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Guidelines for Applying Protected Area Management Categories. Best Practice Guidance on Recognising Protected Areas and Assigning Management Categories and Governance Types
… large-scale ecological processes with characteristic species and ecosystems, which also have environmentally and … or a living feature such as an ancient grove IV Habitat/species management area: Areas to protect particular species or habitats, where management reflects this priority. …
Biodiversity Planning Law. International and National
… 1971;4 • Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species 1973;5 • Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals 1979;6 • Convention on the … responses to challenges posed by harmful invasive species, taking into account the cross-sector nature of those …
Wildlife and Forest Crime Toolkit (Revised Edition)
… of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), the International … . . 13 1.1 Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . … . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 2.2 Species protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . …
Best practice guidelines for the re-introduction of great apes
… Re-introduction of Great Apes Occasional Paper of the IUCN Species Survival Commission No. 35 Edited by Benjamin Beck, … resources at local, regional and global levels. IUCN Species Programme The IUCN Species Programme supports the activities of the IUCN Species …
Wetland ecosystem services Factsheet 6 - Reservoirs of biodiversity
… many wetlands are extremely rich in biodiversity and many species of plants and animals are completely wetland … Great Barrier Reef, for example, supports 1,500 species of fish and up to 8,000 molluscs, not to mention countless species from other groups. Intertidal mudflats, on the other …
An introduction to the African Convention on the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources
… of renewable resources 8 2.1 Land, soil and water 8 2.2 Species and genetic diversity 9 2.3 Conservation areas 10 3. … and political history, its exceptional diversity of species and ecosystems1 and its current economic and social … and ensuring the conservation of diverse wild animal species.14 It set up a selective mechanism for the protection …
The green belt of Europe: From vision to reality
… . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .123 29. Number of fish species and sub-species in different wetlands in the Bojana-Buna delta . .130 … . . . . . . . . . . . .111 6. Taxa studied and numbers of species recorded in the 2004 WWF-DCP Drava Inventory Project …
Implementing Sustainable Bioenergy Production. A Compilation of Tools and Approaches
… tools 16 4.6 Protected Area tools 17 4.7 Threatened Species tools 20 4.8 Invasive Species tools 21 5. Socio-Economic tools 22 5.1 Food Security … extremely complex. These variables include the feedstock species, the scale and location of feedstock production, the …
Guidance for identifying and designating peatlands, wet grasslands, mangroves and coral reefs as Wetlands of International Importance
… threatened ecological communities, as well as threatened species, under Ramsar Criterion 2 will often be of particular … comprising rare and threatened plant and animal species and communities, including internationally important … fragmentation – leading to isolation of sites, threatening species restricted to wet grassland and vulnerable to …
Values of protected landscapes and seascapes: protected landscapes and agrobiodiversity values
… in particular: (1) the wild relatives of domesticated species (for example crop wild relatives from which … material); and (2) individual breeds of domesticated species of livestock and crops2 (in the case of crops, known … and the maintenance and recovery of viable populations of species in their natural surroundings and, in the case of …