An education campaign aiming at introducing sustainable hunting practices in Mediterranean Third Countries has been conducted under the Sustainable Hunting Project. Implemented by the BirdLife Partnership in collaboration with government and non-government organizations the campaign addressed to children between 9 and 13 focused on the theme of bird conservation and hunting. Mirey Atallah-Auge working on [...]
Archive for May, 2006
Campaign on sustainable hunting celebrates completion, Society for the Protection of Nature, Lebanon
The Ministry of Environment and Forestry, on behalf of the government of the Turkish Republic, has designated three new Wetlands of International Importance. Of two new sites on the Central Anatolian plateau, Kizören Obrouk an archaeological restricted area, is a good example of an Anatolian “obrouk”, a deep freshwater (groundwater) lake formed in a karstic [...]
The government of Portugal has designated five new Wetlands of International Importance, effective 2 December 2005. They are: Bertiandos and S. Pedro of Arcos Lagoons, a complex of permanent and temporary freshwater lakes on the right bank of the Lima River in the north of the country; Estrela Mountain upper Plateau and upper Zêzere River, [...]
Published by FAO in 2006 and jointly produced by FAO, IUCN and IWMI, Stakeholder-oriented valuation to support water resources management processes: Confronting concepts with local practice represents a different approach to the valuation of natural resources, one that considers how to support stakeholders in managing their water demands. Various methods have been developed in the [...]
