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The Futures of Privately Protected Areas
… below. Ia Strict nature reserve: Strictly protected for biodiversity and also possibly geological/ geomorphological … Millennium Development Goals, the CBD Strategic Plan for Biodiversity, informed decision-making and enhanced action. … PPAs, and are eligible for partial compensation for income loss. If protection is imposed without consent of the …
Transboundary protected areas for peace and co-operation
… world. They can help strengthen regional co-operation for biodiversity conservation, conflict resolution and … development. CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR APPLIED BIODIVERSITY SCIENCE Transboundary Protected Areas for Peace … stress to authorities that the TBPA does not involve the loss of sovereignty over the area concerned. Example: In the …
Review of Statutory and Customary Law in the Xe Champhone Ramsar Site, LAO PDR - Implications for a rights-based approach to conservation
… is accepted by IUCN or its employees for any loss or damage arising from reliance on the information … to work towards ensuring that the protection of rights and biodiversity conservation become and remain mutually … improve their livelihoods and promote conservation of biodiversity and ecosystem services. In order to gain further …
First report on the protection of the atmosphere
… para. 94) and the draft principles on the allocation of loss in the case of transboundary harm arising out of … of international law such as the law of the sea179 and biodiversity (forestry, desertification and wetland),180 as … 1 (a)(ii) of the Kyoto Protocol and the Convention on Biodiversity (1992), United Nations Convention to Combat …
Establishing marine protected area networks
… available scientific information tells us that, to protect biodiversity and manage resources, we must establish … the degradation of coastal and marine habitats, slow the loss of endangered marine species, and restore depleted … objectives include the full range of benefits that biodiversity provides, especially those that directly affect …
On dangerous ground _ Global Witness
… tirelessly to defend the Gurupi Reserve, a hot- bed of biodiversity in the province of Maranhão in Brazil’s Amazon … are increasing production in order to make up for the loss in profits from the fall in commodity prices - causing … Brazil, with illegal logging a main driver in forest loss.136 This rise in illegal logging is leading to violence …
Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security
… should protect tenure right holders against the arbitrary loss of their tenure rights, including forced evictions that … be established to prevent or minimize degradation and loss of biodiversity and reward changes that foster good land …
UN Watercourses Convention User’s Guide
… downstream rivers, affecting land use productivity due to loss of natural sediment depositions, and loss of fish … are located in international river basins. Similarly, the Biodiversity Convention, ratified by 191 parties, aims to promote the sustainable use of the world’s biodiversity.34 In relation to international watercourses, …
AEWA Conservation Guidelines No. 10 - Guidelines on Avoidance of Introductions of Non-native Waterbird Species (TS No. 12)
… 27 References 29 Appendix 1 32 Assessment of risk posed to biodiversity by non-native waterbird species within the AEWA region 32 Populations excluded from analysis 33 Biodiversity risk assessment 35 Appendix 2 38 Methods that … 2000. IUCN guidelines for the prevention of biodiversity loss caused by alien invasive species. Gland, Switzerland, …