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Guidelines for the application of IUCN Red List of Ecosystems Categories and Criteria (Version 1.0)

… risks to biodiversity and aims to support conservation, resource use, and management decisions by identifying … Directive 92/43/EEC (European Commission) Habitat type. 'Plant and animal communities as the characterising elements … W. J. and Shapcott, A. (2012). ‘Will climate change, genetic and demographic variation or rat predation pose the …
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Initiating effective transboundary conservation - A practitioner’s guideline based on the experience from the Dinaric Arc

… in adjacent states have been cooperating on natural resource management in many regions, in some cases long … Podyjí National Park in the Czech Republic. The hydropower plant that runs in hydro-peaking mode in the Czech Republic … The wealth of landscape, ecosystem, species and genetic diversity make this an area of interest for …
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Biodiversity for Business: A guide to using knowledge products delivered through IUCN

… more: a Human Dependency on Nature Framework and a Natural Resource Governance Framework. Other notable examples of … on global assessments of the extinction risk for ani- mal, plant and fungi species. The methodology can also be applied … the name of the site, a list of the ecosystem, species or genetic biodiversity for which the site was identified as im- …
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Safe Havens: Protected Areas for Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation

… International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resource Reproduction of this publication for educational or … medicines • Shelter • Agrobiodiversity • Pharmaceuticals • Genetic material x According to Colls et al., 2009, … January 2002). for intervention. Re-vegetation with local plant species will prevent further landward migration of the …
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Aquaculture: responsible practices and certification

… and operational frameworks that require use of the resource to be responsible and sustainable. MSC certification … factors such as their climate change impact, energy and resource consumption and waste generation. Another issue … trade, is also linked to environmental aspects of resource management and some of the social issues associated …
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Protected landscapes and cultural and spiritual values

… able practices in local communities, as models of natural resource management, stewardship and sustainable rural … the concept of ’biocultural diversity’ is the one gain- Plant diversity and language distribution. From Stepp et al. … unique biodiversity (ecosys- tems, species and genetic diversity) • conserve Madagascar’s cultural heritage …
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Speaking a common language: The uses and performance of the IUCN system of management categories for protected areas

… used in the 1978 system implied that human occupation or resource use were unwelcome or unacceptable in some protected … exercises include the IUCN/WWF/Kew ‘Centres of Plant Diversity’, Birdlife International’s ‘Endemic Bird … scientific value, protecting functions of animal and plant genetic resources, and as places for scientific studies, but …
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Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security

… of the environment; promote the fair and equitable use of genetic resources associated with land, fisheries and forests … transparency of information and methodologies, in public resource administration and compensation, and in company …
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Significant Trade in Wildlife: A Review of selected species in CITES Appendix II - Volume 1 Mammals

… the Group should restrict its attention to fauna, as a Plant Working Group was already in existence. The conclusions … of Nature (PHl'A) sees primates as an important ulilisable resource, and is keen to encourage the trade on a sustained … especially because it provides an interesting example of genetic adaptation of a small founding stock, to a new …
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Poverty and conservation: Landscapes, people and power

… — people as threat 18 Nature as biodiversity — people as a resource 21 Integrated Conservation and Development Projects … USD 19 and 35 million. This does not include the value of plant resources such as “fuelwood, charcoal and building … trade • access and benefit- sharing related to genetic resources • research to improve farm productivity …
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