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  Guidelines for applying the precautionary principle to biodiversity conservation and natural resource management

  Precautionary Principle Project, 2005

  This document provides guidance and practical steps for adopting a "Precautionary Approach" to environmental protection and conservation management.
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  Biodiversity and ecosystem services in agricultural landscapes: are we asking the right questions?

  Alternatives to Slash-and-Burn Programme, Kenya, 2004

  This paper sheds new light on the relationship between the global loss of biodiversity and agricultural productivity.
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  Primates in peril: the world’s 25 most endangered primates 2004-2006

  Conservation International, 2005

  This report reveals that 25 percent of the 625 primate species and subspecies are at risk of extinction.
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  The oil for ape scandal: how palm oil is threatening orang-utan survival

  Friends of the Earth, 2005

  This report discusses the imminent threat of extinction to orang-utan in Malaysia and Indonesia bought about by the production of palm oil (a source of vegetable oil).
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  Freshwater and poverty reduction: serving people, saving nature - an economic analysis of the livelihood impacts of freshwater conservation initiatives

  WWF-World Wide Fund For Nature, 2005

  Using four case studies, this report analyses how better management of freshwater resources contributes to the improvement of livelihoods of poor local communities.
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  Biodiversity indicators for national use: experience and guidance

  UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre, 2005

  These guidelines describe an approach to developing biodiversity indicators for use within countries, and particularly for adoption at national level. This multi-country partnership study was participatory in nature, allowing for member review and feedback and common learning.
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  World resources 2005: the wealth of the poor - managing ecosystems to fight poverty

  World Resources Institute, Washington DC, 2005

  Income from ecosystems - which the World Resources Institute calls "environmental income" - can act as a fundamental stepping stone in the economic empowerment of the rural poor. However, that authors argue that for this to become a reality, the impoverished must be in a position to exercise control and stewardship over their resources, which is rarely the case.
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  "Mountains to the sea": implementation plan for the Convention on Biological Diversity’s thematic programmes of work

  WWF-World Wide Fund For Nature, 2005

  The thematic programmes proposed by the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) have been found to be complex to operationalise and difficult to manage.
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  Lessons learnt from new initiatives in forest management for bio-diversity enrichment, poverty reduction and sustainable livelihoods: case studies from India, China, Nepal and Laos

  Eldis Document Store, 2005

  This paper draws lessons from indigenous perspectives of forest communities in India, China and Nepal which are involved in relatively new initiatives in local forest management for over-arching goals such as enrichment of bio-diversity, poverty reduction and sustainable livelihoods.
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  Poverty and conservation: landscapes, people and power

  World Conservation Union, 2005

  This book focuses on conservation’s potential to contribute actively to long-term sustainable development and, more immediately, to poverty reduction. Conservation has, at times, contributed to local poverty by denying poor people control over and access to the natural resources that underpin their livelihoods.

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