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We reviewed feral cat eradication campaigns on islands with the primary intent of assessing the approaches, successes, and challenges of these conservation actions to help facilitate future island conservation programs. We reviewed documented impacts of feral cat populations on island ecosystems and the recovery of native populations after cat removal. We then analyzed key aspects of these eradication campaigns to identify future directions and challenges of cat eradication. We compiled data from published and gray literature and personally communicated with over 60 researchers and conservation practitioners, covering most of the world’s insular regions.

Oceans play a crucial role in, amongst others, global biogeochemical cycles, in regulation of the climate and in the provision of food to sustain human populations. In particular people living in coastal areas in developing countries depend on marine food as their major source of proteins. Therefore it is not surprising that coastal zones are heavily populated.

Wastewater causes serious environmental and human health problems, especially in coastal zones.These is no single solution to solve such problems, because of the large variation in economic, social, cultural and physical characteristics in an area.

The integration of CBDRM into socio-economic development should be seen as a process, which needs to be conceived as part of the three phases of disaster management project: initiating, preparing and implementing phases.

The sixth edition of the state of food insecurity in the world reports that the number of chronically hungry people in the developing world has fallen by only 9 million since the world food summit baseline period of 1990-1992. This report also includes a special feature examining the impact that the rapid growth of cities and incomes in developing countries and the globalization of the food industry have had on hunger, food security and nutrition.

The original Hotspots had a remarkable effect. The study focused squarely on one issue - preserving biodiversity - and then systematically measured, assessed and assigned priorities.