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Guidelines for public use measurement and reporting at parks and protected areas

… example, management needs to know the difference between heavy traffic (horses, mountain bikes, snowmobiles) and light … skiing, hiking), it can be done. Dual sensors, seismic for heavy traffic and infra-red for all traffic, would provide …
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Integrating Economics into Resource and Environmental Management Some Recent Experiences in the Pacific

… of floods in Fiji are broadly defined to arise where the heavy rainfall caused: • overflowing of river and creek … large volumes of rainfall-runoff; and • other effects of heavy rain on hilly cane fields may include landslides and … bio-fuel operation as shown by the experience of Buka Metal Fabricators on Bougainville. The capital cost of …
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Global Re-introduction Perspectives: 2011 - More case studies from around the globe

… alligator is recorded and the alligators are placed in heavy burlap bags and then moved to a livestock trailer or a … to the release site. All birds were fitted with individual metal and color rings and radio transmitters glued to the … by the UNESCO as a World Natural Heritage Site. 1996: Heavy poaching commenced and led to the wild population …
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UN Watercourses Convention User’s Guide

… the high content of pesticides and nitrates resulting from heavy irrigation. Despite its agricultural base, State A is … depends on the watercourses flora and fauna, will incur heavy losses. Hence, state B claims that state A is not … water quality, with major pollutants, such as nutrients, heavy metals, nitrogen, organic compounds, suspended …
26 May 2026 Document in Marine and Freshwater

Shared resources: Issues of governance

… attention: persistent organic contaminants, oil pollution, heavy metals, noise, radioactivity, and acidification. … of water-borne diseases and, again, water pollution; heavy dependence on extensive agriculture, with generally … plata y cobre, y se hará un procesamiento para obtener metal doré (oro, plata) y concentrado de cobre.5 La futura …
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Marine litter legislation: a toolkit for policy makers

… Marine litter made of plastics, polystyrene foam, metal, glass, and other materials from land-based sources has … metric tonnes of waste. In the Netherlands, an area of heavy vessel activity, 90 percent of the plastic found on … raise significant environmental concerns. Dumping spent heavy equipment such as army tanks or decommissioned military …
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UNEP. The first 40 years

… into the atmosphere of chlorinated hydrocarbons and heavy metals; • provide information about possible harmful … and SPC providing the secretariat (me). It was a bit top-heavy, with a secretariat of one reporting to four … For example, the aluminium industry reported that recycled metal now satisfied about a third of world demand for …
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Flow : The essentials of environmental flows

… Where agriculture pesticide, toxic industrial pollutions, heavy metals from upstream mining operations etc, have … and market-based approaches as an alternative to the more heavy-handed regu- latory approach. Still, regulation itself … in terms of lowering transaction costs and avoiding heavy-handed, regulatory approaches to the reallocation of …
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Biodiversity: My hotel in action - A guide to sustainable use of biological resources in the Caribbean

… cork market. However, with increasing use of plastic and metal stoppers for wine bottles, sales of cork stoppers are … and rhinoceros populations have suffered as a result of heavy demand for their ivory and horns, while marine species … of California are depleted as a result of over 50 years of heavy fishing (both sport and commercial), poaching, …
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Wetlands, water and the law. Using law to advance wetland conservation and wise use

… the opportunities for settling. Certain pollutants such as heavy metals may adhere to suspended sediment and are … regimes for important wetlands. However, they place heavy demands in terms of technical assistance, negotiation … very rich in organic matter, or dark grey or black heavy clay showing considerable surface cracking when dry. …
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