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Manual for the national focal points for CMS and its instruments

… Memorandum of Understanding concerning Conservation and Restoration of the Bukhara Deer (Single species instrument) … Memorandum of Understanding concerning Conservation, Restoration and Sustainable Use of the Saiga Antelope (Single … and Public Awareness (CEPA) Plan for Wetland Protection in China …
21 Jun 2026 Document in Biological Diversity

Explaining Ocean Warming: Causes, scale, effects and consequences

… assisted breeding and selection of resistant genotypes, restoration through translocation or substitution with … adam.langley@villanova.edu Summary • Tidal wetland responses to warming involve complex feedbacks … sea level rise and increasing salinity Decreased tidal wetland area due to conversion to open water. Highly …
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Identification and gap analysis of key biodiversity areas : Targets for comprehensive protected area systems

… (Tucker and Evans 1997). In the longer term, habitat restoration will be essential at this scale (Dobson et al. … Conference of Parties, one of these being Criterion 6: “A wetland should be considered interna- tionally important if … of the 1% threshold approach to certain non-avian wetland-dependent taxa for which the requisite data have been …
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ITTO/IUCN guidelines for the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity in tropical timber production forests

… on natural production forests, planted forests, the restoration, management and rehabilitation of degraded and … 9. Yokohama, Japan. ITTO (2002). ITTO Guidelines for the Restoration, Management and Rehabilitation of Degraded and … incremental cost framework to biodiversity conservation: a wetland case study in Malaysia. CSERGE Working Paper GEC …
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Values of protected landscapes and seascapes: protected landscapes and agrobiodiversity values

… in December 2004 with the Agreement on the Repatriation, Restoration and Monitoring of Agrobiodiversity of Native … the land was entirely forested with the exception of wetland areas. With settlement, valley ecosystems changed … are focused respectively on an internationally important wetland ecosystem (the Broads) and an equally important …
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The Status and Distribution of Freshwater Biodiversity in Western Africa

… hydropower will have a significant impact on the region’s wetland ecosystems. An immediate initiative is required to … also rely heavily upon the direct and indirect services wetland ecosystems provide, such as food (e.g., freshwater … to help limit the illegal use of chemicals. 3.5.3 Dams The restoration of natural flow regimes (the quantity, quality …
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Guidelines for species conservation planning - version 1.0

… preservation, maintenance, sustain- able utilization, restoration, and enhancement of the natural environment. … area will maintain a well-connected network of open wetland habitats, including reeds, marshes and wet meadows, … of Zeuneriana marmorata and other associated threatened wetland species (Hochkirch et al., 2017 b). 4 White-bellied …
21 Jun 2026 Literature

Payments for Ecosystem Services - Legal and Institutional Frameworks

… beneficiaries to service providers for the protection or restoration – of watershed services; Cost-sharing among … the United States’ Clean Water Act introduces a so-called wetland mitigation banking scheme. The Clean Water Act … third-party entity to do it for them. In other words, the wetland mitigation banking scheme al- lows developers to meet …
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Groundwater in international law: Compilation of treaties and other legal instruments

… that agricultural development schemes, in particular for wetland drainage or forest clearance, pay due regard to the … impact; (d) To ensure conservation and, where necessary, restoration of ecosystems. 3. Measures for the prevention, … as well as preserving and protecting of wetlands and wetland ecosystems, and protecting against natural and …
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Biodiversity, the next challenge for financial institutions ? A scoping study to assess exposure of financial institutions to biodiversity business risks and identifying options for business opportunities

… have already been established in the United States: wetland mitigation banking (offsetting damage done to … present, these markets represent market volumes of US$290 (wetland mitigation banking) and US$40 million (conservation … carried out, the issue of liability and redress, including restoration and compensation, for damage to biological …
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