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Policy
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DICE impact on policy DICE's recent successful initiative to translocate critically-endangered Seychelles Paradise Flycatchers to suitable island reserves in order to establish a reintroduced population, has implemented long-awaited policy; the reintroduction project has -after many years - put into practice the Seychelles Government's Species Action Plan for this species. Economic research on the damage by wild geese was the foundation for Scottish Government's policy to pay farmers compensation for damage. Work with the International Alliance of Indigenous and Tribal Peoples of Tropical Forests (IAITPTF) on the role of traditional knowledge in international forest policy informed ongoing debate within the United Nations Forum on Forests and presenting the findings at the United Nations headquarters in New York. Contributions to the development of guidance and policy on the making of non-detriment findings for CITES ; most recently making a plenary presentation and Co-Chairing a working group at the international expert meeting in Mexico in 2008. Research on the cost-effectiveness of development mitigation for protected species: providing data to underpin government guidelines for ecological consultants and developers. Work with the UN on traditional agriculture and conservation. Most recently, giving a high level paper on legal strategies to link agricultural approaches with conservation as part of the overall food security policies and climate change alleviation strategies at the 2009 UN Forestry Conference in Buenos Aires.
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