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CMS Meeting Adopts Conservation Strategy for Dugongs
10 Dec 2011 | SIDS Policy and Practice
6 October 2010: Held from 4-6 October 2010, in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, the first meeting of the Signatory States of the Memorandum of Understanding on dugongs, developed under the auspices of the Convention on Migratory Species (CMS), concluded that the species conservation strategy should address the need for greater protection of marine biodiversity by combining different conservation tools. A newly developed innovative toolbox to mitigate threats to dugongs includes incentives to...
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Australian Government and SPREP Assist Pacific with Biodiversity MEAs Reporting Project
10 Dec 2011 | SIDS Policy and Practice
October 2010: The Government of Australia has reported on a project with the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) to reduce the national reporting burden in Pacific Island countries for biodiversity-related multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs). A consolidated reporting template for five of the biodiversity-related MEAs has been developed and trialled. The simplified reporting process covers the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), the Convention on...
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