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First Meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working
Group
on Protected Areas
13- 17 June 2005, Montecatini,
Italy
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Earth Negotiations Bulletin - ENB
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Highlights for Tuesday 14, June 2005
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Delegates to
the first meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group on Protected
Areas (PAs) of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) convened in
two sub-working group sessions. Sub-Working Group I (SWG-I) considered
toolkits for the identification, designation, management, monitoring and
evaluation of national and regional PA systems. SWG-I established a
contact group on criteria for site identification for high seas PAs.
Sub-Working Group II (SWG-II) addressed a conference room paper (CRPs) on
options for mobilizing financial resources.
Above photo L-R: Delegates from Ecuador
discussing the draft recommendations in SWG-II with Isídro Gutierrez,
Jose Gaundo, Antonio Matamoros, and Luis Suarez (Ecuador)
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Special Message of the
President of the Italian Republic H.E. Carlo Azeglio Ciampi to the
First Meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group on
Protected Areas:
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In a message
to the Working Group, the President of the Italian
Republic Carlo Azeglio
Ciampi noted that the meeting is a renewal of Italy’s
pledge towards preserving the ecosystem and protected areas. He
highlighted the call for shared strategies aiming at establishing a
coordinated course of action to establish a new humanism, combining
environmental policies with ethics and economic development in a single
model of constructive integration between peoples and nations. His full
statement is available at: http://enb.iisd.org/biodiv/wgpa/13june.html
Left photo: H.E. Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, President of the Italian Republic (photo courtesy of
UNESCO/Andrew Wheeler)
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Above
photos L-R: Above photos L-R: SWG-I Chair Karen Brown (Canada)
suggested establishing a Friends of the Chair group to address
criteria for site identification; The dais of SWG-I with David
Coates (CBD), SWG-I Chair Brown, Marjo Vierros
(CBD) and Jo Mulongoy (CBD)
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Toolkits:
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MALAYSIA emphasized
practical application of the toolkits and monitoring of their use
through the clearing-house mechanism (CHM).
Above photo: Letchumanan Ramatha (Malaysia)
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LIBERIA
said toolkits should respect national laws.
Above photo: Ben Turtur Donnie (Liberia)
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Recalling the Indian Ocean tsunami disaster, THAILAND
and INDIA
underlined the importance of developing toolkits for ecosystem
restoration.
Above photo: Nirawan Pipitsombat and Songtam Suksawang (Thailand)
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Above photos
L-R: NEW ZEALAND said that ecosystem classification is a prerequisite
for a gap analysis (Brian Sheppard); ECUADOR proposed
development of specific tools to carry out gap analysis, particularly
on freshwater ecosystems (Antonio Matamoros); GUINEA-BISSAU
presented a marine national park protecting a sea turtle habitat (Matilde
Lopes); UNEP drew attention to the regional Cartagena Convention,
which has developed a number of tools for PA management in the
Caribbean, including MPAs (Ivonne Higuero).
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SUB-WORKING
GROUP II
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Above photos
L-R: The dais of SWG-II with Sarat Babu Gidda (CBD) and SWG-II
Chair Orlando Santos; Delegates discussed a CRP
containing draft recommendations on options for mobilizing financial
resources, submitted by SWG-II Chair Santos (Cuba).
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FINANCIAL RESOURCES:
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AUSTRALIA questioned chapeau
language stating that the Working Group is making recommendations to
Parties, rather than requesting the COP to do so.
Above photo: Andrew Brooke (Australia)
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On options for implementing comprehensive financial plans for ensuring
long-term financial support for PA systems, MEXICO supported reference
to national trust funds rather than environmental or conservation ones.
Above photo: Ernesto Enkerlin-Hoeflich (Mexico)
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The IIFB,
supported MEXICO
in opposing a reference to resource extraction, and drew attention to
the distinction between small-scale subsistence extraction and
large-scale resource extraction.
Above photo: Adrian Lasimbang (IIFB)
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MADAGASCAR favored
retaining the concept of redirection of perverse subsidies to support
PAs.
Above photo: Guy Suzon Ramangason (Madagascar)
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contact group on high seas protected areas:
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The contact
group on criteria for site identification for high seas PAs, chaired
by Alfred Oteng-Yeboah (Ghana),
convened in the afternoon to consider proposals tabled by the EU and Canada
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Delegates from the EU discussing proposals on criteria for site
identification for high seas PAs. Above photo L-R: Damiano
Luchetti (Italy), Robert van Dijk (the Netherlands), Luigina
Fattorosi (Italy), Anna Maria Maggiore (Italy), and Nicoleta
Tartaglini (Italy)
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ENB
SNAPSHOTS:
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Above
photos: Children reminding delegates of the biodiversity 2010
Countdown during the side event hosted by IUCN.
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Above photo L-R: Alessandro La Posta
(Italy), Paola Deda (CMS) and Barbara di Giovanni (ENEA)
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Above
photo: Christoph Häuser (GBIF) and Beatriz Torres (GBIF)
presenting GBIF electronic tools for the biodiversity community.
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Above
photo: Aballache Yesli (CBD)
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This service was prepared in
cooperation with the CBD Secretariat
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