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Wilderness Protected Areas: Management Guidelines for IUCN categories 1b protected areas

… Protected Area Guidelines are the world’s authoritative resource for protected area managers. Involving collaboration … require connectivity among protected areas to maintain genetic diversity. Connectivity will usually be achieved by … farming and ranching as a result of livestock predation, genetic dilution from interbreeding and transmission of …
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United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea

… to structure discussions under a “package deal”: 1. Marine genetic resources, including questions on the sharing of …
19 Jun 2026 Course lesson in Marine and Freshwater

Wetland ecosystem services Factsheet 6 - Reservoirs of biodiversity

… wetlands, meaning they are found nowhere else on Earth. S Genetic variation – safeguarding the variety of life in …
19 Jun 2026 Document

Mapping Biodiversity Priorities - a practical, science-based approach to national biodiversity assessment and prioritisation to inform strategy and action planning

… on providing guidance appropriate for countries that are resource and data constrained. This document is the result of … this diversity. Ecosystem diversity Species diversity Genetic diversity ! © Jane Ferraris, courtesy of SA N BI This … of the state of biodiversity, at the ecosystem, species or genetic level. The focus in this document is on assessment at …
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The Land in Numbers

… lack access to safe water. 15 3 3 EXPLODING NEEDS IN A RESOURCE FINITE WORLD Productive land and soil are the basic … and economies. They are our most precious natural capital resource, yet demand is spiraling out of control. The … Since the beginning of the 20th century, about 75% of the genetic diversity of agricultural crops has been lost. 32 • …
19 Jun 2026 Document in Climate and Atmosphere

AEWA Conservation Guidelines No. 10 - Guidelines on Avoidance of Introductions of Non-native Waterbird Species (TS No. 12)

… but inter- breed with them freely and thus threaten the genetic integrity of wild Mallard populations (Callaghan et. … there would also be considerable practical problems and resource implications. Shooting of full-grown individuals in …
19 Jun 2026 Document

Establishing marine protected area networks

… than conservation alone. For conservationists and natural resource managers, identifying the conservation actions … healthy populations, such as connectivity, gene flow and genetic variation. W HAT ARE THE ECOLOGICALDESIGN CRITERIA … influence attitudes and decisions about coastal and marine resource use and protection are also important …
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Major Components of the Cartagena Protocol - extract from InforMEA e-learning course

19 Jun 2026 Course lesson in Biological Diversity

ASEAN Handbook on legal cooperation to combat wildlife crime

… the compilation of a set of ASEAN wildlife and forest resource protection mechanisms and relevant enforcement … 11 / 2013 on Ratification of Nagoya Protocol on access to genetic resources and the fair and equitable sharing of … carried out while maintaining the purity of the type and genetic diversity. breeding habitat types outside must …
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Counting coastal ecosystems as an economic part of development infrastructure

… valuable goods and services that they provide. Resource over-exploitation, destructive harvesting … tension exists between economic development and natural resource conserva- tion. This tension is fundamentally to do … placed on maintaining a pool of landscapes, species and genetic resources for future possible uses which have …
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