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Collaboration for resilience: How collaboration among business, government and NGOs could be the key to living with turbulence and change in the 21st century
… NGOs, scientists, businesses, local communities, indigenous peoples organisations and others can work together to forge … of rights from municipalities to private citizens and indigenous people were being marginalised. Lack of technical …
Biodiversity: My hotel in action - A guide to sustainable use of biological resources in the Caribbean
… major damage to ecosystem functions and populations of indigenous species through predation or by out-competing for … to harvest it, while at the same time helping to increase peoples’ understanding about biodiversity and conservation. … plant and animal species. Hotel grounds and gardens: Using indigenous plants for landscaping and minimizing light and …
International ocean governance: Using international law and organisations to manage marine resources sustainably (revised)
… — II.B.5. Pollution from Fishing Vessels — II.C. Non-Indigenous/Invasive Species Introductions — II.D.3. Vessel … 39 II.D.3. Non-Indigenous/Invasive Species Introductions … legal instruments on the rights of indigenous peoples may increasingly affect domestic allocation of …
Biodiversity for Business: A guide to using knowledge products delivered through IUCN
… satisfying the basic necessities of local communities or indigenous peoples (for livelihoods, health, nutrition, water, etc.), … identified through engagement with these communities or indigenous peoples. E.g. key hunting areas for communities …
Landscape conservation law. Present trends and perspectives in international and comparative law.
… life trying to support the aspirations and values of indigenous, tribal and local communities. One thing I have learned from this experience is that indigenous peoples and local communities do not like terminology such as …
Towards a Pollution Free Planet - extract from InforMEA e-learning course
… internal 2014; Arrebola 2015). This is especially true for indigenous populations in Programme 2015). between pesticides … as their main food source. This is especially true for indigenous peoples, such as those living in the circumpolar region of …
Energy, Ecosystems and livelihoods: Understanding linkages in the face of climate change impacts
… it, and depending on tree species, they can promote indigenous biodiversity or become an invasive species. 7 by … and amongst most vulnerable: women; children; aged; indigenous groups � sea surface temperature � precipitation � …
AEWA Conservation Guidelines No. 10 - Guidelines on Avoidance of Introductions of Non-native Waterbird Species (TS No. 12)
… prevent these species from becoming a potential threat to indigenous species.” Many of the states within the agreement … were considered to represent a potential threat to indigenous AEWA waterbirds; the remainder appeared not to be … an ecological threat to wild species of fauna and flora indigenous to the Community (analogous to the ‘black list’ …
An introduction to the African Convention on the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources
… Act of Lagos as well as the African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights, and stresses the necessity to work closely … of local communities including farmers’ rights. Access to indigenous knowledge must be subject to the prior informed … and emphasizes “the enormous contribution that local and indigenous communities and farmers of all regions of the …