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Global biodiversity outlook 4 - A mid-term assessment of progress towards the implementation of the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020
… may carry costs in terms of lost agricultural and logging opportunities, these are far outweighed by the value … by Brazil’s environmental agency to crack down on illegal deforestation and logging, with interventions … by Brazil’s environmental agency to crack down on illegal deforestation and logging, with interventions …
Bio-Cultural Community Protocols: A community approach to Ensuring the Integrity of Environmental Law and Policy
… keeping the termite population in check; • Combating illegal logging and poaching in the forest; • Continuing our … that the community faces (agricultural expansion, legal/illegal logging, fire, etc). This could also include an …
Outcome of court trials in the first two years of implementation of the Wildlife Conservation and Management Act, 2013 - Courtroom Monitoring Report 2014/2015
… financial gain from sale of trophies, compared with other illegal activities. Table 4: Ranges of bail and bond set for … of wildlife trophy 500,000– 1,000,000 200,000– 5,000,000 Illegal entry 5,000 30,000– 100,000 Introducing snares 10,000 … offences relate to illegal entry into protected areas and logging. On the other hand, there are very few prosecutions …
Biodiversity for Business: A guide to using knowledge products delivered through IUCN
… square kilometres. The main threat to this ecosystem is illegal mining, which takes place over relatively small areas … ✔ 28 Example 9 Forestry (oil palm and timber) Oil palm and logging companies in Indonesia ✔ ✔ ✔ 29 Example 10 Forestry … of International Importance) are sur- rounded by oil-palm, logging and mining conces- sions. However, a relatively …
A Review of Migratory Bird Flyways and Priorities for Management - TS No. 27
… for game and Wildlife Conservation CITES Convention on the Illegal Trade in Endangered Species CMS Convention on … List shows that important threats include land-use change, illegal hunting and taking, non-native species, diseases, … Canada concern- ing the protection of boreal forest from logging), through national and regional protected areas …
Global Land Outlook
… 200,000 km of unofficial roads,41 often associated with logging,42 and unpredictable in their development.43 Over 20 … crop production.68 Mining – particularly when it is illegal and thus unregulated – also creates high levels of … low capacity of public agencies, corruption, and illegal activities have all been identified as indirect …
Towards sustainable fisheries law: a comparative analysis
… on enforcement 177 1. Preventing foreign vessels from illegal fishing in the Namibian EEZ 177 2. Monitoring and … in the last 20 years due to human pressure and illegal activities, their condition needs comprehensive … mangrove forests continue to be overexploited through logging and by being turned into saltpans and fish pans33 …
Significant Trade in Wildlife: A Review of selected species in CITES Appendix II - Volume 2 Reptiles and Invertibrates
… being taken by Argentina to review their harvest quotas. Illegal trade may continue to be a problem and the … de cette esp4ce. 11 se pourrait que le commerce illegal de ces especes soit toujours un probieme et le … a restricted distribution and is subject to pressure from logging, it will probably be less able to withstand the …
Initiating effective transboundary conservation - A practitioner’s guideline based on the experience from the Dinaric Arc
… i.e. management of invasive species, disease control, illegal trade of species, poaching and wildfire management. … (resulting with for example, uncontrolled development and illegal construction in protected areas, excessive extraction … pressures, poaching and illegal wildlife trade, extensive logging in protected areas, etc.) and nature conservation. …
Judges and the rule of law. Creating the links: Environment, human rights and poverty
… ciary. Decisions on matters in the public sphere, like logging, housing and infrastructure development, and the … managed less sustainably than ever before. The amount of illegal logging is still growing. At present, Indonesia is … for damages caused by polluters (state enterprises), or by illegal logging, hunting or fishing. A ruling awarding …