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  Wildlife and poverty study: phase one report

  Department for International Development, UK, 2001

  Report aimed at producucing recommendations to DFID on an appropriate strategy for interventions which link rural livelihoods to wildlife and common natural resources.
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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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  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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  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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  Climate, biodiversity and forests

  World Resources Institute, Washington DC, 1998

  Highlighting the contention that climate change itself is a major threat to biodiversity this report argues that protecting biological diversity may, in fact, help mitigate other impacts of climate change.
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  Catastrophic shifts in ecosystems

  Wageningen University, Netherlands, 2001

  Evidence suggests that major ecosystems can shift to alternative and contrasting stable states depending on environmental conditions. The authors propose a theoretical model for these shifts.
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  Global change and ecological complexity (GCTE)

  Global Change and Terrestrial Ecosystems, 1999
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  Forest maps: national maps on diversity and conservation status

  UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre, 1999

  WCMC's data holdings on forests, their diversity and conservation status world wide come from a variety of national and international sources. These data have been compiled by the WCMC Forest Programme.

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