The BIOFUND Virtual Library is an online archive of information on Mozambique’s biodiversity, organized along the lines suggested by the Convention on Biodiversity’s Clearing House Mechanism. The Virtual Library will strive to make available all the documents, studies, reports, articles, educational and communications materials, maps and digital files that have been produced, to serve as a repository of our collective institutional memory as a conservation community. The usefulness of the Virtual Library will improve the more we share amongst ourselves. If you have any materials that are not currently part of the Virtual Library, please click on "Add Document" and become a contributor.
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INTERVENÇÕES EM LINHAS DE ÁGUA: contribuição para uma solução mais sustentável
Amorim, L.
2005
N/A
CCDR-N
Um curso de água constitui um ecossistema ribeirinho riquíssimo, com capacidade de suporte de populações vegetais, animais e humanos, com dinamismo e complexidade própria. A sobre exploração das suas potencialidades pelo Homem, pela ocupação desordenada do território e pela má gestão dos recursos hídricos, debilitam as funções dos cursos de água, promovendo desequilíbrios no sistema, nomeadamente pela perda de habitats (desequilíbrios ecológicos), aparecimento de infestantes e pragas (desequilíbrios da cadeia trófica a nível físico), alterações de caudais (cheias, assoreamentos, erosão) e dificuldades de drenagem dos terrenos adjacentes à linha de água, com efeitos negativos para o próprio homem.
Portuguese
No Restrictions
Inland Waters and Wetlands Biodiversity
Project Document, Project Reports and Evaluations
Sustainable Use of Biodiversity
None
INTERVENÇÕES EM LINHAS DE ÁGUA: contribuição para uma solução mais sustentável
Interpretation Note on Small and Medium Enterprises and Environmental and Social Risk Management
IFC
2012
N/A
IFC is committed to developing local markets through institution building, use of innovative financial products and mobilization, with a special focus on small and medium size enterprises. IFC investments through financial intermediaries (FIs) constitute the most important approach for supporting Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). This approach is accompanied by Advisory Services focused on improving the investment climate, connecting SMEs with potential buyers and trading partners, strengthening financial infrastructure and providing resources for building management skills. IFC uses a risk based approach to determine the scope of the environmental and social (E&S) performance requirements for its clients.
English
No Restrictions
General
Reports, Studies, Biodiversity Baselines and Evaluations
Identification, Monitoring, Indicators and Assessments; Sustainable Use of Biodiversity
None
Interpretation Note on Small and Medium Enterprises and Environmental and Social Risk Management
Interaction Between Roadways and Wildlife Ecology
Evink, G.
2002
N/A
NCHRP
The project that is the subject of this report was a part of the National Cooperative Highway Research Program conducted by the Transportation Research Board with the approval of the Governing Board of the National Research Council. Such approval reflects the Governing Board’s judgment that the program concerned is of national importance and appropriate with respect to both the purposes and resources of the National Research Council. The members of the technical committee selected to monitor this project and to review this report were chosen for recognized scholarly competence and with due consideration for the balance of disciplines appropriate to the project.
English
No Restrictions
Other Terrestrial Biodiversity
Project Document, Project Reports and Evaluations
Sustainable Use of Biodiversity
None
Interaction Between Roadways and Wildlife Ecology
Integrating Biodiversity into Environmental Management Systems
The Energy & Biodiversity Initiative
Sd
N/A
This document takes as its starting point the assumption that biodiversity conservation is an integral part of sustainable development, and that oil and gas companies should integrate biodiversity considerations into their Environmental Management Systems (EMS) or integrated Health, Safety and Environmental Management Systems (HSEMS) at a corporate and/or project level. Although consideration of biodiversity should be an integral part of any EMS, actions and activities to manage and conserve biodiversity should be based on a valid and transparent risk assessment process. Therefore, only in those cases where there are significant biodiversity issues will many of the responses proposed in this document be necessary.
English
No Restrictions
General
Reports, Studies, Biodiversity Baselines and Evaluations
Sustainable Use of Biodiversity
None
Integrating Biodiversity into Environmental Management Systems
Inorganic Analytes: Chapter Three
EPA
2007
N/A
Prior to employing the methods in this chapter, analysts are advised to consult the disclaimer statement at the front of this manual and the information in Chapter Two for guidance on the allowed flexibility in the choice of apparatus, reagents, and supplies. In addition, unless specified in a regulation, the use of SW-846 methods is not mandatory in response to Federal testing requirements. The information contained in each procedure is provided by EPA as guidance to be used by the analyst and the regulated community in making judgments necessary to meet the data quality objectives or needs for the intended use of the data.
English
No Restrictions
Marine Biodiversity
Reports, Studies, Biodiversity Baselines and Evaluations
Identification, Monitoring, Indicators and Assessments
None
Inorganic Analytes: Chapter Three
Infraestruturas Aprovadas em Angoche e Moma
Ad
Sd
Nampula
Portuguese
No Restrictions
General
Others
Legal and Political (Laws, Regulations, Action Plans, Strategies, etc.)
None
Infraestruturas Aprovadas em Angoche e Moma
Human Impacts on Mangroves
Ad
Sd
N/A
Although mangroves contribute to the economy in many ways, these benefits are not obvious like the benefits from the same area of a commercial crop such as sugar cane or bananas. Mangroves are essential to maintain coastal fisheries, protect property and coastlines from the effects of cyclones and storms and protect coral reefs from sediments and pollutants. However mangroves are frequently seen as expendable and little care is taken of them. Often mangroves areas are just seen as an area for mosquito breeding and a place to unlawfully dump rubbish. Thankfully, this view is started to change as education improves about the benefits of these wetland areas.
English
No Restrictions
Coastal Biodiversity
Project Document, Project Reports and Evaluations
Ecosystem Restoration
None
Human Impacts on Mangroves
Improved species climatic profiles
Jovanovic, T. & Booth, T.
2002
N/A
RIRDC/L&W Australia/FWPRDC
The objective of this project was to analyse the climatic requirements of at least 25 tree species that are important in, or have potential for use in farm forestry. The first stage of the analysis involved the collation of information on the natural distribution of the species. Geocoded (i.e. latitude, longitude and elevation) data were obtained from databases maintained by the Environmental Resources Information Network (ERIN) and the Australian Tree Seed Centre (ATSC). Approximately 18 000 records were collated for the 27 species or subspecies analysed. The data were mapped for each species and inaccurate records were corrected or deleted.
English
No Restrictions
Forest Biodiversity; Mountain Biodiversity; Other Terrestrial Biodiversity
Reports, Studies, Biodiversity Baselines and Evaluations
Identification, Monitoring, Indicators and Assessments
None
Improved species climatic profiles
Catalogue of Orchids of the Gilé Reserve (Mozambique)
Melki, F.
2018
Zambézia
Fundation Biotope
Seule aire protégée de la Province de Zambézia, la Réserve Nationale de Gilé au Mozambique abrite l’une des dernières zones sauvages qui subsistent à ce jour dans la Province ainsi que plusieurs espèces menacées d’extinction. Elle constitue l’une des quatre aires protégées situées dans l’écorégion Eastern Miombo Woodland. Ce type de paysage appelé “forêt de Miombo” couvre une grande partie du centre-sud de l’Afrique allant de l’Angola au Mozambique et de la Tanzanie au Zimbabwe. Très peu connue du grand public, c’est pourtant l’une des plus grandes forêts sèches intactes du monde.
Othe
No Restrictions
Forest Biodiversity
Reports, Studies, Biodiversity Baselines and Evaluations
Identification, Monitoring, Indicators and Assessments
Gilé National Reserve
Catalogue of Orchids of the Gilé Reserve (Mozambique)
SW-846 is not intended to be an analytical training manual. Therefore, method procedures are written based on the assumption that they will be performed by analysts who are formally trained in at least the basic principles of chemical analysis and in the use of the subject technology. In addition, SW-846 methods, with the exception of required method use for the analysis of method-defined parameters, are intended to be guidance methods which contain general information on how to perform an analytical procedure or technique which a laboratory can use as a basic starting point for generating its own detailed Standard Operating Procedure (SOP), either for its own general use or for a specific project application.
English
No Restrictions
Marine Biodiversity
Reports, Studies, Biodiversity Baselines and Evaluations
Identification, Monitoring, Indicators and Assessments
In Vitro Determination of Chlorophyll a and Pheophytin a in Marine and Freshwater Algae by Fluorescence
Arar, E. & Collins, G.
1997
N/A
National Exposure Research Laboratory Office of Research and Development
This method provides a procedure for low level determination of chlorophyll a (chl a) and its magnesiumfree derivative, pheophytin a (pheo a), in marine and freshwater phytoplankton using fluorescence detection.(1,2) Phaeophorbides present in the sample are determined collectively as pheophytin a. For users primarily interested in chl a there is currently available a set of very narrow bandpass excitation and emission filters (Turner Designs, Sunnyvale, CA) that nearly eliminates the spectral interference caused by the presence of pheo a and chlorophyll b.
English
No Restrictions
Marine Biodiversity
Reports, Studies, Biodiversity Baselines and Evaluations
Sustainable Use of Biodiversity
None
In Vitro Determination of Chlorophyll a and Pheophytin a in Marine and Freshwater Algae by Fluorescence
Indian Ocean Islands, GIWA Regional assessment 45b
The Indian Ocean Islands region comprises the island states of Comoros, Mauritius, Madagascar and Seychelles which are situated in the Western Indian Ocean (WIO). The combined total Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) of the Island States within the region is approximately 4.1 million km2. This provides the approximate limits of the region (between latitudes 5° N and 30° S and extending as far as 70° E). In terms of economic development, Mauritius and Seychelles appear to have met the basic conditions for sustainable human development, but considerable work is required in Madagascar and Comoros.
English
No Restrictions
Marine Biodiversity
Reports, Studies, Biodiversity Baselines and Evaluations
Biological and Cultural Diversity
Quirimbas National Park; Bazaruto Archipelago National Park; Ponta do Ouro Partial Marine Reserve; Cabo de São Sebastião Total Protection Zone; Inhaca Biological Reserve; Primeiras e Segundas Islands Environmental Protection Area
Indian Ocean Islands, GIWA Regional assessment 45b
IFC Sustainability Framework
IFC
2012
N/A
IFC
IFC strives for positive development outcomes in the activities it supports in developing countries. These activities include (i) investments financed directly by IFC; (ii) investments implemented through financial intermediaries (FIs) or managed by IFC’s Asset Management Company or any other IFC subsidiary, as well as investments funded in part or in whole by donors; and (iii) advisory services.
English
No Restrictions
General
Reports, Studies, Biodiversity Baselines and Evaluations
Legal and Political (Laws, Regulations, Action Plans, Strategies, etc.)
None
IFC Sustainability Framework
IFC Performance Standards on Environmental and Social Sustainability
IFC
2012
N/A
IFC’s Sustainability Framework articulates the Corporation’s strategic commitment to sustainable development, and is an integral part of IFC’s approach to risk management. The Sustainability Framework comprises IFC’s Policy and Performance Standards on Environmental and Social Sustainability, and IFC’s Access to Information Policy. The Policy on Environmental and Social Sustainability describes IFC’s commitments, roles, and responsibilities related to environmental and social sustainability.
English
No Restrictions
General
Reports, Studies, Biodiversity Baselines and Evaluations
Identification, Monitoring, Indicators and Assessments; Sustainable Use of Biodiversity
None
IFC Performance Standards on Environmental and Social Sustainability
Image Assessment System (IAS) Geometric Algorithm Theoretical Basis Document
IAS
1998
N/A
This document describes the geometric algorithms used by the Landsat 7 Image Assessment System (IAS). These algorithms are implemented as part of the IAS Level 1 processing, geometric characterization, and geometric calibration software components. The overall purpose of the IAS geometric algorithms is to use Earth ellipsoid and terrain surface information in conjunction with spacecraft ephemeris and attitude data, and knowledge of the Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+) instrument and Landsat 7 satellite geometry to relate locations in ETM+ image space (band, scan, detector, sample) to geodetic object space (latitude, longitude, and height).
English
No Restrictions
General
Project Document, Project Reports and Evaluations
Identification, Monitoring, Indicators and Assessments
None
Image Assessment System (IAS) Geometric Algorithm Theoretical Basis Document
This report deals primarily with the marine and coastal subsystems, including the offshore marine environment, coral reefs, inshore rocky reefs, sandy beaches, estuarine lagoon, San Sebastian Bay and its tidal sand flats and sea grass meadows, and the mangrove swamps, reed swamps and other shoreline habitat types found in the Sanctuary. This is a vast array of habitat types with probably thousands of different species, many of which are poorly known. The relatively low energy sand flats are a dominating feature of the Sanctuary and play host to a wide variety of marine animals, some of commercial value.
Bhutan, Brazil, Cameroon, Indonesia, Kenya, Mozambique, Nepal, Papua New Guinea (PNG), Peru and the Republic of Kosovo. For four of these countries (Cameroon, Indonesia, Mozambique and Nepal) a total of 10 case studies from the fi eld was collected. Additional information was obtained from literature. The great majority of the case studies, the country studies and literature report improved livelihoods as a consequence of community forestry. For some communities better access to resources such as firewood, water, medicinal plants, etc. for local use is the main benefit.
English
No Restrictions
Forest Biodiversity
Reports, Studies, Biodiversity Baselines and Evaluations
Identification, Monitoring, Indicators and Assessments
Others National Conservation Areas
improvement and biodiversity? Steps on how to improve community forestry programmes, lessons from work in 11 countries and communities
Importância dos acompanhamentos de longa duração no estudo da biodiversidade: exemplo da fauna de hidróides (Cnidaria) da Baía do Espírito Santo
Grohmann, P.
2006
N/A
1986-1995
Floresta e Ambiente
Foi feito o levantamento e o monitoramento da biota, em longo prazo, em dois costões de Vitória, Espírito Santo, Brasil: um em Camburi (1986-1995), para acompanhar a recuperação da área após a instalação, pela CVRD, de novos tanques coletores de “finos” de minério de ferro, outro em Praia Mole (1991-1995), após a transferência, para esta localidade, de parte dos efluentes da CVRD. Foram listadas 51 espécies de hidróides: 42 em Camburi e 33 em Praia Mole. Foram encontradas novas ocorrências, uma espécie nova e ampliada a distribuição, na costa, de algumas espécies.
Portuguese
No Restrictions
General
Peer-reviewed article
Biological and Cultural Diversity
None
Importância dos acompanhamentos de longa duração no estudo da biodiversidade: exemplo da fauna de hidróides (Cnidaria) da Baía do Espírito Santo
II Workshop sobre conservação de tartarugas marinhas em Mocambique
Pereira, M & Videira, E.
2011
Cabo Delgado
AICM Relatório Avulso 1: 24 pp.
As cinco espécies de tartarugas marinhas que ocorrem no Oceano Índico, também ocorrem e nidificam em Moçambique, ao longo dos 2,700 km de costa. Estas são legalmente protegidas desde 1965, mas apesar deste longo historial e de uma protecção mais restrita conferida pela legislação actualmente em vigor, todas espécies de tartarugas marinhas estão ameaçadas em Moçambique. Tanto no mar, como em terra durante a nidificação, as tartarugas são mortas e os ovos colectados, especialmente fora das áreas de conservação. Todos os anos, milhares de tartarugas são mortas acidentalmente pela indústria pesqueira, principalmente pela pesca industrial (arrasto, palangre) e de pequena escala (arrasto, emalhe, etc.).
Portuguese
No Restrictions
Marine Biodiversity; Coastal Biodiversity
Reports, Studies, Biodiversity Baselines and Evaluations
Threats to Biodiversity
Quirimbas National Park; Bazaruto Archipelago National Park; Ponta do Ouro Partial Marine Reserve; Cabo de São Sebastião Total Protection Zone; Inhaca Biological Reserve; Primeiras e Segundas Islands Environmental Protection Area
II Workshop sobre conservação de tartarugas marinhas em Mocambique
Improving Tools for Ecological Risk Assessment at Petroleum-contaminated Sites
Efroymson, R.
2004
N/A
BUSINESS BRIEFING: EXPLORATION & PRODUCTION: THE OIL & GAS REVIEW
Ecological risk assessment is the evaluation of the likelihood that adverse ecological effects result from exposure to one or more chemical or physical agents. Risk assessments are commonly used to support decisions about remediating spills or other contamination on closed or operating exploration and production (E&P) sites and refinery lands, and they may also be employed to site new infrastructure. In addition, risk assessments are a useful way to organise information and disclose effects to the public
English
No Restrictions
Marine Biodiversity
Peer-reviewed article
Impact Assessment; Identification, Monitoring, Indicators and Assessments
None
Improving Tools for Ecological Risk Assessment at Petroleum-contaminated Sites
Important Bird Areas and potential Ramsar Sites in Africa
BirdLife International
2002
N/A
BirdLife International
The BirdLife International Important Bird Areas Programme in Africa reached a momentous milestone in October 2001, with the publication of Important Bird Areas in Africa and associated islands – Priority sites for conservation. This 1,144-page book identified 1,230 Important Bird Areas (IBAs) in Africa, summarised their ornithological importance, ecological background and conservation status, and most crucially made a series of recommendations for improving the conservation and sustainable management of these sites.
English
No Restrictions
General
Project Document, Project Reports and Evaluations
Identification, Monitoring, Indicators and Assessments
None
Important Bird Areas and potential Ramsar Sites in Africa
Identifying road mortality threat at multiple spatial scales for semi-aquatic turtles
Beaudry, F. Et al.
2008
N/A
BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION
Prioritizing sites for localized mitigation measures, and forecasting the effect of interventions on an endangered population, requires an understanding of the spatial scales at which threat processes operate. Road mortality is among the greatest threats to semi-terrestrial freshwater turtles due to the group’s life-history traits. Declining throughout much of their range, spotted (Clemmys guttata) and Blanding’s turtles (Emydoidea blandingii) are exposed to high road densities and traffic volumes in the northeastern United States. We examine the distribution of roadkill risk for spotted and Blanding’s turtles at three spatial scales. Tortuosity during upland movements was used to predict road-crossing locations at the singlemovement scale.
English
No Restrictions
Marine Biodiversity; Coastal Biodiversity
Peer-reviewed article
Impact Assessment; Identification, Monitoring, Indicators and Assessments
None
Identifying road mortality threat at multiple spatial scales for semi-aquatic turtles
Habitat Fragmentation due to Transportation Infrastructure: Findings of the COST Action 341
Damarad, T. & Bekker, G.
2003
N/A
Office for official publications of the European Communities
Infrastructure builders are inconvenienced by nature, and nature is inconvenienced by infrastructure and traffic. The COST 341 products offer tools for integration of transportation infrastructure in the environmental context. The presence of nature areas, especially, a nature reserve or protected wildlife site, creates more and more challenges for infrastructure projects. More infrastructure is needed to transport people and goods, which leads to more traffic across Europe. Mountains, valleys, rivers, steppes and coastal plains are criss-crossed by arterial routes.
English
No Restrictions
Other Terrestrial Biodiversity
Reports, Studies, Biodiversity Baselines and Evaluations
Economics, Trade and Incentive Measures; Impact Assessment
None
Habitat Fragmentation due to Transportation Infrastructure: Findings of the COST Action 341
Habitat Fragmentation due to Transportation Infrastructure: A European Handbook for Identifying Conflicts and Designing Solutions
Iuell, B. Et al.
2003
N/A
Habitat fragmentation, the splitting of natural habitats and ecosystems into smaller and more isolated patches, is recognised globally as one of the biggest threats to the conservation of biological diversity. Habitat fragmentation is mainly the result of different forms of landuse change. The construction and use of transport infrastructure is one of the major agents causing this change as well as creating barriers between habitat fragments.
English
No Restrictions
Other Terrestrial Biodiversity
Reports, Studies, Biodiversity Baselines and Evaluations
Impact Assessment; Identification, Monitoring, Indicators and Assessments
None
Habitat Fragmentation due to Transportation Infrastructure: A European Handbook for Identifying Conflicts and Designing Solutions
Habitat Fragmentation due to Transportation Infrastructure
Trocmé, M. Et al.
2002
N/A
Habitat fragmentation has been recognised as one of the most significant factors which contributes towards the decline of biodiversity in Europe, and should thus be a major concern for society. Transportation infrastructure is often considered to be a principal cause of fragmentation. This report provides an overview of the scale and significance of the problem of fragmentation of natural habitats by roads, railways and waterways in Europe and examines solutions that are currently applied.
English
No Restrictions
Other Terrestrial Biodiversity
Reports, Studies, Biodiversity Baselines and Evaluations
Impact Assessment; Sustainable Use of Biodiversity
None
Habitat Fragmentation due to Transportation Infrastructure
Guidelines for the protection and preservation of trees, hedgerows and scrub prior to, during and post construction of national road schemes
National Roads Authority’s
Sd
N/A
National Roads Authority’s
English
No Restrictions
Other Terrestrial Biodiversity
Project Document, Project Reports and Evaluations
Impact Assessment; Identification, Monitoring, Indicators and Assessments
None
Guidelines for the protection and preservation of trees, hedgerows and scrub prior to, during and post construction of national road schemes
Guidance Notes to the Standard on Biodiversity Offsets
These Guidance Notes to the Standard on Biodiversity Offsets (‘the Standard’) have been prepared by the Business and Biodiversity Offsets Programme (BBOP) to help auditors, developers, conservation groups, communities, governments and financial institutions that wish to assess biodiversity offsets against the Standard on Biodiversity Offsets
English
No Restrictions
General
Reports, Studies, Biodiversity Baselines and Evaluations
Sustainable Use of Biodiversity
None
Guidance Notes to the Standard on Biodiversity Offsets
Gemini SeaTec
Tritech International Ltd
Sd
N/A
www.tritech.co.uk
Tritech’s Marine Mammal Detection System, provides an early warning of the presence of sea mammals, in the vicinity of marine current turbine structures. The Gemini SeaTec system uses the industry-standard Tritech Gemini 720id multibeam sonar and its own bespoke movement detection software to provide a valuable tool for the tracking of marine life around subsea turbine structures.
English
No Restrictions
Marine Biodiversity
Project Document, Project Reports and Evaluations
Identification, Monitoring, Indicators and Assessments
None
Gemini SeaTec
Groundfish Habitat Associations from Video Survey with a Submersible off the Washington State Coast
Wang, S.
2005
N/A
We surveyed nominally untrawlable areas on the Washington state continental shelf to examine benthic habitats and associated groundfish populations. We used our observations to qualitatively and quantitatively examine groundfish habitat associations to better understand the habitat features associated with groundfish density and presence, at both the community and single-species levels, and the effects of scale on these associations.
English
No Restrictions
Marine Biodiversity
Peer-reviewed article
Identification, Monitoring, Indicators and Assessments
None
Groundfish Habitat Associations from Video Survey with a Submersible off the Washington State Coast
Guidelines for offshore environmental monitoring: The petroleum sector on the Norwegian Continental Shelf
Iversen, P. Et al.
2011
N/A
Climate and Pollution Agency
These guidelines contain instructions for carrying out and reporting on the environmental monitoring required as one of the conditions in discharge permits issued to offshore operating companies
English
No Restrictions
Marine Biodiversity
Reports, Studies, Biodiversity Baselines and Evaluations
Sustainable Use of Biodiversity
None
Guidelines for offshore environmental monitoring: The petroleum sector on the Norwegian Continental Shelf
Good Practices for the Collection of Biodiversity Baseline Data
Gullison, R. Et al.
2015
N/A
This document contains references to good practices; it is not a compliance document. This report should be interpreted bearing in mind specific environmental and social policies adopted by the Multilateral Financial Institutions referred to in the report. In case of any inconsistency or conflict between this document and the environmental and social policies adopted by the Multilateral Financial Institutions as amended from time to time, such policies shall prevail. Questions of interpretation shall be addressed solely in respect of those policies.
A biodiversity baseline study is the work done to collect and interpret information on the biodiversity values occurring at a site, their current condition, and trends before a project commences. The biodiversity baseline study plays important roles in supporting the assessment of impacts and risks of a project, applying the biodiversity mitigation hierarchy, and designing the long-term biodiversity monitoring program (if one is required). Biodiversity risks, management requirements, and information needs will vary according to the project, and therefore the biodiversity baseline study should be proportional and specific to the anticipated risk and significance of impacts from the project.
English
No Restrictions
General
Project Document, Project Reports and Evaluations
Biological and Cultural Diversity
None
Good Practices for the Collection of Biodiversity Baseline Data
Fundamentals of Remote Sensing
Canada Centre for Remote Sensing
Sd
N/A
Canada Centre for Remote Sensing
So, what exactly is remote sensing? For the purposes of this tutorial, we will use the following definition: "Remote sensing is the science (and to some extent, art) of acquiring information about the Earth's surface without actually being in contact with it. This is done by sensing and recording reflected or emitted energy and processing, analyzing, and applying that information."
English
No Restrictions
General
Project Document, Project Reports and Evaluations
Identification, Monitoring, Indicators and Assessments
None
Fundamentals of Remote Sensing
Guide for Planners and Managers to Design Resilient Marine Protected Area Networks in a Changing Climate
CEC
2012
N/A
Commission for Environmental Cooperation
Climate change, along with pollution and overfishing, is one of the great challenges facing North America’s shared oceans today. Through the project Engaging Communities to Conserve Marine Biodiversity through NAMPAN (North American Marine Protected Areas Network)1 the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) gathered scientific information on the impact of climate change on marine protected area (MPA) networks to improve the design and management process for healthier, more resilient oceans.
English
No Restrictions
Marine Biodiversity
Reports, Studies, Biodiversity Baselines and Evaluations
Climate Change and Biodiversity; Protected Areas
International Protected Areas
Guide for Planners and Managers to Design Resilient Marine Protected Area Networks in a Changing Climate
Geographical distribution and aspects of the ecology of the hemiparasitic angiosperm Striga asiatica (L.) Kuntze: a herbarium study
Cochrane, V. & Press, M.
1997
N/A
Journal of Tropical Ecology
English
No Restrictions
Other Terrestrial Biodiversity
Peer-reviewed article
Identification, Monitoring, Indicators and Assessments
None
Geographical distribution and aspects of the ecology of the hemiparasitic angiosperm Striga asiatica (L.) Kuntze: a herbarium study
Geographical Distribution : Eastern South Atlantic and western Indian Ocean: South Africa, Mozambique, Tanzania, Somalia
Ad
Sd
N/A
English
No Restrictions
Marine Biodiversity
Project Document, Project Reports and Evaluations
Biological and Cultural Diversity
Quirimbas National Park; Bazaruto Archipelago National Park; Ponta do Ouro Partial Marine Reserve; Cabo de São Sebastião Total Protection Zone; Inhaca Biological Reserve; Tchuma Tchato Community Reserve
Geographical Distribution : Eastern South Atlantic and western Indian Ocean: South Africa, Mozambique, Tanzania, Somalia
Guidelines for the Prevention and Clinical Management of Snakebite in Africa
WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION
2010
N/A
Despite urbanization and destruction of their habitat, venomous snakes remain plentiful in most parts of Africa. Throughout the continent, snakes are feared and misunderstood even though most are harmless. Venomous snakes bite humans only when they feel threatened, are trodden on or picked up inadvertently. Snakes are creatures that inspire awe, reverence and even worship in some areas, and they are exhibited as performing animals by traditional snake charmers.
English
No Restrictions
General
Project Document, Project Reports and Evaluations
Health & Biodiversity
None
Guidelines for the Prevention and Clinical Management of Snakebite in Africa
Guidelines for Identifying Business Risks and Opportunities Arising from Ecosystem Change
Hanson, C. Et al.
2012
N/A
The Corporate Ecosystem Services Review
Ecosystems provide businesses with numerous benefits or “ecosystem services.” Forests supply timber and wood fiber, purify water, regulate climate, and yield genetic resources. River systems provide freshwater, power, and recreation. Coastal wetlands filter waste, mitigate floods, and serve as nurseries for commercial fisheries. However, human activities are rapidly degrading these and other ecosystems. The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment— the largest audit ever conducted of the condition and trends in the world’s ecosystems—found that ecosystems have declined more rapidly and extensively over the past 50 years than at any other comparable time in human history.
English
No Restrictions
General
Reports, Studies, Biodiversity Baselines and Evaluations
Biological and Cultural Diversity; Economics, Trade and Incentive Measures; Sustainable Use of Biodiversity
None
Guidelines for Identifying Business Risks and Opportunities Arising from Ecosystem Change
From sweeteners to cancer treatments: nature points to new products
Throughout history people have turned to nature for relief from illnesses and this remains true today. With new technologies, researchers have an even greater ability to identify natural products that may lead to treatment or prevention of a wide range of health problems.
English
No Restrictions
Other Terrestrial Biodiversity
Project Document, Project Reports and Evaluations
Sustainable Use of Biodiversity; Health & Biodiversity
None
From sweeteners to cancer treatments: nature points to new products
Framework Environmental Monitoring and Management Plan
Environmental Resources Management
2008
N/A
Th is Chapter presents a framework Environmental Management and Monitoring Plan (EMMP) for the Prelude FLNG Project. Th e purpose of this framework is to demonstrate Shell’s delivery mechanism for the commitments made in this draft EIS and outline the monitoring that will be undertaken throughout project execution.
English
No Restrictions
Marine Biodiversity
Impact Assessment
None
Framework Environmental Monitoring and Management Plan
Forgotten waters: Freshwater and marine ecosystems in Africa. Strategies for biodiversity conservation and sustainable development
Shumway, C.
1999
N/A
This publication was prepared under a grant from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Printing and distribution were made possible through support provided to the Biodiversity Support Program (BSP) by the Global Bureau of USAID, under the terms of Cooperative Agreement number DHR-5554-A-00-8044-00, and the New England Aquarium. The Biodiversity Support Program is a consortium of World Wildlife Fund, The Nature Conservancy, and World Resources Institute, funded by the USAID.
Boston University
Over the last several years, the world’s biodiversity crisis, and its implications for human development, has become clear. Solutions must be found for the problems created by humans for other life, for otherwise both humans and wildlife will continue to suffer. The situation is most critical for nations that rely on natural resources for economic development, such as those in Africa. As the World Bank notes, “sub-Saharan Africa depends more on its environmental resource base for its economic and social needs than any other region in the world” (Environment Matters, 1996). African nations simply cannot afford to lose their wildlife and the ecological services they provide, including the animals under water and those associated with water.
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Marine Biodiversity
Reports, Studies, Biodiversity Baselines and Evaluations
Protected Areas; Sustainable Use of Biodiversity
Quirimbas National Park; Bazaruto Archipelago National Park; Ponta do Ouro Partial Marine Reserve; Cabo de São Sebastião Total Protection Zone; Inhaca Biological Reserve; Primeiras e Segundas Islands Environmental Protection Area
Forgotten waters: Freshwater and marine ecosystems in Africa. Strategies for biodiversity conservation and sustainable development