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June 24,
2003
A VISION FOR THE FUTURE OF PROTECTED AREA
The
Durban Accord, a collective vision for the future of protected
areas, will emerge from the Vth IUCN World Parks Congress, which
will be held in South Africa this September. Earlier this month,
a group of protected area experts and a youth spokesperson,
lead by Roger Crofts - IUCN World Commission for Protected Areas
Regional Vice Chair for Europe, met to further develop the content
of the Durban Accord and Action Plan. To shape a youth vision
for protected areas in the 21st century, students at Yale University
recently sent a survey to individuals worldwide under the age
of thirty-five. Ideas and recommendations which emerged from
this process will feed into the Accord and Plan. The drafts
of these two documents will soon be circulated for public comment,
and will then be finalized by participants at the Congress.
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June 20,
2003
A FIELD OF FLAMINGOES OR A GAGGLE OF GREYLAGS?
20 June 2003 (IUCN)
Ichkeul Lake, Tunisia, - The numbers of salt-loving flamingos
gathering in Lake Ichkeul in northern Tunisia are increasing,
while the populations of greylag geese are in decline. Thousands
of geese from Central Europe once wintered in the area, but
today, like other birds, they have to find different places
to forage.
Inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1980 for its outstanding
universal natural values, Ichkeul was classed as endangered
in 1996. In an effort to restore the attributes that motivated
the inscription of the site onto the prestigious List in the
first place, the Tunisian Agency for Environmental Protection
has asked IUCN to provide technical advice in the implementation
and monitoring of a restoration programme for the area. (...)
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June 17,
2003
HACIA DURBAN
2003: TERCER ENCUENTRO DE LA RED IBEROAMERICANA DE PARQUES NACIONALES
- RIPANAP
En
el mes de mayo se llevó a cabo la tercera reunión
de la Red Iberoamericana de Parques Nacionales, RIPANAP,en Bayona,
España. Este evento buscó promover la participación
de Iberoamerica en el V Congreso Mundial de Parques, a celebrarse
en Durban, África del Sur, en septiembre de este año.
Durante este tercer encuentro, donde participó activamente
la Union Mundial para la Naturaleza (UICN), 23 países
firmaron el acta constitutiva de la Red cuya misión es
defender el “valor ecológico, social y económico
que representan los espacios naturales protegidos”. (...)
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IUCN
in South America
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June 16,
2003
TACKLE
POVERTY TO ENSURE SUSTAINABLE ENVIRONMENT
“Development
planning cannot overlook environmental and biodiversity questions,”
said Dr. Balakrishna, Head IUCN Asia Regional Biodiversity Programme,
speaking at the 3rd Asian Regional Session of the Global Environment
Facility. The session that opened yesterday calls to fight poverty
to ensure sustainable development in the region, whilst noting
that conservation and environment are no longer the concerns
of environmentalists or NGOs alone. Participants highlighted
the intricate link between poverty and environmental health.
The critical themes at the centre of the meeting are: sustainable
development and livelihood issues; trade and intellectual property
rights on access to genetic resources and genetically modified
organisms; the role of taxonomy in conservation; and people
and protected areas – a topic also at the heart of the
Vth IUCN World Parks Congress, taking place this September in
Durban, South Africa. (...)
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IUCN
in Asia
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June 10,
2003
EL MANEJO
COMPARTIDO EN LA ADMINISTRACION DE LAS AREAS NATURALES PROTEGIDAS,
HACIA DURBAN 2003
Recientemente
María Fernanda Espinosa, especialista en políticas
sobre biodiversidad y pueblos de la UICN, impartió una
charla organizada por el Instituto Nacional de Parques Nacionales
de Venezuela, INPARQUES. El tema central fue los retos que presentan
las iniciativas del co-manejo de las áreas protegidas.
El co-manejo, o manejo participativo, puede ser definido como
la responsabilidad compartida por dos entidades sociales u organizaciones
en la administración de una área natural protegida.
El incluir a la mayoría de los actores sociales y políticos
que participan en el manejo de una área protegida es
uno de los fines del co-manejo y es visto como un mecanismo
que permite integrar a las áreas protegidas en los contextos
socio-culturales y políticos locales a través
de la participación activa de los actores involucrados
e incorporarlas en las estrategias nacionales y subnacionales
de desarrollo sostenible. (...)
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Declaración
Junio 3
del 2003
SPOTLIGHT
ON THE WORLD’S OCEANS
New
York, UN, (UICN) - Vulnerable
marine ecosystems and safety of navigation are on the agenda
of the fourth meeting of the Open-ended Informal Consultative
Process on Oceans and the Law of the Sea (ICP) opening today
at the UN Headquarters in New York. At the meeting, the IUCN
delegation will showcase marine and coastal protected areas,
including a new joint initiative with WWF on such areas in the
high seas, as well as focus on recommendations set out in the
adjoining statement. The IPC, in which IUCN has been involved
since its inception, was created as a specialized oceans forum
to better prepare for the annual fall debate in the UN General
Assembly on oceans concerns. Two to three main topics are selected
for review each year, with an emphasis on the need for improved
coordination and cooperation among governments and international
agencies, in which NGOs participate on an equal footing. (...)
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Junio 2,
2003
MEETING
THE FAMOUS WHITE LADY OF AFRICA
Gland,
Switzerland, (UICN) - When
the tin mine in the Namibian town Uis closed down in 1991, it
left more than 1000 men unemployed. Uis was in danger of becoming
a ghost town: shops closed, houses were abandoned, and the streets
became empty. But then Karel Naibab, Ou Henrik and some other
men from Uis had a big idea; they decided to pull their town
out of decline by working as local guides at the famous Brandberg
– the Burning Mountain. They set out to establish an ecotourism
business, to attract tourism to the region and create a new
sustainable income for their community. The Brandberg is Namibia’s
highest mountain, famous both for its unique rock art, and irreplaceable
flora (4800 species in Namibia are found nowhere else in the
world). Recently declared a UNESCO World Heritage site, the
Burning Mountain is home to over 45 000 rock art paintings,
amongst them the Mona Lisa of
this collection, the famous White Lady of Africa, left by a
prehistoric folk more than 500,000 years ago. (...)
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Since
its beginning of activities, the IUCN Centre for Mediterranean
Cooperation, is working in close collaboration with the
Mediterranean Action Plan (MAP), to provide the Union's
expertise to the Mediterranean countries, and to assist
ensuring conservation and sustainable use of the Mediterranean
natural resources. The National Focal Points of the "Specially
Protected Areas and Biological Diversity" protocol
will meet from the 17th to the 20th of June to review the
progress of activities related to this protocol. This will
be the first meeting of the National Focal Points that our
centre will attend. (...)
