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United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea
… of the sea-bed and subsoil together with sedentary species, such as clams and abalone, as provided in article … of artificial islands and fishing, except for sedentary species on a coastal state’s juridical (legal) continental … or fragile ecosystems as well as the habitat of depleted, threatened or endangered species and other forms of marine …
Water in drylands - Adapting to scarcity through integrated management
… of water scarcity and climatic variability. Dryland species show many remarkable adaptations to water stress, … by thorny savannahs with a great diversity of grass species. Semi-arid areas have the highest human population … that are significantly shaped by herds of grazing ungulate species. • Hyper arid lands have at least 20 times greater …
Poverty and conservation: Landscapes, people and power
… forest. Source: Dechaineux (2001) While it is clear that species gathered from the wild can be important to poor … direct financial interests, resource managers often feel threatened by sharing power. Attitudes and personal interests … is about power and the forest department certainly feels threatened by the increasing influence of FECOFUN. A third …
Mapping the linkages between oceans and other Sustainable Development Goals: A preliminary exploration
… or fragile ecosystems as well as the habitat of depleted, threatened or endangered species and other forms of marine life (articles 194(3) and … The long-term sustainability of fisheries in SIDS has been threatened by overexploitation of living marine resources, …
D2 - Dams, Ecosystems and Fisheries
… particularly acute adverse impacts on some cold-water fish species. For example, salmon have a limited tolerance for … provides: “Where the same stock or stocks of associated species occur within the exclusive economic zone of two or … Article 64(1) of UNCLOS is titled “Highly migratory species” and provides: “The coastal states and other States …
Protecting the world's greatest salmon fishery in Bristol Bay, Alaska from large-scale mining
… habitat for more than 29 fish, 40 mammal, and 190 bird species; AWARE that the Bristol Bay watershed also contains … as Critically Endangered on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species; COMMENDING the United States Environmental …
Judges and the rule of law. Creating the links: Environment, human rights and poverty
… conflicting stakes in terms of government credibility, the threatened supremacy of law, significant economic interests, … build a link road through a natural area which contained threatened and endangered species of fauna. In partic- ular, the Yellow Bellied Glider …
Regional Action Plan on Marine Litter Management for the wider Caribbean Region 2014
… beautiful, yet fragile ecosystems support many endemic species and are ringed by coral reefs and mangrove forests … which may hurt or kill them. Many of these animals are threatened or endangered and consequently, the biodiversity … on the economic impacts of marine litter and valuation of threatened natural resources can aid in justifying the need …
Governance of Protected Areas: From understanding to action
… large-scale ecological processes with characteristic species and ecosystems, which also have environmentally and … well... they have shown great support for us when we were threatened by budgetary cuts. They know that national parks … one of the world’s most important nesting sites for threatened Hawksbill and Leatherback sea turtles. Tourist …
On dangerous ground _ Global Witness
… and publicly reaffirm the work of public officials threatened when monitoring these sectors ▶ Develop National … region by illegal gold miners, who had repeatedly threatened him prior to his killing. He had denounced the … water sup- plies and displace the habitat of endangered species.169 Herakles’ operations in Cameroon have been …