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Voluntary Guidelines on National Forest Monitoring
… livelihoods and poverty reduction, governance and broader land use issues has become critical for national planning. … faces increasingly diverse information needs regarding land use and forest resources. This information is also … REDD+ Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (UNFCCC) SDG Sustainable Development Goals TOF …
Invasive Alien Species - a growing threat in Regional Seas
… threats to marine and coastal ecosystems, together with land-based sources of marine pollution, overexploitation of living marine resources, and habitat degradation. Management action against invasive species aims … as the main threat to island biodiversity. However, land makes up less than 2% of the vast Pacific region, and …
Introduction to International Environmental Governance (IEG) - extract from InforMEA e-learning course
… continues to experience high levels of environmental degradation manifested in problems such as deforestation, … development and livelihood. In many ASEAN countries, land resources and terrestrial ecosystems are under … due to growing population and extension of agricultural land into forest and other ecologically sensitive areas. …
Supporting implementation of the African Convention on the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources and the African Agenda 2063
… and sought to integrate conservation and sustainable land and environmental management strategies into social and … lost more than 50 percent of their area to cultivation, degradation or urbanization" (Africa Environment Outlook 2, …
Wildlife and Forest Crime Toolkit (Revised Edition)
… desertification and other forms of environmental degradation. They also have an impact on biodiversity as they … protection, in contrast, refers to the protection of human land use, including the sustainable development, … the Protocol against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Sea and Air, and the Protocol against the Illicit …
Identification and gap analysis of key biodiversity areas : Targets for comprehensive protected area systems
… . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 17. How land tenure impacts the use of management data to delineate … area’ as used throughout this guide refers to “An area of land and/or sea especially dedicated to the protection and … theless provides a relatively accurate estimate of the land area covered by protected areas globally, at 11.5% …