...areas to improve the protection of those areas; • rehabilitate and restore degraded ecosystems; • prevent the introduction of, control or eradicate...species which threaten ecosystems, habitats, or species; • endeavour to provide the conditions needed for compatibility between present uses and the conservation...

...society is also agreed on by most scientists and should also apply to new evolutionary developments. adverse environmental impacts that could affect the conservation and sustainable use of biological diversity. Wild relatives of domesticated or cultivated species are important objects of conservation....

...its current exotics provision is a disappointment. Article 8(h) requires the treaty's 172 parties to "[p]revent the introduction of, control or eradicate...species which threaten ecosystems, habitats or species," but only "as far as possible and appropriate." The likely effect of that qualifying clause is to dissolve...

...manage or control the risks associated with the use and release of living modified organisms resulting from biotechnology which are likely to have adverse...species which threaten ecosystems, habitats or species; (j) Subject to its national legislation, respect, preserve and maintain knowledge, innovations and...

...diversity; and regulate or manage biological resources." The same section also mandates that nations "prevent the introduction of, control, or eradicate...species which threaten ecosystems, habitats or species [emphasis ours]." The term "alien species" is not defined in the treaty, but some ecologists believe...

...Nations Convention on Biodiversity at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro called on governments to prevent the introduction of, control, or eradicate...species which threaten ecosystems, habitats, or species (Tibbetts 1997). However, prevention, control or eradication are all extremely difficult to achieve....

...Diversity, 1992 which states: "Each contracting party shall, as far as possible and as appropriate: (h) prevent the introduction of, control or eradicate...species which threaten ecosystems, habitats or species;" Bangladesh is a signatory to this Convention. 130 See Roy, Raja Devasish. Deforestation, Biodiversity,...

...artificially introduce alien species or genetically modified organisms. What is necessary in biodiversity to: prevent the introduction of, control or eradicate...species which threaten ecosystems, habitats or species; to finish taxonomic study of invasive species including distribution; to continue in population biology...

...Conference of the Parties of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), which calls on the parties to "prevent the introduction of, control or eradicate...species which threaten ecosystems, habitats, or species" (Article [8h] ). This chapter examines the history and ecology of the global trade in species of plants...

...manage or control the risks associated with the use and release of living modified organisms resulting from biotechnology which are likely to have adverse...taking also into account the risks to human health." This language parallels that in Articles 1 and 4 of the Protocol. The same rationale enunciated in...