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Cost and benefits of ecosystem based adaptation: The case of the Philippines
… importance of local and traditional knowledge, as well as species diversity. Furthermore, it provides co-benefits such … importance of local and traditional knowledge, as well as species diversity. It recognizes that women are natural … Improved crop and livestock sales; avoided travel cost for migratory work and drinking water; avoided cost of government …
Bio-Cultural Community Protocols: A community approach to Ensuring the Integrity of Environmental Law and Policy
… practices that contaminate or destroy the natural world, species and habitats, sacred sites, and our communities and … Bikaneri, Jaisalmeri. Many of our breeds are intrinsically migratory, and cannot be stall bred. Just as our lifestyles … services to the villages near our grazing lands and migratory routes. We provide manure to farmers, either by …
Safe Havens: Protected Areas for Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation
… However, they provide protection to 80% of threatened species and store more than 15% of global terrestrial carbon … (Varanus salvator) in India, 263 bird species, including migratory waterfowls, and 31 mammal species including the … are found in the area (Xunta de Galicia, 2014). For some migratory bird species the wetland is a key habitat area for …
Indigenous and traditional peoples and climate change
… a growing knowledge about the impacts of climate change on species and ecosystems, the understanding about the potential … an important role in the conservation and management of species and ecosystems and avail on the plants and animal … reliable. As the weather becomes hotter in the tropics, migratory birds come at a different period of the year and …
Protected landscapes and cultural and spiritual values
… and which has impacts on the diversity of genes, other species and ecosystems” (UNEP 2008). Since there is this … archipelago and the caiçara communities disappeared when migratory urban people came to the area. Nevertheless, … a nearby small island is home to the nests of migratory marine birds and is a reproduction site for marine …
Wilderness Protected Areas: Management Guidelines for IUCN categories 1b protected areas
… large-scale ecological processes with characteristic species and ecosystems, which also have environmentally and … the Convention on Biological Diversity, the Convention on Migratory Species, the Barcelona Convention, and the Abidjan … A.R.E., and Borner, M. (2004). ‘Can Parks Protected Migratory Ungulates? The Case of the Serengeti Wildebeest’. …
Culture and wetlands: A Ramsar guidance document
… CITES Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora COP Conference of the Parties … considerably (for example including the role of other species groups and aspects such as water management, human … known for its fisheries and the large populations of migratory birds it hosted, was drained in the early 1960s to …
Capacity Development Needs and Priorities for Nature Conservation in South-Eastern Europe
… Europe abbreviations used in the text AIS Alien invasive species ALB Albania BfN Bundesamt fur Naturschutz (The German … assessments, including Identification of priority species and areas for conservation … concern (rare, endangered, endemic, restricted range, migratory etc.). • Management of alien invasive species. • …
Values of protected landscapes and seascapes: protected landscapes and agrobiodiversity values
… in particular: (1) the wild relatives of domesticated species (for example crop wild relatives from which … region has been known to be a major route for some migratory birds, particularly forest migrants using the East … 34 species of mammals, 140 species of birds (including migratory birds), 27 species of fish and 244 plant species. …
An introduction to the African Convention on the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources
… of renewable resources 8 2.1 Land, soil and water 8 2.2 Species and genetic diversity 9 2.3 Conservation areas 10 3. … and political history, its exceptional diversity of species and ecosystems1 and its current economic and social … protec- tion, and iii) identifying species that are migratory or congregatory and therefore confined to specific …