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Jacob
Zuma, South African Vice-President |
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| L-R: Peter
Seligmann, CEO, Conservation International, Jeffrey McNeeley, IUCN, reviewed the workshop
streams and cross-cutting themes. He put forward ten questions on
Protect Areas with Julia Carabias, former Mexican Environment Minister,
and Mohamed Bakarr, World Commission on Protected Areas (right) |
L-R: Juan Mayr, moderator of the session on Congress outputs, Estherine
Lisinge Fotabong, WWF and WCPA, discussed the Durban Accord, and Peter Schei, Norway, reported on the
message to the Convention on Biological Diversity |
| Susan
Matambo and Boitumelo Rampeng on behalf of all young conservationistss,
recieve the Fred M. Packard International Parks Merit Award during
the awards ceremony from David Sheppard, IUCN, while Kenton Miller,
WCPA, looks on |
Kenton
Miller presents and award to Yvonne Stewart and Lorna Kelly on behalf
of all those involved in the Arakwal Indigenous Land Use Agreement,
Australia, Marshall Murphee, Zimbabwe, and
Mavuso Msimang, South
Africa |
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John
Makombo accepted an award on behalf of all rangers who have lost their
lives in the line of duty to a standing ovation (right) |
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Achim
Steiner with David Sheppard, IUCN, (left and center) and
Crispin Olver,
South African Ministry for Environmental Affairs and Tourism |
Valli
Moosa moderated the afternoon session on Implementing
the Message: the Political Imperative (left), HE Suresh
Prabhu, India, and David Sheppard, IUCN |
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Discussion: Implementing the Message: the Political Imperative (panel
members in no particular order) HE Suresh Prabhu Claude Martin,
WWF Director General, Sweder van Voorst tot Voorst, Netherlands
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Patricia Luna del Pozo, youth representative,
David Richards, International Council on Mining and Minerals, HE
Anoushiravan Najafi, Deputy to the Vice President of Iran, Jannie
Lasimbang, Asia Indigenous People Pact, Antonio Waldez Goés da Silva,
Governor of Amapá state, Brazil Peter Seligmann, CI, Boku Tache,
World Alliance of Mobile Indigenous Peoples, HE Carlos Manuel Rodriguez,
Costa Rica's Minister of Environment |
| Jean
Chretien, Candian Prime Minister was awared Fred M. Packard International
Parks Merit Award, but was not there to accept it in person (left),
and HE Carlos Manuel Rodriguez, Costa Rica's Minister of Environment,
Patricia Luna del Pozo, youth representative, and Jannie Lasimbang,
Asia Indigenous People Pact, during the panel on Implementing the
Message: the Political Imperative |
Denis
Hamu, IUCN, spoke on communicating the outputs (right) |
South
African artists Block Sunshine (right) and Hugh Masekela (right)
duirng Africa night |
Achim
Steiner thanks IUCN and South African staff members |
Achim
Steiner with Valli Moosa (left) and with Crispin Olver (center) and
with IUCN and South African staff |
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IUCN World Parks Congress 2014 Resources
IISD RS resources
 IISD RS coverage of the Fifth meeting of the Working Group on the Review of Implementation (WGRI 5) of the CBD and Eighteenth meeting of the CBD Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice (SBSTTA 18), 16-20 and 23-28 June 2014, International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) Headquarters, Montreal, Canada
IISD RS coverage of the Third Meeting of the Open-ended Ad-Hoc Intergovernmental Committee for the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from their Utilization (ICNP 3), 24-28 February 2014, Pyeongchang, Republic of Korea
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IISD RS summary report of the Tenth World Wilderness Congress (WILD10), 4-10 October 2013, Salamanca, Spain (HTML - PDF)
IISD RS summary and analysis of the Fifth session of the Governing Body of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGR), 24-28 September 2013, Muscat, Oman (English: HTML - PDF) (French: HTML - PDF)
IISD RS coverage of the Sixteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES CoP16), 3-14 March 2013, Bangkok, Thailand
IISD RS coverage of the First Meeting of Signatories to the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on the Conservation of Migratory Sharks, 24-27 September 2012, Bonn, Germany
IISD RS coverage of the Eleventh meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP 11) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), 8-19 October 2012, Hyderabad, India
IISD RS coverage of Selected Side Events at CBD COP 11, 8-19 October 2012, Hyderabad, India
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