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United Nations Environment Programme[Global Biodiversity Loss: Safeguarding Biodiversity from an Unprecedented Range of Threats - SDG Policy Brief No. 003]Global Biodiversity Loss: Safeguarding Biodiversity from an Unprecedented Range of Threats - SDG Policy Brief No. 003

The Amazon forest has been converted to a matrix of pristine and modified habitats. Landscape-scale biodiversity conservation requires an understanding of species’ distributions over this matrix to guarantee both effective protection and use for present and future generations. In this study, we e...


Azevedo-Ramos, C.Domingues Do Amaral, B.Nepstad, D.C.Soares Filho, B.Nasi, Robert[Integrating ecosystem management, protected areas and mammal conservation in the Brazilian Amazon]Integrating ecosystem management, protected areas and mammal conservation in the Brazilian Amazon

This paper attempts to assesses future prospects for forest conservation, especially protected areas, in the Asia-Pacific region to the year 2010, under three scenarios assuming: - continuation of the present level of action and policy environment ('status quo'); - sustained environmental campaig...


Paine, J. R.Byron, R.N.Poffenberger, M.[Status, trends and future scenarios for forest conservation including protected areas in the Asia-Pacific region]Status, trends and future scenarios for forest conservation including protected areas in the Asia-Pacific region

Extensive areas of forest in the tropics have been legally classified as protected areas: however, in many cases it has been difficult to achieve their conservation. This paper argues that the priority for forest conservation should not be maximising the area totally protected but rather to focus...


Sayer, Jeffrey A.[Forest protected areas: time is running out]Forest protected areas: time is running out

China has serious environmental problems but China has begun to address some of them. The data for environmental assesments of China's forests are sparse at best, therefore, the authors survey general impressions before focusing on one representative topic, the loss of biodiveristy that necessari...


Sayer, Jeffrey A.Changjin Sun[Impacts of policy reforms on forestry environments and biodiversity]Impacts of policy reforms on forestry environments and biodiversity

The World Heritage Convention has been ratified by 158 countries and provides an international legal regime for the conservation of sites of global, cultural or natural value. There are 33 tropical forest sites listed under the convention, mainly for their global biodiversity value. They constitu...


Sayer, Jeffrey A.Ishwaran, N.Thorsell, J.Sigaty, T.[Tropical forest biodiversity and the world heritage convention]Tropical forest biodiversity and the world heritage convention

This occasional paper is based on the results of a three-year project examining the emergence of forest-based grassroots movements in Latin America. Funded by the Ford Foundation, the Support to Grassroots Community Forestry Organizations in Central America and Brazil Project sought to understand...


Cronkleton, P.Taylor, P.L.Barry, D.M.Stone-Jovicich, S.Schmink, M.[Environmental governance and the emergence of forest-based social movements]Environmental governance and the emergence of forest-based social movements

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