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FACTORS TO DETERMINE THE PRIORITY OF ACTIVITIES:

Working Group I identified the following broad indicative categories of factors to be possibly taken into consideration in the setting of national action priorities: ecological (including the extent of threatened species and ecosystems, rehabilitation of threatened habitats and ecosystems, air and water pollution, atmospheric changes, deforestation, and disasters); socio-economic and cultural (including population, change in land use, soil degradation, and ensuring integration of traditional knowledge); and institutional (including involvement of governmental and non-governmental organizations and other groups, adjustments in management approaches, capacity for implementation, compliance and monitoring, and level of financial resources).