 Credit
- UNEP-WCMC
'When the map of biodiversity value was overlaid with the integrated
pressure data several areas in the Americas and Eurasia appeared of
special concern.'
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in Chechniya
Credit: Mindourgas Kulbis/UNEP/Topham |
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India
Credit: Rosemary A Holt/UNEP/Topham |
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 Glacier:
Himalayas
Credit: DEP Kumar/UNEP/Topham |
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 Glacier
Credit: Tommy Ng/UNEP/Topham |
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 Glacier
Credit: Kelly Vandenberg/UNEP/Topham |
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 Reindeer
Credit: Fred Grinberg/UNEP/Topham
'Last remaining population of reindeer (30,000) in Norway share their
range with 2 million sheep. Dependent on migration their traditional
routes are disrupted by infrastructure development and over grazed.'
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 Kilimanjaro
Source: Kilimanjaro: Christian Lambrechts, UNEP-DEWA
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Kilimanjaro: Christian Lambrechts, UNEP-DEWA
The Kilimanjaro icecap in 1962 (yellow), and 2000 (black outline)
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UNEP/RRC-AP, ICIMOD;
Tsho Rolpa, 4 580 m, the most
studied glacial lake in Nepal, in October
2000. The lake formed at the head of the
Rolwaling Valley as the Trakarding
Glacier retreated. It is dammed by an
ice-cored moraine and now extends
over 3 km and contains an estimated
80 million m3 of water.
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Credit
- Logging, Colombia
JP Ortiz/UNEP/Topham
'Colombia is one of the world's five 'megadiversity' countries.
However two-thirds of the area is highly affected by human activities,
many species are now extinct and some types of ecosystems are greatly
reduced.
The Global Environment Facility (GEF) is supporting an ambitious project
focused on the sustainable use of biodiversity.' |
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Credit
- water
T Natiano/UNEP/Topham
'Mountains are the 'water towers' of the lowlands. One in two people
depend on water from a mountain source.' |
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- T Alipalo/UNEP/Topham
Mt Pinatubo erupting |
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-
the Institute for Resources and Environment, University of British
Columbia.
Land use in a watershed
'Mountain ecosystems are one of the key interfaces between economic
sustainability and environmental stewardship. Although an estimated
two-thirds of the world's renewable fresh water comes from mountain
watersheds, there is a worldwide lack of strategic maintenance of
upper watersheds by downstream stakeholders.
UNEP
- supported by the Global Environmental Facility (GEF) project
entitled "Barriers and Best Practices in Integrated Management
of
Mountain Ecosystems" - is promoting the concept of alliances
between
public and private sector stakeholders.
The
Mountain Watch process will provide important tools for policy
makes and all mountain stakeholders and will help to introduce shared
responsibility and accountability for sustainable products and
services derived from mountain ecosystems'.
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