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    Forest biological diversity: recommendations to the sixth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP6)

    World Conservation Union, 2002
    IUCN document which calls on the Conference of Parties (COP) to move from a research orientated work programme on forest biological diversity towards a more action orientated programme.
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    Vegetation Survey and Habitat Assessment of the Tesso Nilo Forest Complex

    WWF-World Wide Fund For Nature, 2001
    The current rate of land conversion suggests that virtually all remaining lowland forests in Sumatra will disappear by the year 2004. WWF's Asian Rhino and Elephant Action Strategy (AREAS) project is currently exploring ways of achieving an equitable balance between conservation and exploitation.
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    Priority areas for establishing national forests in the Brazilian Amazon

    Conservation Ecology [journal], 2002
    Article which presents a method for optimally locating national forest areas that incorporates information on existing protected areas, current vegetation cover, areas of human occupation, and timber stocks.
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    Biological invasion risks and the public good: an economic perspective

    Conservation Ecology [journal], 2002
    Argues that the causes of the problem of invasive alien species are primarily economic and, as such, require economic solutions.Invasive alien species are of increasing concern for four reasons. First, introductions are increasing sharply, while mechanisms for excluding or eradicating alien species have been either withdrawn or progressively weakened.
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    People matters: the Nature Conservancy's use of social science tools to understand and work within the human context of conservation

    Conserve Online, 2001
    This report looks at specific techniques to the enable the rapid understanding of human systems and dynamics in an ecoregion or conservation site.
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    Effectiveness of Parks in Protecting Tropical Biodiversity

    Komodo National Park, Indonesia, 2001
    This report assesses the impacts of anthropogenic threats on 93 protected areas in 22 tropical countries to test the hypothesis that parks are an effective means to protect tropical biodiversity. Each park tested was over 5 years old and greater than 5,000 hectares.
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    The potential for rangeland development in Yak rearing areas of the Tibetan Plateau

    International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, (ICIMOD), Nepal, 2000
    This paper initially highlights the general characteristics of rangelands and pastoral production systems of the Tibetan Plateau.The article finds that:given the realities of life in a heterogeneous and marginal environment, the issue of secure resource tenure, both customary and legal, is fundamental for effective rangeland managementa simple shift in tenure from the communal (trad
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    International conservation treaties, poverty and development: the case of CITES

    Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 2002
    Looks at how CITES measures have evolved over time and the growing interest in the use of restricted trade measures as a conservation tool. The report critically examines the effectiveness of CITES measures and looks at the extent to which parties to the convention link development and conservation.In this broad context the authors pick out a number of emerging issues for particular attention.
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    Defining common ground for the Mesoamerican Biological Corridor

    World Resources Institute, Washington DC, 2001
    WRI reports on the Mesoamerican Biological Corridor - an attempt to safeguard one of the world's biodiversity hotspots while meeting the social and economic needs of the region's people.
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    Tropical Forests and Climate Change

    Canadian Forestry Advisers Network, 2001
    This CFAN Forestry Issues paper gives an overview of global climate change, its causes, its impact on forests, and how forests can help to mitigate it.It concludes that forest-related interventions can have numerous positive spinoff effects apart from carbon sequestration and storage including:improved supply of wood products better management of protected areas increased agricu

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