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Enabling conditions for conservation on Indigenous and community lands
Abstract Despite increasing evidence and general acceptance in global environmental policy of the significant role of Indigenous Peoples and local communities (IP&LC) in biodiversity conservation and climate change mitigation, an implementation gap remains between global policy and how conservation plays out on the ground.
Stephanie Brittain +3 more
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Cumulative effects assessment under the World Heritage and Ramsar regimes. [PDF]
Hamman E.
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Insights from equitable governance assessments in conservation areas around the world
Abstract Global policy commitments to ensure that protected and conserved areas (PCAs) are equitably governed have increased interest in empirically assessing and analyzing social equity. Although numerous assessments have been conducted in individual PCAs, there is limited empirical insight into equity as a multidimensional concept beyond the site ...
Naira Dehmel +28 more
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Underrepresentation of bats in Africa's protected areas
Abstract Biodiversity is severely threatened globally, with habitat loss and other human pressures accelerating species extinctions. Protected areas (PAs) are a critical conservation tool; however, their effectiveness in safeguarding many taxa, such as bats, remains unclear.
Cecilia Montauban +9 more
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Ethics, Justice and the Convention on Biological Diversity [PDF]
Pisupati, Balakrishna, Schroeder, Doris
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Abstract As biocultural approaches to conservation gain traction (e.g., through international commitments to Indigenous Peoples and local communities) and external conservation actors increasingly seek to engage with on‐the‐ground holders of biocultural diversity, improved understanding is needed of what biocultural diversity means.
Natalie D. L. York
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What are the most significant challenges that ethnobiology and ethnomedicine have faced so far, and how were they dealt with? [PDF]
Bussmann RW +2 more
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