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Community Protocols for Environmental Sustainability: A Guide for Policymakers
… Indigenous and community conserved areas “Natural and/or modified ecosystems containing significant biodiversity … Cattle and Hill Buffalo. These breed of cattle have been genetically bred over the past 400 years to be specifically …
The green belt of Europe: From vision to reality
… While landscapes all over Europe have been shaped and modified by processes of intensive agricultural (and … fragmented and relictual landscapes). Fragments – least-modified habitat surrounded by areas of highly modified habitat. Buffer areas – occur around fragments or …
Drafting legislation for sustainable soils: A guide
… soil. 3. The elements as they appear here may have to be modified to clearly convey an actual domestic circumstance in … ■ Existing activities should not be expanded or otherwise modified if they do not meet prescribed ecological soil … classified and distinguished from other areas. Soil is an organism, has species characteristics (groups of soil with …
Governance of Protected Areas: From understanding to action
… Ib Wilderness area: Usually large unmodified or slightly modified areas, retaining their natural character and … Ib – Wilderness Area Large unmodified or slightly modified areas, retaining their natural character and … ( ICCAs) is now being used to describe “natural and/or modified ecosystems, containing significant biodiversity …
Law, Policy and Dryland Ecosystems in the People's Republic of China
… means “a dynamic complex of plant, animal and micro-organism communities and their non-living environment … to apply the six-step assessment procedure,26 which was modified to accommodate the principles of IEM in the … of conduct that can be used in its existing form or modified to perform the role of a legal mechanism (such as a …
Freshwater Law and Governance: Global and Regional Perspectives for Sustainability
… the area was impaired, 30% of which had been substantially modified from its original condition.68 Today the MDBA lists … infringe on domestic laws, require that domestic laws be modified, or upset existing political interactions. 5.5.4 … pre-existing Boards of Control into Watershed Boards, with modified membership according to local circumstances. The IWI …
Special Issue on Wildlife Trafficking II
… delisted). Specifically, the court found that the project modified and disturbed the eagles’ habitat, and the eagle … fall of 2006, as predicted, rains washed sediment from the modified areas into the bog turtle habitat. Pursuant to plea … or moves any plant, plant product, biological control organism, plant pest, noxious weed, or article, for …