and sea-based sources, especially plastics, harm marine … with the objective of implementing effective protection, restoration and sustainable use of biodiversity and ecosystem …
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Supporting privately protected areas

… in both individually and collectively owned private land; CONSIDERING that protected area systems should include … private and mixed); RECOGNISING the importance of private land areas under voluntary long-term conservation and their … heritage, and to the rehabilitation, connectivity and/or restoration of ecosystem functions indispensable to humanity; …
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Recognising and respecting the territories and areas conserved by indigenous peoples and local communities (ICCAs) overlapped by protected areas

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Mitigating the impacts of oil palm expansion and operations on biodiversity

… takes place in the absence of strategic and jurisdictional land-use planning and without appropriate consideration for … are avoidable or could be mitigated through strategic land-use planning and licensing, legal reforms to secure the … regulations, appropriate plantation design, ecological restoration, commitment by the industry to the implementation …
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Explaining Ocean Warming: Causes, scale, effects and consequences

… caused by ocean warming and expansion and the melting of land-based glaciers, insufficient attention has been given to … on climate change has focused on specific themes such as land surface temperatures, melting ice caps in Greenland and … assisted breeding and selection of resistant genotypes, restoration through translocation or substitution with …
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A Review of Migratory Bird Flyways and Priorities for Management - TS No. 27

… 2010 IUCN Red List shows that important threats include land-use change, illegal hunting and taking, non-native … States www.cms.int/species/ Grassland_birds/grass- land_birds_bkrd.htm Table 1.1 contd. … terrestrial migrants, the retention and, where feasible, restoration of suitable migratory habitats, such as wildlife …
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Biodiversity, the next challenge for financial institutions ? A scoping study to assess exposure of financial institutions to biodiversity business risks and identifying options for business opportunities

… “nature, forests and landscapes”. 5) Conservation ­land ­as ­a ­result ­of ­default ­or ­debt ­work-out. Should … acquire a significant amount of biodiversity- sensitive land as a result of default or debt work-out situations, … carried out, the issue of liability and redress, including restoration and compensation, for damage to biological …
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Judges and the rule of law. Creating the links: Environment, human rights and poverty

… World Conservation Congress (WCC) held in Bangkok, Thai- land, from the 17th to the 25th of November 2004, the IUCN … Service advises FAO member countries – including forestry, land, water, fisheries, wildlife, food, biodiversity and … to Cuiabá, but with great concern for environ- mental restoration, so that violators are given the opportunity of …
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