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Land Degradation Neutrality: implications and opportunities for conservation - Nature based solutions to desertification, land degradation and drought

Ecosystem Based Approaches … the output of collaboration between the IUCN Commission on Ecosystem Management, World Commission on Environmental Law, … species losses, leading to a decline in biodiversity and ecosystem services. Reduced ecosystem function, and in …
31 May 2026 Literature

Assessing environmental impacts - A global review of legislation

… a legal requirement in many countries, and the concept of ecosystem services can help in assessing these; however, … not effective and there is also a need to better measure ecosystem services. To overcome some of the limitations of … contains provisions dedicated to the protection and preservation of the marine environment. In 2014, the …
31 May 2026 Literature

Plant genetic resources and food security: stakeholder perspectives on the international treaty on plant genetic resources for food and agriculture

… field to cope with present and future challenges in the preservation of agricultural biodiversity.’ —Antonio Onorati, … of a wider range of varieties and crops to ensure better ecosystem service provision. A good example would be the use … of wild relatives of crops of global importance within the ecosystem; • establishing a strong research programme in the …
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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, … Conservation Task Force”, with special focus on the Mara Ecosystem. KWS, KWCA, NGOs, Conservancies 5 Carry out a … Number of elephant carcasses and PiKe values in the Mara ecosystem (Sources: Poole and Granli, 2015; KWS) Figure 7. …
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E1 - Regulation of the Environment - Support Function of Groundwater Systems

… on activities causing unacceptable impacts, (d) the preservation and enhancement of the quality of water in the … the role of the aquifer or aquifer system in the related ecosystem. Aquifer States also must use transboundary …
31 May 2026 Course lesson in Environmental Governance

Earth Rights: The Theory

… that the “final end of every political institution is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of … it is clear that the pollution is destroying the river ecosystem. In this example, three interrelated things are … measured with reference to the actual harm caused to the ecosystem rather than a human property owner. For example, …
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The precautionary principle in biodiversity conservation and natural resource management. An issues paper for policy-makers, researchers and practitioners

… SBSTTA I/8), invasive alien species (see below), the ecosystem approach (Decision V/6),4 and guidelines on … work. See e.g., Report: Liaison Group meeting on Ecosystem Approach, 15–17 September 2000, Paris. Cartagena … 1985); Convention on Nature Protection and Wild Life Preservation in the Western Hemisphere (Washington 1940); …
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Introduction to Human Rights and the Environment - extract from InforMEA e-learning course

… It also affirms that Parties shall promote the protection, preservation and improvement of the environment. Article 10 … to life: encompasses within its ambit the protection and preservation of the environment, ecological balance, freedom …
01 Mar 2017 Course lesson in Environmental Governance

International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling

… by CITES can complement the efforts in the protection and preservation of marine biodiversity of the IWC and RFMOs. … the management and conservation of whales in a broader ecosystem context has, among other things, led to several … agenda of the IWC and place whaling in a broader ecosystem context. In 2001, the IWC recognized the importance …
31 May 2026 Course lesson in Marine and Freshwater

Contracting for ABS: The legal and scientific implications of bioprospecting contracts

… in policy discussions to think of development and the preservation of the environment in antagonistic terms… We … able use situations, as a way of ensuring that any ecosystem harm caused by the ‘sustainable user’ will be … dominant (but generally unculturable) microbes play in the ecosystem, and establish and publish a freely shared, global …
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