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Adapting to Climate Change - Guidance for Protected Areas Managers and Planners

… Ib Wilderness area: Usually large unmodified or slightly modified areas, retaining their natural character and … in adaptive resilience that are inherent in larger, more genetically diverse populations. Large PAs generally have … colonization The intentional movement and release of an organism outside its indigenous range to avoid extinction of …
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Judges and Environmenal Law: a Handbook for the Sri Lankan Judiciary

… that affect the life, development, and survival of an organism or a community.2 The environment is anything outside … Many indigenous peoples’ environments are less modified and degraded than surrounding areas. Since they are … noise. Other sources of noise include vehicles, both from modified exhaust pipes and horning, construction activities, …
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Major Components of the Cartagena Protocol - extract from InforMEA e-learning course

… http://www.informea.org/terms/living-modified-organism 2. Advance Informed Agreement Procedure Central to … documentation requirements for certain categories of genetically modified micro-organisms. 7. Confidential …
17 Jun 2026 Course lesson in Biological Diversity

What is Agrodiversity

… have left their multiple local varieties and landraces for genetically uniform, high-yielding varieties. * 30 percent of … fisheries and aquaculture. Some production systems use genetically modified varieties and breeds. Moreover, relatively few crop …
17 Jun 2026 Document in Biological Diversity

Guidance for identifying and designating peatlands, wet grasslands, mangroves and coral reefs as Wetlands of International Importance

… and climate change. 13. Some peatlands that have been modified but remain ecologically valuable are subject to … longer forming peat, naturally degrading peatlands , human-modified and impacted peatlands, and restored or … be effectively isolated, with fish populations becoming genetically distinct. Such reef systems should be afforded a …
17 Jun 2026 Document

Explaining Ocean Warming: Causes, scale, effects and consequences

… atmosphere as part of natural variability. Simplified and modified diagram after Hartmann et al., (2013). Improved … abiotic variables like oxygen concentration (important to organism size and metabolism (Pörtner and Knust, 2007)), … may also become a factor, as many seagrass species are not genetically diverse within populations as a result of their …
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Manual of Compliance with and Enforcement of Multilateral Environmental Agreements

… the existing international legal regime may need to be modified (for example to revisit responsive, voluntary … Modified Organisms (LMOs) which are usually referred to as Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs). Following adoption of … to Benefit the Environment GMO: Genetically modified organism GO: Operational Group (Brazil, known by its …
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Strengthening the implementation of Farmers' Right in Guatemala

… through participatory plant breeding, the community has modified maize varieties to make corn grains uniform and …
17 Jun 2026 Document in Biological Diversity

Gaps in international environmental law and environment-related instruments: towards a global pact for the environment - Report of the Secretary-General

… for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships, 1973, as modified by the Protocol of 1978 relating thereto (MARPOL), … new plant varieties may also promote the innovation of genetically modified organisms. 201 Such developments raise questions …
17 Jun 2026 Document

Final: Gaps in international environmental law and environment-related instruments: towards a global pact for the environment

… for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships, 1973, as modified by the Protocol of 1978 relating thereto (MARPOL), … new plant varieties may also promote the innovation of genetically modified organisms. 201 Such developments raise questions …
17 Jun 2026 Document