Land & Climate Change

The Authority may declare any area to be a prohibited area. No person shall set up residence in any part of a Conservation Area without the permission of the Board or the Conservator or settle, cultivate graze in restricted areas, clear land, vegetation, cut trees, set traps or nets, etc. The Conservator is granted powers of inspection such as entry upon land.

El Reglamento consta de 12 títulos y 219 artículos.

El Reglamento consta de 288 artículos y reglamenta las normas relacionadas con el recurso agua en todos sus estados. Declara, a tenor del artículo 1º del Decreto Nº 2811/74, de 18 de diciembre de 1974, que la preservación y manejo de las aguas son de utilidad pública.

Ce décret porte la constitution, la structure et l'organisation de la Commission Nationale d'Aménagement du Territoire (CONAT), chargée de formuler les programmes relatifs à l'aménagement du territoire, des bassins versants et de lutte contre l'érosion.

The present Regulation enacts section 29 of the Park Act. Section 7 establishes that every person who enters or is in a park, conservancy or recreation area shall, at the request of a park officer or park ranger, provide information about any matter pertaining to the use or occupancy of the park, conservancy or recreation area.

This Order consolidates in Northern Ireland the law relating to planning and related matters including matters of environment protection and mining operations.

The purpose of these Regulations is to prescribe the form of the notice of the intention of the Minister to make a purchase order in pursuance of section 55 of the Wildlife Act, 1976, in respect of registered land. Section 55 allows the Minister, if he wishes so to purchase land by issuing a purchase order under conditions specified in that section.

This Order establishes the list of requested technical documentation and the modalities of transfer of forest land to the category of unforested land for the purposes related to forest management. The aforesaid transfer can be carried out by initiative of the owners of forests and forest managers.

A presentation about wetland conservation in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam and integrated farming systems. The presentation includes aerial photography of Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam in different seasons. The presenter then discusses soil formation, hydrology, land uses (including data on rice exports and shrimp demand), and threats to the region.

If legal instruments are not fully implemented, there is a risk they remain in the domain of virtual reality and wishful thinking.The UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) has come a long way since it came into force in 1996, with current membership standing at 191 Parties. 2006 was a landmark year.

The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment projects that the intensification of freshwater scarcity in combination with continuous water extraction from delicate dryland ecosystems is likely to exacerbate desertification, thus leading to a downward spiral of ecological deterioration and a precarious depreciation of livelihoods in many developing regions.

Desertification is nowhere more serious than in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), stretching from Pakistan in the east to Morocco in the west, and from Ethiopia and Sudan in the south to Turkey in the north. Yet, many MENA countries have successfully rehabilitated large areas.