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This work makes a case for a broader concept of conservation, emphasizing its place within the development of regions and landscapes that include private and local activities as well as public and national. Focuses on conservation within integrated and community-based development planning.

Discussions in this report address bear farming in China, Hong Kong's gall bladder registration scheme, biological implications of the legal trade in bear gall bladder in Japan and Taiwan's efforts to monitor its domestic market for bear gall bladder.

Biodiversity captured worldwide attention at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro when 150 nations signed the Convention on Biological Diversity.

Booklet in a series intended to give the general reader facts and information about fur-bearing mammals from a more conservation-oriented perspective than information generally available from other sources.

One of a series of six booklets intended to give the general reader facts and information about fur-bearing mammals from a more conservation-oriented perspective than information generally available from other sources.

This Action Plan highlights the biological importance of these species, reviews current knowledge, and identifies those at risk and the causes, critical areas for conservation, and specific conservation projects.

As excellent examples of oceanic island ecosystems, many unmodified by human influences, these islands are of great conservation significance but adequate protection varies.