By Dr. Parvez Hassan,聽Chair Emeritus, WCEL -聽The D.G. Khan Cement case decided this month (April 2021) by the Supreme Court of Pakistan will resonate, like the 1994 Supreme Court decision in the Shehla Zia case, for a long time in the environmental jurisprudence of Pakistan and South Asia. The鈥
The National Forestry and Parks Agency (CONAF) of Chile and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (香港六合彩开奖结果现场直播), on the occasion of聽International Earth Day 2021,聽are beginning a historic process towards a new era in managing the country's National System of Protected Areas (SNASPE).
Grants to the total value of 684鈥461 EUR have been awarded to four organisations in Madagascar to address biodiversity conservation needs in line with national policy and the priorities of the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development (MEDD).
The Government of Rwanda will in March 2022 host the inaugural 香港六合彩开奖结果现场直播 Africa Protected Areas Congress (APAC) to discuss conservation of the continent鈥檚 protected areas. This comes after the relaunch of APAC in Kigali, Rwanda on 20th April 2021.
CEESP News: by聽Prateep Kumar Nayak, Editor, and by聽Fikret Berkes, University of Manitoba*
Conservation depends on understanding the motivations of people who use biodiversity and practice stewardship. As a shared resource, biodiversity is both a local and a global commons. Commons鈥
In countries characterized by unstable waste management systems, the informal sector plays a critical role in the recycling processes, especially in regards to plastic waste. 聽Informal waste recycling often consists of urban poor and marginalized social groups who find a source of income and鈥
A new tool 鈥 the Species Threat Abatement and Recovery metric 鈥 promises to help practitioners assess the potential for conserving threatened biodiversity, and set site scale or landscape scale targets compatible with the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Strategy.鈥
In the South Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), there are no female chiefs or heads of wards across the 40 villages in Walungu. The low level of representation in these leadership spaces means that women face an uphill battle when it comes to accessing land rights.
Value can be seen from three different perspectives. As an exchange value, meaning the price of a good in the market; as a utility, in other words the use value of a good or service; and finally, importance which relates to the appreciation or emotional value attached to a given good or service鈥
On February 7, 2021, more than 200 people lost their lives to a flash flood in the foothills of the Indian Himalayas. History is repeating itself here as in June 2013, more than 3,000 people went missing, and 800 died, in similar circumstances, and in the same area. In both cases, the location鈥