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Vth IUCN World Parks Congress
Durban, South Africa | 8-17 September 2003
Highlights
Wednesday, 10 September
Delegates to the Vth
IUCN World Parks Congress (WPC) met in two morning symposia to address
"Community and Parks" and "Working at Scale." Plenary met in the
afternoon to hear a briefing on the workshop streams and cross-cutting
themes. Numerous side meetings and special events on, inter alia,
transboundary protected areas (PAs) and biodiversity and mining were
held throughout the day.Photo: African theater
and dancing during the Plenary sessions at the Congress
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| Symposium C: Community
and Parks |
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Yolanda
Kakabadse, IUCN President, chaired the symposium and moderated
the panel discussion on "Parks: With or without people?"
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"Working with Communities to Benefit Conservation and
People: the Experience from Australia" Bob Debus (Australia),
Attorney-General and Minister for the Environment, New South Wales
Government (Listen
to Presentation)
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"The
Challenges of Indigenous Peoples in Protected Areas: the Experience
from the Amazon" Sebastiao Haji Manchinery (Brazil) General
Coordinator, Coordination of Indigenous Organizations of the
Amazon Basin
(Listen to Presentation)
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"New Ways of Working Together:Community Conserved Areas"
Ashish Kothari (India) Founder member, Kalpavriksh
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"Building
Community Support for Protected Areas Globally and Locally-World
Heritage and Biosphere Reserve Approach" Walter Erdelen (Germany)
Assistant Director General UNESCO
(Listen
to Presentation)
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Discussion: "Parks: With or Without People?" |
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 Luz Maria de la Toree,
indigenous representative, preseneted the Indigenous Peoples'
Declaration to the World Parks Congress
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Grazia Borrini-Feyerabend, CEESP Vice-Chair and WCPA Vice-Chair
for TILCEPA with IUCN President
Yolanda
Kakabadse
(Listen
to Presentation)
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Panel "Parks: With or Without People?
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D: Working at Scale |
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Valli
Moosa, South African Environment and Tourism Minister for
Environment, spoke on the
establishment of the strans-frontier protected area on the border
between South Africa and Mozambique
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"The
Ecological Transect in Western and Central Africa, and Implications
for Protected Areas" Mike Fay, US, Wildlife Conservation
Society
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Fay discussed US Secretary of State Colin Powell's
visit and interest in the Congo Basin Initiative
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| Briefing
for the Workshop Streams |
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Kenton
Miller, WPCA Chair
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Julia
Carabias, Former Minister of the Environment, Mexico, is
the lead for the workshop on "Developing the Capacity
to Manage"
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Ashish Kothari (India) Founder-member, Kalpavriksh will
lead the workshop addressing the cross-cutting theme of
"Communities and Equity"
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MaNatarajan Ishwaran (Sri Lanka) Chief, Natural Heritage
Section, World Heritage Centre, UNESCO, will lead the cross-cutting
workshop on "World Heritage"
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| Presentation
of awards for contributions to conservation |
| Kenton
Miller, IUCN, presents an award post humos to the son of
Enrique Beltran (left), Hugh
Logan accepts an award presented post humus to Bing Lucas
(center) and an award
was presented to Gerardo Budowski |
| Drama on Protected
Area Issues (Theatre by African performers Vukani, arranged by IUCN
Commission on Education |
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More photos: Celebration of the Sacred and Non Material Values of
Protected Areas by Indigenous and Traditional Leaders from around
the World (Tuesday, 9 September) |
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Valli
Moosa, South Africa, Minister of Environmental Affairs
and Tourism, moderated the symposium
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