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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Author
Year of Publication
Chemical Contaminants in Oysters and Mussels
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
1998
N/A
NOAA's State of the Coast Report.
Since 1986, the Mussel Watch Project of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has chemically analyzed mussels and oysters collected annually from coastal sites throughout the Nation. Results show that concentrations of most of the monitored man-made chemicals (e.g., DDT, PCBs) are decreasing. The concentration of cadmium is decreasing as well, but concentrations of other trace metals have stayed more or less constant. Many chemicals, particularly those that are man-made, have high concentration levels near cities. Except in the case of lead, however, there is no apparent association between high concentrations of other trace elements (e.g., mercury, copper, zine) and urban areas
English
No Restrictions
Coastal Biodiversity
Reports, Studies, Biodiversity Baselines and Evaluations
Identification, Monitoring, Indicators and Assessments
None
Chemical Contaminants in Oysters and Mussels
Chimanimani National Reserve Management Plan 2010
Ghiurghi, A.; Dondeyne, S. & Bannerman, J.
2010
Manica
2008-2009
This management plan is the output of a work carried out in 2008-2009 by a multidisciplinary team composed by three international consultants and the Chimanimani National Reserve (ChNR) staff. The work, more specifically, was about the revision and updating of the management plan prepared for the Chimanimani conservation area by Richard Bell in year 2000.
English
No Restrictions
Forest Biodiversity; Mountain Biodiversity; Other Terrestrial Biodiversity; Inland Waters and Wetlands Biodiversity
PA Management Document
Biological and Cultural Diversity
Chimanimani National Reserve
Chimanimani National Reserve Management Plan 2010
Climate Vulnerability and Capacity Analysis
Chambers, R.
2009
N/A
Climate change presents additional obstacles to ending poverty and achieving social justice. Rising temperatures, increasingly erratic rainfall, and more frequent and severe floods, cyclones and droughts all have significant consequences for the livelihood security of poor people; and development professionals are seeing first-hand the effects of a changing climate on their work around the world. In order to ensure that development programs reduce people’s vulnerability to climate change, we must understand who is vulnerable to its effects and why. Then, we must apply this information to the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of activities.
English
No Restrictions
General
Reports, Studies, Biodiversity Baselines and Evaluations
Maps and non-georeferenced data (as jpg, pdf, .zip, data etc.)
Biological and Cultural Diversity
Quirimbas National Park; Mágoè National Park; Gorongosa National Park; Banhine National Park; Zinave National Park; Limpopo National Park; Maputo Special Reserve; Marromeu Special Reserve; Niassa National Reserve; Gilé National Reserve; Chimanimani National Reserve; Pomene National Reserve; Malhazine Ecological Park; Tchuma Tchato Community Reserve; Mitcheu Community Reserve; Chipanje Chetu Community Reserve; Forest Reserves; Transfrontier Conservation Areas; Official Hunting Areas (Coutadas); Game Farms (Fazendas de Bravio)
Classificação Simplificada da vegetação
Conservation Biology of the Gaboon Adder (Bitis gabonica) in South Africa
Warner, J.
2009
N/A
2005-2007
University of the Witwatersrand
From 2005-2007, I studied the ecology of Bitis gabonica, a terrestrial forest viperid that occurs in subtropical northeast extremes of South Africa. I monitored ten individuals (six males and four females) using radiotelemetry inside the iSimangaliso Wetland Park in KwaZulu-Natal. I used two different home range estimators to analyze space use among individuals; minimum convex polygons (MCPs) and kernel density contours (KDs). MCPs averaged 28.58 ha (42.48 ha for males, 7.72 ha for females) and ninety-five percent kernel density contours (KDs) averaged 28.92 ha (42.65 ha for males, 8.32 for females).
English
No Restrictions
General
Peer-reviewed article
Biological and Cultural Diversity
None
Conservation Biology of the Gaboon Adder (Bitis gabonica) in South Africa
Comparison of two vegetation monitoring strategies implemented on four Washington State Department of Transportation wetland mitigation sites
Bergdolt, F. & Thomas. J.
2001
N/A
Center for Transportation and the Environment
The Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) creates, restores, and enhances wetlands to mitigate for impacts that occur during highway construction projects. Monitoring data provides information on the development and success of these wetland mitigation sites. Valid monitoring data is critical to the adaptive management of site remediation and maintenance activities. In 2000, biologists surveyed wetland vegetation using two different sampling strategies on four mitigation sites in western Washington. Vegetative aerial cover data were collected using both the agency’s historical, standardized monitoring approach, and an alternative method that combines changes in sampling design with new methods of data collection.
Portuguese
No Restrictions
Other Terrestrial Biodiversity; Inland Waters and Wetlands Biodiversity
Peer-reviewed article
Impact Assessment; Sustainable Use of Biodiversity
None
Comparison of two vegetation monitoring strategies implemented on four Washington State Department of Transportation wetland mitigation sites
Comparing Ecosystem Goods and Services Provided by Restored and Native Lands
Dodds, W. Et al.
2008
N/A
BioScience
We determined the relative benefits for eight categories of ecosystem goods and services associated with native and restored lands across the conterminous United States. Less than 10% of most native US ecosystems remain, and the proportion that is restored varies widely by biome. Restored lands offer 31%to 93%of native land benefits within a decade after restoration, with restored wetlands providing the most economic value and deserts providing the least. Restored ecosystems that recover rapidly and produce valuable commodities return a higher proportion of total value. The relative values of the benefits provided by restoration vary both by biome and by the ecosystem goods and services of interest.
English
No Restrictions
General
Peer-reviewed article
Economics, Trade and Incentive Measures; Ecosystem Restoration
International Protected Areas
Comparing Ecosystem Goods and Services Provided by Restored and Native Lands
Coastal dry forests in northern Mozambique
Timberlake, J. Et al.
2011
Cabo Delgado
Plant Ecology and Evolution
The Coastal Forests of Eastern Africa, stretching along the Indian Ocean coastline from Somalia to Mozambique, are considered by Conservation International to be a global biodiversity hotspot – an area of high diversity and endemism under increasing threat. Although the largest remaining extent of these forests is reported to be found in Mozambique, very little is known on their extent, condition and composition here. In addition, the term ‘coastal forest’ has been used in different ways by different authors. This paper defines and characterises coastal dry forests found in northern Mozambique and assesses their present extent, botanical composition, conservation importance and the threats to them.
English
No Restrictions
Coastal Biodiversity
Peer-reviewed article
Identification, Monitoring, Indicators and Assessments
None
Coastal dry forests in northern Mozambique
Changes in ecosystem services
Braat, L. Et al.
2010
N/A
The Cost of Policy Inaction
Ecosystem services constitute the physical link between ecological systems and human economies. With conversions of natural ecosystems to other forms of land use, such as cropland, pasture land or urban land, or by unsustainable fishing the oceans, or converting coastal mangrove to shrimp farms, the total flow of services in a region is altered. The changes often bring short-term economic benefits but longer-term costs. Maximization of provisioning services such as food, fish and timber has caused the loss of area with intact ecosystems and biodiversity and thus with the capability of these systems to provide regulating services such as climate and flood control, and air and water purification.
English
No Restrictions
General
Reports, Studies, Biodiversity Baselines and Evaluations
Climate Change and Biodiversity; Economics, Trade and Incentive Measures; Sustainable Use of Biodiversity; Threats to Biodiversity
None
Changes in ecosystem services
Changes in biodiversity
Oorschot, M.
2010
N/A
By the year 2000, about 73% of the original global biodiversity on land was left. The largest declines have occurred in the temperate and tropical grasslands and forests, the biomes where human civilizations developed first. There is a projected further biodiversity loss on land of about 11% worldwide between 2000 and 2050. The global annual rate of loss increased dramatically in the twentieth century, especially in Europe, in comparison to previous centuries. The expected loss rate for Europe seems to decrease but does not halt, while the global average still increases.
English
No Restrictions
General
Reports, Studies, Biodiversity Baselines and Evaluations
Sustainable Use of Biodiversity
None
Changes in biodiversity
Cetaceans in the Indian Ocean Sanctuary: A Review
de Boer, M. Et al.
2002
N/A
Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society
This paper presents a synthesis of mainly published information relating to the cetaceans of the Indian Ocean Sanctuary (IOS). It highlights a number of new studies and other initiatives linked to the Sanctuary and reviews the current understanding of the biology of the Sanctuary’s cetaceans. Cetaceans in the IOS are exposed to a range of threats, including by-catch and the effects of climate change. Whilst no quantification can be made of these threats at this time, they may still be significant for the conservation of populations.
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
Cetaceans in the Indian Ocean Sanctuary: A Review
Cetacean Monitoring System Marine Mammal Detection and Tracking Technical Overview
Seamap Pte. Ltd.
2003
N/A
Seamap’s Cetacean Monitoring System utilises the most advanced engineering in passive acoustic technology to detect, monitor and track marine mammals. There is increasing interest in the potential impact offshore industry activities have on the marine environment. Specific concern focuses on the effect that humangenerated, high-intensity acoustic pulses may have on a number of whale and dolphin species. In many cases the effects are not yet known and a number of investigative research programmes have been established to determine the environmental impact.
English
No Restrictions
Marine Biodiversity
Reports, Studies, Biodiversity Baselines and Evaluations
Identification, Monitoring, Indicators and Assessments
None
Cetacean Monitoring System Marine Mammal Detection and Tracking Technical Overview
Carnivores: struggling for survival in roaded landscape
Grilo, C.; Smith, D. & Klar, N.
2015
N/A
http://www.researchgate.net/publication/280096428
ResearchGate
Carnivores are a diverse group of wildlife that occur in most environments around the world. Large, wideranging carnivores play key ecological roles in natural systems. They regulate population sizes of herbivores and other small‐ and medium‐sized carnivores that in turn affect the growth, structure and composition of plant communities and habitats and the health of the small‐animal populations that live in these habitats. Carnivores are particularly susceptible to the impacts of roads because many species require large areas to sustain their populations, have low reproductive output and occur in low densities
English
No Restrictions
Other Terrestrial Biodiversity
Peer-reviewed article
Identification, Monitoring, Indicators and Assessments
None
Carnivores: struggling for survival in roaded landscape
Business, Biodiversity Offsets and BBOP: An Overview
This Overview document with its Principles on Biodiversity Offsets and the accompanying supporting materials have been prepared by the Business and Biodiversity Offsets Programme (BBOP) to help developers, conservation groups, communities, governments and financial institutions that wish to consider and develop best practice related to biodiversity offsets. They were developed by members of the BBOP Secretariat and Advisory Committee1 during the first phase of the programme’s work (2004 – 2008), and have benefited from contributions and suggestions from many of the 200 people who registered on the BBOP consultation website and numerous others who have joined us for discussions in meetings.
English
No Restrictions
General
Reports, Studies, Biodiversity Baselines and Evaluations
Sustainable Use of Biodiversity
None
Business, Biodiversity Offsets and BBOP: An Overview
Biodiversity Offset Schemes Country Summary Report: Australia
Hawdon, A.; Parham, E. & Marsh, D.
2015
N/A
BUSINESS & BIODIVERSITY PROGRAMME FAUNA & FLORA INTERNATIONAL
Over recent years, the uptake of biodiversity offsets as a mechanism for addressing the residual impacts of project development has increased rapidly. Whilst comprehensive guidance for biodiversity offsets has been developed1, it is widely recognised that offset implementation faces a host of technical, social and governance challenges, and there is concern that offsets could undermine existing mechanisms for conserving biodiversity if developed in isolation. In guiding the future development and implementation of offsets to achieve biodiversity conservation.
English
No Restrictions
General
Reports, Studies, Biodiversity Baselines and Evaluations
Sustainable Use of Biodiversity
None
Biodiversity Offset Schemes Country Summary Report: Australia
Biodiversity offsetting in the United States: Lessons learned on maximizing their ecological contribution
Kormos, R.; Mead, D.; & Vinnedge, B.
2015
N/A
Biodiversity offsets have been used to compensate for the residual negative impacts of development on endangered and threatened species and their habitats in the United States for almost three decades. Biodiversity offsets have not always met the ecological goal of no net loss (NNL) in the US, but considerable strides have been made towards improving their effectiveness.
English
No Restrictions
General
Reports, Studies, Biodiversity Baselines and Evaluations
Sustainable Use of Biodiversity
None
Biodiversity offsetting in the United States: Lessons learned on maximizing their ecological contribution
Business and Biodiversity Offsets Programme (BBOP) Glossary
The Principles on Biodiversity Offsets and accompanying supporting materials such as this Glossary have been prepared by the Business and Biodiversity Offsets Programme (BBOP) to help developers, conservation groups, communities, governments and financial institutions that wish to consider and develop best practice related to biodiversity offsets. They were developed by members of the BBOP Secretariat and Advisory Committee during the first phase of the programme’s work (2004 – 2008), and have benefited from contributions and suggestions from many of the 200 people who registered on the BBOP consultation website and numerous others who have joined us for discussions in meetings.
English
No Restrictions
General
Reports, Studies, Biodiversity Baselines and Evaluations
Sustainable Use of Biodiversity
None
Business and Biodiversity Offsets Programme (BBOP) Glossary
Biodiversity Offsets and Stakeholder Participation: A BBOP Resource Paper
The aim of this Resource Paper is to provide information on stakeholder identification, engagement and PARTICIPATION in the design and implementation of biodiversity offsets. It discusses the benefits and challenges involved in adopting a participatory approach, and identifies relevant tools and methods to help those designing and implementing biodiversity offsets do so according to good practice. Effective participation is critical to both the success and fairness of biodiversity offsets. This is reflected by the Business and Biodiversity Offsets Programme (BBOP) Principles for Biodiversity Offsets and the optional interim guidance in the supporting ‘Handbooks’ and associated materials designed to help OFFSET PLANNERS apply the Principles.
English
No Restrictions
General
Reports, Studies, Biodiversity Baselines and Evaluations
Sustainable Use of Biodiversity
None
Biodiversity Offsets and Stakeholder Participation: A BBOP Resource Paper
This Handbook assumes that the nature of offsetting activities and magnitude and location of the offset (in a single location, or as a COMPOSITE) have already been identified and the planner is now seeking to put in place the mechanisms for implementation, permanence and good GOVERNANCE. It offers a discussion of the potential roles and responsibilities of potential stakeholders, legal and institutional aspects of establishing an offset, and how an OFFSET MANAGEMENT PLAN can be developed. Then the Handbook suggests a number of ways in which a biodiversity offset can be financed over the long-term.
English
No Restrictions
General
Reports, Studies, Biodiversity Baselines and Evaluations
Sustainable Use of Biodiversity
None
Biodiversity Offset Implementation Handbook
Biodiversity offsets and the mitigation hierarchy: a review of current application in the banking sector
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
2010
N/A
BBOP & UNEP FI
Despite society’s indisputable reliance on biodiversity and the ecosystem services it underpins, biodiversity is undervalued by modern economies and diminishing at a rapid rate. Over the past 50 years, humans have changed and impacted biodiversity and ecosystems more rapidly and extensively than in any comparable period of time in history. All businesses, irrespective of their size, sector and location, depend, and consequently have an impact, on biodiversity and ecosystems. This is especially apparent for those who need access to, or convert, areas of biodiversity value: agriculture, food and drink, extractives, forestry and infrastructure are all examples of such sectors.
English
No Restrictions
General
Reports, Studies, Biodiversity Baselines and Evaluations
Economics, Trade and Incentive Measures; Sustainable Use of Biodiversity
None
Biodiversity offsets and the mitigation hierarchy: a review of current application in the banking sector
Bird collisions with power lines: Failing to see the way ahead?
Martin, G. & Shaw, J.
2010
N/A
Elsevier Ltd.
Visual fields were determined in three bird species representative of families known to be subject to high levels of mortality associated with power lines; kori bustards Ardeotis kori, Otididae, blue cranes Anthropoides paradisea, Gruidae and white storks Ciconia ciconia, Ciconiidae. In all species the frontal visual fields showed narrow and vertically long binocular fields typical of birds that take food items directly in the bill under visual guidance. However, these species differed markedly in the vertical extent of their binocular fields and in the extent of the blind areas which project above and below the binocular fields in the forward facing hemisphere.
English
No Restrictions
Other Terrestrial Biodiversity
Peer-reviewed article
Impact Assessment
None
Bird collisions with power lines: Failing to see the way ahead?
Biodiversity Offset Worked Example: Fictional Letabeng Case Study
Business and Biodiversity Offsets Programme (BBOP)
2009
N/A
The Principles on Biodiversity Offsets and accompanying supporting materials such as this case study paper giving a fictional worked example have been prepared by the Business and Biodiversity Offsets Programme (BBOP) to help developers, conservation groups, communities, governments and financial institutions that wish to consider and develop best practice related to biodiversity offsets. They were developed by members of the BBOP Secretariat and Advisory Committee during the first phase of the programme’s work (2004 – 2008), and have benefited from contributions and suggestions from many of the 200 people who registered on the BBOP consultation website and numerous others who have joined us for discussions in meetings.
BBOP
The following is an abbreviated version of the different steps that were followed in applying the BBOP methodology to offset the impacts on biodiversity of the proposed development. The planned development whose biodiversity losses need to be offset consists of a kaolin mine covering approximately 160 ha in the fictional Letabeng district in the south-eastern part of South Africa. This is a region with high altitude grassland in relatively pristine condition, with numerous wetlands and small Afromontane forest patches. In addition to its BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION value, the area is significant in terms of delivery of numerous important ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONS such as water catchment and the provision of grazing and other natural resources.
English
No Restrictions
General
Reports, Studies, Biodiversity Baselines and Evaluations
Biological and Cultural Diversity; Identification, Monitoring, Indicators and Assessments
None
Biodiversity Offset Worked Example: Fictional Letabeng Case Study
To be successful, biodiversity offsets should compensate indigenous peoples, local communities and other local stakeholders for any RESIDUAL IMPACTS of the project on their biodiversity based LIVELIHOODS and AMENITY. They also need to deliver the required conservation gains without making local people worse off, for example due to land and resource use restrictions created by the biodiversity offset. This requires a costbenefit comparison between the benefits of the offset and the costs to local people of the residual biodiversity related impacts of the project and of the offsets. The purpose of this Handbook is to provide guidance on how to use economic tools of valuation and costbenefit analysis to address these challenges.
English
No Restrictions
General
Reports, Studies, Biodiversity Baselines and Evaluations
The Offset Design Handbook presents information on a range of issues, approaches, methodologies and possible tools from which offset planners can select the approaches best suited to their individual circumstances when designing a biodiversity offset. It describes a generic process that offset planners could use in designing a biodiversity offset, from initial conception of a development project to the selection of offset sites and activities. This involves describing the project; exploring the policy context; engaging stakeholders; undertaking biodiversity surveys and applying the MITIGATION HIERARCHY; quantifying RESIDUAL IMPACTS; identifying and comparing potential offset sites; calculating conservation gains for preferred offset sites
English
No Restrictions
General
Reports, Studies, Biodiversity Baselines and Evaluations
The BBOP Offset Design Handbook presents information on a range of issues, approaches, methodologies and possible tools from which OFFSET PLANNERS can select the approaches best suited to their individual circumstances when designing a biodiversity offset. It describes a generic process that offset planners could use in designing a biodiversity offset, from initial conception of a development project to the selection of offset sites and activities. This involves describing the project; exploring the policy context; engaging stakeholders; undertaking biodiversity surveys and applying the MITIGATION HIERARCHY; quantifying RESIDUAL IMPACTS; identifying and comparing potential offset sites; calculating CONSERVATION GAINS for preferred offset.
English
No Restrictions
General
Reports, Studies, Biodiversity Baselines and Evaluations
Sustainable Use of Biodiversity
None
Biodiversity Offset Design Handbook: Appendices
Biodiversity Management Plan for Vilanculos Coastal Wildlife Sanctuary Vol. 3: ANNOTATED SPECIES LISTS
Lambrechts, A.
2003
Inhambane
VILANCULOS COASTAL WILDLIFE SANCTUARY (PTY) LTD
The species lists that follow are all provisional and will be expanded after the planned follow-up surveys have been undertaken. In all instances the specialists who undertook the introductory surveys (Dr Niels Jacobsen for mammals, reptiles, amphibians and plants and Dr Warwick Tarboton for birds) were hamstrung firstly by al lack of time and secondly by the fact that the surveys were undertaken in midwinter. Some species are also still in the process of being identified.
English
No Restrictions
Marine Biodiversity; Coastal Biodiversity
PA Management Document
Identification, Monitoring, Indicators and Assessments; Protected Areas
Cabo de São Sebastião Total Protection Zone
Biodiversity Management Plan for Vilanculos Coastal Wildlife Sanctuary Vol. 3: ANNOTATED SPECIES LISTS
Biodiversity Management Plan for Vilanculos Coastal Wildlife Sanctuary Vol. 2: THE BIODIVERSITY MANAGEMENT PLAN
Lambrechts, A.
2003
Inhambane
VILANCULOS COASTAL WILDLIFE SANCTUARY (PTY) LTD
The length of this volume of the BMP (the main plan; about 650 pages) necessitated a departure from the norm with regards to the executive summary. It was opted to prepare a condensed version of the BMP (Volume 1), with only a very brief Executive Summary that follows below. To alleviate this shortcoming somewhat, brief summaries dealing with specific topics are included in the text for certain parts of the Plan. (Refer to the discussion below on the format and structure of the BMP).
English
No Restrictions
Marine Biodiversity; Coastal Biodiversity
PA Management Document
Protected Areas
Cabo de São Sebastião Total Protection Zone
Biodiversity Management Plan for Vilanculos Coastal Wildlife Sanctuary Vol. 2: THE BIODIVERSITY MANAGEMENT PLAN
Biodiversity Management Plan for Vilanculos Coastal Wildlife Sanctuary vol. 1: CONDENSED PLAN
AvW LAMBRECHTS
2003
Sofala
VILANCULOS COASTAL WILDLIFE SANCTUARY (PTY) LTD
English
No Restrictions
Marine Biodiversity; Coastal Biodiversity
PA Management Document
Protected Areas
Cabo de São Sebastião Total Protection Zone
Biodiversity Management Plan for Vilanculos Coastal Wildlife Sanctuary vol. 1: CONDENSED PLAN
Biodiversity Impact Assessment of roads: an approach based on ecosystem rarity
Geneletti, D.
2002
N/A
Environmental Impact Assessment Review
Biodiversity has become one of the central environmental issues in the framework of recent policies and international conventions for the promotion of sustainable development. The reduction of habitat worldwide is currently considered as the main threat to biodiversity conservation. Transportation infrastructures, and above all road networks, are blamed for highly contributing to the decrease in both the quantity and the quality of natural habitat. Therefore, a sound Biodiversity Impact Assessment (BIA) in road planning and development needs to be coupled to other commonly considered aspects. This paper presents an approach to contribute to BIA of road projects that focuses on one type of impact: the direct loss of ecosystems.
English
No Restrictions
Other Terrestrial Biodiversity
Peer-reviewed article
Impact Assessment
None
Biodiversity Impact Assessment of roads: an approach based on ecosystem rarity
Best Practice Guidelines for the Conservation of Bats in the Planning of National Road Schemes
NATIONAL ROADS AUTHORITY
Sd
N/A
The purpose of this document is to provide guidance for the treatment of bats during the planning and design of national road schemes. These guidelines are not mandatory but are recommended to ensure appropriate protection for bats and consistency of approach during the different stages (i.e. Constraints Study, Route Corridor Selection and Environmental Impact Statement) of road scheme planning undertaken in accordance with the National Roads Project Management Guidelines (NRPMG).
English
No Restrictions
General
Project Document, Project Reports and Evaluations
Legal and Political (Laws, Regulations, Action Plans, Strategies, etc.); Identification, Monitoring, Indicators and Assessments; Sustainable Use of Biodiversity
None
Best Practice Guidelines for the Conservation of Bats in the Planning of National Road Schemes
BBOP Pilot Project Case Study. Strongman Mine
Solid Energy New Zealand Limited
2009
N/A
BBOP
The Business and Biodiversity Offset Programme (BBOP) is a partnership between companies, governments, conservation experts and financial institutions that aims to explore whether, in the right circumstances, biodiversity offsets can help achieve better and more cost effective conservation outcomes for biodiversity than normally occur in infrastructure development, while at the same time helping companies manage their risks, liabilities and costs.
English
No Restrictions
General
Reports, Studies, Biodiversity Baselines and Evaluations
Sustainable Use of Biodiversity
None
BBOP Pilot Project Case Study. Strongman Mine
BBOP Pilot Project Case Study. Akyem Gold Mining Project, Eastern Region, Ghana
Newmont Golden Ridge Limited (NGRL), a subsidiary of Newmont Mining Corporation (the Company), is proposing to develop gold reserves at the Akyem Project site in the Birim North District of the Eastern Region of Ghana, West Africa. The site is located approximately 3 kilometres west of the district capital New Abirem, 133 kilometres west of Koforidua the regional capital, and 180 kilometres northwest of Accra, the national capital. The proposed Project is currently in the planning stages. NGRL is a partner in the Business and Biodiversity Offset Programme (BBOP) which explores the concept of establishing BIODIVERSITY OFFSETS to compensate for significant residual, biodiversity impacts that can occur with development projects.
English
No Restrictions
General
Reports, Studies, Biodiversity Baselines and Evaluations
Sustainable Use of Biodiversity
None
BBOP Pilot Project Case Study. Akyem Gold Mining Project, Eastern Region, Ghana
BBOP Pilot Project Case Study – Potgietersrust Platinums Limited (PPRust).
Anglo Platinum
2009
N/A
This pilot project, as the name implies, was started early during the development of the BBOP methodologies. The pace of implementation of the pilot project was dictated more by local realities and expectations rather than by the pace of development of the methodologies. In particular alternatives and spatial planning were very much constrained by pre-existing conditions and local realities of land ownership and land availability. Consequently, the PPRust pilot does not follow ‘perfectly’ the BBOP methodologies, which are only now reaching maturity. Nevertheless, the pilot study provides a good example of the usefulness of the BBOP methodology.
English
No Restrictions
General
Reports, Studies, Biodiversity Baselines and Evaluations
Sustainable Use of Biodiversity
None
BBOP Pilot Project Case Study – Potgietersrust Platinums Limited (PPRust).
In 2006, the City of Bainbridge Island agreed to participate as a pilot project in the Business and Biodiversity Offsets Programme (BBOP). The pilot project is exploring the application of a methodology for developing biodiversity offsets for a public infrastructure project and a residential project on the same property. Biodiversity offsets are measurable CONSERVATION OUTCOMES resulting from actions designed to compensate for significant residual adverse biodiversity impacts arising from project development and persisting after appropriate prevention and MITIGATION measures have been implemented. The goal of biodiversity offsets is to achieve NO NET LOSS, or preferably a NET GAIN, of biodiversity on the ground with respect to species.
English
No Restrictions
Inland Waters and Wetlands Biodiversity; Coastal Biodiversity
Reports, Studies, Biodiversity Baselines and Evaluations
Sustainable Use of Biodiversity
None
BBOP Pilot Project Case Study – Bainbridge Island
AREA A Exploration Well Civil Early Works:Scope of Work
Blair, N.
2015
Inhambane
It is planned to undertake a drilling campaign in Area A comprising the drilling of a single exploration well; named Babane–1 during the dry season of 2016. The Scope of Work defined herein relates to the Civil Early Works associated with the preparation of the Babane-1 well pad, associated facilities and road access to the pad area planned to be undertaken during the dry season of 2015. The Work Areas are located in Area A, in the Inhambane Province of Mozambique
English
No Restrictions
General
Impact Assessment
None
AREA A Exploration Well Civil Early Works:Scope of Work
Assessment of the possible effects of releases of oil and chemicals from any disturbance of cuttings piles (2009 update)
OSPAR Commission
2009
N/A
OSPAR
Cuttings piles arise from drilling operations where the drilled cuttings and associated drilling fluids are discharged at the location of the well. Old cuttings piles may contain organic-phase drilling fluids and have been identified as possible sources of hydrocarbon releases into the marine environment, due to remobilisation of residues of oil still found in the piles and natural leaching in to the water column. Concerns arose over the potential remobilisation of cuttings piles due to disturbance from other activities, i.e. trawling and decommissioning activities.
English
No Restrictions
Marine Biodiversity
Reports, Studies, Biodiversity Baselines and Evaluations
Impact Assessment
None
Assessment of the possible effects of releases of oil and chemicals from any disturbance of cuttings piles (2009 update)
Assessing the Potential Impact of Oil and Gas Exploration Operations on Cetaceans in the Moray Firth
Thompson, P. Et al.
2012
N/A
There is uncertainty over the distribution of cetaceans in offshore waters, and the extent to which these animals may be disturbed by offshore oil and gas exploration operations, particularly seismic surveys. This has led to concerns over the potential impact of further oil and gas exploration in some areas of UK waters, particular in the vicinity of the Moray Firth Special Area of Conservation (SAC).
English
No Restrictions
Marine Biodiversity
Reports, Studies, Biodiversity Baselines and Evaluations
Impact Assessment
None
Assessing the Potential Impact of Oil and Gas Exploration Operations on Cetaceans in the Moray Firth
Background documents and technical annexes for biological effects monitoring
OSPAR
2012
N/A
OSPAR
English
No Restrictions
Marine Biodiversity
Project Document, Project Reports and Evaluations
Identification, Monitoring, Indicators and Assessments
None
Background documents and technical annexes for biological effects monitoring
Aromatic and Halogenated Volatiles by Gas Chromatography Using Photoionization and/or Electrolytic Conductivity Detectors
EPA
1996
N/A
English
No Restrictions
Marine Biodiversity
Reports, Studies, Biodiversity Baselines and Evaluations
Identification, Monitoring, Indicators and Assessments
None
Aromatic and Halogenated Volatiles by Gas Chromatography Using Photoionization and/or Electrolytic Conductivity Detectors
ASTER Users Handbook
Abrams, M. Et al.
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The Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) is an advanced multispectral imager that was launched on board NASA’s Terra spacecraft in December, 1999. ASTER covers a wide spectral region with 14 bands from the visible to the thermal infrared with high spatial, spectral and radiometric resolution. An additional backward-looking near-infrared band provides stereo coverage. The spatial resolution varies with wavelength: 15 m in the visible and near-infrared (VNIR), 30 m in the short wave infrared (SWIR), and 90 m in the thermal infrared (TIR). Each ASTER scene covers an area of 60 x 60 km.
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