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Vth IUCN World Parks Congress

Durban, South Africa | 8-17 September 2003

Highlights for Thursday, 11 September
On Thursday, 11 September, participants to the Vth World Parks Congress met in seven workshop streams throughout the day to address: interlinkages in the landscape and seascape; building broader support for protected areas; governance; developing the capacity to manage protected areas; evaluating management effectiveness; building a secure financial future; and building comprehensive protected area systems. All workshops held an introductory Plenary sessions, followed by breakout groups.
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Steve McCormick, The Nature Conservancy, during a Local-Global Leader Dialogue: Partnerships for a better future


Governance of Protected Areas Workshop Plenary: Chair Ahora Mead (New Zealand), Achim Stenier, IUCN Director- General, Janis Alcorn (US), and Ashish Kothari (India)

Achim Stenier, IUCN Director- General, addresses governance workshop participantsand a view from the back of the room of the Governance WorkshopPlenary

Workshop Stream Plenary on Building Broader Support for Protected Areas:

 

 
Workshop Stream Plenary on Building a Secure Financial Future and Workshop Stream Plenary on Linkages in the Landscape and Seascape

M.A. Sanjayan, the Nature Conservancy discusses ecological aspects of linkages during the Plenary for the workshop on Linkages in the Landscape and Seascape
Evaluating Management Effectiveness Workshop Plenary (left), Peter Bridgewater, Secretary General of the Ramsar Convention, Lead for the Linkages in the Landscape/Seascape Workshop (center) , and the breakout group on Learning from experience: management effectiveness assessment in action (right)

Local-Global Leader Dialogue: Partnerships for a Better Future

 

John Croxall, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, Russell Mittermeier, Conservation International, and Steve McCormick, The Nature Conservancy, and Charles McNeil, UNDP, moderator


 

 

 


 

Press Conference with Indigenous Peoples

lEFPanel (left to right): Lucy Mulenkei, Jojo Carino, Ibaloy Igorot, Philippines, Manuel Santiander, Mapuche, Chile, and John Letai, Maasa, Kenya


Photos from the Bedouin tent at the conference center
where delegates enjoy tea and folklore performances

Related Links
IUCN World Parks Congress 2014 Resources

*Congress Website *Congress Programme at a Glance
*Congress Plenary Sessions *Congress Stream Sessions
*Congress Theme Sessions *Congress World Leaders’ Dialogues
*Congress Capacity Development Workshops *Congress Pavilions
*Congress Field Trips *IUCN website


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