152 research outputs found
Restoring what is broken:Wildlife law in an era of ecological emergency, eye-opening science, and maturing morality
No full textInaugural address, Arie Trouwborst, professor of nature conservation law, Tilburg University
Restoring what is broken:Wildlife law in an era of ecological emergency, eye-opening science, and maturing morality
No full textInaugural address, Arie Trouwborst, professor of nature conservation law, Tilburg University
Restoring what is broken:Wildlife law in an era of ecological emergency, eye-opening science, and maturing morality
No full textInaugural address, Arie Trouwborst, professor of nature conservation law, Tilburg University
Regional and transboundary migratory species: rules and practices of international law for the conservation and sustainable management of migratory species
No full textManaging Marine Litter: Exploring the Evolving Role of International and European Law in Confronting a Persistent Environmental Problem
No full text The contamination of the world's oceans by human garbage, especially plastics, ranks among those environmental problems whose resolution appears remote, despite the considerable public attention paid to the 'Great Garbage Patch' in the Pacific, 'plastic soup', and the like. This 'marine litter' (or 'marine debris') problem is characterized by diffuse sources and an array of adverse environmental impacts, including entanglement of and ingestion by albatrosses, fulmars, turtles, seals and a variety of other marine wildlife. This article explores the evolving role of international law in the efforts to manage marine litter, including recent developments involving the Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North-East Atlantic (OSPAR Convention) and the European Union's Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD).</p
La adaptación de la flora y fauna al cambio climático en un paisaje fragmentado y el Derecho europeo sobre la conservación de la naturaleza
No full textEste trabajo analiza el papel de la Directiva Aves y la Directiva Hábitats de laUE con relación a los corredores ecológicos (o conectividad ecológica) y teniendo en cuentala fragmentación del paisaje y el cambio climático. Además de este análisis general, se centra en el caso de los Países Bajos, que resulta de especial interés
Exploring the legal status of Wolf-Dog hybrids and other dubious animals: International and EU Law and the wildlife conservation problem of hybridization with domestic and alien species
No full textTransboundary Wildlife Conservation in A Changing Climate: Adaptation of the Bonn Convention on Migratory Species and Its Daughter Instruments to Climate Change
No full textSpecies migrating across boundaries represent the classic case for international cooperation in biodiversity conservation. Climate change is adding fresh challenges to such cooperation, on account of the shifting ranges and particular vulnerabilities to climate change of migratory wildlife. In view of the need to help migratory species adapt to climate change with minimal losses, this article performs an in-depth analysis of the present and potential future role in respect of climate adaptation of the main intergovernmental regime for migratory species conservation, the 1979 Bonn Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS) and its various daughter instruments
Global large carnivore conservation and international law
No full textInternational cooperation, including through international legal instruments, appears important for the conservation of large carnivores worldwide. This is due to, inter alia, the worrying conservation status and population trends of many large carnivore species; the importance of large carnivores for biodiversity conservation at large; their occurrence at low densities, with many populations extending across various countries; and the international nature of particular threats. For the 31 heaviest species in the order Carnivora, this study (i) documents to what extent existing international legal instruments contribute to large carnivore conservation, and (ii) identifies ways of optimizing their contribution in this regard. From this dual perspective, it reviews all global wildlife conservation treaties—Ramsar Wetlands Convention, World Heritage Convention, Convention on Trade in Endangered Species, Convention on Migratory Species (CMS), Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)—and selected regional instruments, using standard international law research methodology. Results indicate that a substantial body of relevant international law already exists, whereas simultaneously there is clear potential for enhancing the contribution of international law to large carnivore conservation. Avenues for pursuing this include promotion of instruments’ effective implementation; clarification of their precise implications for large carnivore conservation; development of formal guidance; expansion of instruments’ scope in terms of species, sites and countries; and creation of new instruments. The CMS and CBD hold particular potential in some of these respects. The experiences being gained under European legal instruments constitute an interesting ‘laboratory’ regarding human coexistence with expanding large carnivore populations and transboundary cooperation at the (sub)population level
The EU Habitats Directive and wolf conservation and management on the Iberian Peninsula: a legal perspective
No full textThe focus of this legal paper is on the implications of the EU Directive on the Conservation of Natural Habitats and of Wild Fauna and Flora (Habitats Directive) for wolf (Canis lupus) conservation and management in Portugal and Spain. It addresses the (potential) relevance of both the area protection and the generic species protection rules from the Directive. Special attention is paid to legal issues raised by the range expansion of the northwest Iberian wolf population beyond the Duero River (both south and east), the immigration of wolves from France, the looming extinction of the Sierra Morena population, and the need for transboundary cooperation.Este artículo jurídico está centrado en las consecuencias de la Directiva de la UE para la Conservación de Hábitats Naturales y de la Fauna y Flora Silvestres (Directiva de Hábitats) para la conservación y gestión del lobo (Canis lupus) en Portugal y España. Aborda la importancia (potencial) de tanto la normativa de la Directiva sobre áreas protegidas como la normativa sobre la protección genérica de las especies. Se presta especial atención a cuestiones jurídicas provocadas por la expansión de distribución de la población lobuna del noroeste peninsular más allá del Río Duero (tanto al sur como al este), así como por la inmigración de lobos desde Francia, la extinción inminente de la población de Sierra Morena y, por último, por la necesidad de cooperación transfronteriza
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