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  IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2002

  IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, 2002

  The list is presented as a website. Summary statistics are available and a summary comparison with lists from previous years.The complete database of species can be searched by name, family, extent of threat and country.
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  The economic valuation of biological diversity

  Mekonginfo, 1999

  This paper is based on the hypothesis that the failure to allocate economic values to the respective components of biological diversity is one of the causes of decreases in diversity.
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  The global coral reef crisis: trends and solutions

  Reef Check, 2002

  The document summarises data collected by volunteer teams worldwide to assess the status of the world's coral reefs. Monitoring was carried out from 1997 through 2001 at over 1500 reefs in the Atlantic, Indo-pacific and Red Sea.Surveyors measure fish abundance, shellfish abundance, evidence of human impact and living coral cover.
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  Biodiversity conservation program design & management: a guide for USAID staff

  Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 2002

  The goal of this Guide is to provide basic information about designing, managing, and implementing biodiversity conservation programs or activities. It addresses the questions "what do you need to know to design, implement, manage, and evaluate a biodiversity conservation program or activity" and "what are the critical elements of success for such programs and activities?".
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  Monitoring conservation project effectiveness

  Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 2002

  This bulletin of the Wildlife Conservation Society looks at methods for evaluation tailored specifically to wildlife conservation projects.
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  Zoning—lessons from the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park

  International Coral Reef Initiative, 2002

  Over the last 25 years a range of management ‘tools’, including zoning plans, permits, education, and more recently management plans, have been applied to regulate access and to control and mitigate impacts associated with human use of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park GBRMP.A multiple-use zoning approach provides high levels of protection for speci c areas whilst allowing reasonable uses, inc
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  Collection of coral reef fish for aquaria: global trade, conservation issues and management strategies

  Marine Conservation Society, 2001

  The ornamental fish trade is a multi-million dollar industry, with fisheries operating all around the tropical world. Currently about 45 countries supply the market.
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  Participatory monitoring and evaluation of biodiversity

  Environmental Change Institute, 2002

  The site contains a number of documents relating to an e-conference and follow up workshop on participatory biodiversity assessment.The author defines the concept as follows: 'participatory monitoring and evaluation of biodiversity involves non-scientists in observing, measuring or assessing biodiversity or its components.
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  Impacts of Environmental Change on Fauna and Flora and Associated Ecosystems. A Bibliography

  Wildlife Interest Group, American Society of International Law, 2002

  This bibliography of peer-reviewed and gray literature (including journal articles, newspaper articles, reports and materials on the Internet) focuses on environmental change (defined therein as global warming or ozone depletion) and its impacts on flora and fauna species and critical supporting ecosystems, as well as agricultural resources. 3386 citations have been included to date and the bib
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  Natural resource abundance and human capital accumulation

  University of California, Berkeley Library, 2002

  This study examines indicators of human capital accumulation together with data for natural resource abundance and rents in a panel of 102 countries running from 1970 to 1999.The main conclusions are: mineral wealth makes a positive and marked difference on human capital accumulationmatching on observables reveals that cross-country results are not driven by a third factor such as o

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