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Indigenous and local communities and protected areas: Towards equity and enhanced conservation. Guidance on policy and practice for co-managed protected areas and community conserved areas
… teams and action groups, focusing in partic ular on species and biodiversity conser va tion and the manage ment … Box 5.5. (Courtesy Ahmad Reza Siapoosh) Certain wildlife species are sacred to local people throughout West Africa. … mosaics” are often neces sary for the survival of species requiring multiple habi tats (e.g. for shelter, …
Counting coastal ecosystems as an economic part of development infrastructure
… Examples include fi sh, crustaceans and other marine species; fi rewood; construction materials; medicines; … nursery, breeding sites and shelter to various animal species. • Option values. The premium placed on maintaining a pool of landscapes, species and genetic resources for future possible uses which …
Sharing governance! A practical guide for marine protected areas in West Africa
… IntroductIon XVIII 2 3 some emblematic, rare or important species. Today, such possible MPA objectives also include the … of an observed degradation of specific environments and species.In turn, such observed degradation is often the … key ecosystems (such as the spawning grounds of commercial species) or Why should we conserve? Why through MPAs? …
Food and Agriculture Organization (2017), Standard Setting Process Factsheet,
… IPPC and invasive alien species + Invasive alien species can have a devastating impact on terrestrial, marine … preventing the spread and introduction of invasive alien species (pests) affecting plants and plant products. The …
Aquaculture: responsible practices and certification
… suitable climatic conditions and appropriate sites for the species currently farmed. The aquaculture sector also faces a … principles for those in Europe who are producing live species through aquaculture. The code does not seek to distinguish between species or the types or scales of farms found within the …
An Explanatory Guide to the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit-sharing
… rather than the sectoral approach (focusing on specific species, ecosystems, or sites) that is characteristic of … all sources, occurring at three levels: diversity within species (genetic diversity),2 diversity between species, and diversity of ecosystems. The CBD addresses not …
Farmer's Rights in the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture
… example is the genus Lycopersicon, in which many wild species can be crossed with the cultivated tomato L. … plant variety rights to varieties of more than 1700 plant species. Today, around 2500 applications/year are received of … is covered by a CPVR. The exemption concerns a list of species of several agricultural crops: fodder plants, …
African solutions in a rapidly changing world: nature-based solutions to climate change by African innovators in protected areas
… both increased ‘spill-over’ and recovery of key commercial species (octopus, holothurians) and provided strict … restoration of degraded habitats, management of invasive species, enhancement of water supply for people and wildlife … community land in search of water. Removal of invasive species has minimized biodiversity loss, availed more …
Legal and institutional frameworks for sustainable soils: A preliminary report
… soil is accommodated within the general definition of a species, where a species “accommodates the grouping and biological … services depend on the variety and variability of genes, species, populations and ecosystems”, and that the natural …
UN Environment foresight brief: marine plastics litter and microplastics
… pollution is reported to affect more than 700 marine species with 17 per cent of these species identified as near threatened, vulnerable, endangered … plastics also have potential as a pathway for invasive species (NOAA 2017) (Carlton, et al. 2017). The impacts of …