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Guidelines for Applying Protected Area Management Categories. Best Practice Guidance on Recognising Protected Areas and Assigning Management Categories and Governance Types

… large-scale ecological processes with characteristic species and ecosystems, which also have environmentally and … reserves, buffer zones, corridors, stepping-stones for migratory species etc.); ● Maintain diversity of landscape or … required for those species (wide-ranging and/or migratory) that cannot be conserved entirely within a single …
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UNEP. The first 40 years

… was concerned with the conservation of rare and endangered species and natural habitats and had been charged by the UN … Species of Fauna and Flora (CITES) and the Convention on Migratory Species (CMS). Other initiatives flowed from, or … played in the genesis of the Convention on Migratory Species (CMS). As is so often the case, the key …
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International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling

… and the Carnivoria (sea otters and polar bears and the species belonging to the Pinnipedia (seals, sea lions and … the coverage of the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (“CMS”). The CMS is largely … between UNEP/CMS and the IWC in the field of conserving migratory species and the world’s natural heritage, with a …
25 May 2026 Course lesson in Marine and Freshwater

Effectiveness of Multilateral Environmental Agreements

… ABS; • Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), Convention on Migratory Species (CMS); Global MEAs • UNCLOS, IMO, ILO, FAO, … and benefit sharing of genetic resources. • Regulating migratory species, and trade in endangered species; ensuring …
25 May 2026 Document in Environmental Governance

A2 - Integrating Environmental Concerns in National Water Law

… Act of Bangladesh (2013), to protect the water habitats of migratory birds, and wetlands; under the Water Act of Ecuador … the release of harmful substances, under the Convention on Migratory Species, 1979, Art.V(5)(i) to promote the protection of …
25 May 2026 Course lesson in Environmental Governance

Identification and gap analysis of key biodiversity areas : Targets for comprehensive protected area systems

… AZE site holds 13 Critically Endangered and Endangered species wholly restricted to it, more than any other AZE site … important sites for biodiversity include the Convention on Migratory Species and the Convention to Combat … and taking into consideration the conservation needs of migratory species. Z KBAs identify these sites for urgent …
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Global Re-introduction Perspectives: 2011 - More case studies from around the globe

… in public, NGO and private sectors around the world. IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC) The SSC is a science-based … of NSH in the River Rhine system. Goal 4: Monitoring of migratory routes and spawning sites in the River Rhine … that this species (1) is sometimes able to pass the migratory barriers between the Wadden Sea and Lake …
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Ramsar Technical Report 7: Ramsar Wetland Disease Manual

… – land use, pollution, abstraction, livestock, introduced species, or such like. It becomes easy to see that decisions … instruments, specifically under the Convention on Migratory Species, of the number of instruments mentioning … its associated Agreements and other linked treaties for migratory species, from 1985 to 2012 (Lee, unpublished). Data …
25 May 2026 Document

Crossing Borders for Nature. European examples of transboundary conservation

… biodiversity hotspot. High mountain areas abound in plant species diversity, and the region is one of the last … conservation and development areas, and transboundary migratory corridors (Sandwith et al. 2006). 2. Transboundary … a five year action plan (Zunckel 2007). Transboundary Migratory Corridors Transboundary Migratory Corridors are …
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Before the meeting

… Focal Points for the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS) and its Instruments Book: … that marine debris threatens marine life and particularly migratory species such as turtles, cetaceans, sharks and …
25 May 2026 Course lesson in Biological Diversity