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Searching with a thematic focus on Environment, Biodiversity and environment in Uganda

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  Governance Assessment for Protected and Conserved Areas (GAPA): early experience of a multi-stakeholder methodology for enhancing equity and effectiveness

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2018

  We are increasingly recognising that governance is key to enhancing the effectiveness, equity and sustainability of conservation efforts. There is abundant literature on the theory of governance and conservation practitioners are increasingly familiar with the concepts of accountability, effective participation and equitable benefit sharing.
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  Poverty, poaching and trafficking: what are the links?

  Evidence on Demand, 2013

  This paper looks into the links between poverty, poaching and trafficking, indicating that this subject has been under-researched and poorly understood. The paper admits that there is little hard evidence to support the claim that poaching occurs because of poverty, yet the authors state they are confident the links are there.
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  Forests and the biodiversity convention: independent monitoring of the implementation of the expanded programme of work: summary report

  Convention on Biological Diversity, 2008

  This paper assesses what progress different countries have made over recent years on preserving, protecting and restoring forest biological diversity.
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  Climate change impacts on East Africa: a review of scientific literature

  WWF-World Wide Fund For Nature, 2006

  This report highlights some of the major impacts of climate change on conservation for East African countries including Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Rwanda. It also illustrates that climate change in Africa is not only a conservation issue but also a socio-economic one that must be dealt with on a global scale.
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  A funny place to store carbon: UWA-FACE Foundation’s tree planting project in Mount Elgon National Park, Uganda

  World Rainforest Movement, 2006

  This report documents human rights abuses at Mount Elgon National Park in east Uganda, where a Dutch foundation plants trees for the purpose of carbon offsetting.
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  Economic benefits of biodiversity exceed costs of conservation at an African rainforest reserve

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 2005

  This paper quantifies the costs and benefits of avian biodiversity at a rainforest reserve in Uganda through a combination of economic surveys of tourists, spatial land-use analyses, and species-area relationships.
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  Connecting poverty and ecosystem services: focus on Uganda

  International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, 2005

  How are Africa’s ecosystems faring? This report provides a preliminary overview of ecosystem services in Uganda and the corresponding constituents and determinants of well-being related to the availability of these services.
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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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  Natural resource conflict management case studies: an analysis of power, participation and protected areas

  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2003

  This report presents a collection of case studies which focus on processes of conflict management and resolution and the different ways and means that conflicts are addressed.
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  Shared aquatic ecosystems of East Africa: status and trends

  African Centre for Technology Studies, 2002

  The East African Community (EAC) initiated a process to prepare common guidelines for the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) of shared aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems of East Africa.

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