The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015 2030 aims to protect lives, health, livelihoods, ecosystems, cultural heritage, and critical infrastructure from natural and human-caused hazards over the next 15 years.
We believe wildlife conservation is to-date in crisis, the fight against poaching is in fact, a war and must be treated as such and that taking action is critical to preserving our ecosystems, our heritage and our future - and those of our neighbours as well.
These remnants of southern China's subtropical broadleaf evergreen forests are especially important in light of current efforts by the national government to promote urban forestry, ecosystem conservation, cultural heritage protection, and ecotourism, and to increase the capacity of natural carbon sinks within the country's borders.
The biggest long-term threat to the GBR today, and to its ecosystems services, biodiversity, heritage values and tourism economy is climate change, including rising sea temperatures, accelerating rates of sea level rise, changing weather patterns and ocean acidification.
The draft report contained a chapter on the Great Barrier Reef, which described climate change as "the biggest long-term threat to the [reef] today, and to its ecosystems services, biodiversity, heritage values and tourism economy".
Protect forest ecosystems and environmental heritage from damage caused by forest pests and fires.
For the world heritage-listed ecosystem above, these normally sodden forests are a fortification against the fires that perennially torch the lowlands.
The Coalition subsequently approved the dredging and the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority last week gave the go-ahead to dump the dredged material within the boundaries of the world heritage-listed ecosystem.
This work was funded by Arcadia, a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin as part of the "Deep Imaging Mummy Cases: Non-Destructive Analysis of Multi-Layered Papyrus" project.5 Arcadia serves humanity by preserving endangered cultural heritage and ecosystems.
They are as follows: aquatic meadow ecosystems, forest ecosystems, field ecosystems, flora and fauna, settlements, and cultural heritage (Table 2, Column 1).
