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  Exploring ecological and socio-economic issues for the improvement of area enclosure management: a case study from Ethiopia.

  Drylands Coordination Group, Norway, 2005

  Land degradation is a severe problem across sub-Saharan Africa, and Ethiopia is among the most affected countries.
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  Final appraisal of the Mt. Elgon Regional Ecosystem Conservation Programme (MERECP)

  Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2005

  This report is an appraisal of the programme document brief "Mt. Elgon Regional Ecosystem Conservation Programme" (MERECP) in Kenya, prepared by International Union for the Conservation of Nature, Eastern Africa Regional Office (IUCN-EARO).
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  Designing integrated conservation and development projects (ICDPs) : illegal hunting, wildlife conservation and the welfare of the local people

  Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 2004

  Based on empirical evidence from Serengeti, Tanzania, this paper explores the effect on illegal hunting, wildlife conservation and human welfare of the most common instruments of existing Integrated Conservation and Development Projects (ICDPs). In order to do so the paper compares the performance of two different ICDP designs.
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  Ecosystems and human well–being: biodiversity synthesis

  Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, 2005

  This report synthesises and integrates findings related to biodiversity from the four Millennium Assessment (MA) Working Groups (Conditions and Trends, Scenarios, Responses and Sub-global Assessments), in response to requests for information received through the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD).The MA focuses on the linkages between ecosystems and human well-being and in particular on "
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  Towards an effective Protected Areas Network in Africa: experience in assessing protected area management effectiveness and future proposals

  WWF-World Wide Fund For Nature, 2005

  This report summarises contemporary African experience with assessment of management effectiveness, drawing on a range of case studies (in South Africa, Congo Basin, Cote D'Ivoire, Ghana, Nigeria and Central Africa), including outputs from a workshop organised by WWF and the World Bank in Kribi, Cameroon in June 2002 and subsequent assessments.
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  The status and distribution of freshwater biodiversity in Eastern Africa

  World Conservation Union, 2005

  Biodiversity within inland water ecosystems in Eastern Africa is both highly diverse and of great regional importance to livelihoods and economies. However, development activities are not always compatible with the conservation of this diversity and it is poorly represented in the development planning process.
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  The precautionary principle in biodiversity conservation and natural resource management: an issues paper for policy-makers, researchers and practitioners

  Precautionary Principle Project, 2004

  This study represents an initial examination of issues surrounding the meaning, acceptance and implementation of the precautionary principle (or precautionary approach) in biodiversity conservation and natural resource management (NRM).The paper first addresses the meaning of precaution, its core concept and its various formulations.
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  Poverty-conservation mapping applications

  World Conservation Union, 2004

  Poverty-conservation mapping is a useful approach to explore linkages between development (people) and conservation (nature). Although poverty-environment mapping in biodiversity applications has been limited, there are numerous potential applications that are of use to IUCN and its members.
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  Millennium ecosystem assessment synthesis report

  Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, 2005

  This report, synthesises the findings of large multi-agency attempt to comprehensively evaluate all of the world’s major ecosystems.
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  A challenge to conservationists

  Worldwatch Institute, 2004

  This essay argues that because of corporate and government money flowing into the three big international organisations that dominate the world’s conservation agenda, their programmes have been marked by growing conflicts of interest—and by a disturbing neglect of the indigenous peoples whose land they are in business to protect.

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