IUCN

Like most natural ecosystems across Asia, the wetlands in the Lower Mekong Basin (LMB) are under threat from various human activities and from invasive alien species (IAS). Currently, major pathways for introduction of IAS in the region include aquaculture, horticultural and ornamental fish trades. Dams, urbanisation, expansion of agriculture, trans-boundary road development and other rapid development activities are exacerbating the spread of IAS.

La Fondation Internationale du Banc d'Arguin (FIBA) souhaite mettre à disposition des institutions et de la société civile mauritaniennes en particulier et ouest-africaines en général, une synthèse concernant les impacts potentiels d'une telle activité sur l'écosystème, ainsi que d'une revue des aspects réglementaires de l'exploitation et du transport du pétrole en mer pour en informer ses partenaires.

Dans ce volume, vous trouverez les informations les plus récentes sur la distribution des espèces confrontées à un risque d’extinction élevé dans certains des écosystèmes les plus importants du monde, et sur les raisons de ce déclin. Cet ouvrage apporte de nouvelles informations sur les espèces marines et d’eau douce qui offrent des services importants, y compris l’apport de protéines à certaines des communautés les plus pauvres du monde.

Development and implementation of blue carbon-based activities now requires strategic policy and incentive mechanisms for coastal conservation, restoration and sustainable use, and and disincentives to drain or damage coastal systems. Currently no broad, strategic program exists to achieve this.

The purpose of this publication is to provide naturalists, resource managers and scientists with a simple guide to identify all species of seagrasses in the Red Sea. Each species is described in detail using photographs of key and diagnostic features. Key features are those that distinguish a particular species from most other species, whereas diagnostic features belong only to that species.

This document summarizes discussions that were held during a workshop in December 2011 and which focused on making progress on the identification of Ecologically and Biologically Significant Areas for seamounts in the high seas.

For the Aichi Biodiversity Targets to be met in full, and for the other relevant processes to be successful, examples and guidelines for the identification of important pelagic areas must be made available to policy makers involved in the process of identifying ecologically or biologically significant areas (EBSAs).

This book seeks to reposition the law as a tool for implementing higher good, or, in other words, for providing justice by seeking to ensure individuals have access to the services that ecosystems naturally provide, and guaranteeing the right to water for human well-being. The goal of the publication is to contribute to a better understanding of the legal and institutional arrangements necessary for promoting good governance of transboundary waters between two or more States.