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  2. Biodiversity action plan - Wikipedia

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    A biodiversity action plan (BAP) is an internationally recognized program addressing threatened species and habitats and is designed to protect and restore biological systems. The original impetus for these plans derives from the 1992 Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). As of 2009, 191 countries have ratified the CBD, but only a fraction ...

  3. Endangered species recovery plan - Wikipedia

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    The species must be monitored throughout the recovery period (and beyond) to ensure that the plan is working as intended. The framework for this monitoring should be planned before the start of the implementation, and the details included in the recovery plan. Information on how and when the data will be collected should be supplied. [15]

  4. Wildlife conservation - Wikipedia

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    The danger of overexploitation is that if too many of a species offspring are taken, then the species may not recover. [12] For example, overfishing of top marine predatory fish like tuna and salmon over the past century has led to a decline in fish sizes as well as fish numbers. [4] Confiscated animal pelts from the illegal wildlife trade.

  5. Population health policies and interventions - Wikipedia

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    Interventions in population health "shift the distribution of health risk by addressing the underlying social, economic and environmental conditions" [7] and are implemented through "programs or policies designed and developed in the health sector, but they are more likely to be in sectors elsewhere, such as education, housing or employment". [7]

  6. Habitat Conservation Plan - Wikipedia

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    The No Surprises Policy is designed to protect Incidental Take Permit-holders from having to make future revisions to their approved plan due to unforeseen circumstances. This means that once a permittee has prepared a HCP deemed adequate by USFWS/NMFS, has been issued an Incidental Take Permit, and is successfully implementing the approved HCP ...

  7. Humanitarian intervention - Wikipedia

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    Furthermore, intervention without a viable plan and workable strategy could threaten the states’ obligation to their own people. It should also be considered, that sometimes humanitarian intervention only results in open-ended chaos in the country without meaningful progress. [30]

  8. Avalanche control - Wikipedia

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    Avalanche blasting in the French ski resort of Tignes (3,600 m or 11,800 ft) Gazex installation. Active techniques reduce the risk of an avalanche occurring by promoting the stabilization and settlement of the snow pack through three forms of intervention: disrupting weak layers in the snow pack, increasing the uniformity of the snow pack, and lessening the amount of snow available in snow ...

  9. Intervention mapping - Wikipedia

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    Intervention mapping can also help in adapting existing interventions to new populations and settings, [5] and provides a taxonomy of behavior change methods that can be used to code intervention content. [6] [7] In the health promotion field, intervention mapping has successfully been applied in various settings, to a wide range of different ...