Workshop Streams & Cross Cutting Themes

Workshop Streams // Cross Cutting Themes // Workshop on Mountains

Seven Workshop Streams will be conducted over 3 days in workshop plenaries and smaller break out groups.

Three important areas have also been identified which cut across the 7 workshop streams. The Cross Cutting Themes will be expected to produce specific Congress outputs. Congress participants who have a special interest in these themes may follow an interest thread throughout the programme.

There is also a Workshop on Mountains which will be held before the Congress.

Workshop Streams

The Workshop Streams will be conducted over 3 days in workshop plenaries and smaller break out groups. The 7 Workshop Streams are:

	Workshop Stream 1: Linkages in the Landscape/Seascape
	Workshop Stream 2: Building Broader Support for Protected Areas
	Workshop Stream 3: New Ways of Working Together
	Workshop Stream 4: Developing the Capacity to Manage
	Workshop Stream 5: Maintaining Protected Areas for Now and the Future
	Workshop Stream 6: Building a Secure Financial Future
	Workshop Stream 7: Building a Comprehensive Protected Area System

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The Cross Cutting themes

The Cross Cutting Themes are:

Marine

World Heritage

Communities and Equity

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Mountain Protected Area Issues Workshop

5-8 September 2003, Durban, South Africa

Mountain Protected Area Issues Workshop

Building on the 2002 International Year of the Mountain the Congress will deal with mountain protected areas through a pre-Congress Workshop, 5-8 September, 2003 in the uKhahlamba-Drakensberg World Heritage Site. The field based workshop will cover a range relevant issues for mountain protected area systems linked to the Congress themes.

Larry Hamilton, the WCPA Mountain Biome Vice-Chair, is leading preparations for a significant World Heritage Mountain Protected Area Workshop as a prelude to next year's World Parks Congress. The field based workshop will take place in the World Heritage listed uKhahlamba-Drakensberg National Park west of Durban, South Africa. The pre-congress workshop is scheduled for 4 days from September 5 to 8, 2003 and will cover a range of relevant issues for mountain protected area systems linked to the Congress themes. The issues to be seen in the field will be: Water, A Major Benefit Beyond Boundaries; Transboundary Cooperation in Protected Area Management and Peace Parks; Working Beyond Boundaries with Neighbors; Cultural and Sacred Resource Conservation; Providing for EcoTourism and Mountaineering, and Managing Impacts; Fire and Alien Species - Do Boundaries Matter?; Integrated Development Protected Area Planning. The workshop will be limited to 40 participants and Larry is currently calling for nominations from interested people to attend. More information may be found at http://www.georgewright.org/mtnworkshop.html.

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