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Solutions in focus: Transboundary protected area solutions
… It provides the transboundary improvement of nature and landscape quality by connecting and valorizing habitats. An … governmental conservation groups, coordinated cross-border landscape protection measures. Through workshops, forestry … biotopes The project included transboundary nature and landscape management measures to improve habitats and the …
Biodiversity offsets: Views, experience, and the business case
… 29 4.2.5 Federal Law for the Protection of Nature and Landscape in Switzerland 31 4.2.6 No net loss of fisheries … nonetheless delivers functioning ecosystem services and a landscape and species mixture similar to the pre-project … optimise the results in the context of the surrounding landscape. What is the opportunity cost of sticking to 100% …
Legal and institutional frameworks for sustainable soils: A preliminary report
… 67 4.2.4 Benelux Convention on Nature Conservation and Landscape Protection 67 4.2.5 Convention for the Protection … • Soil is a fundamental element of nature and landscape. • Soil is part of the ecological balance, … and cultural heritage, forming an essential part of the landscape in which humans live, and concealing …
Environmental Guidance Note for Disaster Risk Reduction - Healthy Ecosystems for Human Security
… strategy with multiple concrete benefits from farm to landscape level. Sources: FAO, Rome, Mr Luis Alvarez Welchez, … • Developing a participatory planning process to design landscape patterns resilient to fire, and prevent land use … opportunities to help adopt fire resilient land uses and landscape patterns (i.e. innovative management systems, …
Biodiversity management in the cement and aggregates sector: Regulatory tools.
… The Programme’s objec- tive is that business practices at landscape and seascape levels are transformed to generate … each habitat block, based on how widespread it is in the landscape, the intrinsic biodiversity value of the habitat, … How widespread is the habitat in the surrounding landscape? What is the intrinsic biodiversity value of the …
International Aspects of Implementation
… Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda in the Virunga landscape. In a bid to save this close cousin of man, the three countries cooperate in management of the Virunga Landscape which straddles the three countries. The three … to increase the Mountain Gorilla population in the Virunga Landscape from 380 in 2003 to 480 in 2010. This has been …
International environmental governance: An international regime for protected areas
… resources. 6.3 Relationships of protected areas with the landscape Early on, requirements to protect protected areas … linkages between core areas in the protected area and the landscape, including ecological corridors. Another step has … park” can be traced back as far as 1832, when American landscape painter George Catlin, con cerned about the …
FAO's work on Climate Change
… and poverty alleviation in the region. Forest and landscape restoration Restoring degraded forest and other … the SDGs and the Paris Agreement. FAO’s Forest and Landscape Restoration Mechanism has shown results in three … learned. It also takes into account the changes in the landscape of international climate action since the original …
Tackling, poaching and illegal wildlife trafficking in Africa
… indication. An aerial census conducted in the Kilimanjaro landscape in April 2013 during the wet season found the … and wildlife, AWF sent 62 individuals from the Samburu landscape for paramilitary and ecological training at the … with communities to create a new reserve in the Congo landscape. In addition to protecting great apes, these …
Albania and marine protected areas: Legal and insituttional framework assessment for conservation of coastal and marine biodiversity and establishment of MPAs
… following: — Protection and improvement of biological and landscape diversity; — Incorporation of the principles and … (PEEN) and the Pan European Strategy on Biological and Landscape Diversity (PEBLDS). — Review of the national … of habi- tats and species (Category IV); e) Protected Landscape (Category V); f) Protected area of managed …