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ITTO/IUCN guidelines for the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity in tropical timber production forests
… Series No 17 A joint publication of the International Tropical Timber Organization and the International Union for … the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity in tropical timber production forests INTERNATIONAL TROPICAL … his colleagues from the Iwokrama International Centre for Rainforest Conservation and Development in Guyana, Zacharie …
Linkages in the landscape : The role of corridors and connectivity in wildlife conservation
… Indonesia . . . . . . 24 Box 2–3 Area requirements of rainforest raptors in French Guiana . . . . . . . . . . . 28 … . . . . . . . . . 86 Box 5–7 Possums and Tree Kangaroos in tropical rainforest remnants, North Queensland, Australia . . … 7–2 Edge disturbance and the width of habitat corridors in tropical forests . . . . 138 Box 7–3 The Talamanca–Caribbean …
The Status and Distribution of Freshwater Biodiversity in Western Africa
… Ecosystem Assessment 2005). The best estimate of current tropical river and inland fisheries production is 5.46 … Simpa in Western Ghana in the region of the Upper Guinean Rainforest Photo: © IUCN/Johannes Förster 4 setting exercises … north, moving south through grassland and savannah into tropical moist forests near the coast. Covering the northern …
Economic measures for biodiversity planning: An annotated bibliography of methods, experiences and cases
… of more than 140 economic models analysing the causes of tropical deforestation, raises significant doubts about many … Institute for Environment and Development: London. 22 pp. Tropical moist forests provide a range of goods and services. … in the Netherlands Antilles, rural water supply in Haiti, rainforest conservation in Mexico and mangrove deforestation …
Integrating biodiversity conservation and sustainable use: Lessons learned from ecological networks
… first ecological network was developed. Located in in the Tropical Andes Hotspot, the Corridor is being developed in … Congo Basin, a region in which a large tract of primary rainforest is under severe pressure from hunting and logging. … Conservation Corridor Conserving the Heart of the Tropical Andes The Tropical Andes Hotspot has been called the …
Ecological Restoration for Protected Areas - Principles, Guidelines and Best Practices
… (SRC), Korea National Park Service); Aila Keto (Australian Rainforest Conservation Society Inc, Australia); Hans Kiener … although deforestation has been the dominant process in tropical forest during the last 20 years there has been a substantial increase in tropical secondary forest due to primarily passive …
Indigenous and traditional peoples and climate change
… 30 4.2 THE TROPICAL FOREST BELT AND CLIMATE CHANGE … 32 4.2.2 Tropical forests and climate change … 32 4.2.3 Indigenous Peoples in the tropical rainforest belt … FAO, 2007) 4.2.3 Indigenous Peoples in the tropical rainforest belt Tropical forests are the richest habitat type …
IUCN World Heritage Outlook 2014: A conservation assessment of all natural World Heritage sites
… marker Site name Country 4 Ancient Maya City and Protected Tropical Forests of Calakmul, Campeche Mexico 5 Area de … Republic of the Congo 168 Selous Game Reserve Tanzania 202 Tropical Rainforest Heritage of Sumatra Indonesia 210 Virunga National …
World Heritage, Wilderness and Large Landscapes and Seascapes
… vi vii EEZ Exclusive Economic Zone ETPMC Eastern Tropical Pacific Marine Corridor ICRROM International Centre … Initiative (Y2Y) in North America to the Eastern Tropical Pacific Marine Corridor (ETPMC or CMAR in Spanish) … protected areas and biodiversity conservation, World Rainforest Movement and Forest Peoples Programme. Corrigan, …