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Convention on Biological Diversity
About: Convention on Biological Diversity is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 2232 publications have been published within this topic receiving 65599 citations. The topic is also known as: CBD & United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors use a humans' dimension approach to characterize human relationships with wildmeat in tropical forest areas, both in rural and urban/western contexts, and analyze how the two opposed ends of the wildlife value orientations continuum are resulting in stigmas, which represent clear bottlenecks for sustainability in tropical regions.
Abstract: In tropical regions, two decades after the “Bushmeat Crisis” outcry, there is now a growing recognition of the failure of single solutions to the issue Strict protectionist measures toward wildlife consumption through highly militarized law enforcement has proved to fail (Bennett, 2011; Wellsmith, 2011; Challender and MacMillan, 2014; Cooney et al, 2017) The development of alternative livelihoods, which was based on the hypothesis that hunting and consumption of wildmeat could be downsized if the reliance on wildlife as a source of food and income could be reduced, also evidenced several short comes (Wicander and Coad, 2015; Alves and van Vliet, 2018) More recent recommendations by the scientific community (Wilkie et al, 2016) and endorsed by the Convention on Biological Diversity now acknowledge the need for more comprehensive and context specific responses to prevent wildlife declines (CBD, 2017) While these recommendations clearly show progress in our understanding of wildlife management complexities, I argue that any approach to manage wildmeat use in tropical regions might continue to result inadequate, un-effective or un-acceptable without a mutualistic understanding of the complexity and nuance regarding the multiple connections that people maintain with wildlife and how these reflect the value orientations shared within the resource constituency I use a humans' dimension approach to characterize human relationships with wildmeat in tropical forest areas, both in rural and urban/western contexts Then, I analyze how the two opposed ends of the wildlife value orientations continuum are resulting in stigmas, which represent clear bottlenecks for sustainability in tropical regions Finally, I call for a better understanding of the cultural constructions that shape beliefs, attitudes and behavior among the different beneficiaries of wildlife, taking into account local/international, rural/urban, traditional/western specificities Indeed, considering that the mass of the funding available for wildlife conservation originates from foreign countries and is mostly executed through international institutions, claims of “cultural imperialism” may legitimately continue to arise if the complex and dynamic cultural dimensions of human-wildlife relations is not adequately analyzed and considered
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors conducted open-ended semi-structured interviews with 28 key informants in summer 2006 in Nepal and collected relevant documents and publications to assess the effectiveness of the policy along with other forestry and natural resource policies in Nepal concerning the conservation and use of NTFPs.
Abstract: The non-timber forest products (NTFPs) sector in Nepal is being promoted with the concept of sustainable development as articulated by the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). Traditionally, people have been dependent on NTFPs for subsistence; however, international trade is growing. To promote this sector, Nepal adopted the 2004 Herbs and NTFP Development Policy. Our goal is to assess the effectiveness of the policy along with the other forestry and natural resource policies in Nepal concerning the conservation and use of NTFPs. We conducted open-ended semi-structured interviews with 28 key informants in summer 2006 in Nepal and collected relevant documents and publications. Qualitative analyses of data yielded important issues that should be addressed to promote the sector as envisioned by the Government. The most important is the need for inventory and research on NTFP species in widespread use. There are some issues regarding species banned under various other National Acts; the lack of marketing...
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25 Oct 2019TL;DR: Invasions by alien species continue worldwide, causing tremendous harm to biodiversity and human well-being, and post-2020 discussions of the Convention on Biological Diversity must link targets to monitoring innovations and decision support for a maximally effective and global response as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: Invasions by alien species continue worldwide, causing tremendous harm to biodiversity and human well-being. Post-2020 discussions of the Convention on Biological Diversity must link targets to monitoring innovations and decision support for a maximally effective and global response.
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04 May 2012
TL;DR: The International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (the fixmeTreaty) represents a spirited reaction to the rising tide of measures that extend private or sufficientlyvereign control over genetic resources, which is inappropriate for food and agriculture as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: The International Treaty on Plant Genetic
Resources for Food and Agriculture (the
Treaty) represents a spirited reaction to the
rising tide of measures that extend private or
sovereign control over genetic resources, which
is inappropriate for food and agriculture. It
recognizes that ABS for agricultural biodiver-sity must be treated differently from the way it
is generally treated under the Convention on
Biological Diversity (CBD). The Treaty creates
an international genetic resources commons –
the ‘multilateral system of access and benefit
sharing’ – within which members, in exercise of
their sovereignty, provide free (or almost free)access to each other’s plant genetic resources
for research, breeding, conservation and training. It does not matter how many accessions of
different species members bring with them into
the club; as long as they agree to share what
they have, they can get access to all the other
members’ materials for their own use. Access to
materials within the commons comes largely
without strings attached, and the strings that do
exist are there to maintain the spirit of the
commons. For example, recipients cannot take
out intellectual property rights (IPRs) that
prohibit others receiving them in the same
form from the multilateral system. And if recipients choose to prohibit others from using, for
their own research and breeding, any product
they develop using materials they got from the
commons, they must share a percentage of their
sales of that product with the international
community through a conservation fund.
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