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Assessing forest landscape restoration opportunities at the national level: A guide to the Restoration Opportunities Assessment Methodology (ROAM)
… and creating future options to adjust and further optimize ecosystem goods and services as societal needs change or new … • Allow for multiple benefits. Aim to generate a suite of ecosystem goods and services by intelligently and … of FLR: • Improve the resilience and productivity of vulnerable forest land • Control erosion and improve …
The Use of Marine Organisms in Traditional and Allopathic Medicine
… Species (three critically endangered, five endangered, 14 vulnerable, six lower risk, four data deficient) and 23 … et al., 2004). are included on the IUCN Red List (six vulnerable and seven data deficient) and CITES Appendix … 77:135-145 FAO Fishery Resources Division. (2003). The Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries. FAO Technical Guidelines for …
Wetlands, water and the law. Using law to advance wetland conservation and wise use
… Jurisdictional and Institutional Barriers to Integrated Ecosystem Management.... 67 5.2.4.1 Jurisdictional Barriers … the world's freshwater fish are thought to be endangered, vulnerable or recently extinct, mostly due to degradation of … Inland wetlands at the ends of rivers are particularly vulnerable to this type of impact, usually caused by water …
UNEP Policy and Strategy for Gender Equality and the Environment 2014-2017, February 2015
… 2: Disasters and Conflicts 30 6 iii. Sub-Programme 3: Ecosystem Management 31 iv. Sub-programme 4: Environmental … structures that cause women to predominate in the more vulnerable and insecure social and economic spheres and limit … varying gender roles and responsibilities on how vulnerable and disadvantaged communities could be compensated …
Wildlife and Forest Crime Toolkit (Revised Edition)
… out outside concession boundaries or in particularly vulnerable areas, such as steep slopes, river banks or water … quently inspected by government officials are particularly vulnerable to unauthorized logging of this kind. Another … penalties may be seen as soft targets and may thus be more vulnerable to illegal activity. It would therefore seem …
Wildlife law and the empowerment of the poor
… with the maintenance of the natural properties of the ecosystem" (Rec. C.3.3 rev.). Selection for the Ramsar List … management of tourism in relation to ecosystems, including vulnerable areas; environmental assessment, including … those listed as "critically endangered", "endangered" and "vulnerable"). The IUCN Red List also includes information on …
Poverty, equity and rights in conservation : Technical papers and case studies
… Ecosystems such as forests and lakes but also the global ecosystem, which constitutes the Biosphere, thus enter into … affected the most impoverished populations – those most vulnerable to changes in their natural environment. … that of local elites at the expense of the most vulnerable agents and traditional authorities91; • Following …
Wildlife protection and trafficking assessment in Kenya - Drivers and trends of transnational wildlife crime in Kenya and its role as a transit point for trafficked species in East Africa
… following from the group ranches around the Tsavo-Amboseli ecosystem: Lolishoo Oltimbau, Haron Loosikira, Kimare Mapena, … 2015) MAMMALS BIRDS PLANTS Of these endangered and vulnerable species, this Assessment Report is primarily … viewed May 20, 2015). All three are classified as Vulnerable by the IUCN Pangolin Specialist Group. Pangolins …
United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea
… to engage in the recently emerging holistic notion of ecosystem-based fisheries management. Article 62 contains a … not authorized to proceed, identification and closure of vulnerable marine ecosystems, such as, seamounts, … UNGA was banning bottom-trawling in areas identified as vulnerable marine ecosystems (VMEs). UNGA reviewed progress …
Ecological Restoration for Protected Areas - Principles, Guidelines and Best Practices
… the long-term conservation of nature with associated ecosystem services and cultural values. The definition is … population. The only known population (35 individuals) is vulnerable to extinction by a single wildfire event. © … women, indigenous and local communities, and the poor and vulnerable. Target 15: By 2020, ecosystem resilience and the …