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1.730 documents for local action for biodiversity
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... global-warming legislation at the state and local levels. One of the primary instruments that has be... Change, and the Conventions on Biodiversity and Combating Desertification and co-operates with... Cities for Climate Protection, Local Action for Biodiversity and other initiatives. Again, fai...
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MEXICO CITY, May 24 /PRNewswire/ -- To preserve biodiversity and contribute to the global movement to conserve the earth's precious resources, the Ministry of the Environment of Mexico City today announced an initiative to promote the conservation, use and protection of its numerous and diverse varieties of native corn. This initiative, called Conservation, Use and Biosecurity of Native Corn in the Conservation Lands of Mexico City is Mexico City's 2010 Legacy Project. It was launched in celebration of International Biodiversity Day during the International Year of Biodiversity, as declared by the United Nations. Mexico City is committed to safeguarding our invaluable natural resources," said Martha Delgado, Mexico City's Minister of the Environment. "This initiative to protect our uni...
... implementing biodiversity programs at the local level. We take very seriously our responsibility i... biodiversity program entitled: Local Action for Biodiversity (LAB). LAB is a global urban biod...
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... Hoc Working Group on Long-Term Cooperative Action (AWG-LCA) produced a draft decision that could pos... may be partially explained by the local, rather than global, nature of many adaptation ben...
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... Congress produced a Private Protected Area Action Plan designed to improve and expand worldwide use ... and programs, allocation of tax revenues (local, state, national), and private voluntary donations...
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Inspecting a beetle sunning itself in the branches of a young sagebrush plant, Newsome said that the same poor opinion of the desert persists today. "This country was considered wasteland," she says. "Most people didn't- and still don't - appreciate its biodiversity." The modern corollary is the idea that deserts should be blanketed with solar arrays. And maybe they should. But Newsome thinks the tendency to undervalue this landscape may be a vestige of an American conservation tradition that inflates the value of the scenic at the expense of the biologically important. lewels like the Tetons and the Grand Canyon are unparalleled and should obviously be protected. But they're not always the most supportive of wildlife. Two weeks before my visit to Hanford, I flew to Albuquerque and drov...
... prefer that people steer clear of the action. According to a local museum exhibit, some 42,000 ...
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To avoid extinctions and other harms to ecological health from escalating climatic change, scientists, resource managers, and activists are considering and even engaging in "assisted migration" -- the intentional movement of an organism to an area in which its species has never existed. This article explores the profound implications of climate change for American natural resource management through the lens of this controversial adaptation strategy. It details arguments regarding the scientific viability and legality of assisted migration under the thicket of laws that govern natural resources in the US. The article explains why contemporary natural resource law's fidelity to historic baselines, protecting preexisting biota, and shielding nature from human activity is increasingly unte...
...,15 and some proponents are already taking action. The Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks Department has... systems.28 Given the threats to biodiversity from climate change, assisted migration should not... pertinent information includes (1) the localized effects of climate change on particular ecosystems...
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... legal approaches to protection of biodiversity, broadly, to determine where there is support for ...Part III.D describes legal controls on actions that harm species whether by direct mortality or i... from other movements that happen on more local spatial scales and on a daily or weekly basis. The...
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... emerging hell has been the living hell of local populations for decades. . Even as I was visiting ..., the Earth's greatest nurturer of biodiversity, covers more than two billion square miles and pro...,000 indigenous Ecuadorians brought a class-action lawsuit against Texaco (which merged with Chevron ...
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... are among the richest storehouses of biodiversity we have. But traditionally, such responsibilities have fallen to local and regional officials. In the case of New Orleans...
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...To address biodiversity and human health concerns without completely stifl... free trade concerns (19) and causes of action for environmental damages based in tort under the ..., or other loss or damage to indigenous or local communities, or loss of or reduction of food secur...
