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 Vth
IUCN World Parks Congress
Durban, South Africa | 8-17 September 2003
Highlights
Thursday, 11 September
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Photo:
Steve McCormick, The Nature Conservancy, during a Local-Global
Leader Dialogue: Partnerships for a better future
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Workshop
Streams:
On Thursday,
11 September, participants to the Vth World Parks Congress met
in seven workshop streams throughout the day to address:
interlinkages in the landscape and seascape; building broader
support for protected areas; governance; developing the capacity
to manage protected areas; evaluating management effectiveness;
building a secure financial future; and building comprehensive
protected area systems. All workshops held an introductory
Plenary sessions, followed by breakout groups.
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Governance
of Protected Areas Workshop Plenary: Chair Ahora Mead (New Zealand),
Achim Stenier, IUCN Director- General, Janis Alcorn (US), and Ashish
Kothari (India)
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Achim
Stenier, IUCN Director- General, addresses governance workshop participants
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a view from the back of the room of the Governance Workshop
Plenary
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Workshop
Stream Plenary on Building Broader Support for Protected Areas:
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Workshop
Stream Plenary on Building a Secure Financial Future and Workshop
Stream Plenary on Linkages in the Landscape and Seascape
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| M.A.
Sanjayan, the Nature Conservancy discusses ecological aspects of linkages
during the Plenary for the workshop on Linkages in the Landscape and
Seascape
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| Evaluating
Management Effectiveness Workshop Plenary (left), Peter Bridgewater,
Secretary General of the Ramsar Convention, Lead for the Linkages
in the Landscape/Seascape Workshop (center) , and the breakout group
on Learning from experience: management effectiveness assessment in
action (right)
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| Local-Global Leader
Dialogue: Partnerships for a Better Future |
| John
Croxall, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, Russell Mittermeier,
Conservation International, and Steve McCormick, The Nature Conservancy,
and Charles McNeil, UNDP, moderator |
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Press
Conference with Indigenous Peoples
lEFPanel
(left to right): Lucy Mulenkei, Jojo Carino, Ibaloy Igorot, Philippines,
Manuel Santiander, Mapuche, Chile, and John Letai, Maasa, Kenya
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| Photos
from the Bedouin tent at the conference center where delegates enjoy
tea and folklore performances |
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