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Glossary
(all definitions are taken from www.dictionary.com unless indicated otherwise)
CITES
Conservation Areas
Conservation Deeds
Convention on Wetlands
DATA DEFICIENT (DD)
Directory of Asian Wetlands
CITES (the Convention on International Trade in
Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora) is an
international agreement between Governments. Its aim
is to ensure that international trade in specimens of
wild animals and plants does not threaten their
survival. www.cites.org
Land under community or other ownership that is managed by
a community committee for conservation protection. The Prime
Minister declares a Conservation Area on recommendation of
the Minister for Environment and the landowners. It should
have “ particular biological, topographical, geological, historical,
scientific or social significance or other special value for the
present community or future generations”. Conservation areas
are to be managed by a committee including landholder
representatives but do not provide exclusive landholder control
as in the case with WMAs. The Conservation Area committee
prepares a management plan that sets out the restrictions on
the use of the rules. [ Conservation Areas Act 1978].
A voluntary agreement between a landowner and an authorised
body to help the landowner protect and manage the
environment on their land.
An intergovernmental treaty which provides the framework for
national action and international cooperation for the
conservation and wise use of wetlands and their resources.
http://www.ramsar.org
A taxon is Data Deficient when there is inadequate information
to make a direct, or indirect, assessment of its risk of extinction
based on its distribution and/or population status. A taxon in
this category may be well studied, and its biology well known,
but appropriate data on abundance and/or distribution are
lacking. Data Deficient is therefore not a category of threat.
Listing of taxa in this category indicates that more information
is required and acknowledges the possibility that future
research will show that threatened classification is appropriate.
It is important to make positive use of whatever data are
available. In many cases great care should be exercised in
choosing between DD and a threatened status. If the range of
a taxon is suspected to be relatively circumscribed, and a
considerable period of time has elapsed since the last record of
the taxon, threatened status may well be justified.
www.redlist.org
This Directory aims to provide an essential database as a basis
for action. It provides an inventory of wetlands of international
importance in the Oceania region, including 25 political entities
from Palau, Guam and the Solomon Islands in the west to
Easter Island in the east, and from the Marianas and Hawaiian
islands in the north to New Caledonia and French Polynesia in
the south.
http://www.wetlands.org/inventory&/OceaniaDir/Prelims.htm
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