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Speaking a common language: The uses and performance of the IUCN system of management categories for protected areas

… areas 103 Chapter 2.8: Using the categories in marine protected areas 106 Chapter 2.9: Using the categories … system of categories in certain biomes, such as forest or marine protected areas, has proved problematic and there have … outside protected areas that affects their ecology through pollution or other impacts – Mining leases that buffer …
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Transboundary protected areas for peace and co-operation

… Service Unit of IUCN, 1998, xii + 52pp. Guidelines for Marine Protected Areas. No. 3. Graeme Kelleher, 1999, xxiv + … from all sources including, inter alia, terrestrial, marine and other aquatic ecosystems and the ecological … control of problems such as fire, pests, poaching, marine pollution and smuggling. Box 2.1 lists other examples of …
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Wilderness Protected Areas: Management Guidelines for IUCN categories 1b protected areas

… natural monument, which can be a landform, sea mount, marine cavern, geological feature such as a cave, or a living … . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 4.6 Managing for marine wilderness values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . … impact on the planet is now so pervasive (as a result of pollution, climate change, rampant industrial infrastructure, …
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Transboundary Lakes and Reservoirs: Status and Trends (Summary for Policy Makers)

… vast resource can be rapidly and irreversibly degraded. Pollution of aquifers is difficult to reverse; … systems of the world – aquifers, lakes, rivers, Large Marine Ecosystems (LMEs), and the open ocean – sustain the … River Basins: Status and Trends Volume 4 – Large Marine Ecosystems: Status and Trends Volume 5 – The Open …
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Transboundary Aquifers and Groundwater Systems of Small Island Developing States: Status and Trends (Summary for Policy Makers)

… vast resource can be rapidly and irreversibly degraded. Pollution of aquifers is difficult to reverse; … systems of the world – aquifers, lakes, rivers, Large Marine Ecosystems (LMEs), and the open ocean – sustain the … River Basins: Status and Trends Volume 4 – Large Marine Ecosystems: Status and Trends Volume 5 – The Open …
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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

… natural monument, which can be a landform, sea mount, marine cavern, geological feature such as a cave, or a living … 52 Marine protected areas … on the world’s oceans through fishing pressure and pollution. If the impacts of transboundary air pollution and climate change are factored in, the entire …
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Oceans Full of Plastic

… to see a beach full of litter. But besides look- ing ugly, marine debris can also be harmful to humans and animals by … at beaches or along rivers Effects on Animals Entanglement Marine animals can be ensnared by marine debris, either accidentally or while the creature is …
18 Jun 2026 Document

New Directions in Earth Rights, Environmental Rights and Human Rights: Six Facets of Constitutionally Embedded Environmental Rights Worldwide

… in the ocean‟s salinity that will cause changes in the marine population? The problem is not only broad, but deep: … producing the ecological destruction of all forms of marine life in hundreds of square kilometers . . . a … for multifaceted injunctive relief to prevent massive pollution discharges from choking Manila Bay and to clean and …
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Strengthening policies relating to the sea and oceans

… sea; EMPHASIZING that most ecosystem services provided by marine and coastal ecosystems are within continental and … human activities; ALSO RECOGNIZING that the high seas, the marine zone that falls in areas beyond the limits of national … economic activities and human-related pressure (land-based pollution, coastal development, etc.); CONCERNED by the …
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Document - The Ramsar Convention on Wetlands: its History and Development

… powerful and often extremely destructive through drainage, pollution and excessive hunting. However, agricultural crops … or flowing, fresh, brackish or salt, including areas of marine water the depth of which at low tide does not exceed … This was strictly hierarchical, the primary systems being marine, estuarine, riverine, lacustrine (pertaining to …
18 Jun 2026 Document in Biological Diversity