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Speaking a common language: The uses and performance of the IUCN system of management categories for protected areas
… (e.g. ‘tapu’ areas), in the sacred groves of Africa and in hunting areas in parts of Europe and Asia. However, the idea … of non-timber forest products or controlled game hunting. For many new protected areas, agreements with local … mining recommendation but also with respect to logging and hunting Sustainable use: a smaller but growing number of NGO …
Statutory recognition of customary land rights in Africa - An investigation into best practices for lawmaking and implementation
… concessions to investors for agro-industrial enterprises, hunting and game reserves, forestry and mineral exploitation, … in practice. Their territorial rights to areas for hunting, gathering, foraging and the right to exclude others … use of common resources, and making rules for grazing, hunting, and gathering within common lands. Moreover, in …
Compendiums on Human Rights and the Environment - Selected International legal materials and cases (Advanced Version)
… including such traditional activities as fishing or hunting.23 The iCCPR provides for relevant procedural rights, … legal notices threatening to impound property, arrests for hunting, court actions for trespass, fines and mining … and of the community of Awas Tingni, which lives by hunting, fishing and farming in a forested area of about …
Linkages in the landscape : The role of corridors and connectivity in wildlife conservation
… because of other potentially contributing factors (such as hunting, persecution as pests, introduction of disease and … also subject to other direct threats such as road kills, hunting, and predation by feral pigs (Crome and … 2 Increase exposure of animals to: • predators, hunting or poaching by humans, or other sources of mortality …
Initiating effective transboundary conservation - A practitioner’s guideline based on the experience from the Dinaric Arc
… history, with vast areas within them derived from an old hunting reserve of King Vittorio Emanuele II of Italy … and olives at higher areas. There is also traditional hunting and fishing. Even though tourism is seen as one of … gravel excavation, Illegal waste disposal, unsustainable hunting and fishing, excessive use of pesticides and …
Improving access to forest resources - Experiences in informal tenure reform from IUCN’s Livelihoods and Landscapes Strategy
… are three national parks, two wildlife sanctuaries, a non-hunting area, a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve and a Ramsar site. … conditions to halt the clearing of forest land and reduce hunting. In addition, 32 Km2 of forest reserve boundaries …
Economic valuation of ecological functions and services of natural ecosystems
… fishing products, medicinal plants, soil fertility, hunting products, etc. However, when goods that are actually … example), or an end product (case of collection products, hunting products and fish catching). The method used to …
Ramsar Technical Report 7: Ramsar Wetland Disease Manual
… areas � Civil conflict � Non-sustainable harvesting � Hunting � Cholera and other intestinal parasites (micro and … disease of livestock). Other stressors are as diverse as hunting, increased genetic homogeneity and long-term toxin … at times of increased risk (e.g. suspension of hunting activities or site visits) if a disease has emerged …