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17 documents for tropical forest conservation act

- The Canadian environmental education directory.
... Environmental and No www.ualberta.ca Conservation Sciences Edmonton (BSc) (Bilingual option) * Susta...) * Environmental Studies (HBES, MES) * Forestry (HBScF) * Nature-Based Recreation and Tourism (MES... Course - research is Toronto focused on tropical deforestation, sustainable development and biodive...
- Alternatives Journal
- Vol. 36 Nbr. 5, September 2010
- Wild Animal and Plant Trade Regulations - Regulations Amending Wild Animal and Plant Protection and Regulation of International and
... Nations Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre, as amended from time to time. T...Loup gris du Nord . Common zorro, forest fox. Renard crabier. Maned wolf. Loup à cri...13.27.0. Tropical pitcherplants. Népenthès. Indian tropical ...
- Canada Gazette Nbr. 20, February 18, 2009
- Part II - Official regulations
- Interprovincial Trade Act
- 'Internation-alization' and the conservation of Canada's boreal ecosystems*.
... shaping the fate of Canada's vast boreal forest region. . Exploring what they call internationaliz... press carries all this crap on the tropical rain forest while we have ignored the destruction ...
- Canadian-American Public Policy
- Nbr. 2003, March 2003

- On Becoming Noahs, and Saving the Last Pairs
JAKARTA, Indonesia -- A couple of weeks ago, The New York Times's Jim Yardley reported from China that the world's last known female Yangtze giant soft-shell turtle was living in one Chinese zoo, while the planet's only undisputed, known giant soft-shell male turtle was living in another -- and together this aging pair were the last hope of saving a species believed to be the largest freshwater turtles in the world. Unlike Noah, though, we're also the ones causing The [Flood], as more and more forests, fisheries, rivers and fertile soils are gobbled up for development. "The loss of global biological diversity is advancing at an unprecedented pace," Sigmar Gabriel, Germany's environment minister, recently told the BBC. "Up to 150 species are becoming extinct every day. The web of life th...

... Prickett, senior vice president of Conservation International. I met one of our generation's Noahs... an estimated 400, spread out around 20 tropical forest areas in West Java. Supriatna helps run the...
- Winnipeg Free Press
- August 21, 2009
- Designing protected areas networks in the north: identifying representative area and the use of focal species in a Yukon case study.
Abstract: The science of conservation biology has made many contributions to improving b... areas design developed for temperate and tropical ecoregions may not readily be extrapolated to nort...A natural system, such as a forest, has ecological integrity when it all of its compo...
- Northern Review
- Nbr. 2008, January 2008
- Wild Animal and Plant Trade Regulations-Regulations Amending
... Nations Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre. The Checklist and its updates h... (4) Cerdocyon thous II Common zorro, forest fox (5) Chrysocyon brachyurus II Maned wolf ... in Appendix I to the Convention) II Tropical pitcherplants (2) Nepenthes khasiana I India...
- Canada Gazette Nbr. 8, April 21, 2004
- Part II - Official regulations
- Wild Animal and Plant Protection and Regulation of International and Interprovincial Trade Act
- High-seas fisheries: troubled waters, tangled governance, and recovery prospects.
... areas, bycatch regulations, and the conservation of critical habitats. This article provides a shor...In the tropical Pacific, for example, large fish have declined to ... This wasteful practice has been likened to forest clear-cutting, and likely represents a major threa...
- Behind the Headlines
- Vol. 64 Nbr. 5, September 2007
- Demanding good wood: some current approaches to forest certification are dubious merit, and even the best have significant limitations.
Forest certification initiatives improve the potentials of forest management practices in Canada in the light of consumer boycotts of forest products. The Forest Stewardship Council, the Canadian Standards Assn, and the Pacific Certification Council provide the most significant certifications.

... forestry practices in the world's tropical regions attracted attention in the 1980s, activist... groups (2), recreation groups (2), conservation groups (2), an aboriginal organization and two oth...
- Alternatives Journal
- Vol. 23 Nbr. 3, June 1997
- Empty nets: fisheries are in decline around the world as fishing technology outstrips ecological capacity.
JUST AS A TROPICAL SCIENTIST might look at the impressive expanse of ..., it should be that of clear-cutting forest trees and their understory. (7) Just like the eros... Comparison to Forest Clear-cutting," Conservation Biology, 12 (1998), pp. 1180-97. . (8) R. Watson a...
- Alternatives Journal
- Vol. 30 Nbr. 2, March 2004
- Wild Animal and Plant Trade Regulations-Regulations Amending
...-Bolivia: the populations of the Conservation Units of Mauri-Desaguadero, Ulla Ulla and Lípez-C... jackal Wolf Wolf Common zorro, forest fox Maned wolf Asiatic wild dog (Dhole) S... cobra King cobra Honduras Tropical mocassin, Cantil Honduras Lance-head snake Hondura...
- Canada Gazette Nbr. 6, March 18, 1998
- Part II - Official regulations
- Wild Animal and Plant Protection and Regulation of International and Interprovincial Trade Act