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Vth IUCN World Parks Congress
Durban, South Africa | 8-17 September 2003
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Highlights for Saturday, 13 September |
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| Participants at the Vth IUCN World Parks Congress (WPC) met in
workshop streams to address: linkages in the landscape and
seascape; building broader support for protected areas (PAs); PA
governance; developing the capacity to manage PAs; evaluating
management effectiveness; building a secure financial future; and
building comprehensive PA systems. Workshop streams met in
break-out and plenary sessions to address their respective issues,
synthesize outcomes, and approve WPC recommendations. Side
meetings, special events and discussion groups on the WPC
recommendations were held throughout the day. A special
information session on the Durban Accord and the message to the
Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) was held in the evening. |
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Young environmental journalists from Reuters who are in training
at the Congress; journalists are from India, Croatia, UAE, Brazil,
Serbia, Uganda, Trinidad and Tobago, Lebanon, Sierra Leone, Zambia,
Russia, and Malaysia |
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Corli
Pretorius, Global Communications Director, IUCN, addresses the group
of Reuters journalist trainees (left), Boris Pavelic, Croatia and
David Kaiza, Uganda (right) |
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Special Information Session on the Durban Accord (left to right):
Peter Schei, Norway, Juan Mayr, Former Colombian Environment
Minister, Crispin Oliver, South African Ministry of Environmental
Affairs and Tourism, Lee Thomas, IUCN, WCPA, and John Scanlon, IUCN |
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Juan Mayr, Former Colombian Environment Minister |
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Lee Thomas, IUCN, WCPA |
Closing
Plenary: Building a Secure Financial Future: A participant asks
a question regarding the recommendations (left); Finance Workshop
lead Carlos E.Quintela (center and right) |
| Linkages
in the Landscape and Seascape Stream: Breakout group on benefits of
MPA networks for fisheries and endangered species: experiences and
innovation in scaling up to build networks (left) and crafts sold
in the exhibition center (right) |
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Linkages
in the landscape and seascape: David Lamb, University of Queensland
- Brisbane (left) and Lead Peter Bridgewater (right-center) |
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| Integrating Development and Conservation side event sponsored by GTZ:
Cultural Diversity: Indigenous' participation: Diversity vs. Uniformity |
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Effective
Management Effectiveness (left to right): Geoff Vincent, Deputy
CEO Parks Victoria, Australia, Pedro Rosabal, Protected Areas Programme,
IUCN, Nik Lopoukhine, Director General, National Parks Directorate,
Parks Canada, Leonardo Lacenrda, WWF International, Marija Zupancic-Vicar,
Senior Advisor, WCPA, Mavuso Msimang, CEO South African National
Parks, South Africa |
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Geoff Vincent, Deputy CEO Parks Victoria, Australia |
Nik Lopoukhine, Director General, National Parks Directorate,
Parks Canada, Leonardo Lacenrda, WWF International |
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Building
Comprehensive Protected Area Systems: Gustavo Fonseca (CI-CABS),
Thomas Brooks (CI-CABS), Miguel Araujo (Portugal), and Ana Rodriguez (CI-CABS) |
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IUCN World Parks Congress 2014 Resources
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