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… “15.5 Take urgent and significant action to reduce degradation of natural habitat, halt the loss of … to biodiversity are due to human activities. These include land use changes affecting habitats and ecosystems, hunting … carry on an undisturbed existence through a proposed major land use change, such as through infra- structure …

… scenarios under various socio-economic development and land use scenarios in the medium- and long-term. 2. Assess … the burning of fossil fuel or biomass, as well as from land use changes and industrial processes. CO2 has the … of the combustion of fossil fuels, cement production and land use. Other dominant sources are deforestation and land …

… beginning of the century. Trees are felled for timber, and land cleared for agriculture (Asibey, 1978). Access roads … and those below 2700 m in, or near, potential agricultural land are the most threatened. The forest on the Mau … and Tobago No information. USA Habitat destruction and degradation from brush-clearing operations were thought to …

… on identifying and implementing pro- tected areas on land. The success in numbers and area covered by terrestrial …

… to agriculture, the most important ones include changes in land use, replacement of traditional varieties by modern … intensification, increased population, poverty, land degradation and environmental change (including climate …

… 25 Chitwan National Park Nepal 26 Cliff of Bandiagara (Land of the Dogons) Mali 27 Cocos Island National Park* Costa … of 71% of sites are currently either in a good state or degradation of values is of low concern, while in 24% of … de Mai Nature Reserve (Seychelles) Cliff of Bandiagara (Land of the Dogons) (Mali) - mixed site Djoudj National Bird …

… These include, among others, differences in relation to land and resource rights, possibilities for advancement at … 10 percent of women farmers in developing countries own land.4 Box 2. The Key Role of Women in Agriculture Women … increasing scarcity of fuelwood arising from environmental degradation, land conversion and overuse of resources. …

… City of Zagreb. Croatia covers 56,594 square kilometers of land and 31.067 km² of interior sea waters and territorial … area of the country (740,220.37 ha) or 12.06% of the land and 1.97% of territorial sea. Croatian part of EU … level; • Decentralized approach where management of public land may be delegated to provincial/state or local government …

… 4 2.2. Traditional land-based approaches to water rights … 20 3.1. Ill-adaption of traditional land based approaches to specific climatic conditions … the environment, cause aquifer depletion, and/or the degradation of river systems; � fear of change and loss of …

… 4. IUCN defines a protected area as ‘An Area of land and/or sea especially dedicated to the protection and … the following: n originally purely a tool used on land, the requirement to create protected areas in coastal … for protecting public property and thus preventing degradation of the trust resource which would otherwise …