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Culture and wetlands: A Ramsar guidance document

… Asia, Tonle Sap has been the home of a fisher popula- tion living in traditional wooden houses on stilts (as in the … and in English it should be under- stood as including ‘living heritage’ and the legacy or inheritance for future … exhaustive, but are only indicative and will certainly be modified in future phases of work concerning the …
19 Jun 2026 Document

Best practice guidelines for the re-introduction of great apes

… and security of staff working with the apes and for people living near the release site. There should be a complete … should be endorsed by local govern- ments and people living near the release site. Local residents should be given … number of apes to be released per year may have to be modified in light of the number of apes ready for release and …
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Albania and marine protected areas: Legal and insituttional framework assessment for conservation of coastal and marine biodiversity and establishment of MPAs

… in order to improve the exploitation and conservation of living aquatic resources or the protection of marine … Protected areas are usually large unmodified or slightly modified areas, retaining their natural character and … cavern, geological feature such as a cave or even a living feature such as an ancient grove. They are generally …
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Indigenous and local communities and protected areas: Towards equity and enhanced conservation. Guidance on policy and practice for co-managed protected areas and community conserved areas

… practices, human communities have been shaping their living landscapes for thousands of years. Many such … Izozog (CABI), representing some 9,500 Guaraní Izoceños living in 25 communities along the Parapetí river, now … conservation depends on the engagement of the people living with the natural resources, whose cultural diversity, …
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European Union overseas coastal and marine protected areas - overview of coastal and marine conservation efforts in the European Union's overseas countries and territories and outermost regions

… ccamlr Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources cnrs Centre national de la recherche … Marine wilderness areas should be sites of relatively un- modified, undisturbed seascape, significantly free of hu- man … Documents) species of the Southern Ocean, and benthic organism diversity comparable to Galapagos The area hosts …
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Shared resources: Issues of governance

… deterioration, including marine pollution and living resources, depletion of stratospheric ozone, and … inter alia, the preservation and conservation of living resources in Antarctica. Thus although the word … of alien invasive species and the release of genetically modified organisms threatening ecosystems, habitats, or …
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Accountability through Civic Participation in the Post-2015 Development Agenda

… most impacted by the post-2015 development agenda (those living in rural areas in developing and least developed … established, including for purposes of enabling citizens living in remote communities to participate in the reporting …
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Compendium of Good Practices on Human Rights and the Environment

… environmental pollution; the impact of genetically modified organisms on the environment; adopted or proposed … Housing and Construction is implementing in the field of living and constructed environment in collaboration with the … method of increasing the level of public participation in living space development. According to the project’s web …
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Initiating effective transboundary conservation - A practitioner’s guideline based on the experience from the Dinaric Arc

… countries reflects the need to improve the standards of living for the population, creating challenges in balancing … the Plitvice Lakes municipality has a higher standard of living thanks in part to the employment opportunities offered … and quality of the groundwater in the basin have been modified by the construction of hydropower plants in the …
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IUCN Information Papers on Marine Genetic Resources

… including polymetallic nodules”, which refers only to non-living resources and therefore does not include MGR. Defining … used in the development and functioning of all living organisms) and RNA (an ubiquitous family of large … the physiology and environmental factors of a single cell (organism) can be linked to their genetic makeup, and hence …
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