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Global Re-introduction Perspectives: 2011 - More case studies from around the globe
… scavengers to compete with the beetles for the carrion resource. The last record of an American burying beetle on … by logging activities, road and bridge construction, and mineral exploration; water quality may be further degraded as … in the Clackamas River. In 2008, Federal, State and Tribal resource managers in the Clackamas River Basin recommended …
Rights-based approaches - Exploring issues and opportunities for conservation
… links between human rights and biodiversity and natural resource conservation are many and complex. The conservation … RBAs in a variety of contexts - protected areas, natural resource management, access and bene� t-sharing regimes, and … and partly arranged to give mining companies access to mineral deposits. Rights-based approaches Exploring issues …
Governance of Shared Waters - Legal and Institutional Issues
… if current projections for global popula- tion growth and resource availability remain unchanged, about 34 countries … ecosystems, and a potential increase in disputes over this resource. Indeed, during the course of the last century there … with navigation in the main channel. Article 32: Any mineral deposit which extends on both sides of the line …
Wildlife law and the empowerment of the poor
… principles aim to help decision-makers, legal drafters and resource managers to understand wildlife legislation, engage … and focuses holistically on wildlife as a renewable resource. Law is a key tool to achieve sustainable wildlife … set-up, which has been working well for benefits from mineral development, and may provide a useful idea for …
Marine plastic debris and microplastics – Global lessons and research to inspire action and guide policy change
… man- agement; (v) The re-evaluation of plastic waste as a resource; (vi) Appropriate recycling activities to improve … and coordination amongst countries sharing a common resource. There are 18 Regional Seas Conventions and Action … plastics production, use, waste management, recycling and resource efficiency, posing a series of questions to …
Payments for Ecosystem Services - Legal and Institutional Frameworks
… users can provide funds to meet the need for upstream resource management changes that benefit both the downstream … of money, they cannot reliably provide the main financial resource for PES. As a consequence, a ‘fundraising strategy’ … ing rights over water resources except for medicinal and mineral waters, which are controlled by the Ministry of …
UNEP. The first 40 years
… had, after all, “custody” of that extraordinary global resource, the Amazon basin. One of the first things I did, … sea level rise; and improving the efficiency of natural resource use, for example from research on crops adaptable to … approach to nature conservation and emphasised that living resource conservation was the essential foundation of …
An Explanatory Guide to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety
… and bio- ethanol) which can replace fossil fuels and mineral oils; � bulk chemicals, mainly oils, derived from … (UNEP), Microbial Strain Data Network (MSDN) – Information Resource for the Release of Organisms (IRRO) … and telecommuni- cations infrastructures; � Funding and resource management; � Mechanisms for follow-up, monitoring …
An explanatory guide to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety
… and bio- ethanol) which can replace fossil fuels and mineral oils; � bulk chemicals, mainly oils, derived from … (UNEP), Microbial Strain Data Network (MSDN) – Information Resource for the Release of Organisms (IRRO) … and telecommuni- cations infrastructures; � Funding and resource management; � Mechanisms for follow-up, monitoring …
Significant Trade in Wildlife: A Review of selected species in CITES Appendix II - Volume 2 Reptiles and Invertibrates
… 1974), and this turtle has always been a valuable food resource for the human population, both the local inhabitants … is one of several turtles that provided a valuable food resource (also a medium of exchange and a source of raw … N.J.H. (1979). Aquatic turtles of Amazonia: an endangered resource. Biological Conservation 16(3): 165-176. Soini, P. …