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Special Issue on Wildlife Trafficking II

… of the species are proven. See Palila v. Hawaii Dep’t of Land & Natural Res., 649 F. Supp. 1070, 1075 (D. Haw. 1986), … agency, such as FWS, EPA, U.S. Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Natural … variety of investigative techniques to work backward from land to water in order to get the probable cause necessary to …
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Negotiate: reaching agreement over water

… known as a ‘fugitive’ resource: that means that – unlike land, food, trees, minerals or even people – when left alone … Cape York The MSP of CYPLUS (Cape York Peninsula Land Use Strategy) was born in the 1990s after 20 years of … ing conflict about major development proposals, mining, land rights, cattle grazing and Aboriginal land rights in the …
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Best practice for industrial-scale development projects

… declines; and RECALLING previous Resolutions on land use-planning, infrastructure and protected areas, … 5.037 The importance of nature conservation criteria in land-use planning policies (Jeju, 2012), as well as … the project; and g. respect for the legal and customary land and resource rights of local communities, and their free …
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Illegal Trade in Ivory and Rhino Horn: an Assessment Report to Improve Law Enforcement Under the Wildlife TRAPS Project

… within Africa to a seaport. Table 1 also shows other land-based seizures, almost all made within Africa and most … 2009 - 2013 (ETIS, 09 January 2014) Year Air Sea Land Total Number Weight Number Weight Number Weight Number … experiencing serious economic turmoil and a chaotic land reform process. Apart from a slight downturn in poaching …
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Share - Managing water across boundaries

… the coordinated devel- opment and management of water, land, and related resources at the river basin level – are … are simply not separable. Cooperation in the management of land and water within a basin ecosystem brings benefits to … • Providing compensation for costs – e.g., inundated land, pollution, loss of ecosystem services, harmful changes …
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Implementation of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in the context of the UNESCO World Heritage Convention

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The long and winding road: negotiating a treaty for the conservation and sustainable use of marine biodiversity in areas beyond national jurisdiction

… reduce marine pollution of all kinds, in particular from land-based activities, including marine debris and nutrient … marine scientific research. All States, whether coastal or land-loc- ked, have the freedom of navigation and over- … law” m Continental shelf: The natural prolongation of the land territory to the outer edge of the continental margin, …
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Cultural Heritage Information Pack: 1 Introduction

… special religious signifi- cance, to traditional water and land- use management practices that have sustained human …
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IUCN Policy on Biodiversity Offsets

… This includes biodiversity conservation priorities, sound land use (and seascape) decision-making and sensitivity maps. … and above all through landscape-level, integrated land-use planning. 10.2 Additionality A biodiversity offset … context (e.g., connectivity, landscape position, adjacent land uses or condition, patch size, etc.), and ecosystem …
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Ramsar Fact Sheet 8 Keep Peatlands wet for a better future

… Fact Sheet 8 Peatlands cover only 3% of the Earth’s land surface, but store more carbon than all the world’s … permission from IPS Peat < 5 % Peat 5 % – 10 % Peat > 10 % land area Mangroves Islands with peat Bays / lagoons often … have been drained, covering less than 0.4% of the global land surface. Yet this relatively small area contributes 5% …
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