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Linkages in the landscape : The role of corridors and connectivity in wildlife conservation

… including new predators (Red Fox, Cat) and competitors (Black Rat, House Mouse, European Rabbit) for native species. … such as the Wood Thrush, Ovenbird, Scarlet Tanager, Black and White Warbler and White-breasted Nuthatch are more … significant impacts on the global climate. The presence of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere contributes to a …
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Guidelines - Biodiversity in Impact Assessment

… conservation, sedimentation processes, nutrient cycling, carbon storage and climatic regulation, amongst others, are … such as water purification, biological control mechanisms, carbon sequestration, pollination of commercially valuable … marine ecosystems - beaver in some freshwater habitats - black-tailed prairie dogs and prairies 38 Biodiversity in …
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Payments for Ecosystem Services - Legal and Institutional Frameworks

… in more and more sectors (agriculture, water supply, carbon sequestration, biodiversity conservation, etc.) and in … prominent populations include indigenous people (785,000), black or Afro-Colombian people (4.2 million), and San Andrean … aimed at the supporting legalization of titles. 224 225 Black communities and indigenous peoples in Colombia have …
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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

… resilience and the contribution of biodiversity to carbon stocks have been enhanced through conservation and … there is still a net loss of forests, a major global carbon stock Global Biodiversity Outlook 422 TARGET ELEMENTS … hyacinth (Rwanda) and mongoose (Japan), the development of black lists (Belgium and Norway) and the collec- tion of …
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Wildlife and Forest Crime Toolkit (Revised Edition)

… (E/CN.15/2003/8), para. 26. 5 Mara E. Zimmermann, “The black market for wildlife”, Vanderbilt Journal of … 1657-1661. 6 See, for example, Mara E. Zimmermann, “The black market for wildlife”, pp. 1657-1659. ExEcutivE summary … by forests and wildlife (for example, biodiversity, carbon sequestration and watershed protection). Therefore, …
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Restoring Forest Landscapes - An introduction to the art and science of forest landscape restoration

… ecosystems become degraded. Water quality can decline, carbon can be emitted into the atmosphere, biological … such as slope stabilization, hydrological regulation and carbon sequestration. In practice, however, the situation can … community-based restoration of the degraded forest of the Black Water Forest Reserve (BWFR), Southern Province • Extent …
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Energy subsidies: Lessons learned in assessing their impact and designing policy reforms

… by eliminating energy subsidies. In India, for instance, carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions could be cut by around 100 … for reducing emissions by increasing subsidies to low carbon-intensive or carbon-free fuels or increasing taxation … in Assessing their Impact and Designing Policy Reforms black-outs. In addition, many rural households are deprived …
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European Union overseas coastal and marine protected areas - overview of coastal and marine conservation efforts in the European Union's overseas countries and territories and outermost regions

… con- servation in a changing ocean • Developing a Blue Carbon component in ORs and OCTs climate and MPA strategies M … 59 Iceland Shelf and Sea 60 Faroe Plateau 61 Antarctica 62 black Sea 63 Hudson bay Complex 64 Central Arctic Ocean 65 … for the protection of marine and coastal environments: Black Sea, Wider Caribbean, East Asian Seas, Eastern Africa, …
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Legal frameworks for REDD: design and implementation at the national level

… 3 1 Ownership of Land, Forest and Carbon … 15 1.3 Nature of ownership rights or interest in the carbon or sequestration benefit ............. 23 1.4 … esp. a loss or injury covered by an insurance policy.” (Black’s Law Dictionary, 7th Ed: 2009). In this case, the term …
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Law for water management: a guide to concepts and effective approaches

… rates of evapotranspiration. Planting forests for wood and carbon increases the amount of green water used by forests … in order to assess model effectiveness. The seeming “black box” nature of the groundwater system (due to the … Berkman, D.S., Lescano, A.G., Gilman, R.H., Lopez, S.L. & Black, M.M. 2002. Effects of stunting, diarrhoeal disease, …
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