27-29
Mayo 2003, IV
Annual Congress AACS, Neuquen, Patagonia, Argentina
11-16 Mayo 2003, 5th
International SAMPAA Conference, Victoria, British Columbia,
Canada
Día
a día del V° Congreso Mundial
de Parques de la UICN
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May 28,
2003
A STEP
CLOSER TO DURBAN
Gland,
Switzerland, (UICN) - “A
cutting edge and exciting program will be delivered in Durban”
- this is the verdict of the leaders of the Vth IUCN World Parks
Congress (WPC) workshop streams and themes, who gathered last
week in Gland, Switzerland. The aim of the meeting, which was
attended by about 40 Protected Area leaders, was to develop
the final program of the workshops for the WPC. “This was
an excellent meeting. We were able to finalize most of the content
of the workshops. The meeting also helped forge synergies and
linkages with the IUCN Programmes, as each streams and themes
now have an IUCN Secretariat focal point”, said David Sheppard,
WPC Secretary General and Head of the IUCN Programme on Protected
Areas. Great progress was also made on the key outputs of the
Congress, including the Durban Accord – a collective vision
for the future of protected areas, WPC Recommendations, inputs
into the Convention on Biological Diversity and the landmark
publication “Managing Protected Areas in the 21st Century”.
(...)
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May
26,
2003
AUTORIDADES
LOCALES DAN IMPULSO AL CORREDOR ECOLÓGICO ENTRE LOS
PARQUES NACIONALES SANGAY Y LLANGANATES EN ECUADOR
Quito,
Ecuador, (UICN-SUR) - La
iniciativa de un corredor ecológico entre los Parques
Nacionales Sangay y Llanganates en el Ecuador, que ha sido propuesta
desde inicios del 2001 por Fundación Natura (miembro
de la UICN) con apoyo financiero de los países bajos
y de la WWF (World Wildlife Fund), recibió un fuerte
impulso recientemente cuando las autoridades de las comunidades
de Baños, Mera y Palora declararon 42,000 hectáreas
como corredor ecológico para unir los Parques Nacionales
de Sangay y Llanganates. Se trata de un hito que debe ser destacado
en el ámbito internacional. Este acuerdo representa un
gran paso hacia la instalación del corredor ecológico,
iniciativa en la cual Fundación Natura ha venido trabajando
desde inicios del año 2001 con el proyecto: "Análisis
preliminar para la identificación del corredor ecológico
entre los Parques Nacionales Llanganates y Sangay". (...)
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News
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May 22,
2003
CARPATHIANS
SHOULD SET AN EXAMPLE OF BENEFITS BEYOND BOUNDARIES IN EUROPE
Kyiv,
Ukaraine, (IUCN) - One
of Europe’s largest mountain ranges has received a major
boost with the signing of the Convention on the Protection and
Sustainable Development of the Carpathians at the Fifth Ministerial
Conference “Environment for Europe” in Kyiv, Ukraine.
Covering an area of some 206,000 square kilometres, and stretching
across eight countries (Ukraine, Poland, Romania, the Czech
Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Austria, and Serbia & Montenegro),
the Carpathians harbour unique biodiversity, are the headwaters
of major rivers, and offer an essential habitat and refuge for
many endangered plant and animal species, including the continent’s
largest mountain populations of brown bear, wolf, and lynx.
The region also boasts one of the two Biosphere Reserves in
Ukraine, internationally recognized through the UNESCO Man and
Biosphere Programme, and is a popular destination for tourists,
who are attracted by the exceptional nature, landscapes, and
cultural heritage of the Carpathians.
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More information :
WWF website
UNEP website
Carpathians
website
5th
Pan-European Ministerial Conference website
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Feature
Story
May 15,
2003
WWW.SNEZNIK.ORG
STRUGGLES TO WIN HEARTS ON THE GROUND
Gland,
Switzerland, (IUCN) - In
our wired and mobile world, speckled with new technologies,
visiting a protected area anywhere on earth could not be easier;
a click of the mouse will take you right there. Sometimes however
protected areas get trapped in cyberspace and never cross the
virtual threshold into the real world. Here’s the story
of Snežnik Park in Slovenia, a protected area trying to
do just that. The story of the park takes us back some 35 years,
to when the idea of setting aside 1000 km2 in the least populated
and mainly industrial part of the country was launched. In those
days, mega-development projects were coming up like mushrooms
and local residents were pleasantly surprised by the idea of
a nature park. Asked to choose between a protected area and
a hydropower plant that was likely to flood some unique karstic
fields in the Ljubljanica river basin, they were unanimous.
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May 12,
2003
THE EMPIRES
OF THE FUTURE ARE THE EMPIRES OF THE MIND
Gland,
Switzerland, (IUCN) - Scenarios
are possible alternative futures, and scenario planning is a
tool to describe possible futures depending on how a limited
number of uncertainties evolve. Imagining the future can help
take wise decisions today. During a “Scenarios for Protected
Areas” workshop recently held at IUCN Headquarters, some
25 experts developed a number of options that describe the situation
of protected areas twenty years from now. Participants, led
by Ged Davis, Head of the Scenarios Unit of Shell International
and facilitator at the workshop, looked at key past events and
important uncertainties for the future of such areas. Three
different scenarios emerged from the workshop. These are not
visions of the future, nor necessarily preferred future states.
Instead, they try to describe possible futures based on how
a limited number of factors develop. This is a work in progress,
and the final outcome of the scenario exercise may differ substantially
from these draft scenarios.
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Comunicado
de Prensa
Mayo 7,
2003
NEW TRANSBOUNDARY
INITIATIVE LAUNCHED TODAY IN SOUTHERN AFRICA
Harare,
Zimbabwe, (IUCN) - Zimbabwe-Mozambique-Zambia (ZIMOZA)
transboundary natural resources management initiative, the first
of its kind in Southern Africa, will officially be launched
today in Luangwa, Zambia. Cooperation through the ZIMOZA project
will secure the long term conservation of the environment and
the sustainable use of natural resources in the area. “IUCN
sowed the first seed for this transboundary initiative to grow,”
says David Sheppard, Head IUCN Programme on Protected Areas
and Secretary General of the Vth IUCN World Parks Congress “in
the initial stages, IUCN mobilized stakeholders, reached consensus,
and then found the financial resources to implement the initiative
– the fertilizer to ensure the roots develop.” IUCN
has been involved in the initiative since its inception in 1999
when the Zimbabwe Deputy Minister of Mines, Environment and
Tourism, Edward Chindori Chininga asked IUCN to facilitate collaboration
among the border communities of the three countries.
Todo
el Comunicado - en inglés
IUCN Regional
Office for Southern Africa website
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The
IV Annual Congress AACS on Protected Areas and People will
focus on some of the provisional subjects of the Vth IUCN
World Parks Congress as a pre-conference event linking Canadian
and Argentinean scientists and managers. The objective of
the Congress is to bring together scientists and protected
area managers and other stakeholders in a forum that would
allow for better cross-cultural understanding, so as to
create conditions for better application of science in protected
areas to facilitate people's enjoyment, and at the same
time maintaining their ecological integrity. 
The
fifth international SAMPAA conference will be held
from May 11 to 16, 2003 at the University of Victoria,
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. 
