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Invasive Alien Species - a threat to biodiversity
… d iv er si ty 26 27 Prevention tools for unintentional and illegal introductions • Managing pathways and vectors: … APHIS o< cers make about two million interceptions of illegal agricultural products every year. ! e Beagle Brigade … spread of insect pests, weeds and diseases. Boating and Fishing • Remove all aquatic plants and animals from hulls, …
Draft International Covenant on Environment and Development - Implementing Sustainable Development - Fifth Edition: Updated text (4th Revision)
… collection and research programmes to assess impact of fishing; and enhance monitoring . For new or exploratory … 9(2) of the Bamako Convention (1991) which deem the illegal transfer of hazardous waste to be a criminal offence. … effectively regulate harvesting and end overfishing, illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing and destructive …
Guidelines for Protected Areas Legislation
… area boundaries, for example, from poor management, illegal logging, the introduction of invasive alien species, … extractive activities, underwater noise, dredging and fishing (Dudley, 2008, p. 9). Second, the explanation of … threats such as pests, invasive alien species (IAS) and illegal extraction, which will weaken the ability of natural …
Montenegro and marine protected areas: Legal and insituttional framework assessment for conservation of coastal and marine biodiversity and establishment of MPAs
… implementation of the NSSD. evaluation of damage due to illegal and unsustainable fishing and harvesting practices and unregulated activities … areas where human activities are more developed, and where illegal fishing and harvesting practices are carried out …
GEO yearbook 2003
… agree to strengthen wildlife management, combat illegal trafficking and update the trade rules for a wide … to physical damage, particularly by bottom trawl fishing, deep-sea oil and gas development, and mining … improperly operated municipal waste disposal sites, and in illegal dumping (OECD 2004). TRANSPORT: FULL-COST PRICING …
Safe Havens: Protected Areas for Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation
… economic devastation in these areas. Agriculture, tourism, fishing, ports and transport, as well as ecosystems, have … to promote the protection of these ecosystems by reducing illegal harvesting to avoid further stress on the ecosystem. … forests in the upper catchment, wildlife hunting and the illegal collection of stones and boulders from the lower …
Sacred natural sites: Guidelines for protected area managers
… of pressures and threats, external and internal, such as illegal extraction of timber and wildlife, impacts from … up the Zanzibar archipelago, off Tanzania. For about 26 fishing villages and the 11,500 people of Pemba, Misali, … of pressures and threats, external and internal, such as illegal extraction of timber and wildlife, impacts from …
A Global Register of Competences for Protected Area Practitioners
… of a sound policy and legal framework for reducing illegal activities that threaten biodiversity and protected … LAR 2.3 Work with local communities to resist and prevent illegal activities. APC All competences. HRM 2.2 Supervise, … manuals. ● Recognise and identify signs and evidence of illegal or restricted activities in the field. ● Participate …
Beyond access : Exploring implementation of the fair and equitable sharing commitment in the CBD
… Even as to these speci- mens, often it will not be illegal to possess them in the user country, once they have … international movement of specimens of some species may be illegal under the Convention on International Trade in … not apply to plants (other Lacey Act provisions make it illegal to take “fish, wildlife or plants,” suggesting that …