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Integrating mining and biodiversity conservation: Case studies from around the world

… words, it refers to the differences within and between all living organisms at their different levels of biological … improvements in the health, education and the standard of living of national, local and indigenous communities. Today, … Park creation could proceed but boundaries would be modified to exclude areas of high mineral potential. And …
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Judges and Environmenal Law: a Handbook for the Sri Lankan Judiciary

… The environment consists of all of the external non-living (abiotic) and living (biotic) factors, conditions, and … that affect the life, development, and survival of an organism or a community.2 The environment is anything outside … Many indigenous peoples’ environments are less modified and degraded than surrounding areas. Since they are …
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An Explanatory Guide to the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit-sharing

… diversity (biodiversity) as the variability among living organisms from all sources, occurring at three levels: … closely related Molecule found in the plant needs to be modified in many steps to be included in the product … in pharmaceutical utilization) The function of an organism or its parts serve as a model (e.g., mimics in …
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Special Issue on Wildlife Trafficking II

… delisted). Specifically, the court found that the project modified and disturbed the eagles’ habitat, and the eagle … image” that: (1) depicts actual conduct in which 1 or more living non-human mammals, birds, reptiles, or amphibians is … or moves any plant, plant product, biological control organism, plant pest, noxious weed, or article, for …
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UNEP’s Compendium of Innovative Laws: promoting Green Economy & Sustainable Development

… on the same human resources to improve or sustain the living conditions of humankind. It is this cognizance that is … 173 Decree Regulating the Exploitation and Conservation of Living Aquatic Resources … for release and import activities involving living modified organisms, and the exportation and contained use …
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Second report on the protection of the atmosphere

… effects of such a nature as to endanger human health, harm living resources and ecosystems and material property and … term “pollution” as “such deleterious effects as harm to living resources and marine life, hazards to human health …” … “biological diversity” which means “the variability among living organisms from all sources including, inter alia, …
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Wilderness Protected Areas: Management Guidelines for IUCN categories 1b protected areas

… Ib Wilderness area: Usually large unmodified or slightly modified areas, retaining their natural character and … marine cavern, geological feature such as a cave, or a living feature such as an ancient grove IV Habitat/species … with climate change, either because the affected organism is under stress from the effects of climate change, …
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Multilateral Environmental Agreements - extract from InforMEA e-learning course

… need-and-modalities-protocol-safe-transfer-handling-and-use-living-modified http://www.informea.org/treaties/cartagena/summary …
18 Jun 2026 Course lesson in Environmental Governance

Natural Resource Governance. Trainers' Manual

… affected the livelihoods of the fishing communities living around the lagoon. As happened in the 1980s, … waters, which means they no longer have a way of making a living. The businessman may or may not know about the … applied during the course of the debate. The debate can be modified to suit the context of the training and the …
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Forest fires and the law: a guide for national drafters based on the fire management voluntary guidelines

… with the FAO Guidelines, "fire" is any fire burning living or dead vegetation outside the urban environment. … compounding of offences, etc.) that may be preserved, modified, or used as models in forest fire legislation, may … fires (art. 35); and � an obligation for individuals living in a fire-prone area to contribute to fire-fighting …
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