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Wilderness Protected Areas: Management Guidelines for IUCN categories 1b protected areas

… below. Ia Strict nature reserve: Strictly protected for biodiversity and also possibly geological/ geomorphological … are on land, yet many places in the oceans and coastal waters possess wilderness qualities and values worthy … are terrestrial, yet the idea of areas in the oceans and coastal waters possessing wilderness qualities and values …
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Covering ABS: Addressing the need for sectoral, geographical,legal and international integration in the ABS regime - papers and studies of the ABS Project

… 29 4.1 The southern Africa context 30 4.1.1 Status of biodiversity in southern Africa 30 4.1.1.1 Socio-economic … that are Parties to the CBD but not to UNCLOS are not coastal states. The USA is not a party to either Convention. … the source of the resources. Remembering that every coastal state has jurisdiction or dominion over swimming …
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Gaps in international environmental law and environment-related instruments: towards a global pact for the environment - Report of the Secretary-General

… “wildlife”. There is scientific consensus that, globally, biodiversity is being lost at an alarming rate.113 Threats to … which includes ensuring sustainable fisheries, coastal protection and carbon sequestration and achieving … approach, under which the rights and obligations of flag, coastal and port States, and applicable rules, depend on the …
19 Jun 2026 Document

Final: Gaps in international environmental law and environment-related instruments: towards a global pact for the environment

… “wildlife”. There is scientific consensus that, globally, biodiversity is being lost at an alarming rate.113 Threats to … which includes ensuring sustainable fisheries, coastal protection and carbon sequestration and achieving … approach, under which the rights and obligations of flag, coastal and port States, and applicable rules, depend on the …
19 Jun 2026 Document

Promotion of sustainable tourism, rural development and the value of natural heritage

… of waste, pollution, land use and fragmentation, biodiversity loss and the degradation of the geological … heritage; and NOTING that Spain has the highest level of biodiversity in Europe, and also contains a substantial … friendly tourism such as geotourism (geological tourism), coastal tourism, ethno-tourism, ornithological tourism …
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Policy implementation and fisheries resource management: Lessons from Senegal

… management, the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity, marine and coastal ecosystem man- agement, and cleaner industrial pro- … tuna 36 3.1.2.d Trawlers exceeding 400 gauge tonnage for coastal shrimp fishing 36 3.1.2.e Sardine trawlers exceeding …
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Note 5: Evaluating the risk to Ramsar Sites from climate change induced sea level rise

… of this BN To provide a preliminary as- sessment of coastal Ramsar Sites that are at risk to inunda- tion as a … provide a preliminary assessment of the risk to coastal wetlands designated as Wetlands of International … which could have additional consequences for wet- land and biodiversity loss (e.g., Wetzel et al. 2012). Time and …
19 Jun 2026 Document

Values of protected landscapes and seascapes: protected landscapes and agrobiodiversity values

… Adrian Phillips and Sue Stolton Protected landscapes and biodiversity values: an overview by Adrian Phillips and Sue … pastures in the Pyrenees and their winter pastures on the coastal plains. Similarly, stonewalls are of great importance … in the Philippine Rice Terraces Landscape and/or coastal and island seascape of high/or distinct scenic …
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Document - The Ramsar Convention on Wetlands: its History and Development

… wetlands. One can guess that the latter’s extraordinary biodiversity and natural productivity played an important … These are shallow open waters - lakes, ponds, rivers and coastal fringes - and any land which is regularly or … - rivers, farm ponds and ditches, lakes, fens and marshes, coastal shingle and estuaries. IUCN, together with the World …
19 Jun 2026 Document in Biological Diversity

The Role of legal instruments to support Green low-emission and climate-resilient development - A guidebook on assessing, selecting and implementing legal instruments

… Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants; –– National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan—Convention on … usage to implement appropriate adaptation measures such as coastal protec- tion against exposure to sea level rise. The … Change State Action Plans and Programmes on forest and coastal conservation and promot- ing the sustainable …
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