C. The protection of marine environment and biodiversity in the Area

Marine environment, marine resources, marine biodiversity and the protection of vulnerable marine ecosystems

The State Institute for Nature Protection was developing a national list of biodiversity indicators and setting up a national biodiversity monitoring programme to improve nature conservation.

Multiple benefits would accrue to human health, poverty eradication, food production and protection of biodiversity.

There has been an increase in forest cover and in the size of areas dedicated to the protection of biodiversity.

Since the early 1990s, the area of the country set aside for the protection and maintenance of biodiversity has grown.

It was also important to strengthen international arrangements on the protection of forests in order to reverse the loss of ecosystems and biodiversity.

Yemen is also a party to environmental conventions on Biodiversity, Desertification, Environmental Modification, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, and Ozone Layer Protection.

The Price of Biodiversity

Marine biodiversity

Biodiversity assessments

Biodiversity India lies within the Indomalaya ecozone and contains three biodiversity hotspots.

The Biodiversity Bargain

Conservation and management of marine biodiversity

An indigenous expert from Canada reported on a lack of attention to the promotion of and protection of indigenous traditional knowledge in biodiversity related legislation dealing with species at risk.

Tourism and biodiversity conservation

61 203. International Year of Biodiversity, 2010

2010 was the International Year of Biodiversity.

WoRMS has established formal agreements with several other biodiversity projects, including the Global Biodiversity Information Facility and the Encyclopedia of Life.

My country attaches great interest to several issues addressed in the draft resolutions under our consideration, including the safety of navigation, maritime transportation and the protection and sustainable use of marine biodiversity.

C. Public goods and biodiversity

1. Declares 2010 the International Year of Biodiversity

We attach great importance to the protection and conservation of the marine environment and its biodiversity. Therefore, we must redouble our efforts to combat and limit the pollution and degradation of marine ecosystems.

The Impact of Industrial Longline Fishing on Marine Biodiversity

(i) Understanding, monitoring and conserving biodiversity.

Developing countries, which are often endowed with rich biodiversity, face the great challenge of combining poverty alleviation and economic growth with sustainable use and conservation of biodiversity.

Mr. Merle Alexander (Canadian Indigenous Biodiversity Network)

(11)Restoration of Agro biodiversity Eroded by Situation of Natural Disasters

UNEP, through its biodiversity arm at the UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre (WCMC), has produced a number of assessments focusing on species and ecosystems biodiversity including

Biodiversity Mexico is one of the 18 megadiverse countries of the world.

A number of delegations commented on the issue of high seas biodiversity.

Biodiversity and climatic stability are global public goods.

Debt relief may help Madagascar protect its biodiversity.

The IUCN also organized, at the margins of COP 6, the Global Biodiversity Forum to address the issue of Ecosystem Approach to Drylands Management Integrating Biodiversity Conservation and Livelihood Security .

We believe that the protection of biodiversity beyond areas of national jurisdiction should take full account of existing regimes concerning the high seas and international sea bed and give full play to the role of existing international organizations and institutions.

He said there are opportunities for sharing experiences and good practices and cooperating to minimize trade offs, for example for coastline protection and management technologies that can have positive or negative effects on biodiversity.

These include climate change, ozone depletion, chemical issues and loss of biodiversity.

Such compulsory licensing is a big cause of the global destruction of biodiversity.

Jason Clay How big brands can help save biodiversity

Desertification contributes significantly to climate change and biodiversity loss.

4. Encourages Member States and other stakeholders to take advantage of the International Year of Biodiversity to increase awareness of the importance of biodiversity by promoting actions at the local, regional and international levels

Twenty years ago, the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources classified the Niger Delta as a region of high biodiversity of marine and coastal flora and fauna tree species, fish, birds, and mammals, among other forms of life and therefore rated it as a very high priority for conservation. Yet it also noted that the region s biodiversity was under massive threat, with little or no protection.

Itinerant agriculture and forest fires concur for the destruction and reduction of biodiversity.

Instruments aimed at tackling market failure and offering incentives to provide benefits such as watershed protection, biodiversity conservation, recreation and carbon sequestration would contribute to sustainable forest management, as well as socially more optimal forest activities.

Hunger and desperate means of producing food had led to an unprecedented loss of biodiversity.