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Defenders of the Earth
… Colombia Global Witness documented the murder of 200 land and environmental defenders in 2016. This report is … lives, and to all those around the world who stand up for land rights and the protection of the environment. You are … of Emissions from Deforestation and Forest and Peat-land Degradation), (1 September 2014). Available at: …
Review of Statutory and Customary Law in the Xe Champhone Ramsar Site, LAO PDR - Implications for a rights-based approach to conservation
… 17 3.3.1 Land Law (2003) … and inheritance patterns; civil law, including land ownership and access, social or community obligations … assets and reputations.6 While some of the information on land ownership and access from the MoJ/UNDP Customary Law … Tansoum village, and probably other villages as well, has land inside the largest core area of the Ramsar site. This …
Toolkit for the Sound Management of DDT for Disease Vector Control
… 10.1 Description DDT has a very low rate of degradation and, when released into the environment, it will … Basel Convention: Technical Guidelines on Incineration on land. … Basel Convention: Technical Guidelines on Incineration on land. …
Sustainable tourism management in the transboundary areas of the Dinaric Arc region: Manual for planning, development and monitoring of tourism in the protected areas of the Dinaric Arc
… some 5 million supporters. WWF's mission is to stop the degradation of the earth's natural environment and to build a … circumstances. The negligence of rural areas and degradation of the natural environment have had severe … surroundings are designated for specific levels of land use, for example, tourism activities. Zoning is based on …
Handbook 4: Avian influenza and wetlands
… values, sustainable use of natural resources, and other land uses including research, education, and economic … Management plans provide a basis for controlling land uses and other activities within the relevant wetland … to development pressures has led to the increasing loss or degradation of wild ecosystems, which are the natural …
Significant Trade in Wildlife: A Review of selected species in CITES Appendix II - Volume 2 Reptiles and Invertibrates
… that the distribution covered 29-30X of the continental land area of the country. Bolivia Although no published … and conversion of forest and scrub to agricultural land (Salas, 1985; Gruss and Waller, 1986); local utilisation … 1982). Commercial hide-hunting caused the systematic degradation of caiman populations to such an extent that the …
Aquaculture: responsible practices and certification
… approach is a strategy for the integrated management of land, water and living resources that promotes conservation … cost- effective measures to prevent environmental degradation’ (Principle 15 of the Rio Declaration on … the natural environment in the joint aim of protecting the land and biodiversity, as well as promoting and protecting …