Sentences with phrase «cover ecosystem conservation»

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This course covers information about aquatic ecosystem degradation along with conservation measures to protect aquatic resources.

A fantastic sharing of skills as part of a common effort for the management and conservation of the living resources of the high seas: the first observations uncover Walters Bank as a remarkable ecosystem with a summit zone covered with coralligenous algae.

Many negotiators tell Ecosystem Marketplace that REDD itself is no longer a contentious issue, but that things get hairy when they try to digest the decision made in Bali to expand the land - use debate from REDD alone into broader issues of «conservation, sustainable management of forests, changes in forest cover and associated carbon stocks and greenhouse gas emissions and the enhancement of forest carbon stocks to enhance action on mitigation of climate change and to the consideration of reference levels.»

Announced yesterday at the IUCN World Conservation Congress in Barcelona, Indonesian politicians have signed onto to a plan which it is hoped with protect the remaining forests and critical ecosystems on the island of Sumatra: 48 % of Sumatra Deforested Since 1985 Since the 1980s Sumatra has lost about half of its forest cover to logging and agriculture.

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) anticipates that changes to land cover and biodiversity caused by climate change, could force Indigenous people to «alter their traditional ecosystem management systems» and, in the extreme, «eventually lead to a loss of their traditional habitats and along with it their cultural heritage».