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  Integrating biodiversity conservation into oil & gas development

  World Conservation Union, 2003

  This document and its accompanying products provide guidance for how to achieve the integration of biodiversity considerations into upstream oil and gas development.The report argues that it is in the interests of the energy industry and society to continually work toward achieving this integration.
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  Transboundary conservation: the politics of ecological integrity in the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park

  Sustainable Livelihoods in Southern Africa, 2003

  Recent years have witnessed the emergence of an ostensibly surprising coalition of interests around the notion of Transboundary Natural Resource Management (TBNRM) in Southern Africa.
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  A critique of transboundary natural resource management in Southern Africa

  World Conservation Union Regional Office for Southern Africa, 2002

  The meteoric rise of transboundary approaches is due to several factors, including the need to better manage shared resources; the drive for economic growth through regional integration and development; the need to promote peace and security; and more external factors such as globalization and the agendas of international donors and organizations.
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  Running pure: the importance of forest protected areas to drinking water

  WWF-World Wide Fund For Nature, 2003

  This report presents arguments for the potential role of protected areas in helping to maintain water supply to major cities. It demonstrates that water provides a powerful argument for protection.
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  Valuing alternative land-use options in the Kitengela wildlife dispersal area of Kenya

  International Livestock Research Institute, 2002

  This study aims to provide information to help inform the search for landuse activities that will lead to protection of wildlife corridors and dispersal areas in the Kitengela wildlife dispersal area, whilst at the same time, maximising returns from the land. A formal household survey was carried out on a relatively small sample of 35.
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  Protecting China's biodiversity

  SciDev.Net, 2003

  This article argues that as China's new leaders begin to develop socioeconomic priorities, initiatives, policies and legislation, it is important for them to expand support for biodiversity conservation.The article proposes three strategies for improving biodiversity conservation:ensuring systematic planning and an adequate conceptual base for national biodiversity protection measures
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  Tropical wildfires pose new threat to coral reefs

  SciDev.Net, 2003

  This article reports on two reports in Science, the full text of which can be accessed from SciDev. The first of the Science reports provides evidence that the Indonesian forest fires created a 'red tide' when smoke from the fires landing on water increased the iron levels in the sea. The red tide suffocated the corals and seems to have caused serious damage to the reefs around the wildfires.
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  Climate change decreases aquatic ecosystem productivity of Lake Tanganyika, Africa

  SciDev.Net, 2003

  This paper presents evidence that climate warming is diminishing productivity in Lake Tanganyika, East Africa.
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  Forecasting global biodiversity threats associated with human population growth

  SciDev.Net, 2003

  The size and growth of the human population are often cited as key factors in threats to Earth's biodiversity, yet the extent of their contribution to the endangerment and extinction of other species has remained unclear. These authors argue that it could be valuable to know what additional threats may arise from continued human population growth.
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  Biodiversity: its importance to human health

  Center for Health and the Global Environment, Harvard Medical School, 2002

  This is an interim report for a book of the same title to be published in late 2003 that is intended to be a scientific compilation of knowledge about how other species contribute to human health.The book is divided into 7 chapters, written by working groups of experts in those specific fields.

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