This 15th October 2008 is the Blog Action Day!. This year the topic for all podcasters, videoscasters y blogers can speak at length is Poverty. Organizers hope that for one day all of them, could leave their regular work to raise from different perspectives, a debate on this issue.
| Participants: Atonio Garcia-Allud (Universidad A Coruña, Galicia) Eleanor Carter (CHOCAP Ltd., Zanzíbar) Hugh Govan (Local Management Marine Areas Network, Fidji) Jay Udelhoven (The Nature Conservancy, USA) |
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| Protected areas are owned and managed through private mechanisms around the world, and their number and extent are growing fast. Often the result of local initiative and conducted without the direct intervention of government, they are not yet fully integrated into national conservation planning or reporting in many countries. The international system of protected area management categories has historically emphasized the role of governments. Reflecting this, private protected areas and its main actors (owners, users, trusts and conservancies…) are not as well understood globally as their contributions warrant. This Aliances session is presenting the results of an international workshop aimed at defining the state of the art on land stewardship and private land conservation worldwide. Global commonalities and regional distinctions will be discussed while identifying the key positive aspects and challenges to further strength this conservation strategy. The session will include: exchange of experiences between land stewardship organisations, discussions on the convenience of establishing a IUCN agenda and Task Force on private conservation and stewardship, definition of standard criteria for land areas to enter into stewardship schemes, discussions on the role of land stewardship schemes in already protected areas (marine or terrestrial) and governance issues, IUCN protected areas classification and land stewardship initiatives, and the role of conservation areas managed by NGOs and government conservation agencies worldwide. If you are a fan of private conservation, or you thought conservation is only a matter of government agencies, come and join us for this session! |
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A parallel Workshop to the XXII World Conservation Congress Work Approach: • The program will be designed to learn who is who in International Land Stewardship and Private Land Conservation, make efficient use of existing resources (ex: methodologies) and formulate hypotheses around the emergent working group tasks. • Time for guided and free interaction between participants will be provided to discuss and generate new ideas. Participants: • LS & PPA professionals • World regions represented: Africa, Asia, Oceania, South America, North America and Canada, Europe… Expected results: By the end of the workshop: 1. - Participants will have a common vision on LS and PC and will have agreed upon a position paper to be presented in the IUCN’s Forum alliances session “Why should you care about land stewardship and private protected areas? A snapshot of a growing field in conservation”. 2. - Future steps on the development of LS and PC at an international level will be defined and agreed upon 3. - Informal connections and links will be established between participants as the base for networking on LS and PC internationally |
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