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Daily
Report
Saturday
13, September 2003 Highlights
 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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WPC
Output Process
September 13, 2003
An
important input for the Convention on Biological Diversity
 Durban,
South Africa, 13 September 2003 (IUCN) - One
of the three outputs of the World Parks Congress (WPC) will be the message
from its participants to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD).
This message is aimed to be a short action-oriented document that would
draw from the main discussions and recommendations of the Congress contained
especially in the Durban Action Plan.(...)
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Noticias
del CMP
Sepitembre 13, 2003
La
Gran Ruta Inca necesita urgente protección
 Durban,
Surafrica, 13 de Septiembre 2003 (UICN) - Solamente
el cinco por ciento de la antigua ruta de 8,500 km que unía al
Imperio Inca desde el sur de Colombia hasta el centro de Chile, se encuentra
bajo algún tipo de protección y grandes tramos del camino
se han perdido por completo, señala un estudio preliminar. El
estudio elaborado por la Unión Mundial para la Naturaleza (UICN)
con el apoyo de Conservation International (CI) y asociados nacionales,
también reveló que salvaguardando la Gran Ruta Inca se
podrían traer importantes beneficios para varios ecosistemas amenazados,
el ecoturismo y el desarrollo comunitario.(...)
Toda la noticia
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WPC
Session Report
September 13, 2003
Going
Beyond the 12%
 Durban,
South Africa, 13 September 2003 (IUCN) - The
Role of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities in Coverage of the World;s
Protected Areas. The Vth IUCN World Parks Congress (WPC) in Durban welcomed
the achievement of 12% of the planet’s land being covered by protected
areas, as announced at the opening plenary. But in subsequent sessions,
the audience was astonished to know that this percentage could be increased
to perhaps around 20% - just by paying more attention to private and
community protected areas and improving reporting systems. (...)
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WPC
Session Report
September 13, 2003
Second
Day Sees Workshops Full Swing
 Durban,
South Africa, 13 September 2003 (IUCN) - Today
- 13 September - is the last day of workshops before delegates go off
into the field to learn about protected areas from being in them or from
taking part in specific training courses. Yesterday’s streams and
cross-cutting themes sessions unleashed a wealth of knowledge and outlined
points to be taken forwards to shape recommendations. One of the things
the sustainable finance stream looked into was the use of conservation
finance agreements. (...)
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WPC
News Release
September 13, 2003
Recognising
the non-material, sacred values of protected areas: The World Heritage
Convention leading the way
 Durban,
South Africa, 13 September 2003 (IUCN) - The
spiritual values of protected areas are at the forefront of discussion
at the Vth IUCN World Parks Congress this week. Indigenous peoples and
local communities from around the world attending the Congress are reminding
protected area managers of the values of parks that are often overlooked:
the non-economic, non-material values. The World Heritage Convention
has been leading the field in recognizing the importance of these non-material
values through the inscription and protection of sacred sites as cultural
landscape World Heritage sites. One example is the inscription in July
2003 of Mapungubwe in South Africa on the prestigious World Heritage
List. (...)
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