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Additional Reading - Strategic Plan 2011-2020, including Aichi Biodiversity Targets

… recovery plans and measures are in place for all depleted species, fisheries have no significant adverse impacts on threat- ened species and vulnerable ecosystems and the impacts of fisheries on stocks, species and ecosystems are within safe ecological limits. By …
05 Aug 2026 Document in Biological Diversity

Land Degradation Neutrality: implications and opportunities for conservation - Nature based solutions to desertification, land degradation and drought

… of the major contributors to habitat loss and subsequent species losses, leading to a decline in biodiversity and … for agriculture and over harvesting of trees and other species, but these are often driven in turn by other societal … to biodiversity and habitat loss and to changes in species abundance. It leads to a general decline in …
05 Aug 2026 Literature

IUCN Information Papers on Marine Genetic Resources

… i.e. development of new variations within non-human species through genetic modification techniques (e.g. transfer of a genetic trait out of one species and put into another);  Biosynthesis, i.e. use of … creating new varieties, breeds, or strains of non-human species with particular characteristics through sexual or …
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Energy law and sustainable development

… to inflict great human and property loss. Plant and animal species will become endangered and extinct. Rangeland … impacts are indirect; for example, the leading cause of species extinction is the spread of invasive alien species, a spread that is greatly facilitated through global …
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Introduction to the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture

… a variety, as well as the loss of entire varieties and species. l More than 75 percent of global crop diversity has … Percentages of Food Production of Major Crops Based on Species Originating from Other Regions Source: The State of … 2.3.5. Crop, Species, Variety and Cultivar …
05 Aug 2026 Document in Biological Diversity

Economic measures for biodiversity planning: An annotated bibliography of methods, experiences and cases

… Developing Country? Capturing the Pharmaceutical Value of Species Information. LEEC Paper DP 92-05, London … Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species #23. Barret, S., (1989), Deforestation, Biological … Economics Centre: London. 36 pp. This paper uses the species-area relation to characterise the optimal …
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Document - ABS information kit

… which they are part of. This includes diversity within species, between species and their ecosystems. Biological resources: Includes … interested in genetic resources found in areas with high species diversity, as well as in extreme or unique …
05 Aug 2026 Document

An Explanatory Guide to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety

… CBD CITES Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora COP Conference of the Parties … that are not possible in nature, i.e. between different species and between animals and plants and micro-organisms. … normally takes place be- tween individuals of the same species, or in some cases, between closely related species, …
05 Aug 2026 Document in Biological Diversity

An explanatory guide to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety

… CBD CITES Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora COP Conference of the Parties … that are not possible in nature, i.e. between different species and between animals and plants and micro-organisms. … normally takes place be- tween individuals of the same species, or in some cases, between closely related species, …
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Speaking a common language: The uses and performance of the IUCN system of management categories for protected areas

… or no-take area – which protects critical habitat and species, surrounded by a buffer zone which allows more uses … been set up for different reasons, including protection of species, habitats and scenery, watershed protection, … (e.g. in the legal and policy fields, or in relation to species protection) – IUCN would be able to use the …
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