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The World Conservation Strategy, published in 1980 by the major global conservation organisations, laid down new ground rules for natural resource conservation and management in the late 20th century (IUCN/UNEP/WWF, 1980). The basic thesis of the Strategy was that improvement of mankind’s lot in the world, if it is to be sustained in the long-term, must satisfy the ecological and biological constraints of the planet on which we live. We must learn to regulate our consumption of living resources, whether it be fish, or any other wildlife, grazing lands or forest timber, at a rate that allows sustained renewal of stocks. Furthermore, exploitive actions must not disrupt essential ecological processes, nor destroy biological and genetic diversity.
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Collins, N.M., Sayer, J.A., Whitmore, T.C. (1991). The Tropical Forestry Action Plan. In: Collins, N.M., Sayer, J.A., Whitmore, T.C. (eds) The Conservation Atlas of Tropical Forests Asia and the Pacific. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-12030-7_10
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