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Guidelines for Reintroductions and other Conservation Translocations (Version 1.0)

… Version 1.0 ReintRoduction and invasive species specialist GRoups' task FoRce on MovinG plants and … of translocated individuals can be a valuable, early indicator of translocation progress; but its value depends on … are published in peer-reviewed journals (as an objective indicator of high quality), and include well-documented but …
17 Jun 2026 Literature

Document - The Ramsar Convention on Wetlands: its History and Development

… regulation or as essential habitat to a wide range of species. To most people wetlands were something to be … was redressed in favour of wetland habitat (rather than species) conservation by IWRB, in October 1965, in a document … need to cover all the countries through which the various species ranged. He therefore suggested that two, …
17 Jun 2026 Document in Biological Diversity

Ecological Restoration for Protected Areas - Principles, Guidelines and Best Practices

… large-scale ecological processes with characteristic species and ecosystems, which also have environmentally and … species Population dynamics • mortality/natality rates of indicator species • immigration/emigration of indicator species • population viability of indicator species
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Flow : The essentials of environmental flows

… are now on the brink of extinction. Inedible intro- duced species stir up the river bed and cause further deterioration … the great egret bred for the first time since 1979, nine species of frog bred, as did native fish. The Mowamba … in flow. Although monitoring is often focused on key indicator species, it should cover as many elements of the …
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Global Land Outlook

… temperatures, changing rainfall patterns, soil erosion, species loss and increased water scarcity will likely alter … estimates from the World Bank: http://data.worldbank.org/ indicator/EN.POP.DNST accessed December 12, 2016. 14 McNeill, … http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EN.POP.DNST …
17 Jun 2026 Literature

Compliance-Related Texts and Decisions of Selected Multilateral Environmental Agreements

… of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, Ms. Juliette Voïnov Kohler, … 1. Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna 1973 (CITES) … identifier to the serial number and changing the type indicator in the serial number to indicate an ERU. Other …
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Speaking a common language: The uses and performance of the IUCN system of management categories for protected areas

… 2.10: Use of the categories in regional criteria and indicator processes for sustainable forest management 123 … areas 9 Use of the Categories in regional criteria and indicator processes for sustainable forest management … or no-take area – which protects critical habitat and species, surrounded by a buffer zone which allows more uses …
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Building Resilience to climate change - Ecosystem-based adaptation and lessons from the field

… have shown significant changes in ecosystem and species distributions, principally due to increasing … 2003). Modeling has also shown that the expected shift in species distribution will lead to an increase in species … hardening was analyzed. A potential marsh viability indicator was calculated by combining the percentage of marsh …
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Safe Havens: Protected Areas for Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation

… hazards covered are climate related. It could also be an indicator of the currently limited knowledge on how … However, they provide protection to 80% of threatened species and store more than 15% of global terrestrial carbon … sensing derived measure of vegetation greenness and an indicator of rice crop productivity, was used to monitor the …
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Illegal Trade in Ivory and Rhino Horn: an Assessment Report to Improve Law Enforcement Under the Wildlife TRAPS Project

… bicornis, a critically endangered species, Swaziland, Africa. Photograph credit: … trade -- has produced dire impacts on myriad wildlife species, especially when simultaneously occurring with … the belief that they represent a kind of “early warning” indicator of the illicit ivory trade as a whole. Such …
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