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Vth IUCN World Parks Congress
Durban, South Africa | 8-17 September 2003
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Highlights for Tuesday, 16 September |
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| Participants
at the Vth IUCN World Parks Congress (WPC) met in Plenary throughout
the day. In the morning, two panel discussions on tourism, business
and protected areas (PAs), and on extractive industries and PAs
addressed the general theme "Global Partners for PAs." Participants
also heard an update on the drafting process of the Congress Outcomes.
In the afternoon, a special session on Africa met under the patronship
of HM King Goodwill Zwelithini of the Zulu Nation and HM Osagyefuo
Amoatia Ofori Panin, King of Akyem Abuakwa and Presidential Advisor
on Environment, Ghana. HE
Marc Ravalomanana, President of Madagascar was present as well,
addressed the Congress and received an award for progress achieved
in conservation. |
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| HM
King Goodwill Zwelithini of the Zulu Nation, HM Osagyefuo Amoatia Ofori Panin,
King of Akyem Abuakwa and Presidential Advisor on Environmental, Ghana, and HE Marc Ravalomanana, President of
Madagascar |
Claude
Martin, Director General WWF, recognized the progress achieved in
Africa since the Caracas Congress, and offered a "gift to the Earth"
certificate to Marc
Ravalomanana,
President of Madagascar (left), and Pape Diouf, Minister of Fisheries
of Senegal, on behalf of President Abdoulaye Wade (right) Lusigi,
IUCN/WCPA, chaired the session (center) |
Panel: Future of PAs in Africa |
Michael
Rands, Birdlife International, HE Pape Diouf, Senegalese Minister
of Fisheries, Patrick Bergin, African Wildlife Foundation, Murphy
Morobe, South African Financial Commission and Fiscal Commission,
Claude Martin, Director General WWF, and Charles
Sylvain Rabotoarison, Madagascar
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Achim Steiner moderated the panels on the Future of Protected Areas
in Africa, as well as the panel on Extractive Industries and Protected
Areas (see below) |
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Panel: Tourism, Business and Protected Areas |
Robert
Hepworth, UNEP, Chair Cheryl Carolus, South Africa Tourism, Co-Chair
Bill Jackson, IUCN, and Eugenio Yunis, World Tourism Organization
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| Robert
Hepworth, UNEP, Penelope Figgis, Australian Conservation Foundation,
and Eugenio Yunis, World Tourism Organization |
Extractive Industries and Protected Areas |
Adrian
Loader, Shell, Adrian Phillips, WCPA, Christine Milne, IUCN, Moderator
Achim Steiner, IUCN Director General, Greg Coleman, BP, Sir Robert
Wilson, Chairman of the International Council on Mining and Minerals
(ICMM), and Joji Carino, President of the Tebtebba Foundation |
Highlighting
human rights violations in Nigeria by Shell, a participant stressed
that the Congress has been dominated by mining industries (left), Adrian
Loader, Shell, and Joji Carino, President of the Tebtebba Foundation |
| Hans
Jurgen Grabias, Krombacher Brewery, Mike Leach, Tribal Chief of the
Tit'qet St'at'imc Nation, and Debra Epstein, Canon |
| Launch of a UNDP-GEF Publication: A guidebook
on local business development for biodiversity conservation |
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Andrew
Bovarnick, UNDP/GEF, Co-Author and moderator, Chief Simon, Il
Ngwesi Game Ranch, Kenya (left) and Mario Ramos, GEF Biodiversity
Advisor, with Charles McNeill, UNDP (right)
This
guidebook will help improve the design of small business development
strategies within biodiversity conservation projects, and is meant
for use and application by conservation planners, policy makers
and practitioners within governments, donors, NGOs, civil society
and the private sector. For more information, contact Andrew Bovarnick, andrew.bovarnick@undp.org.
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Participants
with Andrew Bovarnick, UNDP/GEF, Co-Author and moderator, Chief
Simon, Il Ngwesi Game Ranch, Kenya |
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