En busca de Caño Cristales

The Agreement on Port State Measures to Prevent, Deter and Eliminate Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing seeks to prevent, deter and eliminate illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing through the adoption and implementation of effective port State measures as a means of ensuring the long-term conservation and sustainable use of living marine resources. The intention is that the Agreement will be applied widely and effectively by Parties, in their capacities as port States, for vessels not entitled to fly their flags. It will apply to these vessels when seeking entry to Parties’...

Tomando a Burguillos (Sevilla) como modelo de estudio, con base en la privilegiada ubicación geográfica que ocupa en la zona de transición entre las comarcas naturales de La Vega del Guadalquivir y la Sierra Norte sevillana, esta obra pretende poner en valor la flora de esta interesante región y sobre todo su ignorado estado de conservación. Esta visión pragmáticamente conservacionista se completa con aportaciones etnobotánicas y ecológicas, naciendo con la vocación de aportar a la sociedad un documento técnico que ayude a su racional preservación.

These guidelines were developed through a participatory process involving fisheries experts and managers from governments, the fishing industry, academia and non-governmental and intergovernmental organizations. They provide management guidance on factors ranging from an appropriate regulatory framework to the elements of good data collection programmes, as well as identifying key considerations and measures necessary for ensuring the conservation of target and non-target species.

An urgent call for us to wake up to the cry for help from a growing number of endangered species, that our children are at risk of not getting to know. This work, in three volumes, not only examines the causes of this loss, the characteristics, distribution, customs and conservation status of species of amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals threatened most of Argentina, but is proposed solutions to this important challenge.