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Protected Areas - Natural Solutions

IUCN UK National Committee Conference and AGM

26th and 27th April 2012

Welcome to the conference

Stuart Brooks Conference Chair

Session 1:Protected Areas Overview – International and UK Contexts

Prof Martin Price Session Chair

Global and European Context – the importance and value of protected areas

Trevor Sandwith and

Kathy MacKinnon

UK and Overseas Territories context – protected areas policy

Marcus Yeo

Speakers Panel and Questions

Session Chair Prof Martin Price

Coffee break

Session 2: Challenges and Pressures on our Protected Areas

Session ChairAnne Selby

Pressure and approaches in National Parks

Andy Wilson

Protecting Wild Land in the UK – challenges and solutions

Helen McDade

Landscape-scale conservation and the role of protected areas

Stuart Housden

The Future for Marine Protected Areas

Jean-Luc Solandt

Speakers Panel and Questions

Session ChairAnne Selby

Lunch break

Session 3: Best Practice, Innovations, Opportunities and Solutions

Session ChairProf. Roger Crofts

Putting Nature On The Map – assigning IUCN Protected Area

Categories in the UK

Prof Adrian Phillips

‘The Categories’ – what do they mean for us and the work of protected area

managers?

Howard Davies

‘The Categories’ – what do they mean for us and the work of protected area

managers?

Simon Pryor

‘The Categories’ – what do they mean for us and the work of protected area

managers?

Prof. Martin Price

Questions and comfort break

New Opportunities for Protected Area Conservation – biodiversity offsetting

Tom Tew

Protected Area perspectives from the UK’s nature conservation agencies

Andrew Bachell

Protected Area perspectives from the UK’s nature conservation agencies

Roger Thomas

Protected Area perspectives from the UK’s nature conservation agencies

Graham Seymour

Protected Area perspectives from the UK’s nature conservation agencies

David Henshilwood

Speakers Panel and Questions

Session ChairProf. Roger Crofts

Conference Summary

Conference ChairStuart Brooks

Coffee break

IUCN National Committee UKAnnual General Meeting

Stuart BrooksActing Chair IUCN NCUK

IUCN National Committee AGM Agenda

1. Chair’s welcome2. IUCN National Committee UK Annual Review3. Minutes of the 2011 AGM and Matters Arising4. Election of Executive Committee and Chair 5. Financial Report6. Preparations for the World Conservation Congress in Jeju, South Korea7. Open Forum8. Closing remarks

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