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Advancing the Species Conservation Agenda. An overview of the IUCN SSC Network 2009 2012
… on a regional basis, with the Mediterranean and Eastern Tropical Pacific so far completed, and work is ongoing in the … has established a series of large reserves across the tropical north, with removal of introduced herbivores, … Harvard University. I am affiliated with the Centre for Tropical Forest Science of the Smithsonian Tropical Research …
Protected landscapes and cultural and spiritual values
… New Guinea, the Philippines and the Solomon Islands, and tropical countries such as Camer- oon, the Democratic … the temperate southern areas of eastern Australia and the tropical north. The zone of overlap has significance for the … Andes, extending down to the western edge of the rainforest in the Esmeraldas coastal region (Young and …
The Futures of Privately Protected Areas
… that he managed as a coffee plantation and as a private tropical forest preserve. In the UK, NGOs have owned nature … to report to UN bodies and others. A PPA in the Atlantic Rainforest, Espirito Santo, Brazil © Michel Gunther / … Heritage Engenheiro Eliezer Batista protects 13,300 ha of tropical wetland in the Pantanal, and is owned by MMX Corumbá …
Comment aborder la REDD+ au Cameroun: Contexte, enjeux et options pour une stratégie nationale
… emissions through sustainable forest management in five tropical countries », et du Fonds pour le Forêts du Bassin du … GES Gaz à effet de serre IITA International Institut for Tropical Agriculture MINEPDED Ministère de l’Environnement, … internationales FPP, RRI, UICN, WWF, WCS, FERN, Rainforest Foundation UK, Rainforest Alliance, RAFM, etc. ; x …
Legal aspects of Connectivity Conservation Volume 1 - A Concept Paper
… animal communities exist (for example, temperate forest, tropical rainforest, coral reefs, alpine, savannah – sometimes called … and woodland habitats in temperate zones. In recent years, tropical forest habitats have begun to receive increased …
The precautionary principle in biodiversity conservation and natural resource management. An issues paper for policy-makers, researchers and practitioners
… 1996). It is not reflected in the International Tropical Timber Agreement (Yokohama, 1992). Notably, the … D. (1996). Ecological-Economics of Biodiversity and Tropical Rainforest Deforestation. Journal of Interdisciplinary …
Towards a strategy for high seas marine protected areas: Proceedings of the IUCN, WCPA and WWF Experts Workshop on High Seas Marine Protected Areas
… and horny (Gorgonian) corals can also be found. Unlike tropical corals, deep-sea corals thrive without sunlight by … diversity that some scientists suggest may rival even tropical rainforests in terms of total species numbers. …
European Union overseas coastal and marine protected areas - overview of coastal and marine conservation efforts in the European Union's overseas countries and territories and outermost regions
… coast- al, shelf, deep-sea and pelagic areas of temperate, tropical and polar regions with an extreme diversity of … Norfolk Ridge (in ABNJ south of New Caledonia) Eastern tropical and temperate Pacific • Clipperton Atoll … in the North Atlantic Ocean Often called ‘The Golden Rainforest of the Atlantic Ocean’ the Sargasso Sea is named …
Contracting for ABS: The legal and scientific implications of bioprospecting contracts
… 7.2.3.5 The importance of natural-products research for tropical parasitic diseases 276 7.2.4 Summary: Removing … proposition 278 7.2.5 Losing the forest for the trees? Tropical biodiversity is a disappearing resource 278 7.2.6 … class of coumarin derivatives from the tropical rainforest tree, Calophyllum lanigerum. Journal of Medical …