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WCPA Members Guide January 2008

IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas

Cover Photo:IUCN WCPA Steering Committee MeetingYelllowstone, USA 2007Charles Besancon, UNEP-WCMC

Table of Contents

FOREWORD ..................................................................................................................................................................1

I. THE IUCN FRAMEWORK

IUCN-The World Conservation Union ................................................................................................................... 2 The Mission of IUCN ............................................................................................................................................. 2 The IUCN World Conservation Congress.............................................................................................................. 2 The IUCN Council ................................................................................................................................................ 2 The IUCN Commissions ........................................................................................................................................ 2 The IUCN Secretariat ............................................................................................................................................ 2 The IUCN Regional and National Offi ces ............................................................................................................. 2

II. WORLD COMMISSION ON PROTECTED AREAS (WCPA) MANDATE: 2005-2008

Mission .................................................................................................................................................................. 3 Goal 2 ............................................................................................................................................................................ 3 Objectives ....................................................................................................................................................................... 3 Expected Results .................................................................................................................................................. 3 Structure and Organization ................................................................................................................................... 4 Priorities ............................................................................................................................................................... 4 III. WCPA MEMBERS

WCPA Members ................................................................................................................................................... 5 Appointmentof WCPA Members ............................................................................................................................ 5 Terms of Reference of WCPA Members ................................................................................................................ 5 Benefi ts of Being a Member of WCPA ................................................................................................................... 6 Communications between Members ..................................................................................................................... 6 Services to WCPA Members ................................................................................................................................. 6 Ways to get involved ............................................................................................................................................. 7

IV. WCPA GOVERNANCE WCPA Chair. .......................................................................................................................................................... 8 The Steering Committee ....................................................................................................................................... 8 Executive Committee ............................................................................................................................................ 8 Vice Chairs ............................................................................................................................................................ 8 Regional Steering Committees .............................................................................................................................. 9 Task Forces ........................................................................................................................................................... 9 Senior Advisors ..................................................................................................................................................... 9 Youth Advisors ....................................................................................................................................................... 9

V. SUPPORT FOR WCPA The Staff Who Work With WCPA ........................................................................................................................ 10 WCPA Staff Assistance to Members ................................................................................................................... 10 Staff in other IUCN offi ces ................................................................................................................................... 10 IUCN Field Projects on Protected Areas ............................................................................................................ 10 Financial Resources ........................................................................................................................................... 10 Guidelines for Fund-raising in WCPA ...................................................................................................................11 Awards .................................................................................................................................................................11 WCPA’s International Collaborating Network ......................................................................................................11

ANNEXES .

ANNEX A

WCPA Draft Strategic Plan ........................................................................................................................................ 13

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B1 Organisational structure of WCPA ................................................................................................................... 29B2 WCPA Steering Committee members ............................................................................................................. 30B3 CV of WCPA Chair........................................................................................................................................... 37

ANNEX C

C1 Map of Terrestrial Regions of WCPA .............................................................................................................. 41C2 Countries by WCPA Region............................................................................................................................. 42

ANNEX DWCPA Meetings since 1958 ..................................................................................................................................... 43

ANNEX EPackard Recipients.................................................................................................................................................... 49

ANNEX F

F1 IUCN Protected Area Offi cers ......................................................................................................................... 65F2 IUCN Regional Offi ces ................................................................................................................................... 69F3 IUCN Country Offi ces ..................................................................................................................................... 70F4 IUCN Outposted Offi ces .................................................................................................................................. 72F5 IUCN Commissions ......................................................................................................................................... 73

WCPA Guide for Members, January 2008 1

Welcome to WCPA!

The following serves to introduce you to the Commission. It:

explains how WCPA works as an integral part of IUCN;describes the structure of WCPA;summarises the support which WCPA can give to its members;discusses ways in which members can become involved in WCPA activities; andgives an overview of WCPA’s programme;

Together with the WCPA Members’ Directory, which is uploaded to the WCPA Website twice a year, this guide is to serve as a reference source. Please refer to it often and you may wish to bookmark it on your computer. Please feel free to tell either David Sheppard, Head, IUCN Programme on Protected Areas or me how it can be improved.

WCPA is a very effective volunteer network, run on very limited funds. Obviously, we all have to be entrepreneurs to generate the resources funds that we need. We are also developing and always looking out for possible part-nerships that will support our programme with resources “in kind” in terms of seconded staff, hosting of meetings and workshops, and travel for our colleagues.

Our small team of staff at headquarters, under David’s di-rection, faces an ever-increasing load of email communi-cations, representing our interests at internal and external meetings critical to our goals, and. of course. in promot-ing and guiding the implementation of our programme.

The potential of the Commission is immense. It is greater than ever given the focus of the CBD on protected areas, and the growing awareness among governments, citi-zens and international organizations of the role of PAs in providing water, clean air, genetic resources, cultural and spiritual values, tourism resources, and other “material and non-material ecosystem services.”

Our particular strength as a Commission is in conven-ing the many who are interested in protected areas. The World Parks Congresses held every ten years (Durban

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By Nik Lopoukhine ChairWorld Commission on Protected Areas

South Africa in September 2003, being the last), is an example of how we can mobilise an event of world impor-tance. Our regional action plans, such as those in East Asia and Europe, show the ability of WCPA to operate effectively at a regional level. Our tools and interna-tional standards such as the Management Categories provide WCPA and IUCN with global recognition. The activities of WCPA’s Marine membership are a particular good example of how the Commission can be effective in bringing about change in addressing a neglected and unprotected biome. Priorities at the regional and global level and at the national level engage many of the WCPA members. The opportunities opened up by the Conven-tion on Biological Diversity are an important driver of this engagement.

The current WCPA Strategic Plan for the period 2008-2012 focuses on a limited number of Strategic Directions, Regional Programmes and Key Implementation Mecha-nisms (CBD, and World Heritage ). The Plan is attached as Annex A and comments are invited.

At every level, WCPA depends upon personal commit-ment of its members. Some employers are able to help by providing time and offi ce support for the work of WCPA members; this is especially so in the case of the Vice Chairs, who together with our Task Force Leaders and other colleagues make up the Commission’s Steering Committee. I extend IUCN’s thanks to those organisa-tions providing support in this way.

The years ahead promise to be a busy time for WCPA. There are some indications that new sources of fund-ing may be available to support our work. I confi dently believe that protected areas - wilderness areas, nature reserves, national parks, protected landscapes and man-aged natural resource use areas - will be seen as ever more important in the search for ecologically sustainable development. WCPA, with its unique world-wide network of protected areas experts, must be at the centre of IUCN’s efforts in this regard.

It is a huge task for a volunteer network. But given what WCPA has achieved over the past few years, it is not beyond our capacity.

Nik LopoukhineChair, WCPA


IUCN-The World Conservation Union

IUCN, The World Conservation Union, is an umbrella body for the world’s conservation agencies and institutions. It includes both governmental and non-governmental members. IUCN members include, for example, the Governments of France and India, National Park Services, all the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) national organisations, and many conservation non-governmental organisations. As of October 2007, IUCN’s members comprise 84 State Members, 104 government agencies, 749 National NGOs, 33 affi liates.

IUCN’s governmental and non-governmental status gives it access to the governmental and intergovernmental arena and still allows it to operate with the independence of a non-governmental organisation.

The Mission of IUCN

The mission of IUCN is to infl uence, encourage and assist societies throughout the world to conserve the integrity and diversity of nature and to ensure that any use of natural resources is equitable and ecologically sustainable.

The IUCN World Conservation Congress

Every four years, IUCN’s members come together at the World Conservation Congress. As well as being a premier global conference on conservation, the Congress also approves the budget, membership dues and programme of IUCN for the next triennium, adopts resolutions on important conservation issues, establishes the IUCN Commissions and elects the members of the IUCN Council. Meetings of WCPA and technical meetings of interest to WCPA are held in conjunction with the World Conservation Congress. The next IUCN World Conservation Congress will be held in Barcelona, Spain, 5-14 october 2008.

The IUCN Council

The Council is the governing body of IUCN between the World Conservation Congresses. Most of its members are elected by the WCC, including: the IUCN President; 24 Regional Councillors (three each from eight regions of the world); and the Commission Chairs (six at present). The Council co-opts up to fi ve Councillors to fi ll in gaps in regional representation and experience. Council guides the Secretariat in the implementation of the policies and programmes agreed at the Congress.

I. The IUCN Framework

The IUCN Commissions

One of the most important services that IUCN provides is expertise and guidance on conservation issues. This is largely carried out through the volunteer networks of the Commissions. The Commissions are established by the World Conservation Congress which also determines their names and mandates and elects their Chairs. Commission members are appointed by the relevant Commission Chair. In addition to WCPA, IUCN currently has fi ve other commissions: Ecosystems Management (CEM), Education and Communication (CEC), Environmental Law (CEL), Environmental Economic and Social Policy (CEESP) and Species Survival (SSC). (see annex F5) Together, these commissions bring together over 10,000 specialists working on the cutting edge of conservation thinking and practice in some 181 countries

The IUCN Secretariat

The headquarters of the IUCN Secretariat is at Gland, near Geneva, in Switzerland. The Secretariat is headed by the Director General, who is appointed by Council. The current Director General is Ms Julia Marton-Lefevre from Hungary. There are over 160 staff at the IUCN Headquarters, with others in regional and country offi ces around the world. The Programme on Protected Areas, which services WCPA, is one of the IUCN Secretariat Global Thematic Programmes. It has a completely integrated work programme with WCPA.

The IUCN Regional and National Offi ces

IUCN Regional and Country offi ces are located mostly in the developing world. Staff are located around the world in over 40 regional and country offi ces as well as specialised centres such as the Environmental Law Centre in Germany. These offi ces are playing a supportive and networking role with IUCN members and provide a focal point for contact with and support to the Commissions in their countries and regions. The addresses of all IUCN Regional, Country and Ouposted offi ces are outlined in Annex F. There are a number of staff in regional and country offi ces who work on protected area issues and these are also listed in Annex F.


Mission

To promote the establishment and effective management of a worldwide representative network of terrestrial and marine protected areas, as an integral contribution to the IUCN Mission.

Goal

To ensure that protected areas effectively meet their management objectives and in particular support the conservation of biological diversity and the provision of ecological goods and services, while providing opportunities for sustainable development when appropriate.

Objectives

WCPA, in close cooperation with PPA, will seek to achieve this mission be focussing on fi ve objectives over the 2005–2008 period:

The role of protected areas in biodiversity conservation and sustainable development is effectively fulfi lled.Representative systems of terrestrial and marine protected areas are established.The effectiveness of management of terrestrial and marine protected areas is improved and assessment methods applied.Local communities and indigenous peoples are more effectively involved and engaged with protected areas.WCPA is effectively managed, including fi nancial accountability and reporting.

Expected results

The role of protected areas in biodiversity conservation and sustainable development is effectively fulfi lled

Protected areas systems more effectively linked with the surrounding landscape and seascape.Global capacity development initiative for protected areas, including PALNet, developed and implemented.Values of ecological services from protected areas more effectively assessed and factored into decision making and poverty reduction strategies.Effective contribution provided by IUCN/WCPA to the implementation of the CBD programme of work on protected areas.IUCN input to the World Heritage Convention effectively managed to enhance the role of the Convention in biodiversity conservation.

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Representative systems of terrestrial and marine protected areas continue to be established.

Protected area status and trends at national, regional and global levels monitored and reported.Global gaps in PAs biodiversity coverage in all ecoregions identifi ed and fi lled at global, national and regional levels.Common frameworks and targets for achieving representative protected area systems established, promoted and applied.Representative network of marine protected areas established and effectively managed, by 2012, as a contribution towards the WSSD Targets regarding marine conservation.Representative network of mountain protected areas established and effectively managed to ensure their continued contribution to ecological services.

The effectiveness of management of terrestrial and marine protected areas is improved and assessment methods applied.

Global Initiative on Management Effectiveness of Protected Areas implemented.IUCN System for PAs Management Categories recognised as the international framework for protected areas, including national data collection and reporting to the CBD Secretariat on protected areas.

Local communities and indigenous peoples are more effectively involved and engaged with protected Areas

Role of indigenous peoples and local communities in establishing and managing PAs recognised by national governments, including through incorporation of Community Conserved Areas (CCA) in national systems of protected areas.Global Initiative on the Cultural and Spiritual values of Protected Areas implemented.Improved methods available for the planning and establishment of Community Conserved Areas (CCA) and other conservation areas managed by indigenous peoples and local communities.Mechanisms for the equitable sharing of the benefi ts of protected areas with indigenous peoples and local communities in place.

The Programme on Protected Areas and WCPA are effectively managed.

WCPA Strategic Plan revised to include WPC and WCC3 input on PAs global trends and challenges.WCPA Business Plan prepared and implemented.Capacity of PPA/WCPA enhanced to ensure effective management and full accountability of fi nancial and human resources.

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PPA/WCPA Communication Strategy revised, updated and implemented.

Structure and organization

WCPA has 1400 members from 140 countries. Members are organized by region and/or theme.

WCPA is led by the Steering Committee upon which are represented 16 Regional Vice-Chairs and 10 Thematic Vice-Chairs. The Steering Committee meets annually and decisions are taken between Steering Committee meetings by the WCPA Executive comprising the Chair, Deputy Chairs and the Head of the Programme on Protected Areas. Membership of the Commission will be revised in 2005 with a view to improve regional performance and to achieve gender and geographic balance.

WCPA Priorities

To achieve these key results, WCPA’s strategy will be build around the following priorities.

These will be addressed by the WCPA network and the Protected Areas Programme of IUCN in an integrated manner:

Shaping the world’s protected areas agenda for the 21st century. The key action is to ensure effective follow-up of key recommendations of the Vth IUCN World Parks Congress and to support implementation of WCC3 recommendations on protected areas issues. The World Protected Areas Leadership Forum will be a key mechanism to promote implementation of these recommendations at the national level.

Adapting to global change. WCPA views global change as one of the most signifi cant factors affecting protected areas in the 21st century. Such change is at various levels: biophysical, socioeconomic and institutional. The role of WCPA will be to increase the understanding of the protected area community including key stakeholders on the challenges and opportunities associated with global change.

Reinforcing WCPA as the world’s Protected Area Learning Network. Particular priority will be on development of the Protected Area Learning Network (PALNet), which will aim to ensure that information is available to key stakeholders in a form that is most appropriate and suitable for their needs.

Connecting protected areas to social and economic concerns. Priority will be placed on promoting the role of protected areas in the broader landscape as part of integrated land and water management. Particular focus will be on the promoting of trans-boundary protected area initiatives and of encouraging learning in relation to integrated protected area and landscape management projects. A particular focus will be on joint work with

• the Commission on Ecosystem Management (CEM) in relation to ecological corridors, mountain conservation and sustainable development initiatives.

Addressing biomes of global concern.WCPA will focus on two priority biomes during the 2005–2008: Marine and Mountains. In the marine fi eld, WCPA will provide policy and applied management guidance on marine protected areas, including in the high seas, and will provide input to appropriate global forums towards the objective of achieving the WSSD targets relating to the establishment of marine protected area systems. WCPA work on mountains will focus on the role of mountain corridor conservation initiatives in promoting ecosystem management and sustainable development

Improving the effectiveness of management of terrestrial and marine protected areas. WCPA will accelerate work on a global initiative on management effectiveness of protected areas and developing and promotion of minimum standards and indicators for evaluation systems. This will include work on the enhanced application of the IUCN Protected Area Category System.

Enhancing the involvement of local communities and indigenous peoples in protected areas. The involvement of indigenous peoples and local communities in protected areas was a major area of emphasis at the Durban World Parks Congress. WCPA will focus on this work during the 2005–2008 period in cooperation with the Commission on Environmental, Economic and Social Policy (CEESP). Work will focus on lessons relating to involvement of indigenous peoples and communities as well as on the cultural and spiritual values of protected areas.

Support to Key International and Regional Agreements: WCPA, in close coordination with PPA, will continue to provide technical support to the implementation of the UNESCO’s World Heritage Convention; to the Convention on Biological Diversity particularly focused in providing technical and policy guidance to governments on the implementation of the CBD Programme of Work on Protected Areas.

Regional Programmes. WCPA will continue to develop action plans for each of its regions. Priority will be given to the regional programmes that focus on the implementation of WPC recommendations, in close cooperation with IUCN Regional and Country Offi ces.


As of January 2008, the WCPA membership network comprised over 1,400 individuals from 140 countries. Members of the Commission include:

professional managers of protected area systems, typically the senior offi cials of a country's nationalexperts on the fi elds of WCPA's interest;academic specialists in protected area planning, resource economics, biogeography, wildlife management, marine conservation and other related fi elds;offi cials from relevant non-governmental organisations;

Individuals are invited to become members of WCPA on the recommendation of regional or thematic Vice Chairs. Members are invited on the basis of their expertise in the fi eld of protected areas and their willingness to become involved in the activities of WCPA on a voluntary basis. During the 2005-2008 period, priority in relation to membership matters will be given to:

more effectively involving the membership in the activities of WCPA;maximising the leverage and infl uence of products produced through the volunteers of WCPA;improving the gender and age balance of the WCPA members; andmaintaining an accurate and up to date membership databaseprovide information, as requested, for inclusion in the World Datase on Protected Areas and/or check information

Appointment of WCPA Members

All WCPA members are approved by the Commission Chair on the recommendation of the Steering Committee. Vice Chairs are asked to identify appropriate members from within their region and theme area and recommend them to the Chair. In WCPA, the following steps have been taken to make the process more fl exible and yet keep it within the IUCN Regulations:

All WCPA membership appointment letters are sent out from the Chair.The terms of appointment of WCPA members are valid from the time they are approved by the Steering Committee of the Commission until 90 days after the close of the next ordinary session of the World Conservation Congress following their appointment or until reappointments are made, whichever is sooner.

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III. WCPA Members - Roles and Responsibilities

The Council and members of IUCN may propose individuals to become members of WCPA. Membership proposals should be sent in writing, with a brief curriculum vitae of the individual, to the WCPA Chair.

Terms of Reference of WCPA Members

To contribute constructively to the mission of IUCN and WCPA, in a voluntary capacity, and in particular to:

1. serve as a two-way communication link between in-country protected area professionals and the Programme on Protected Areas at IUCN Headquarters to provide information and ideas relevant to protected areas.1

2. serve as a link between their organisation/constituency and WCPA, fostering a two-way fl ow of information and ideas;

3. serve as a focal point for collaboration with the UNEP/WCMC Protected Areas Programme

4. foster, in association with other members of the WCPA network, the review, establishment and effective management of protected areas in their country/region/theme area;

5. provide support for international initiatives relevant to protected areas in their country/region/theme area, such as international conservation conventions, biosphere reserves and transfrontier protected areas;

6. foster professionalism and technical competence in the establishment and management of protected areas including assisting with publications, education and training where applicable;

7. respond to requests for information/advice from WCPA offi cers and the Secretariat on such matters as World Heritage nominations;

8. participate fully, wherever possible, in working sessions and other activities organised by WCPA and to offer suggestions to WCPA on possible WCPA initiatives, working session venues, etc;

9. support WCPA offi cers in regions or theme based activities, within the expertise of the member;

10. work with colleagues in the relevant region/theme area and with those from other IUCN Commissions and partner organisations to further the key role of protected areas in achieving sustainable development and biodiversity conservation;

11. work cooperatively with IUCN Regional and Country Offi ces, to support their work in protected areas and, where possible, respond to requests for advice, information, etc.;

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1. this includes contributing articles/items to the WCPA website, the PARKS Magazine and the WCPA E-Newsletter and, where appropriate, facilitating dissemination of these and other publications in their country/region/ theme area. Possibilities of translating IUCN/WCPA publications into local languages are also welcomed


12. provide advice on requests on people competent to serve in protected area positions where IUCN’s advice is sought; and

13. initiate nominations for The Fred Packard Award.

Benefi ts of Being a Member of WCPA

People join WCPA primarily for the opportunity to contribute to international conservation efforts through a well respected and effective body of experts, under the overall IUCN umbrella. The greatest reward most WCPA members gain from membership is the ability to contribute to the global conservation effort. The whole network holds together only through commitment to the cause. Members are also able to interact with a global body of experts, to make their views heard through a reputable channel and to enhance the realisation of projects or other ideas. However, WCPA members also have direct access to some valuablematerial and activities:

WCPA Website, a website with information on regional and thematic activities, announcement of protected area events, publications on protected areas, monthly update of protected area news, and general information. http://www.iucn.org/wcpaPALNet, an interactive website for protected area specialists, allowing them to upload their own information, showcase their work by creating their own minisites and search for protected area experts, documents, or minisites by name, country theme or protected area. PALNet has also a section for lessons learned in protected areas as well as a possibility to create discussion forums on diverse topics. www.parksnet.orgPARKS, the international journal for protected area managers. It is the only international journal devoted to protected area issues and is designed to present material from the WCPA network to a broader audience. It is provided free to WCPA members. Members are encouraged to contribute articles to PARKS; please contact the IUCN Programme on Protected Areas if you would like to contribute in this way.IUCN Best Practice Guidelines Series. Best Practice Protected Area Guideline documents are prepared each year. These cover topics such as: “Financing Protected Areas”; “Indigenous and Traditional Peoples and Protected Areas”; and “Evaluating Effectiveness of Protected Areas”. These documents are also distributed free to all WCPA members. The WCPA Members Directory is the list of WCPA members and protected area agencies. It is periodically updated and uploaded to the website, enabling contact between members.World Conservation magazine is the main news medium for informing all parts of the IUCN network of what the organisation is doing. Special issues on main events or Programmes of IUCN are produced from time to time It is available on request from the IUCN Communication Programme at IUCN Headquarters.

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WCPA members are invited to participate in WCPA working sessions. These are held in different parts of the world to give everyone a chance of attending over time. A list of all WCPA meetings held since 1961 is outlined in Annex F.WCPA members are invited to attend the IUCN World Conservation Congress as observers, if they are not already representing an IUCN member organisation.There are also valuable indirect benefi ts, mainly related to the establishment of important professional contacts within the Commission and with members from other IUCN Commissions. It is noted that detailed information on WCPA is available on the WCPA web page site at: http://www.iucn.org/wcpa

Communications between WCPA Members

WCPA members are encouraged to share their views, concerns and expertise, through:Communication through the WCPA listserve of members or direct communication between membersContributing to the WCPA Newsletter and PARKS.Participating in WCPA meetings, including working sessions, meetings of Task Forces, the World Congress on Protected Areas, and relevant international and regional meetings.Sending News and information to the WCPA WebsiteUploading information to the PALNet website

Services to WCPA Members

The WCPA World Best Practice Guidelines and the PARKS Magazine are sent free to all members of the WCPA Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA). WCPA members will receive additional publications from time to time. 15 Guidelines have been produced over the 1998 to 2008 period on the following topics:

National System Planning for Protected Areas Economic Values of Protected Areas Guidelines for Marine Protected Areas Indigenous and Traditional Peoples and Protected Areas Financing Protected Areas: Guidelines for PA Managers Evaluating Effectiveness : A Framework for assessing the Management of Protected Areas Transboundary Protected Areas for Peace and Co-operation Sustainable Tourism in Protected Areas : Guidelines for Planning and Management Management Guidelines for IUCN Category V Protected Areas Protected Landscapes/Seascapes Guidelines for Management Planning of Protected Areas Indigenous and Local Communities and Protected Areas: Towards Equity and Enhanced Conservation Forests and Protected AreasSustainable Financing for Protected AreasEvaluating Effectiveness, A framework for assessing management effectiveness of protected areas 2nd Edition

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Identifi cation and Gap Analysis of Key Biodiversity Area: Targets for comprehensive protected area systems.

Ways to get involved with WCPA

We are sure that you will agree that this is an excellent service to members, given that there is no membership fee at present. We are often asked by members how they can participate more in WCPA’s work. So this is your chance.

We really would like to access your time and expertise to contribute to WCPA’s activities and we list below some suggestions on how you can contribute.

Contribute an article to the WCPA Website, the Newsletter or PARKS or simply through the WCPA members listserve. If you wish to share your experience with over 1,400 of the world’s leading protected area specialists and organisations, this is the way to do it;Contact your Regional Vice Chair (refer to this guide or the WCPA Website) and ask if you can help with their regional and/or national activities;Contact Leaders of the WCPA Task Forces or Strategic Directions, that match up with your interests (refer to Members Guide for contact details) and ask if you can help their activities;Consider setting up an informal network within WCPA. For example, the WCPA informal network on Grassland Protected Areas has been set up by Bill Henwood of Canada. Such networks should be set up through placing a notice in the WCPA Newsletter. While such networks are set up on the understanding that there would be no direct fi nancial support from IUCN, WCPA can serve as a useful vehicle for facilitating contact between people interested in similar issues;Advise the IUCN Protected Areas Programme [email protected] or any member of the WCPA Steering Committee, about protected area issues that you feel should be addressed;Participate in WCPA Regional Working Sessions held in your region, all of which are advertised well in advance on the WCPA website;Establish contact with the IUCN Regional or Country Offi ce (Annex F) close to you to see if you can support their work in protected areas, and, where possible, respond to requests for advice and information;Explore possibilities for secondments or volunteer for short periods of work with the Protected Area and World Heritage Programme in Switzerland. For example, WCPA members Kari Lahti, John Marsh and John Shultis have worked with the Programme during sabbatical leave on issues relating to protected areas. We can guarantee an interesting time in a congenial environment; we may be able to modestly contribute to living and travel expenses;

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Make contact with other WCPA members in other regions and countries. A 6 monthly Membership directory will be uploaded on the website. We suggest that you take this with you when you travel and you make contact with members in other parts of the world (apart from anything else, it can be a good way to get improved insight on any protected areas you may visit while on holiday); andInitiate nominations for the Fred Packard Award or for the Kenton Miller Awards through your regional or thematic vice chair (refer Members Guide).

There are, of course, many other ways in which you can be involved. However the onus, as in all volunteer networks, rests with you - the individual member. We urge you to get involved. We would also note that membership of WCPA is assessed at the time of each IUCN World Conservation Congress (previously the General Assembly) and that one of the criteria in deciding which members are re-invited is previous level of interest and activity in WCPA.

We hope that many more members will get actively involved with WCPA over the next triennium.

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WCPA Chair

The Chair of WCPA is elected by the World Conservation Congress. The 2004 WCC in Bangkok elected Nik Lopoukhine (Canada) as Chair. Council confi rmed the WCPA Steering Committee at its meeting in February, 2004. The CV of the WCPA Chair is attached as Annex B3

The Steering Committee

The Steering Committee provides the governance of the Commission. Its responsibility is to ensure the adequate planning, programming, and implementation of the Commission, as a statutory body of IUCN.

The Steering Committee Comprises: the WCPA Chair, the Deputy Chair, the four Strategic Direction Vice Chairs; two biome Vice Chairs; two Implementation Mechanism Vice Chairs; all RegionalVice Chairs, and the Head of the Program on Protected Areas of IUCN.

Its members are invited to serve by the Chair, and endorsed by IUCN Council. SC meetings are generally held once per year and are called by the Chair and supported by the PPA Secretariat. Members of the SC are expected to attend all SC meetings, meet their terms of reference, and contribute to WCPA program implementation. Financial support for SC member travel will be provided according to available resources to WCPA. Task Force Heads are invited to attend meetings of the Steering Committee as observers.

Full contact details of all Steering Committee members and the organisational structure of WCPA are found in Annex B2.

Executive Committee

The Executive Committee (ExCo) of WCPA will include the Chair, Deputy Chair, one Regional Vice Chair, one Strategic Direction Vice Chair and the Head of the Program on Protected Areas of IUCN. Other colleagues from the Steering Committee or partners will be invited as required for the business at hand. The ExCo will conduct the business of the Commission between sessions of the full Steering Committee, and minutes of their deliberations will be reported to the SC. The ExCo will generally work electronically or by telephone conference call.

Vice Chairs

Vice Chairs are proposed by the Chair and approved by Council.

Regional Vice Chairs provide leadership, coordination, and representation of members and stakeholders in each of WCPA’s 15 regions.

Their Terms of Reference focus on development and implementation of the WCPA program in their regions.

Specifi cally, Regional Vice Chairs bring the views of their region to the Commission, and vice versa, they bring the outputs, guidelines, and proposals of WCPA to their constituency.

Current WCPA Regions are:

Australia/New Zealand; Brazil; Caribbean; Central America; East Asia; Eastern Africa; Europe; Hispanic South America; North America; North Eurasia; North Africa/Middle East; Pacifi c; Southern Africa; South Asia; South East Asia; and Western and Central Africa.

Countries within each region are listed in Annex C.

Strategic Direction Vice Chairs:Conserving BiodiversityScience and ManagementCapacity DevelopmentGovernance, Equity and Livelihoods

Biome Vice ChairsMarine and Mountains

Implementation Mechanisms:CBD and World Heritage

The terms of reference of each Vice Chair include:

1. To represent the interests of WCPA in their respective region and theme area.

2. To advise the WCPA Chair on appropriate individuals as members within their region, theme, biome and implementation mechanism.

3. To establish a communications network among the WCPA members in their region, theme, biome and implementation mechanism area and use that network to monitor relevant protected area activities.

4. To maintain liaison with the IUCN Regional and Country offi ces in the region, and to seek opportunities and establish mechanisms for providing technical advice on IUCN fi eld projects from the WCPA membership network.

5. To work with the Chair and Secretariat to organise WCPA working sessions and other meetings.

6. To support the WCPA network by providing advice and other assistance to WCPA members in carrying out their protected area activities.

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7. To help establish and keep updated a database on WCPA members, protected area agencies, protected areas, areas with international designations, etc (working in collaboration with the Secretariat and UNEP/WCMC).

8. To participate in meetings of the Steering Committee.9. To appoint Steering Committees, as required to

support their work, and convene meetings of these Committees.

10. To explore and advise on funding opportunities to support the work of the Commission in their respective region, theme biome and implementation mechanism.

11. To ensure the accountability for the WCPA Operations Fund provided for networking activities.

12. To provide advice on World Heritage nominations from State Parties in their regions and to report on any changes to the conservation status of natural World Heritage sites.

Regional Steering Committees

Regional Steering Committees have been formed for some WCPA regions, themes, biomes and implementation mechanisms. The aim of these Steering Committees is to provide support to the Vice Chair and also to facilitate input from as many WCPA members as possible.

Task Forces

A series of Task Forces have been established to provide Commission members with opportunities to contribute to topics of their particular interest. The work of all Task Forces will relate to the work of one or more of the Strategic Directions, as shown in Annex C. Task Force Leaders are invited to contribute to the above-cited objectives of the Commission, and to dovetail their work into one or several of the Program Themes. Thus, for example, the Task Force on Caves and Karst, is invited to contribute its work to the Conserving Biodiversity Strategic Direction. Task Forces can produce their own reports and publications, always seeking peer review by the Commission and related experts, and ensuring appropriate acknowledgment of WCPA and IUCN.

All Task Forces require Terms of Reference (TOR), which will be reviewed and approved by the WCPA Steering Committee. These TOR will set out objectives, activities and outputs, fl owing from the framework of this Strategic Plan. In addition, they will set out the relationship between the Task Force and relevant Strategic Direction

Current WCPA Task Forces (in alphabetic order) are:Caves and Karst, Cities and Protected Areas, Conservation Planning, Cultural and Spiritual Values, Economic Valuation, Grasslands, High Seas, Information Management, Islands, Law and Protected Areas, Management Effectiveness, Protected Area Categories, Protected Areas and Equity, Protected Landscapes, Sustainable Financing, Tourism, Training, Transboundary Conservation, Wetlands, Wilderness. The contacts for the task force leaders can be found under Annex B.

Other Task Forces may be formed as required and directed by the WCPA Steering Committee

Senior Advisors

Harold Eidsvik, Graeme Kelleher, Lawrence Hamilton, Lynn Holowesko, Kenton Miller and Adrian Phillips

Youth Advisors

Kristy Faccer and Cassie Wright


The Staff Who Work With WCPA

The staff serving the commission all work in the Programme on Protected Areas (PPA) at IUCN Headquarters. For all staff the postal address and fax number are the same

IUCN Programme on Protected Areas/WCPARue Mauverney 28CH-1196 GlandSwitzerland Fax: ++41 (22) 999-0025

David SheppardHead of the IUCN Programme on Protected Areas Tel: ++41 (22) 999-0162; E-mail: [email protected];

Pedro RosabalSenior Programme Offi cerTel: ++41 (22) 999-0163; E-mail: [email protected];

Tim BadmanSenior World Heritage AdvisorTel: ++41 (22) 999-0278; E-mail: [email protected];

Bastian BomhardWorld Heritage Offi cerTel: +41 22 999 0158Email: [email protected]

Josephine LangleyWorld Heritage Offi cerTel: +41 22 999 0277Email: [email protected]

Delwyn DupuisCommunications and Membership AssistantTel: +41 22 999 0160Email: [email protected]

Anne ErbAdminsitrative AssistantTel: ++41 (22) 999-0165; E-mail: [email protected];

Joanna Erfani Finance AssistantTel: ++41 (22) 999-0165; E-mail: [email protected];

In addition, the Programme involves one or two interns per year who work on specifi c projects.

WCPA Staff Assistance to Members

The staff aim to make the work of the Commission more effi cient and effective. You should contact the Programme on Protected Areas on the following matters:

technical advice on protected area issues (including World Heritage and other international programmes);opportunities to provide input to the work of PPA and WCPA;advice on publications (how they can be obtained, how they can be published); coordination and organisation of regional or international meetings;training opportunities; information on protected areas (also available directly from the World Database on Protected Areas (http://www.unep-wcmc.org/wdpa/); andprotected area contacts in other countries;

WCPA members are also encouraged to stay in close contact with their respective Vice Chair (refer Annex B).

Staff in other IUCN Offi ces

IUCN staff in offi ces around the world also work on protected areas, the list of protected area offi cers in IUCN Offi ces is attached in Annex C.

IUCN Field Projects on Protected Areas

IUCN runs a number of fi eld projects through its Regional and Country Offi ces. Refer to Annex C for contact details. These tend to be large projects funded by aid agencies and they are usually multi-sectoral in approach; many include a protected areas component, some deal primarily with protected areas. These projects cover a wide range of issues relating to protected areas, including: preparation of management plans; institutional reviews; and the establishment of new protected areas. WCPA has a major potential role to play in the implementation of these protected area projects and in infl uencing the development of new projects that address protected area priorities. Those interested in such projects should contact David Sheppard at IUCN headquarters or the relevant Regional or Country Offi ce shown in Annex C.

Financial Resources

WCPA has limited funds to carry out its activities. WCPA is currently trying to address this problem by developing and implementing a fundraising strategy. Any suggestions from WCPA members on approaches to secure funds is always most welcome. There is a very modest WCPA Operations Fund to help run the Commission. Efforts are currently being made to expand this, so that the Vice

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Chairs are better able to support and encourage their networks. But it is clear that WCPA will and should remain a network of volunteers.

Guidelines for Fund-raising in WCPA

While the Chair and Vice Chairs are encouraged to raise funds, there are some simple rules that must be followed in order to avoid the risk that different elements of WCPA or IUCN end up competing for the same donor funding. These apply specifi cally to proposals designed to implement the WCPA programme.

1. Before a fund-raising proposal is developed, the individual seeking funding should contact the IUCN Programme on Protected Areas at IUCN Headquarters in Switzerland.

2. Once clearance to proceed is given, both the WCPA Chair and the IUCN Programme on Protected Areas should see and approve the fi nal proposal before it is submitted for internal review within IUCN.

3. Once approved, approaches may be made to various donors or other bodies that may be interested in funding the proposal. Any approaches should be closely co-ordinated with the Protected Areas Programme at IUCN HQ.

The WCPA Chair and the Programme on Protected Areas will assist attempts to raise necessary resources and the guidelines above are intended to encourage, rather than discourage, fund-raising by the network.

Much of the fund-raising being carried out by individual members of WCPA is designed to assist protected area fi eld projects undertaken by governments or non-governmental organisations. Since these do not constitute fund-raising in the name of IUCN or WCPA, such activities do not need to go through the above procedure.

Awards

Fred M. Packard Awards

WCPA makes a regular award, the Fred M. Packard Parks Merit Award, named in honour of thecontribution of the fi rst Executive Offi cer of WCPA (then called the Commission on National Parks). The award is in the form of a medal, certifi cate and, in some cases, a monetary honorarium, and is given to individuals or groups who have made an outstanding contribution in the fi eld of protected areas. The award can also be given for distinguished service and/or outstanding valour. The award may also be given posthumously or divided among two or more individuals. Nomination forms are available from the Programme on Protected Areas at IUCN, Gland. A list of all Packard Award winners is attached as Annex E.

Kenton R, Miller Awards

The Kenton R. Miller Award will recognize individuals

who have clearly demonstrated innovation in relation to protected areas. Specifi cally, it will recognize persons who have developed and applied innovative policies, scientifi c knowledge, technologies, fi eld practice or governance that hold promise to signifi cantly increase the potential for sustainability of protected areas with demonstrable impact at local, national, or international levels.

The inaugural Miller Award was presented to Heliodoro Sanchez at the Latin America Protected Area Congress in Barilioche, Argentinia, in 2007.

WCPA’s International Collaborating Network

1. The UNEP/WCMC is based in Cambridge, UK. The aim of UNEP/WCMC’S work is to provide accurate, up-to-date information on individual protected areas and systems of the world.It is responsible for the World Database on Protected Areas which is a joint product between UNEP/WCMC and IUCN/WCPA. UNEP/WCMC also manages information on biosphere reserves and World Heritage Sites, as well as sites listed under the Ramsar (Wetlands) Convention. Among its many publications is the United Nations List of National Parks and Protected Areas (latest issue published in 1997).

2. World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), called “World Wildlife Fund” in Canada and the United States, is an international organisation with a worldwide network of National Organisations and affi liates on fi ve continents. Many WWF projects are related to protected areas.

3. United Nations Educational Scientifi c and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) has been heavily involved in protected area matters for many years. Through the World Heritage Convention and the Man and the Biosphere Programme, direct support has been provided to many protected areas. WCPA has been providing advice and information on World Heritage Natural Properties to UNESCO for many years.

4. The US National Park Service, through its Offi ce of International Affairs, has supported the activities of WCPA since its inception.

5. Other Protected Areas Management Agencies. WCPA will, where possible, institute an institution-level relationship with major agencies which are responsible for managing protected areas. Such an institutional linkage will be developed to provide technical advice to the Commission, identify project and policy priorities and encourage a free fl ow of information about protected areas.

Annex A

WCPA Strategic Plan 2005-2012


Introduction

The World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA) is one of six Commissions of IUCN (The World Conserva-tion Union). The Commissions are volunteer networks of individual experts that contribute to the IUCN Mission, which is:

“to infl uence, encourage and assist societies throughout the world to conserve the integrity and diversity of nature and to ensure that any use of natural resources is equitable and ecologically sustainable.”

WCPA and its partners strive to provide leadership on protected areas issues to governments, NGOs, communi-ties, and other key stakeholders. Emphasizing its power to convene a diversity of actors, WCPA works by bringing science, knowledge and experience to bear on decision-making to address the existing challenges and future issues and opportunities in order to realize a common vision:

“that society fully recognizes and supports the importance of protected areas in the 21st Century by: securing key places for biological and cultural diversity, promoting equity and justice, maintain-ing the quality of the environment, and ensuring the sustainable use of the natural resources for poverty reduction, food and water security, and the prevention of confl icts.”

To realise this vision the mission of the IUCN’s World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA) is:

“to promote an effectively managed, representa-tive system of marine and terrestrial protected areas as an integral part of IUCN mission.”

The IUCN Programme on Protected Areas is one of the major programmatic areas of IUCN. WCPA has aligned its activities in support of the Programme on Protected Areas, and there is a close working relationship between the Programme and WCPA in pursuit of shared strategic objectives.

Protected areas serve a variety of purposes for soci-ety. They are vital for life on earth, they conserve vital biodiversity and many also offer the world a model of how people can live in harmony with nature. There are treasured landscapes refl ecting the inherited cultures of many generations, and they hold spiritual values for many societies. Protected areas also represent the diversity of the earth’s history and the current natural processes, and provide many ecosystem and wider environmental services, such as clean air, copious supplies of water and nutrients. Protected areas are an expression of com-

munity goals to maintain the value of biodiversity and to ensure these values can be passed on to future genera-tions. Indeed protected areas are a promise of perpetuat-ing today’s values for the generations to come.

Protected areas are an expression of hope for the future while providing immediate reciprocity. Protected areas contribute a myriad of services that include clean air, water, sources of fi ber and protein, spiritual experiences, recreation, sources of knowledge, livelihoods, protect-ing unique cultures and offering educational experiences from connecting with nature. This latter opportunity will become increasingly important to the ever-increasing world population that lives in urban areas. The recogni-tion of all of these values is refl ected in the dramatic growth in the numbers and extension of protected areas over recent decades.

The Vth World Parks Congress held in Durban, South Africa in 2003 brought together the world’s protected area experts and other key stakeholders to consider how the benefi ts of protected areas could be sustained and ex-tended beyond their boundaries in support of sustainable human, social and economic development. The Congress defi ned the challenges of the future and provided direc-tion to the world, particularly through the Durban Accord and Action Plan. Many of the Congress outputs were in-cluded in the Program of Work on Protected Areas under the Convention on Biodiversity (CBD).

The articulation of a ‘new paradigm’ for protected areas and its approval at the World Parks Congress summariz-es not only the outcome of the Congress but this Strate-gic Plan as well. It is as follows:

“In this changing world, we need a fresh and innovative approach to protected areas and their role in broader conservation and development agendas. This approach demands the maintenance and enhancement of our core conservation goals, equitably integrating them with the interests of all affected people. In this way the synergy between conservation, the maintenance of life support systems and sustainable development is forged. We see protected areas as vital means to achieve this synergy effi ciently and cost-effectively. We see protected areas as providers of benefi ts beyond boundaries—beyond their boundaries on a map, beyond the boundaries of nation-states, across societies, genders and generations.”

This WCPA Strategic Plan provides an opportunity to re-spond to the challenges posed by the Durban Action Plan and the CBD Programme of Work on Protected Areas, and provides a compass to orient our efforts to respond to the directions adopted by the world’s leaders through the Millennium Development Goals and the Convention on Biological Diversity. It also charts a way forward that effectively engages with other global and regional pro-grammes of IUCN as well as with other IUCN Commis-

Annex A:WCPA Strategic Plan 2005-2012


sions and Members.

If you work on the enhancement of the protected areas estate anywhere in the world, you share a common pas-sion with all others involved in protected areas. Whether your focus is on establishment, management or protec-tion, your passion is indisputable and has required not only long hours but also personal commitment to achieve your objectives. We know that for some, this commitment has led them to give their lives for this cause. In their memory and honour, let us continue to strive to enhance these special paces on the globe and in doing so we invite you to join WCPA in making this Strategic Plan a reality.

This decade is widely regarded as one of the key oppor-tunities to address the challenges presented at the Vth World Parks Congress, and this Strategic Plan must lay the foundation for measurement of this achievement by the VIth World Parks Congress.

1. Challenges and opportunites the Role of WCPA

1.1 The challenges in front of us.

Protected areas now cover over 13% of the earth’s land surface. This resounding success comes at a time when the world’s protected areas face an unrelenting and ever-increasing rate of change. Global level changes from climate change, invasive species, fragmentation of the natural landscape, increasing urbanization and growing demands upon natural resources are placing direct and growing threats on protected areas.

Enhanced and shared knowledge of the implications of these threats and how to address them is essential for meeting biodiversity conservation and a range of other societal objectives.

Conserving biodiversity is at times diffi cult to maintain as a top priority because of other imperatives such as enhanced education, improved human health and the alleviation of poverty. In response, the conservation community is emphasizing the ways in which conserva-tion can contribute to poverty alleviation and enhanced livelihoods through sustainable use of natural resources and equitable sharing of benefi ts. In essence there is a call for biodiversity conservation to be “mainstreamed” into social and economic development throughout the production landscape. This approach strengthens and complements, but does not replace protected areas as a primary tool for conservation of biodiversity, and the di-versity of earth’s heritage and landscapes. Nevertheless, there is mounting and unnerving evidence of short-term decisions that forego environmental, social and economic benefi ts that a protected area system offers at national and global levels. The values of protected areas must be better communicated to decision makers.

The capacity to manage protected areas is weak in many countries and must be strengthened. This relates to meeting biodiversity conservation objectives as well as

other objectives relating to sustainable development and broader landscape planning.

The success in numbers and area covered by terrestrial protected areas is not the case in the marine environ-ment. The marine environment faces major threats and there are major shortfalls in coverage, with only 0.05% of marine environments protected. There remain many other ecosystems that are poorly represented in the global protected area system.

Democratization of societies, including decentraliza-tion of authority and responsibility over protected areas, has provided opportunities for local governments, indig-enous people and local people to become more directly involved, and for their long-standing efforts to be recog-nized. New governance models are the result.

Much has been accomplished but more is required. De-spite enormous advances in knowledge and understand-ing, management effectiveness is waning and investment in protected areas continues to weaken. Policy and deci-sion makers as well as protected area managers often make decisions based on inadequate information. More importantly, managers continue to make decisions in iso-lation, without effectively learning from other experience.

1.2. The opportunities facing WCPA

Protected areas provide a response to the global envi-ronmental, social and economic challenges of modern society. The Durban Action Plan encompassed prior-ity responses. The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) recognizes protected areas as essential for in situ conservation (Article 8) and the countries that ratifi ed the Convention agreed in Kuala Lumpur in 2004 (COP7) to a Programme of Work (PoW) on Protected Areas that prescribes specifi c targets and actions (Appendix X). This fulfi lled the fi rst target of the Durban Action Plan. In turn, the CBD Program of Work provides the international policy framework to address the remaining fourteen tar-gets of the Durban Action Plan (Box 1).

The objective of a global system of protected areas repre-senting all the world’s ecosystems is far from realized, with many major gaps remaining. Some ecosystems, particularly freshwater systems and marine ecosystems, including on the high seas, are largely unprotected. The increasing number of threatened species is also of major concern. Urgent action is required to complete the system and to thus assist the world in its commitment to signifi -cantly reduce the rate of loss of biodiversity by 2010. A focus on biomes with inadequate protection should there-fore be an important priority for WCPA.There is also a need to fully realize the values of the full diversity of protected area categories and through their effective management to achieve the purpose for which they were established. A crucial component of this is applying the full range of protected area governance and management models with the needed support. Global change, including climate and socio-economic change, represent an overarching threat to the world’s protected areas. These changes are having a negative ef-fect on species and habitats and the effective functioning


of landscapes and ecosystems. These threats are cross-cutting with impacts on all aspects of protected areas and they must be addressed in every aspect of WCPA’s work. To address this, an ecosystem or landscape-scale ap-proach to protected area planning must be applied. This requires a conceptual move from protected areas as ‘islands’ to protected areas as parts of ‘networks’ and embedded in landscapes. It also means setting protected areas within a wider matrix of ecosystem-based, environ-mentally sensitive land and water management, support-ed by the mainstreaming of environmental considerations into various areas of public policy. This is the ecosystem approach advocated under the CBD.Finally the full range of objectives and benefi ts of pro-tected areas must be recognized in their establishment, including their roles in conserving biodiversity, geological diversity and their social, economic and spiritual values. Emerging new opportunities can also demonstrate the value of protected areas to conservation, ecosystem services and poverty alleviation. There is a need to formulate options for adapting and taking advantage of change elements, such as:

Biophysical Changes – climate change, air/water pollution, sea-level rise, fragmentation, invasive alien species, and natural disasters;Socio-economic Changes – urbanisation, growing human populations and demographic factors, global trade, democratisation, increased recognition of non-material values of protected areas, confl icts linked to land tenure or the growing demand for access and use of natural resources, fi nancial mechanisms and economic incentives;Institutional Changes – opportunities and threats re-lated to decentralization of authority and responsibil-ity to other levels of government, NGOs and commu-nities; new models for protected areas agencies, the role of the private sector, and changes in the interna-tional development policy agenda; andTechnological Changes – impact of biotechnology-generated crops, new information technology tools, increasing use of low impacting technologies by extractive industries.

Reconciling conservation with sustainable use and man-agement of natural resources is particularly important, considering population growth and increasing levels of poverty resulting in greater demand for land and re-sources. In addition there is often limited recognition of the crucial role of protected areas for achieving sustain-able development; rather, too many key stakeholders see protected areas as a barrier to their activities and aspira-tions.

Under-investment by governments in protected areas means that these areas are often failing to meet their conservation and social objectives. Inadequate human and fi nancial resources result in many protected areas lacking effective protection and management, particularly in developing countries. On the other hand subsidies and other perverse fi nancial instruments that are directed towards different sectors of the economy are infl uencing landscapes critical to biodiversity thus damaging pro-tected areas and contributing to species loss. Sustainable

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fi nancing is at the core of ensuring that there is capacity to manage protected areas. The costs and benefi ts of maintaining protected areas are not equitably shared. In particular, local communities often bear most of the costs and receive few of the benefi ts, while being marginalised from management and decision-making. The full costs and benefi ts are seldom used in assessing protected ar-eas. A full valuation of protected areas as called for under the Biodiversity Convention PoW must be undertaken and effect must be given to the principles of good govern-ance.

Protected areas are not fully linked into development planning, land use and other resource management decision-making systems beyond their boundaries, and particularly in transboundary situations, which require harmonization of approaches across political boundaries.

Indigenous peoples, local communities, young people, ethnic groups, women and other key interest groups are not suffi ciently engaged in the identifi cation and manage-ment of protected areas, and nor are their efforts suffi -ciently recognised.

Without an effectively managed, ecologically representa-tive, global network of protected areas, the many benefi ts to society derived from them will be lost, the maintenance of ecological services will not be achieved, their ability to contribute to poverty alleviation will be reduced and the inheritance of future generations diminished. The overall aim of “sustainable development” would be just a dream that will never be achieved.

All the above are opportunities for WCPA to step up and show leadership in reaching the targets agreed to by the delegates in Durban.

1.3 Building on the past to respond to the future.

This WCPA Strategic Plan builds on key results achieved from previous Strategic Plans and key recommendations from two external reviews of WCPA (1998 and 2000) but more importantly, the following recommendations arising from WCPA Steering Committee meetings in Finland and Bangkok in 2004:

the need to focus on a limited number of key priority issues, building on the strengths and core competen-cies of WCPA;the need to integrate WCPA work with that of other global and regional components of IUCN, including other IUCN Commissions, within the overall frame-work of the IUCN Programme;the need to make better use of the limited human and fi nancial resources available to the commission;the need to mobilize additional resources for WCPA through focused fundraising efforts;the need to mobilize work in all regions in addition to the important work undertaken by task forces; andthe need to mobilize the membership of the Commis-sion to actively contribute to its work.

This Strategic Plan tries builds on the WCPA track record of achievement while recognizing the constraints and

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challenges of Commission work that is based on volun-teer commitment, and a willingness to assist achieve a common cause.

2. Why have a Strategic Plan?

The WCPA comprises over a thousand of the world’s leading protected area specialists, committed to a com-mon cause. IUCN provides the opportunity to people con-cerned with protected areas to join efforts, in a voluntary capacity, under the WCPA umbrella. The world needs the passion and commitment of this volunteer network to deal with the increasing challenges facing protected areas.

To be most effective, the work of the Commission must be focused within a framework of priority protected area issues at all levels, from local to global. While WCPA recognises and indeed honours, the individual efforts of WCPA members towards the cause of protected areas, it is also necessary to mobilise collective and collaborative action involving the whole network and its partners on agreed priorities to maximise impact.

Strategic planning is a disciplined process leading to an agreement on the raison d’être of an organization, its activities and the reason it undertakes such activities with a focus on the future.

Accordingly, the WCPA Strategic Plan fulfi ls fi ve key func-tions. The Strategic Plan:

sets out the desired future for protected areas;identifi es objectives and targets to guide the work of WCPAsets out a framework to harness the energy of the Commission as well as mobilizing fi nancial resources whilst targeting emerging opportunities to obtain ad-ditional resources;recognises that global change is inevitable and so provides the framework to undertake periodic assess-ment and adjustment of targets and priorities;provides a framework that can guide activities by in-dividual WCPA members to adapt their efforts to their local, national or regional context while still contribut-ing to WCPA global objectives, anddirectly links the work of the WCPA to the IUCN Pro-gramme.

Therefore the WCPA Strategic Plan IS:

the road map to guide WCPA efforts as we move forward, assess the accomplishments against the commitments made at the last WPC and as we begin to prepare for the next WPC;the basis for guiding and reporting WCPA work as a component of the IUCN Programme; andthe framework for WCPA to promote integration and synergy with other IUCN global and regional pro-grammes as well as with other IUCN commissions.

However the WCPA Strategic Plan IS NOT:

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3. A framework for the Strategic Plan

3.1. WCPA strengths and weaknesses

WCPA sees its role as being the world’s recognised source of guidance, support and expertise on protected areas. The strengths and weaknesses of WCPA were summarized at the 2004 WCPA Members Meeting (Bang-kok, Thailand) as being:

Strengths

The excellent people in the network; Ability to convene at a range of levels, particularly at the global level, as seen at the 2003 IUCN World Parks Congress;Infl uence and impact as seen through products such as the IUCN PA Category System and the Mining and Protected Areas Position Statement;Intellectual capacity;Strong relationship between WCPA and PPA at the global level;Volunteer nature; andPotentially strong network.

Weaknesses

Structure: Current structure was designed to prepare for the 2003 WPC and needs revision. Specifi cally, it is not designed for implementation of the CBD. The current structure is becoming too complex. More balance and integration is required between biome, theme and regional programmes;Regional issues. Regions need a higher profi le within WCPA – they have slipped in the last 4 years. There is variability in regional capacity, coverage and per-formance. Weak synergy between WCPA regions and IUCN regional offi ces. Poor integration between most Themes/Task Forces and Regions;Funding. Limited funding for activities. No Business Plan for the period after the WPC;People in the network. There is a gender imbalance, a lack of succession planning, and it is becoming harder to fi nd good people willing to work as volun-teers;Integration: WCPA not fully integrated into the IUCN One Program Approach

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Building on the strengths of the Commission and keeping the identifi ed weaknesses in mind the following principles will guide the work of WCPA in promoting and implement-ing the Strategic Plan.

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a) The Strategic Plan will be implemented as an inte-gral component of the IUCN Programme. A key of the success of WCPA has been the integration between the IUCN Programme on Protected Areas (PPA) and WCPA. This will continue. Emphasis will be placed on increasing the level of integration between PPA and WCPA with other IUCN global and regional component programmes. Regional Vice Chairs, in particular, are charged with this important responsibility. WCPA is an integral part of IUCN. Thus its work should be clearly linked to, and directed towards the mission, goals, and Key Result Areas of the IUCN 2005-2008 Programme as well as to the four strategic approaches of the Union, which are:

Knowledge: generating, integrating, manag-ing and disseminating information is IUCN’s core business, with the volunteer networks of the Commissions (particularly WCPA) acting as the key collators of knowledge ;Empowerment: building capacity, responsibil-ity and willingness of people and institutions to plan, manage, conserve, and use nature and natural resources;Governance: improving laws, policies, eco-nomic instruments and institutions for the conservation and sustainable use of nature and natural resources;andOperations: providing the foundations for effective delivery and use of knowledge, em-powerment, and governance through com-petent management, information, fi nance, human resources, and communications systems.

b) The Strategic Plan integrates the work of WCPA; it is more than the sum of its activities.

Protected areas are geographic entities. The management of each protected area is governed by the circumstances particular to the region where it is located. Accordingly, the work of the WCPA must have a regional focus to assure relevance but equally to provide the basis or ground truthing by which to draw up global standards and guidelines. This work is undertaken in partnership (see below) and is focused on priorities that are defi ned as much as through the work at regional levels as the current initiatives or programmes, such as the CBD PoW.

c) The Strategic Plan will be undertaken in partner-ship with key groups and stakeholders

The partnerships will include, but be not limited to:

IUCN global and regional component pro-grammes and IUCN Commissions; SCBD in addressing the CBD PoW on Pro-tected AreasUNESCO/World Heritage Centre, and the UNESCO Man and the Biosphere Pro-gramme;

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UNEP-WCMC – linked to the maintenance and enhancement of the World Protected Areas Database; WWF/CI/TNC/BirdLife International – partner organisations with signifi cant involvement in protected area issues. Priority will be given to developing effective working relationships with these organisations, in some cases through formal MOUs, and in particular in the implementation of PALNet;Protected Area Agencies, at all levels. Priority will be given to working with leaders in na-tional protected areas agencies, particularly through the World Protected Areas Leader-ship Forum (WPALF); Appropriate regional organisations and proc-esses (UNEP/SPAW, CCAD, SPREP, etc). the Ramsar SecretariatJames Cook University (Townsville, Australia) in publishing issues of the Protected Area Best Practice Guideline Series.

d) The Strategic Plan will be deepening, not ex-panding, WCPA work.

WCPA has limited human and fi nancial resources to undertake its work. Rather than stretching these resources by expanding its activities, this Strate-gic Plan will concentrate and go deeper in areas, related to the core competencies of the commis-sion. In other areas of work, such as those related to freshwater ecosystems, forest protected areas, and arid lands, WCPA will aim to support, within the limited available resources, on-going work of IUCN global and regional programmes dealing with these issues.

e) The Strategic Plan will aim to ensure accountabil-ity.

IUCN supports WCPA’s work through the Commis-sion Operations Fund (COF). This enables WCPA to carry out a fundamental part of its work. Howev-er this requires accountability on the part of WCPA to report on how this support contributes to the IUCN Programme. This is a key challenge for any commission as volunteer work is hard to measure and monitor. Therefore WCPA will work with the Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Programme of IUCN to develop a M&E plan as a key element of this Strategic Plan.

f) The Strategic Plan needs to effectively mobilise

WCPA Regional membership. The Strategic Plan will only be achieved through

the effective recruitment and mobilization of WCPA members at all levels. It must effectively mobilize membership in regions and ensure strong linkages and synergy with IUCN’s regional offi ces. It must focus on the mobilization of new members and en-courage youth and women to join and participate in the work of the Commission. This requires enhanc-ing communications to encourage involvement in the different activities proposed. The role of WCPA Regional and Strategic Direction Vice-Chairs as well as Task Forces leaders in mobilizing their net-

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works is essential and is a priority in their respec-tive work plans. As a guideline each structure is committed to and achieving a 10% representation of their membership by youth (under the age of 35) by 2008. WCPA female membership is currently at 20%. By 2008, women membership should be 35%.

g) The Strategic Plan needs to effectively mobilise resources for priority actions.

Resources are necessary for implementation at all levels. To deliver the integrated IUCN programme, including this WCPA Strategy, requires that re-sources are obtained and effi ciently deployed to achieve the priority actions. The Strategic Plan provides a basis for prioritization, and for focusing the resources of specialist voluntary skills, IUCN member organizations, donors, task forces in pur-suit of the strategic outcomes. Shared and collec-tive approaches to key funding agencies by IUCN, the WCPA, Task Forces and individual members are required to obtain the resources and ensure that they are effectively and effi ciently deployed. There has to be a recognition that strategic priori-ties must provide the basis for the acquisition and use of funds, and that voluntary inputs are ac-knowledged.

It is clear that donor mandates will determine which stra-tegic priorities will be funded. However, the Strategic Plan is a statement of what is both necessary and if imple-mented, suffi cient to achieve the plan’s outcomes. An ef-fort must be made to communicate to funders the need to address funding to all components of the Strategic Plan. The Strategic Plan must adapt to the funding context and should be regarded as an enabling framework and not a prescription.

4. STRATEGIC DIRECTIONS, PRIORITIES, RE-GIONS & TASK FORCES

This WCPA Strategic Plan is built on a foundation of three fundamental interlinked elements:

Strategic DirectionsRegional FocusPartnerships

The Strategic Directions (SDs) defi ne WCPA overarch-ing priorities. Each WCPA Region is tasked to defi ne the relevance of these Strategic Directions in the context of individual regions, and address them with their relevant partners, and to work collaboratively with the strategic di-rection leaders to ensure an integrated approach globally and regionally.

The Regional Focus is of course the key role of the Regional Vice Chairs and through them effective linkages with IUCN’s regional offi ces. It is through the Regional Vice-chairs that WCPA delivers assistance on the ground, and where “real” input is derived to guide global programs or develop implementation tools.

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WCPA is a recognized partner. These partnerships permit WCPA to work with others to advance the protected area estate in the world. These three elements together form an integrated and synergistic approach.

The Strategic Directions (SDs) are not stand-alone initia-tives as they are interrelated but also linked to the other two elements. The success of protected areas seldom depends on one SD but dimensions of all SDs. To make the point, science and tools of good management of protected areas can only be effective if a solid system of governance and an internal capacity is in place. As well, having an appropriately designed protected area, be it in the form of a system or an individual area is of course essential for achieving objectives.

Task Forces are a very important delivery mechanism for WCPA. Some will fi t under a Strategic Direction, and others will be cross-cutting. This further underlines the interrelationship between the SDs.

4.1. Strategic Direction 1: Conservation & Sustainable use of Biodiversity

There has been a dramatic growth in the number and area of protected areas. Global treaties and agreements (notably the CBD, the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands, the Convention on Migratory Species, the World Herit-age Convention and UNESCO’s Man and the Biosphere Programme), and regional agreements and programmes have stimulated the growth of protected area numbers. This signifi cant achievement by governments and others throughout the world is worth celebrating.. Nevertheless, there are many gaps in the network and the effectiveness of conserving biodiversity by systems of PAs must be enhanced.

Marine PAs as a priority:A particular concern arises over the lack of protection for coastal and marine systems, both in sovereign (national) and international waters (the high seas). Less than 1% of the ocean is protected. There has been a worldwide collapse in fi sheries and attendant environmental damage and disruption to ecosystem structure and function. There have been many global calls to create many more marine protected areas. The World Summit on Sustainable De-velopment, the World Parks Congress, and the Conven-tion on Biological Diversity have all committed to a goal of establishing a global network of marine protected areas by 2012, including on the high seas.

Marine and coastal biodiversity is under increasing stress from intense human pressures, including rapid coastal population growth and development, over-exploitation of commercial and recreational resources, loss of habitat, and land-based sources of pollution. Almost half of the world’s fi sheries are fully exploited, while about a fi fth are over-fi shed. About 90% of large predatory fi sh biomass has been lost since pre-industrial times. Approximately 35% of mangrove forests have been lost over the past two decades. At the same time, people around the world are increasingly dependent on these threatened resourc-es for food, tourism, shoreline protection, and numerous


other ecological services. As these pressures intensify, marine protected areas are increasingly recognized as a critical management tool to protect, maintain, and restore natural and cultural resources in coastal and marine waters. A network of marine protected areas, elimination of destructive fi shing practices, and the implementation of ecosystem-based management could help meet the global goal of maintaining or restoring fi sheries stocks to levels that can produce the maximum sustainable yield no later than 2015.

Mountain PAs and Connectivity as a priority: Over the past decades, the recognized importance of pro-tecting Mountain ecosystems resulted in numerous pro-tected areas in the Mountain Biomes around the world. This success has created an opportunity. The world’s relatively well-developed systems of Mountain Protected Areas provides the means and then serve as an example by which to address connectivity issues, building eco-logical networks and applying the ecosystem approach. Mountain protected areas can demonstrate conservation strategies through ecosystem corridors to maintain biodi-versity pattern and process in the landscape.

Further, as mountain ecosystems are vulnerable to global changes, including the effects of climate change, they can also serve explore adaptation options while gener-ally raising the profi le of the issues. As well, there is a need for a clearer understanding of how cultural and spiritual values can be fully recognized and appropriately protected alongside natural ones. There is also a need to recognize and promote the involvement of a diverse range of communities in protected area establishment and management.

Freshwater PAs as an emerging priorityFreshwater ecosystems are some of the most produc-tive ecosystems on earth. They are of crucial importance to human well-being. However, they are also among our most seriously threatened ecosystems. The establish-ment of freshwater PAs is part of a total approach to pro-tecting these vital systems while ensuring their continuing capacity to support human well-being.

Filling protected area gaps as a priority:The Vth World Parks Congress focused attention on the representivity of protected areas globally. Protected areas inadequately represent many species and do not cover key ecosystems besides the above noted shortfall in the marine biome. All of this places at risk the 2010 target of signifi cantly reducing biodiversity loss through the protec-tion afforded by protected areas. The priority now is to build on the work at the World Parks Congress and the achievement of other global agreements relevant to fi lling gaps, such as the Global Plant Conservation Strategy ap-proved by the CBD COP in 2003, as follows:

Objective

Protected Areas more effectively contribute to the conservation of biodiversity, with particular focus on under-represented biomes, especially marine, and on strengthening linkages between protected areas in the landscape/seascape.

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By 2008, identify key gaps in the coverage of ma-rine protected areas through the development of a comprehensive 5 volume document: “Priorities for the Establishment and Management of Marine Protected Areas.By 2008, develop innovative corridor and peace park initiatives in three different regions (Africa, Asia and South America to link protected areas with surround-ing land uses By 2008, complete a major project on climate change and Protected Areas (with a particular focus on Mountain Protected Areas), paying particular at-tention on raising the awareness of the impacts of climate change and developing types of adaptive management strategies that will be required, includ-ing the role of PAs as buffers against the impacts of climate changeBy 2012 complete gap analysis of major biomes incorporating critical biodiversity data sets, such as species distribution data, to assist identifying and establishing ecologically representative networks of protected areas;By 2012 ensure the implementation of an ecologically representative network of marine protected areas;By 2012, ensure 40% of mountain protected areas are linked within collaboratively managed ecosystem networks and serve to demonstrate the advantages of integrating protected areas into the objectives of surrounding ecological/social/economic systems;In 2006 work with the IUCN Water and Nature Initia-tive to further the recognition of the importance of protected areas in the sustainable use and conserva-tion of freshwater ecosystems.

4.2. Strategic Direction 2: Knowledge, Science and Mangement of Protected Areas

The Durban Action PlanCompleting the global system of protected areas will not be suffi cient to achieve biodiversity conservation objec-tives. It has to be accompanied by maintaining, improving and at times restoring the ecosystems within protected areas. Effective management is essential. Progress has been made through the development of the WCPA frame-work and associated systems on management effective-ness. But, in many places, monitoring and evaluation sys-tems need to be adopted and implemented. Elsewhere, they need to be more comprehensive, participatory and affordable and the results better used to guide plans and management. In addition, scientifi c and other technical research and enquiry should be undertaken to ensure that there is suffi cient knowledge of trends in ecological, environmental, social, cultural and economic indicators to allow informed management decisions to be taken. Greater understanding and recognition of traditional man-agement practices is also required.

Knowledge and Science as a priority: Effective decision-making is dependent upon the devel-opment and use of knowledge and scientifi c information,

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including biological, social and economic perspectives and harnessing traditional and indigenous knowledge and information. In particular, there is a need to apply this knowledge to key risks and challenges, such as the causes and effects of global change on protected areas. Corresponding plans of action must be drawn up and im-plemented. Conservation Biology and Restoration Ecol-ogy is particularly relevant to protected areas, enabling better understanding of risk and effective prevention and mitigation of impacts. This body of knowledge along with indigenous and traditional knowledge will be encouraged and integrated into protected area planning and manage-ment frameworks.

Management effectiveness as a priority: Many protected areas around the world are not effec-tively managed. In response, management effectiveness will continue as a priority with a focus on improving on and learning from past approaches. New protocols are needed to evaluate the effi cacy and effectiveness of man-agement in relation to the IUCN Protected Areas Man-agement Categories, and to take on board the increased recognition of cultural and spiritual factors in the effective management of protected areas. In particular, social and human development perspectives must inform the as-sessment of management effectiveness. Information aris-ing from the assessment of management effectiveness must be better applied to on ground management actions and also to guide donor support for protected area invest-ment. Such information must also be incorporated into the World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA).

IUCN Protected Area Management Categories as a priority: The IUCN’s Protected Areas Management Categories are increasingly being used around the world. However, better guidance on the designation of protected areas and the application of the Categories is required and this should be coupled with efforts to assist countries, and especially CBD states parties, to apply the Categories to their respective protected area systems. An unsatisfac-tory proportion (62%) of protected areas currently listed in the World Data Base on Protected Areas (2005) are assigned to a PA Category. The inclusion of protected areas in the WDPA must be checked and the accuracy and completeness of listings improved. With regard to categories, there is a need to consider not only the objec-tives of protected areas, but also protected area systems. In addition, governance types and systems of governance for protected area systems require analysis.

Certifi cation as a priority: Certifi cation may open new opportunities, benefi ts and in-centives for protected areas management at national and international levels. WCPA aims to explore this possibility with the full involvement of protected areas agencies and key PAs stakeholders. Indicators of management quality to assess the potential application of methods for “certi-fi cation” of protected areas at national and international levels will be reviewed and applied, as appropriate. This may lead to, among other products, certifi cation of man-agement effectiveness and protected areas under threat.

Objectives:

To implement systems to assess the effectiveness of protected area management leading to an improve-ment in protected area management;To increase the effective application of the IUCN Protected Area Management category system around the world; and To develop methods and tools for the certifi cation of protected areas.

Targets:

By 2008, ensure the IUCN PA Management Category System is applied in at least 20 countries to assist preparation of their national system plans for PAs;By 2008, ensure revised guidance on the application of the IUCN Management Categories for Protected Areas is in place and used by all CBD parties and NGOs; andBy 2012, develop guidance and standards relating to ecological restoration, protected area design and other key protected area topicsBy 2012, ensure that at least 50% of IUCN members dealing with protected areas and key partners have assessed the effectiveness of their protected areas management;By 2012, ensure acceptance and application of the methods for assessing management effectiveness of PAs by key donors and partners;

¨ By 2012, ensure that 90% of protected areas in the WDPA are assigned to a IUCN PA Category.

4.3. Strategic Direction 3: CBD and Capacity Development

The capacity to manage is the product of willingness, competence, skills, capability, and adequate resources. This strategic direction focuses on strengthening the capacity of protected area agencies and the men and women who work in them. It is built on the basic principle that investment in capacity only comes through an un-derstanding of the full values of Protected Areas and also that strengthening capacity requires knowledge that must be turned into effective action.

Future action needs to focus on widening the aware-ness and understanding of the values of protected areas, including their contribution to biodiversity protection and supporting sustainable development, and especially their value to indigenous peoples and local communities.

During the past decade, there has been little growth in the resources available for protected areas in many countries. Yet, the role of protected areas in supplying environmental goods and services, such as clean water, as reservoirs for sustaining populations of marine and terrestrial species (including those of commercial impor-tance) and as a buffer for absorbing land- and air-based pollutants, must be better researched and promoted.

Stronger links need to be made between protected areas and the cultural heritage of communities and society,

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including the sacred and spiritual qualities of these areas. The benefi ts that protected areas (that include their mu-nicipal parks and recreation areas) offer to major towns and cities – including education and human health, wa-tershed protection, biodiversity conservation and income from tourism – need to encourage much greater recogni-tion.

The skills now required to manage protected areas are more specialized and are increasingly getting more complex in light of global changes. In parallel to gain-ing knowledge, it will be equally important to strengthen science capacities at individual, institutional and societal levels.

The voluntary sector should be encouraged to play a greater role in promoting the benefi ts of protected areas to communities and individuals living within and outside them. Visitors to protected areas are increasing in num-bers and demand will continue to grow. It is important to realize the many positive benefi ts this can bring, such as revenue generation, increased understanding and aware-ness of protected areas’ natural and cultural values, and greater awareness by local communities of their local her-itage. But tourism must be properly planned for and man-aged to minimize the environmental and cultural damage and costs that can occur.

Building Awareness as a priority: WCPA will increase its role in advocacy and awareness raising for protected areas and key approaches to pro-tected area management. There will be an overall effort to promote the value of protected areas, and to ensure that the messages of the World Parks Congress are widely disseminated in the inter-Congress period. Particu-lar emphasis will be placed on web-based communication and interaction. The WCPA website and the PALNet web-site are integrated and are part of the IUCN Knowledge Management System. These websites are designed to serve the needs of the WCPA Commission members and partners, and to reach out to the wider community.

Popularized publications on the values of protected areas through targeted Opinion Editorial Pieces and other media forms will be pursued. A concerted communication effort focused on the value of protected areas would be of value to all countries, developed and developing alike.

Emerging opportunities related to people, protected areas and cities should strive to broaden the constituency of protected areas by providing a channel to increase the interest and support of people living in urban areas.A specifi c target for awareness-raising should be deci-sion-makers, politicians and their advisors given the importance of their role for making or hindering progress.Development of skills in protected areas as a priority:

The promotion of effective conservation education is critical for the future of protected areas. In parallel, effort must be devoted in the coming years to upgrading the professional skills of protected area managers worldwide. These must be based on innovative and adaptive learn-ing approaches that involve key protected area constitu-encies. Of crucial importance is to marshal the collective

efforts of IUCN members and Commission volunteers to present a more comprehensive and targeted capacity development programme. Two particular areas require attention. First, is to increase the capacity of all involved in protected areas to resolve confl icts and to increase the ability to negotiate solutions. Second, is to build up the skills of staff involved in enhancing visitor experiences. These personal experiences build a constituency that in turn develops support and can lead to investments of time and resources.

Following a comprehensive needs analysis focussed on improving the skills of protected area managers, attention will be placed on a strategic approach including infl uenc-ing the curricula of capacity-development institutions, the provision of authoritative resources for learning (e.g. qual-ity text-books), and peer-assisted self-learning. This work will be coordinated with the Knowledge Learning Network under development by CEC

Sustainable Financing as a priority:Funding of protected areas is currently inadequate and must be increased. Funding sources must be diversifi ed and linked to the many values of protected areas. There are signifi cant challenges in generating additional fi nance without compromising the core values of protected areas. For example, income generation through environmentally sensitive tourism and, in some cases, the sustainable use of natural resources, offers opportunities, but there are dangers too. So while it is important to realize fully the potential benefi ts of protected areas with innovative fi nancing strategies, protected area planners and manag-ers must consider the pros and cons of different funding options.

While a number of international funding agencies and international conservation NGOs are providing substantial support for protected areas projects, this does not ensure the sustainable fi nancing for protected areas needed in the long term. Tourism can provide additional funding to some but not all protected areas, including some with high and vulnerable biodiversity values. The aim is to increase fi nancial support for protected areas, without compromising their key conservation objectives.

Information Management (including PALNet) as a priority:The work of WCPA at all levels requires up-to-date and reliable data and information about protected areas. If protected areas are to adapt to global change then this information must be cross-linked to other relevant infor-mation such as on species distribution, socio-economic data, and climate change predictions. Protected areas agencies, fi eld managers, and other key groups require better information to guide their work. WCPA must make full and effective use of new opportunities arising from information technology to increase the interactivity of the WCPA network with other networks working on PAs issues, and to enable provision of rapid, reliable and scientifi c-sound advice on protected areas.

The Protected Areas Learning Network (PALNet) is intended to meet this urgent need. PALNet facilitates the compilation and dissemination of protected area manage-


ment knowledge among fi eld workers, scientists, and oth-ers. At the same time, it provides a facility for managers to share experience, information and documentation with peers around the world. Managers will employ the on-line facility to comment collegially on the work of others and in turn receive input from others on their own. PALNet is a tool that will encourage the engagement of managers to use this “knowledge network” focused on discussions regarding protected area policies, strategies, and fi eld practices. Attention will be paid to identifying a compre-hensive range of learning sites, knowledge champions and constituencies to respond to key challenging facing protected area professionals. In all of these efforts, the key challenge will be to utilise internships, mentorship and collaborative learning mechanisms to engage and in-volve young and emerging protected areas professionals.

WCPA will work within the new directions for knowledge management being undertaken by IUCN HQ. It will also work in partnership with other institutions such as UNEP-WCMC, CI, FFI, TNC, NOAA, WRI, BirdLife International, WWF and GEF Implementing Agencies and partners. Re-gional Vice-Chairs will be encouraged to identify regional and national institutions that can also contribute to WCPA Knowledge Management efforts. Particularly attention will be given to supporting enhancement of the WDPA, held in UNEP-WCMC, and linking it to the Species Information System (SIS), which is being implemented by IUCN-SSC.

Objectives:

To strenghthen the capacity of protected area agen-cies and managers around the world; andTo provide guidance and expert advice on options for awareness raising, conservation education, develop-ment of skills, sustainable fi nancing and knowledge management, to enhance the planning and manage-ment of protected areas.

Targets:

By 2008, develop and test at least 5 examples of innovative sustainable fi nancing mechanisms for pro-tected areas in different regions of the world; By 2008, engage at least 20 new constituencies to increase support for implementation of the WCPA mission;By 2008, a comprehensive needs analysis and strat-egy for professional development of protected area managers is in place and effective;By 2008, the Protected Areas Learning Network (PALNet) will be developed and functioning as the major PA knowledge delivery mechanism for the world’s protected areas. It will be fully integrated within IUCN’s Knowledge Management System to de-liver credible and relevant advice on protected areas;By 2008, all components of WCPA will maintain and use the WCPA website for WCPA work and by the year 2012 the WCPA website will have over 2.0 mil-lion hits per year with 10% spending more than 15 minutes per visit.By 2008, the World Data Base on Protected Areas (WDPA) will be developed as the key global database on protected areas and will have clear and effective

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linkages to other databases, including the Species Information Service, to infl uence conservation priori-ties and action; andBy 2008, WCPA will have a higher global profi le, through dissemination of a universal message re-garding the value of protected areas, supported by the preparation and distribution of high profi le com-munication materials and media releases each year. By 2012, ensure that human capacity for protected area management is enhanced, that new capacity-building tools and materials are developed and that these are applied by at least 50% of IUCN members dealing with protected areas, as well as key partners.

4.4. Strategic Direction 4: Governance, Equity and Livelihoods

Governance can be understood as the interactions among structures, processes and traditions that deter-mine how power and responsibility are exercised, how decisions are taken, and how citizens or other stake-holders have their say. Fundamentally, it is about power, relationships and accountability: who has infl uence, who decides, and how decision-makers are held accountable. Governance is central to the conservation of protected ar-eas throughout the world and is fundamental to ensuring effective and long-term management of protected areas.

One outcome of good governance is fairly shared bene-fi ts and costs. Indigenous people, local communities, and other members of civil society are involved in the estab-lishment and management of protected areas, and derive benefi ts from protected areas. Thus, protected area authorities and staff need to engage with all groups in society, especially children and young people, indigenous peoples, local communities and minority ethnic groups.The types and institutions of governance of protected areas, including government-managed, co-managed, pri-vate, (incl. charitable) and based in indigenous and com-munity structures, are constantly evolving and the quality and consistency of governance vary greatly throughout the world. This innovation is essential to capture the complexity of achieving conservation in a wide variety of socio economic and cultural settings. All protected area types voice strong demands for the better refl ection of values, effective mechanisms to incorporate local voices and traditions, checks and balances in decentralized structures, better performance and greater accountability, and removing the abuses which occur even in the best of institutions.

Underlying good governance is a set of principles, which needs to be identifi ed by each relevant human society. Some such principles were articulated at the World Parks Congress. These are: legitimacy and voice; direction; performance; accountability; and fairness. More detail on these principles are set out in Annex F. At the COP 7 of CBD the principle of “respecting human rights” was also discussed.

Protected areas also play a critical role in sustaining the natural resource base and thus in supporting the liveli-hoods of local people, some industries and entire com-

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munities. Importantly, they protect vital ecosystem serv-ices, including clean water, and are essential for poverty alleviation and for sustainable development. However, in many parts of the world protected areas are viewed as a barrier to the activities and aspirations of local communi-ties. Many poor people also live in and around protected areas, which serve as a vital source of food and fi ber. In many cases local communities have been excluded from decision making regarding protected areas, or worse, forcibly removed. As a result such areas are rarely designed with an objective of contributing to sustainable development or to the livelihoods of local communities and economic development. These issues need to be addressed in relation to the future of the world’s protected areas, and particularly marine protected areas.

Governance as a priority: The governance of all protected areas can and should be improved. The WCPA will contribute to this by describing and analyzing experiences from a range of government types and distilling and widely communicating lessons learnt.

Recognition/ innovation of government types as a priorityThe range of governance models for protected areas has expanded in recent years to fi t a wide range of circum-stances. In particular, Community Conserved Areas established and managed by indigenous peoples and local communities have been recognised as essential for conservation in various contexts. Private protected areas and areas established and managed by regional and municipal governments and by private landowners, including individuals and charitable organisations, have also proven their effectiveness. WCPA will contribute to positive innovation by analysing and communicating good case examples and by supporting the legitimiza-tion of the governance institutions that proved viable and effective. Innovative models will also be explored where conventional protected area types have not managed to achieve effective conservation and/or good governance. In particular, governance arrangements for complex protected area types managed by multiple agencies at different levels, such as transboundary protected areas and biosphere reserves will be examined.

Indigenous peoples and local communities as a prior-ity: Particular attention will be given to the role of indigenous and local people in protected areas and the equitable sharing of benefi ts. The value of community-conserved protected areas in meeting CBD PoW targets will be a focus. The IUCN guidelines on co-management and com-munity managed protected areas will be promoted and applied. The Commission on Environmental Law will be invited to join the already close working relationship be-tween WCPA and CEESP, through TILCEPA, in relation to tenure and other legal aspects.

Promoting the socio-economic contribution of PAs as a priority:The continued perception that PAs are only a conserva-tion tool needs to be broken. WCPA will accomplish this through a systematic presentation of the full economic

values of protected areas that includes ecosystem services such as source of fi bre, water, and other human needs. As well, the importance of protected areas to lo-cal and national economies such as through tourism will be better profi led. These values are integral to national, regional and local sustainable development strategies. Where relevant, the negative impacts of protected areas will be examined and steps taken to identify remedial measures.

Objective:

To promote effective types of protected area govern-ance around the world, and good governance in all types;To increase the effective involvement of 25 indig-enous peoples and local communities in protected area governance, andTo demonstrate and communicate the contribution that protected areas can make to poverty alleviation and sustainable development and the conditions un-der which those contributions are best achieved.

Targets:

By 2008, carry out inventories of Community Con-served Areas in several environments, assess the threats that may be affecting them and identify ways of ensuring the maintenance of their positive contri-butions to conservation and local culture;By 2008, ensure that principles of good governance (e.g., legitimacy and voice, performance, accountabil-ity, fairness, and direction) are identifi ed and increas-ingly applied for protected areas in a wide variety of contexts;By 2008, make available participatory governance evaluation tools and promote their use for the imple-mentation of the CBD, the World Heritage Conven-tion and Ramsar Convention, as well as in protected areas;By 2008, ensure that one or more variables describ-ing a protected area governance typology are incor-porated in the World Database on Protected Areas; By 2008, promote regional agreements and govern-ance structures to support transboundary protected areas and the management of transboundary re-sources, for example in river basins. By 2012, ensure that protected areas are established and managed in full compliance with the rights of indigenous peoples, including mobile indigenous peoples, and local communities; By 2008, develop fi fteen (15) demonstration models in different regions that show how protected areas can contribute to poverty alleviation. These will be associated with a series of roundtable dialogues on protected areas and poverty.By 2008, identify and analyse in several relevant con-texts the conditions that lead to positive or negative social impacts of protected areas.

4.5. Task Forces

Task Forces provide a very important mechanism to promote in-depth, crosscutting or specialized work within

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WCPA. The following principles will apply to the operation of Task Forces within WCPA:

All Task Forces must have a Terms of Reference, ap-proved by the WCPA Steering Committee, which sets out clear objectives and products;Where possible the work of each Task Force should be linked with a WCPA Theme Programme/Strategic Direction, although some will be cross cutting initia-tives and in some cases cross-Commission initiatives as well;There should be a report provided to the annual Steering Committee from each Task Force in a simple format which measures progress against the objec-tives of the Task Force;Task Forces are encouraged to produce their own reports and publications, which will be subject to peer review within and beyond WCPA;All Task Forces should communicate with Regional Vice-Chairs regarding the development and applica-tion of TF outputs. Regional Vice-Chairs or regional representatives should be invited to participate in specifi c TF activities; andTask Forces will not receive fi nancial support from the WCPA Commission Operating Fund or the Pro-gramme on Protected Areas. They are encouraged to seek their own funding through project proposals, donations or other means while advising the Commis-sion Chair of these fundraising efforts as to ensure coordination and complementary within the overall WCPA Business Plan.

Current WCPA Task Forces (in alphabetic order) as of December 2005 are

1. Caves And Karst2. Cities And Protected Areas3. Conservation Planning4. Cultural And Spiritual Values5. Indigenous, Local Communities and Equity6. Grasslands7. High Seas8. Information Management9. Islands10. PA Categories11. Protected Landscapes12. Sustainable Financing13. Tourism14. Training15. Trans-boundary protected areas16. Wilderness

5. Implementing the Plan: From Words to Action

The Strategic Directions detailed above will be imple-mented through Partnerships and Regional initiatives.

5.1. Partnerships

There is a need to establish and recognize a common agenda for protected area conservation among diverse constituencies. This should result in the development of

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many new partnerships, including with those in the busi-ness sector and industries that use natural resources that share our objectives and can bring new skills and per-spectives to enhance protected areas.

There are a number of international and regional conven-tions, agreements and processes that relate to biodi-versity conservation. Given the need for WCPA to focus its activities to best effect, the work of the commission will target two Conventions; the Convention on Biologi-cal Diversity (CBD); and the UNESCO World Heritage Convention (WHC). A Vice-Chair for World Heritage will coordinate input on behalf of WCPA. In the case of the CBD the Chair will provide the required guidance and input to this work.

5.1.1. Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) WCPA is contributing to the work of the Union on the CBD, especially with regard to the CBD Programme of Work on Protected Areas. The work of WCPA on the CBD will be implemented with a number of IUCN members and partners and with other global and regional programmes of IUCN. WCPA is in a particularly important position hav-ing been identifi ed within the adopted PoW as a critical contributor.

The CBD provides a major opportunity for WCPA to rein-force its global leadership regarding protected areas and its role as a convener of experts. Accordingly, WCPA has entered into a MOU with the CBD Secretariat to provide specifi c assistance, through an agreed annual work plan. This provides WCPA with an unprecedented opportu-nity to serve the 188 Parties to the convention, and the protected area agencies and leaders in those countries, by compiling experience that can infl uence how protected areas can be most effectively established and managed in the 21st century.

Objectives

To help ensure the effective implementation of the CBD Programme of Work on Protected Areas; and Provide substantial input into the review of the CBD POW to be carried out for COP 10.

Target

By 2008, ensure WCPA is recognized within the CBD as the main global network of experts on protected areas and is effectively contributing to the achieve-ment of the CBD Programme of Work on Protected Areas;By 2012 ensure the targets within the CBD Pro-gramme of Work on Protected Areas are achieved; and

5.1.2. UNESCO World Heritage Convention World Heritage sites are those recognized as being of “outstanding universal value”. World Heritage natural sites include some of the most easily recognized and high profi le areas on earth, such as the Galapagos Islands (Ecuador) and the Grand Canyon (United States). These sites are of global signifi cance in themselves and can serve as models for demonstrating how protected areas

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can contribute to biodiversity conservation and sustain-able development. IUCN has a unique role in relation to the World Heritage Convention (WHC) and it is identifi ed in its text as the advisory body to the convention in rela-tion to natural and mixed World Heritage Sites.

IUCN’s advisory services cover:the evaluation of new sites nominated by State Par-ties for addition to the World Heritage List; preparation of State of Conservation Reports on the conservation status of existing World Heritage sites; support for capacity building programmes in World Heritage Sites; and preparation of global studies to achieve a balanced WH List. WCPA mobilizes its membership to support delivery of IUCN advisory services to the Convention.

ObjectivesTo ensure that IUCN effectively fulfi ls its advisory services in relation to the World Heritage Convention and maintains the highest quality standards in site assessment; and To promote the full potential use of World Heritage sites as models of best practice for other protected areas.

Targets By 2008, ensure WCPA’s role in the World Heritage Convention is strengthened, particularly through more effective use of WCPA members; By 2008, ensure that World Heritage sites are more effectively used as fl agships for global efforts to achieve biodiversity conservation and sustainable development;By 2008, ensure enhanced management of at least 20 World Heritage sites as a result of WCPA technical advice to site managers and national agencies; andBy 2008, prepare and distribute targeted guidelines relevant to the management and the values of world heritage sites.

5.1.3. UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC) UNEP-WCMC aims to provide objective, scientifi cally rigorous products and services to ensure that biodiversity information is available to support decision makers at all levels. UNEP-WCMC maintains the World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA), working in close collabora-tion with IUCN, WCPA and with the WDPA Consortium1. Delivery of the WDPA is a key element in CBD COP deci-sions VII/5, VII/28 and VII/30, the Durban Action Plan and WPC recommendations. UNEP-WCMC, IUCN and WCPA are also collaborators in delivery of the United Nations List of Protected Areas.

UNEP-WCMC is mandated by the CBD Conference of the Parties to facilitate the delivery of information and indicators on protected areas. Specifi cally decisions of COP7 invite the Centre to work with others to:

Facilitate the compilation of information necessary for reporting on achievement of the 2010 target (decision VII/30)Further develop the World Database on Protected Areas in order to assist the monitoring of progress

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(decision VII/28).Provide and maintain up-to-date information on ma-rine and coastal protected areas (decision VII/5)

Working in partnership with UNEP-WCMC, WCPA will strive to increase access to information on the world’s protected areas, and to support assessment of progress made in achieving internationally agreed targets on pro-tected area establishment and management. This part-nership will also enable and strengthen the work of the WDPA Consortium in further developing and enhancing the WDPA and access to it.

ObjectivesTo track progress in developing and implementing the establishment of protected areasTo improve the quality, value and use of the World Database on Protected Areas

TargetsBy 2006 complete review of the current status of the WDPA and its ability to deliver the indicators and other information services expected of it.By 2007 complete implementation of modifi cations to WDPA structure/function, and have in place improved information fl ows and quality control mechanisms.By 2007 complete the implementation of a web based information delivery mechanism disseminating PA related data (including indicators on management effectiveness)By 2008 deliver the next edition of the UN List

5.1.4. Other Partnerships;Up to September 2005 WCPA has entered into MOUs with the IRF, UNDP, SCBD, the WDPA Consortium, and James Cook University. WCPA will actively seek to de-velop new partnerships that can support the implementa-tion of the Strategic Plan. Such new partnerships would be guided by:

Shared vision and objectives on protected areas is-sues as well as shared understanding and respect on the role of volunteers;Recognition of the strengths/weaknesses of each institution as a key condition to achieve synergy and added-value;Recognized track-record on conservation and en-vironmental concern, particularly in the case of the private sector, and;Partnership will be guided by a defi ned set of agreed objectives, activities and outputs that could be for-mally adopted through MOUs, Letter of Agreements or other appropriate means.

6. WCPA Regional Programmes

Since 1958 WCPA has worked regionally, pioneering IUCN efforts towards regionalization. At present WCPA has 16 terrestrial regions, each headed by a Regional Vice Chair.

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Strategic Direction Leaders. A number of WCPA regions have developed Regional Action Plans for Protected Areas. However the effective implementation of these plans has been limited due to a number of factors, in-cluding limited funding, the limited capacity of the IUCN Secretariat to support WCPA regional Vice-Chairs and the uneven success in mobilizing WCPA membership in some regions.

WCPA has been successful in working at the regional level where; a strong organizational structure in support of the Regional Vice Chair is in place, partnerships have been established with IUCN-RCOs to support regional ini-tiatives, such as the Meso-American Biological Corridor in Central America, or when WCPA has worked with IUCN members and partners to implement common priorities, such as in the case of Parks for Life: Action for Protected Areas in Europe and WCPA initiatives in East Asia.Current WCPA Regions (in alphabetic order) are:

1. Australia/New Zealand; 2. Brazil; 3. Caribbean; 4. Central America; 5. East Asia; 6. Eastern Africa7. Europe; 8. Hispanic South America; 9. North America; 10. North Eurasia; 11. North Africa/ Middle East; 12. Pacifi c; 13. South Asia; 14. South East Asia;15. Southern Africa; and 16. Western and Central Africa.

Objective for all WCPA Vice-Chairs

to ensure that Regional Action Plans are integrated with IUCN Regional and Country Offi ces wherever possible.

Targets

By 2008, develop and implement effective regional programmes in all WCPA Regions;By 2008, ensure effective regional inputs to the Stra-tegic Directions of this Strategic Plan and to seek the support of Strategic Direction Leaders in developing and delivering the regional Action Plans;. By 2008, develop, in at least 5 regions, relevant protected area projects, with IUCN RCOs and other parts of the IUCN family including other Commis-sions, wherever possible;By 2008, supported by UNEP-WCMC and the IUCN Secretariat, ensure that Regional Vice-Chairs are effectively contribute to the updating of the WDPA in each region, including helping Countries to appropri-ately assign protected areas to IUCN Categories;By 2008, ensure thematic and regional Vice Chairs are providing WCPA technical advice to global and regional initiatives and projects dealing with protected areas issues.

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7. Management and Operations

7.1. Governance of the Commission

7.1.1. Steering Committee The WCPA Steering Committee is the governing body of the Commission. Its responsibility is to ensure adequate planning, implementation and evaluation of the Commis-sion Strategic Plan, as required under the IUCN Statutes. The Steering Committee comprises: the WCPA Chair, the Deputy Chair, the Head of IUCN Programme on Protect-ed Areas, Strategic Direction Vice Chairs; the World Herit-age Vice Chair; the Regional Vice Chairs and the WCPA Senior Advisors (Annex A). SC members are invited to serve by the Chair, and are approved by the IUCN Coun-cil. All SC members are requested to develop clear TOR to guide their work and use resources in a cost-effective manner. On the basis of these TORs the Chair will review performance of the Vice-Chairs on an annual basis.

SC meetings are generally held once per year and are called by the Chair and supported by the PPA Secretariat. Members of the SC are expected to attend all SC meet-ings, meet their terms of reference, and contribute to the implementation of the WCPA Strategic Plan. Task Force leaders as well as Senior Advisors are invited to attend meetings of the Steering Committee, at their own cost.

7.1.2. Executive Committee The Executive Committee (ExCo) of WCPA will include the Chair, Deputy Chair, Two Senior Vice Chairs, and the Head of the IUCN Programme on Protected Areas. Other Steering Committee members will be invited to participate where relevant. The ExCo will conduct the business of the Commission between sessions of the full Steering Committee, and will work electronically or by telephone conference call.

7.1.3. Regional WCPA Vice-Chairs Regional Vice Chairs provide leadership, co-ordination, and representation of members and stakeholders in each of WCPA’s 16 regions. Their Terms of Reference focus on development and implementation of a clear WCPA Pro-gramme in their Region, as well as the mobilization and motivation of WCPA Members. Specifi cally, Regional Vice Chairs bring the views of their region to the global Steer-ing Committee, and vice versa, and communicate WCPA outputs, guidelines, and proposals to their constituency. Regional Vice Chairs are expected to work together with IUCN Regional and Country Offi ces, where they exist.

7.1.4. IUCN Programme on Protected Areas (PPA) The IUCN Programme on Protected Areas (PPA) is one of the Global IUCN Programmes. Its primary focus is to ensure effective implementation of the protected areas component of the IUCN Programme, the implementa-tion of IUCN/WCCs resolutions and recommendations focusing on protected areas. The Programme comprises a small team of 9 staff (including 2 interns and part time employees) working at the IUCN Headquarters in Gland, Switzerland, linked with a number of staff in IUCN Re-gional and Country Offi ces (see Annex D). PPA supports the work of WCPA, however it also undertakes other statutory, programmatic and contractual obligations as


part of the IUCN Secretariat. PPA is accountable to the IUCN-DG and the IUCN Programme that guides its work, however this work integrates with the mission and objec-tives of the WCPA Strategic Plan.

The overriding principle is to blend the work of WCPA and PPA into a “one Programme” approach.

7.1.5. WCPA Membership Individuals are invited to become members of WCPA on the recommendation of Regional or Strategic Direction Vice Chairs. Members are invited on the basis of exper-tise in the fi eld of protected areas and a willingness to become involved in the activities of WCPA on a voluntary basis. During the 2005 – 2012 period, priority will be given to:

By 2008, ensuring that 10% of the WCPA member-ship are young people (under 35 years of age);By 2008, ensuring that at least 35% of the WCPA membership are women;By 2008, ensuring there is a motivated membership in each region; which is actively involved in the activi-ties of WCPA;By 2008, ensuring there is an accurate and up to date WCPA membership database that is accessible to all members through the IUCN Knowledge Network.By 2006,entrepreneurial and innovative members of WCPA are recognized and their contributions publi-cised widely

7.2. Financial support and fundraising

IUCN provides limited direct fi nancial support to the work of WCPA through the Commission Operations Fund (COF). While providing for basic operations of the com-mission, it is insuffi cient to implement the WCPA Stra-tegic Plan. Priority will thus be given to fundraising to implement the targets outlined in this Strategic Plan. It is expected that Steering Committee Members will develop fundraising proposals, in close cooperation with the IUCN Programme on Protected Areas, to this end.

7.3. Annual work plans and accountability

The WCPA Chair is accountable to the IUCN Council for ensuring the best use of the COF. Therefore the alloca-tion of the COF will be based on clear annual work plans that support implementation of the Strategic Plan. All receiving funding from the COF will be requested to pre-pare a work plan and report back annually to the WCPA Chair on its implementation.

7.4. Monitoring and Evaluation

Strategic planning is an ongoing interplay between devel-oping and striving towards a vision, setting and measur-ing the achievement of goals, and the experience and adaptation of implementation. Monitoring and evaluating performance of the WCPA and Programme of Protected Areas within the framework of the IUCN Quadrennial Programme is an essential activity that underpins this Strategic Plan.

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The WCPA Steering Committee is the custodian of the plan, and responsible for ensuring that there is regular measurement of achievement in each Strategic Direction, within each Region and for each Task Force. In addition, it must review its own effectiveness and effi ciency.

WCPA will regularly monitor the extent to which the objectives and targets in this Strategic Plan are being achieved. Monitoring reports will be prepared and distrib-uted within IUCN and to other stakeholders. The WCPA Steering Committee is responsible for monitoring and is supported by IUCN’s Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Coordinator.

It is important to note that while the monitoring and evalu-ation of the overall Strategic Plan will be the responsibility of the WCPA Chair this work will also be dependent on the cooperation and input of WCPA Vice-Chairs. Evalua-tion requirements for WCPA are triggered by both statu-tory requirements for evaluation of Commissions, as well as donor requirements for evaluation of projects that may be implemented as part of the Strategic Plan. WCPA evaluations may be initiated by IUCN, including reporting back to the World Conservation Congress. IUCN’s M&E Programme will assist, within available resources, with the design of evaluations, methodology, consultants and coaching of WCPA teams as needed. Once the Strategic Plan is adopted by the Steering Committee the IUCN’s M&E Programme will work together with WCPA-Chair and PPA to design and propose for the consideration of the Steering Committee a detailed Monitoring and Evalu-ation Framework for the WCPA Strategic Plan. In addition there will be a major review of the achieve-ment of this Strategic Plan at the Durban Mid Term Review meeting, in 2008.

8. Looking ahead to the 8th World Parks Congress

The Durban Mid-term Review meeting in 2008 marks an important milestone towards the 6th World Parks Congress in 2012. The WCPA Steering Committee, in conjunction with the IUCN Secretariat, must envisage the 6th World Parks Congress in response to the outcomes of the Durban Action Plan and the CBD Programme of Work on Protected Areas.

During the period 2005 – 2008, priority will be given to:

By 2007, organising the Durban Mid-Term Review meeting;By 2008, identifying key issues that are affecting the roll-out of the Durban Plan of Action and CBD Pro-gramme of Work on Protected Areas, and developing effective responses;By 2008, identifying timing, venue, and programme options for the staging of the World Parks Congress;By 2008, considering the structure and composition of the WCPA Steering Committee as the organiza-tional driving force for the period leading up to the 6th World Parks Congress.By 2008, setting in place a programme of advocacy and fund-raising to match the requirements for prepa-ration and hosting of the World Parks Congress.

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9. Final Remarks

Strategic planning is an ongoing and dynamic process. Throughout the implementation of this Strategic Plan lessons learnt from monitoring and evaluation will provide ongoing feedback to continuously improve WCPA’s work. A reasonable balance must be found between using the plan as a tool to provide overall direction and to keep WCPA work focused on identifi ed objectives, while main-taining fl exibility to respond to emerging issues. There-fore this Strategic Plan should be neither too rigid, nor too fl exible, as an instrument. Indeed, it is our roadmap to guide WCPA efforts in the years to come. Therefore let’s take shortcuts where opportunities arise to advance the mission of WCPA, but avoid changing directions too often. That’s the challenge! It shouldn’t be diffi cult: our compass (or GPS if you like) should guide WCPA to the next World Parks Congress in 2013.

Annex B

B1 Organisational Structure of WCPA

B2 WCPA Steering Committee

B3 CV of Nik Lopoukhine WCPA Chair


B1 Organisational Structure of WCPA

WCPA Steering CommitteeChair

Advisors:Senior and Youth

Deputy Chair

RegionalVice-Chairs

StrategicDirection:

ConservingBiodiversity

StrategicDirection:

Science & Management

StrategicDirection:CBD &

Capacity Development

StrategicDirection:

Governance, Equity &

Livelihoods(WCPA/CEESP)

Implementation Mechanisms

Australia/New Zealand

Brazil

Caribbean

Central America

East Africa

East Asia

Europe

North Africa/ Middle East

North America

North Eurasia

Pacifi c

South Africa

South America

South-east Asia

West & Central Africa

Cave & Karst Task Force

Conservation Planning

Task Force(WCPA/SSC)

Grasslands Task Force

Marine Biome

High Seas Task Force

IslandsTask Force

Mountains Biome

(including connectivity with CEM)

Wetlands

PA Categories Task Force

Protected Landscapes Task Force

Wilderness Task Force

Management EffectivenessTask Force

Sustainable Financing Task

Force

Tourism Task Force

Training Task Force

Information Management Task Force

Economic Valuation Task

Force

Law & PAs Task Force

(WCPA/CEL)

Cities and PAs Task Force

Cultural & Spiritual Values

Task Force

Transboundary Conservation Task Force

Equity & Livelihoods

World Heritage

CBD

UNEP WCMC


WCPA Chair and Deputy Chair

Mr Nik LopoukhineChair, IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas c/o Parks Canada - Parcs Canada 7th Floor25 Eddy StreetGatineauQuebec K1A 0M5Canada Tel: ++1 819 956 9908 Fax: ++1 819 994 5140 Email: [email protected]

Mr. Trevor SANDWITH Deputy Chair for WCPAMr. Trevor SANDWITH Deputy Chair, IUCN World Commission on Protected AreasDirector of Protected Areas PolicyThe Nature ConservancyWorldwide Offi ce 4245 Fairfax DriveArlington, VA 22203USATel: +1 (703) 841-5300Email: [email protected]

WCPA Regional ChairsMs. Penelope FIGGIS AO WCPA Regional Vice Chair for Australia / New Zealand 4 Woolcott StreetWavertonNew South Wales 2060Australia Tel: ++61 (2) 9922-5275 Fax: ++61 (2) 9957-6815Email: fi [email protected]

Sra. Sônia RIGUEIRA WCPA Regional Vice Chair for BrazilPresidenteInstituto Terra Brasilis Rua do Ouro 136, Sala 801Bairro Serra, Belo HorizonteMinas Gerais 30220-000Brazil Tel: ++55 (31) 3282-8287, ++55 (31) 463-4800Fax: ++55 (31) 3282-8296Email: [email protected]

Mr Floyd HOMER WCPA Regional Vice Chair for CaribbeanPresidentThe Trust for Sustainable Livelihoods 7 Latania DriveRoystonia, CouvaTrinidad and Tobago Tel: ++1 (868) 668-2535 Fax: +1 868 668 0614Email: [email protected]

Dr Eduard Michael MüLLER WCPA Regional Vice Chair for Central America Presidency Universidad para la Cooperación Internacional 35 Street 15 and 17 AvenueBarrio EscalantePO Box 504-0250San José 2050Costa Rica Tel: ++(506) 283-6464 Fax: ++506 280-8433 Email: [email protected]

Mr Ali KAKA WCPA Regional Vice Chair for East AfricaExecutive Director East African WildLife Society City SquarePO Box 20110-00100NairobiKenya Tel: ++254 (20) 574-145, ++254 (20) 500-622Fax: ++254 (20) 570-335Email: [email protected]@kenyaweb.com

Dr Yan XIE WCPA Regional Vice Chair for East AsiaWildlife Conservation, Associate Research ProfessorInstitute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) 25 Beisihuan XiluHaidianBeijing 100080China Tel: ++86 (10) 6264-7675 Fax: ++86 (10) 6264-7675Email: [email protected]/bwg-cciced/index.htm

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WCPA Regional Chairs

Prof. Roger CROFTS WCPA Regional Vice Chair for Europe 6, Old Church LaneDuddingston VillageEdinburgh, Scotland EH15 3PXUnited Kingdom Tel: ++44 (131) 661 7858 Email: [email protected]

Mr Mohammad S.A. SULAYEM WCPA Regional Vice Chair for North Africa/Middle EastConservation PlannerNational Commission for Wildlife Conservation and Development PO Box 1141Riyadh 11431Saudi Arabia Tel: ++ 966 506467787 Fax: ++ 966 1 441 797Email: [email protected]@hotmail.com

Mr David HARMON WCPA Regional Vice Chair for North AmericaExecutive DirectorGeorge Wright Society PO Box 65Hancock Michigan 49930-0065USA Tel: ++1 (906) 487-9722 Fax: ++1 (906) 487-9405Email: [email protected]

Mrs Natalia DANILINA WCPA Regional Vice Chair for North EurasiaDirectorEnvironmental Education Center Zapovedniks Institute of Economics15th Floor, Nakhimovsky Pr. 32Moscow 117218Russia Tel: ++7 (095) 129-0688 Fax: ++7 (095) 129-0688Email: [email protected]

Mr Tepa SUAESI WCPA Regional Vice Chair for the Pacifi c RegionDivision of Environment and ConservationMinistry of Natural Resources, Environment and Meteorology Principal Terrestrial Conservation Offi cerPO Box 628ApiaSamoa Tel: ++68 (5) 301 00, ++68 (5) 779 3503Fax: ++68 (5) 213 63Email: [email protected]

Mr. Hector MAGOME WCPA Regional Vice Chair for South AfricaSocial Ecology Department, Director Conservation ServicesSouth African National Parks 643 Leyds Street, MucklenuekPO Box 787Pretoria0001South Africa Tel: ++27 (12) 426-5218 Fax: ++27 (12) 343-2832Email: [email protected]

Sra. Carmen E. MIRANDA LARREA WCPA Regional Vice Chair for South AmericaLos Nuevos Pinos, Bloque 10, 7 A-BLa PazBolivia Tel: ++59 (12) 2220220, ++59 (12) 2222440 Email: [email protected]

Dr Uday Raj SHARMA WCPA Regional Vice Chair for South AsiaDirector GeneralDepartment of Forest BabarmahalKathmanduNepal Tel: ++977 (1) 4227574, banaspati@fl ora.wlink.com.npFax: +977 (1) 4227374Email: [email protected]/pr_dept.html

Ms Cristi Marie Capati NOZAWA WCPA Regional Vice Chair for Southeast AsiaPartner Development Offi cer BirdLife International (Asia Division) 2nd Floor Santos and Sons Bldg. No. 973 Aurora Blvd. CubaoQuezon City 1109Philippines Tel: ++63 (2) 4211209 , ++63 770-4316, ++63 (2) 436-4363 Fax: +63 2 434 46 96 Email: [email protected] [email protected]

Prof Brice SINSIN WCPA Regional Vice Chair for West and Central AfricaFaculté des Sciences Agronomiques, EnseignantUniversité Nationale du Bénin B.P. 526Cotonou 01Benin Tel: ++229 026857, ++229 303-084 Email: [email protected]


Strategic Direction : CBD and Capacity Development

Mr Jason Garth SPENSLEY WCPA Strategic Direction Chair

International Development Specialist The Nature Conservancy

42 St. JoachimPointe Claire

Qébec H9S 4P3Canada , ++1 520 247 5367 (mobiel)

Fax: +1 520 620 1799 Email: [email protected]

Economic Valuation Task Force

Mr Nicholas CONNER Principal Conservation Economist Environment and Conservation Economics Section National Parks and Wildlife Service of New South Wales 59-61 Goulburn streetPO Box A290Sydney South 1232New South Wales 2000Australia Tel: ++61 (0) 2 9995 6053 Fax: ++61 (0) 2 9995 5938 Email: [email protected] http://www.nationalparks.nsw.gov.au/

Information Management Task Force

Mr. Thomas D. MORITZ Chief, Knowledge ManagementAssociate Director, AdministrationThe Getty Research Institute 1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100Los Angeles CA 90049-1688USA Tel: ++1 (310) 440-6363 Email: [email protected]

Mr Silvio OLIVIERI Senior Technical Advisor for Conservation Information Systems IUCN - The World Conservation Union Rue Mauverney 28Gland 1196Switzerland Tel: +41 22 999 0301, +41 22 999 0020 Email: [email protected]

Law and Protected Areas Task Force

Prof. Bernhard Willem BOER Professor in Environmental Law Australian Centre for Environmental Law University of Sydney 173-175 Phillip StreetSydney New South Wales 02000Australia Tel: 61-2-9351-0200 , 61-2-9692-9706 Fax: 61-2-9351-0200 Email: [email protected] www.law.usyd.edu.au/~acel

Sustainable Financing Task Force

Mr Lee THOMAS PO Box 251Hall ACT 2618Australia Tel: ++61 (2) 6230 2282 Email: [email protected]


Tourism Task Force

Dr. Paul F. J. EAGLES ProfessorDepartment of Recreation & Leisure StudiesUniversity of Waterloo, Faculty of Environmental Science 200 University Avenue West, BMH 2214Waterloo Ontario N2L 3G1Canada Tel: ++1 (519) 888-4567 x2716, ++1 (519) 740-1590Fax: ++1 (519) 746-6776Email: [email protected]

Associate Prof. Robyn BUSHELL HeadTourism for Healthy FuturesUniversity of Western Sydney Locked Bag 1797Penrith South DC New South Wales 1797Australia Tel: ++61245 701 562 Fax: ++61 245 701 207Email: [email protected]/tourism

Training Task Force

Mr. James BARBORAK Director, Protected Areas and Corridor ConservationCenter for Biodiversity Conservation Mexico and Central AmericaConservation International Apartado 8-3870San Josee 1000Costa Rica Tel: ++50 (6) 234 5349 Fax: ++50 (6) 234 5349Email: [email protected]


Strategic Direction : Conserving Biodiversity

Mr. Graeme WORBOYS WCPA Strategic Directions Vice Chair:

Conserving Biodiversity 3, Rischbieth Crescent

Gilmore ACT 2905Australia

Tel: +61 2 6292 9908, +61 419 163 126Fax: +61 2 6292 9908

Email: [email protected]

Marine Biome

Dr Dan LAFFOLEY Head, Marine Conservation Natural EnglandNorthminster HousePeterborough Cambs PE1 1UAUnited Kingdom Tel: +44 1733 455 234 Fax: +44 1733 568 834 Email: [email protected]

Mountains Biome

Mr. Graeme WORBOYS 3, Rischbieth CrescentGilmoreACT 2905Australia Tel: +61 2 6292 9908, +61 419 163 126Fax: +61 2 6292 9908Email: [email protected]

Caves and Karst Task Force

Prof. Elery HAMILTON-SMITH Managing Director Rethink Consulting PO Box 36Carlton SouthVictoria 3053Australia Tel: ++61 (3) 9489-7785 Fax: ++61 (3) 9481-2439Email: [email protected]

Conservation Planning Task Force

Dr Bob PRESSEY 1579 Bundarra RoadInvergowrie New South Wales 2350Australia Tel: ++61 (2) 6772 1977 Fax: ++61 (2) 6775 2479Email: [email protected]

Grasslands Task Force

Mr William HENWOOD Senior Planner, Marine Programme UnitPark Establishment BranchParks Canada - Vancouver 300 - 300 West Georgia StreetVancouverBritish Columbia V6B 6B4Canada Tel: ++1 (604) 666-0285, ++1 (604) 985-5122Fax: ++1 (604) 666-0446Email: [email protected]

High Seas Task Force

Mr. Graeme KELLEHER Senior, Advisor High Seas, Working Group Leader Graeme Kelleher and Associates Pty. Ltd. 12 Marulda StreetCanberraAustralia Capital Territory 2614Australia Tel: ++61 (2) 6251-1402 Fax: ++61 (2) 6247-5761Email: [email protected]

Islands Task Force

Ms Pippa HEYLINGS Protected Area Co-Management ExpertParticipatory Governance SpecialistIUCN (CMWG Steering Committee) Av. Gonzalez Suarez no. 32-152 y Jacinto BejaranoEdifi cio El Dorado Dpto. SS 1BQuitoEcuador Tel: ++593 22237067 Email: [email protected]

Wetlands Task Force

Dr Harry C. BIGGS Programme Integrator Conservation Services South African National Parks Scientifi c Services BuildingSkukuzaPrivate Bag X402Mpumalanga 1350South Africa Tel: 27 13-7354230 (offi ce) , 27 829054664 (mobile) Fax: 27 13-7354055 Email: [email protected] http://www.sanparks.org


Strategic Direction : Governance, Equity and Livelihoods

Dr Grazia BORRINI-FEYERABEND WCPA Strategic Directions Co-Vice Chair:Governance, Equity and Livelihoods Ancienne EcoleBugnauxVaud 1180Switzerland Tel: +41 21 826 0024 Fax: ++41 (21) 826-0024Email: [email protected]

Mr. Ashish KOTHARI (India)WCPA Strategic Directions Co-Vice Chair:Governance, Equity and Livelihoods Founder-Member KALPAVRIKSH - Pune 908 Deccan Gymkhana, Apt. 5Shree Dutta KrupaPune 411 004India Tel: ++91 (20) 2567-5450, ++91 (20) 2565-4239Fax: ++91 (20) 2565-4239Email: [email protected]

Cities and Protected Areas Task Force

Dr Thaddeus C. TRZYNA President California Institute of Public Affairs PO Box 189040SacramentoCalifornia 95818USA Tel: ++1 (916) 442-2472 Fax: ++1 (916) 442-2478Email: [email protected]

Cultural and Spiritual Values Task Force

Mr. Robert George WILD WCPA Cultural and Spiritual Task Force Leader LTS International Bush Loan Penicuik Nr.EdinburghScotland EH26 0PHUnited Kingdom Tel: +44 131 440 5500 Fax: +44 131 440 5501 Email: [email protected]

Equity and Livelihoods Task Force

Mr Ali Aliraza KAKA Executive Director East African WildLife Society City SquarePO Box 20110-00100NairobiKenya Tel: ++254 (20) 387 4145 Fax: ++254 (20) 3870335 Email: [email protected]

Mr. Philip FRANKS Coordinator Poverty and Environment Network CARE International PO Box 43864NairobiKenya Tel: ++254 2 2718019 Email: [email protected]

Dr. Lea Myriam SCHERL 35 Miramar CrescentArcadiaMagnetic IslandQueensland 4819Australia Email: [email protected]

Transboundary Conservation Task Force

Mr Charles BESANCON Head, Protected AreasUNEP-WCMC219 Huntingdon RoadCambridge CB3 0DLUnited Kingdom Tel: ++44 (1223) 277314 Fax: ++44 (1223) 277-136 Email: [email protected] Mr. Trevor SANDWITH Deputy Chair, IUCN World Commission on Protected AreasDirector of Protected Areas PolicyThe Nature ConservancyWorldwide Offi ce 4245 Fairfax DriveArlington, VA 22203USATel: +1 (703) 841-5300Email: [email protected]


Strategic Direction : Science & Management

Dr Marc HOCKINGS WCPA Strategic Directions Vice Chair:

Science and ManagementUniversity of Queensland, Gatton Campus

School of Natural and Rural Systems ManagementLawes

Queensland 4343Australia

Tel: ++61 (7) 5460-1140 Fax: ++61 (7) 5460-1324


Protected Areas Categories Task Force

Mr Nigel DUDLEY Equilibrium 47 The QuaysCumberland RoadSpike IslandBristol BS1 6UQUnited Kingdom Tel: ++44 (117) 925-5393, ++44 (773) 454-1913Fax: ++44 (117) 925-5393Email: [email protected]

Protected Landscapes Task Force

Ms Jessica BROWN Vice PresidentInternational ProgramsQLF/Atlantic Centre for the Environment 55, South Main StreetIpswichMassachusetts 01938-2321USA Tel: ++1 (978) 356-0160, ++1 (978) 462-8076Fax: ++1 (508) 356-7322Email: [email protected]

Wilderness Task Force

Mr Vance G. MARTIN President The WILD Foundation PO Box 1380OjaiCalifornia 93023USA Tel: ++1 (805) 640-0390 Fax: ++1 (805) 640-0230Email: [email protected]


B3 CV of WCPA Chair Nikita Lopoukhine

WorkParks Canada25 Eddy St.Hull, PQ K1A 0M5Canada

Home 195 Third Ave.Ottawa, ON K1S 2K2CanadaTel: ++1(613) 235 0720 Fax: ++1 613) 233 9042

Summary of qualifi cations

Parks CanadaHull, QuebecDirector General, National Parks DirectorateAppointed to position as of May 22nd, 2001. Responsible for meeting national standards in the management of Canada’s national parks for ecological integrity objectives; establishing new national parks and marine conservation areas; setting national governing policy, developing and putting in place legislation; leading programs of cooperation with volunteers and non government agencies and other park agencies including provincial, and overseeing Parks Canada’s international responsibility as state member on IUCN. Executive Director, Ecological Integrity BranchAppointed to position as of March 23rd.2000 In this capacity, led implementation response to the Report of the Panel on the Ecological Integrity of Canada’s National Parks. Oversaw the preparation of and implementation of funding strategies in science, monitoring, active management, partnerships, aboriginal relationships, heritage presentation and greening of infrastructures. Provided advice and direction to DG, NPD and CEO of the PCA on offi cer safety issues, Canadian Environmental Assessment Act related matters. Secured $13.5M for species at risk. Appeared before Standing Parliamentary committees on Species at Risk (SARA) and the Canada National Parks Act (CNPA).Director Ecosystems BranchActing Director (January 1997 to March 1998). Appointed Director 1n 1998, most work focused on Ecological Integrity Panel and Species at Risk Legislation (SARA)For the Panel, developed the Terms of Reference and fostered the work of the Panel through direct advice and briefs, and actively participated in meetings of the panel. Led a team addressing the Panel’s recommendations in preparation for Ministerial Press Conference and response. In regards to SARA, led the development of Parks Canada’s position on the proposed Species at Risk Act and Cabinet MC seeking funding. Revitalised the Branch and led the Human Resources Plan Working Group to produce the Directorate HR Plan. Acting Director of the Natural Resources Branch: (1991-92) a primary responsibility was the implementation of the Federal Government’s Green Plan for ecological integrity, law enforcement and training. I led the introduction of strategic policies such as national principles on ecological management. As well, I was able to regularize national law enforcement organizational issues. Vegetation Science Advisor: The rest of the time period I have served in the capacity of a National Science Advisor on issues affecting vegetation in National Parks. Fire management is being undertaken within Parks Canada on the basis of policies and operational guidelines I developed. World Bank Advisor: From 1993 through 1994 I was dedicated to assisting the Russian protected areas system through funding from Canada’s Department of Foreign Affairs and working directly with the Russian Government, the World Bank and GEF

Treasury BoardOttawa, OntarioServed as a program analyst providing advise to the Board (Ministers of the Government of Canada) on policies and optimum allocation of resources affecting a suite of Canadian cultural institutions - Museums, National Film Board and the Arts and Culture Branch of the Department of Communications.


Lands Directorate, Environment CanadaHalifax, Nova ScotiaLed the development and application through pilot projects of a Coastal Classifi cation System for the Atlantic Provinces of Canada. Produced an Ecological Land Classifi cation (ELC) of Labrador. Directly involved in the evolution of techniques and concepts of Ecological Land Classifi cation as chair of one of a national working groups formed under the Canadian Committee on Ecological Classifi cation. Served as the Director of the Regional Offi ce for six months. Taught evening courses in Ecology and Plant Ecology at the Nova Scotia College of Design.

Forestry CanadaOttawa, OntarioProduced a number of reports with maps on the vegetation and other resources of a select number of national parks. Granted educational leave with pay to attend University of Saskatchewan under Dr. Stan Rowe.

Education

College of Forestry SUNYSyracuse, NYB.Sc. Forestry 1968

University of SaskatchewanSaskatoon, Sask.Msc. Dpl. 1972.

Professional experienceChair, Canadian parks Council,Past Chair, Board of Directors Society for Ecological Restoration (SER), Plenary speaker at 2001 SER ConferenceDirector, Canadian Council on Ecological AreasMember of Steering Committee and the Regional Vice Chair North America for IUCN’s Commission on Ecosystem Management (CEM) and member of the World Commission on Protected Areas, Sponsored participant at a GEF funded workshop on Ecological Restoration in Slovak RepublicLectured at the World Bank in Washington on the values of Protected AreasPresented at various symposia and conferences – including - 1998 Ontario Parks Research Forum, 1997 and 2000 SAMPA, 1995 Northern Forest Conservation at University of Toronto, 1995 Biodiversity Conservation Conference at Seoul, KoreaConvenor and Chair of the Workshop on Ecological Restoration at the IUCN World Congress in Montreal.Rapporteur for the Working Group convened in Ottawa aimed at developing the rationale for the IUCN Temperate and Boreal Forestry ProgramProgram Chair for the 1992 National Meeting of the Society of Ecological Restoration. Reviewed GEF projects for input to Canadian responseCo-Chair of the Working Group Protected Areas and Biological Resources under the Deputy Minister led Canada\Russia Mixed Environmental Commission.Member of various interdepartmental bodies addressing Biodiversity related issues (National Strategy, indicators, Convention ratifi cation, Action 21).Reviewer research proposals submitted to the Natural Sciences and Engineering and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Councils of Canada.Member of Team which designed the (Canadian) National Vegetation Classifi cation System. Selected to participate in the Career Assignment Program - a program designed to foster potential management executives. Graduated from the French CAP 79-2 Management course and completed assignments with the Lands Directorate and Treasury Board Program Branch.

PublicationsLopoukhine, N. 1998 Contributor to the Encyclopedia of Ecology and Environmental Management, Editor - in - chief, Peter Calow, Blackwell Science, OxfordLopoukhine, N 1998 Protected Areas in the Next Millennium: Managing for Ecological Integrity Ontario Parks Research Forum, Peterborough, ONLopoukhine, N. 1996. Ecological Restoration. Korean Landscape Architecture JournalLopoukhine, N. 1995. Parks Canada in the next millennium: managing for wilderness. In proceedings of the 1995


Symposium “development of National Strategy for Conservation of National Parks and Protected Areas in Korea” Seoul Korea May 12-14, 1995.Lopoukhine, N., 1995 Engaging the Public in Public Land Management; A Keynote Address. In proceedings of the 1992 Workshop of Man and Resource Management (Waterloo 2.) USNPSLopoukhine, N., 1992 Resource exploitation vs. wilderness protection: Future Scenarios. In proceedings of the fi fth Canadian Institute of Resources Law Conference on Natural Resources Law.Lopoukhine, N., 1991, A Canadian View of the Management of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, In A. B. Keiter and M. S. Boyce (Eds.) “The Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem: Redefi ning America’s wilderness Heritage”, Yale University Press Lopoukhine, N., 1991, The Role of Canada’s National Parks in a Changed Climate. In G. Wall (Ed.) Symposium on the Impacts of Climatic Change and Variability on the Great Plains (1990: Calgary, Alta.) University of Waterloo, Dep’t of Geography Pub. Series, Occ. Paper No. 12 Lopoukhine, N., 1990, National Parks, Ecological Integrity and Climate Change. In G. Wall and M. Sanderson (Eds.) Proceedings of Symposium held Mar 15-6, 1990, entitled “Climate Change: Implications for Water and Ecological Resources”, University of Waterloo, Dep’t of Geography Pub. Series, Occ. Paper No. 11.Lopoukhine, N., 1985, Resource Management in National Parks, Forestry Chronicle V 61, No. 5. Lopoukhine, N., 1983, Guiding philosophy in fi re and vegetation management in Canadian Parks. In Lotan, J.E., B.M. Kilgore, W.C. Fischer, and R.W. Mutch (tech. coords.) Proceedings: Symposium and Workshop on Wilderness Fire. USDA For. Serv. Gen. Tech. Rep. No. INT-182. 434 pp.. Lopoukhine, N., 1983, Parks Canada in the Boreal Forest Ecosystem - A Pilgrim’s Progress, pp. 167-179 In Resources and Dynamics of the Boreal Zone, R. Wein, R.R. Riewe, and I.R. Methven (eds.) ACUNS, Ottawa, 544pp..Lopoukhine, N., 1974. The forests and associated vegetation of Gatineau park, Que., Can. For. Serv., Env. Canada., For. Mgt. Inst., FMR-X-58, 51pp..Lopoukhine, N. 1970, The forests and related vegetation of Waterton lakes National Park, Alberta., Can. For. Serv., Dept. Fish and For., Forest Management Inst., Inf. Rep. FMR-X-28, 35pp..Lopoukhine, N., A. Savoie, and D. Gauthier. 1998, A Science Strategy for Parks Canada; the road to acceptance, Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Science and the Management of Protected Areas, held at the University of Calgary Calgary, Alberta 16-20 May, 1997. SAMPA, Wolfi lle, NS, Canada.Lopoukhine, N. and C.A. White, 1985, Fire management options in Canada’s national parks. In Dubé, D.E., compiler, Proc. Intermountain Fire Council Fire Management Workshop 1983. Can For. Serv., Northern For. Res. Centre, Info. Rep. NOR-X-271. Pp. 59-68.Lopoukhine, N. and Hirvonen H., 1978, The siting of Port Labrador based on the application of Ecological Land Classifi cation, In Proc. second meeting of the CCELC. Lands Directorate, DFE, Ottawa Lopoukhine, N., Prout, N.A., and H. Hirvonen, 1977, The biophysical resources of Labrador: A reconnaissance, ELC Series No. 4, Lands Directorate, DFE, Halifax (1:1000000 map)Bennet, G., Lopoukhine, N 1998, Protecting Natural Resources. UNESCO Courier, May Jackson, L. L., Lopoukhine, N., Hillyard, D., 1995, Ecological Restoration: A Defi nition and Comments, Restoration Ecology, V.3 No. 2.Grigoriew, P and N. Lopoukhine, 1993. Russian Protected Areas Assistance Project, Report prepared for the World Bank. (Unpublished report) 30p. 5 Annexes.Day, D., C.A. White, and N. Lopoukhine, 1990. Keeping the Flame: Fire Management in the Canadian Parks Service In M. E. Alexander and G.F. Bisgrove (Tech. Coord.)The Art and Science of Fire Management, Proceedings of the First Interior West Fire Council Annual Meeting and workshop, October 24-27, 1988 Kananaskis Village, Alberta, For. Can., Northwest Reg.’ North For. Cent., Edmonton, Alta., Inf. Rep. NOR-X-309Hirvonen, H. Lopoukhine, N., 1987, Wetlands and resource management within Canada’s National Park System, In Proc. Symposium 87 Wetlands/Peatlands, Edmonton, Alta., Env. CanadaGimbargevsky, P., Lopoukhine, N., and Addison, P., 1978, Biophysical Resources of Pukaskwa National Park, For. Mgt. Inst. Inf. Rep. FMR-X-106, 129 pp.

Professional membershipsCanadian Council on Ecological AreasIUCN Commissions WCPA, CEMSociety for Ecological Restoration – (previous) Chair, Board of DirectorsSociety for Conservation Biology

Annex C

C1 Map of terrestrial Regions of WCPA

C2 Countries by WCPA Region


C1 Map of terrestrial Regions of WCPA


Africa

Africa West and CentralAngola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo RC, Congo, DRC, Cote d’Ivoire, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Liberia, Madagascar, Mali, Mau-ritania, Mauritius, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo

Africa EastEritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mayotte, Reunion, Seychelles, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda,

Africa SouthBotswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Africa North and Middle EastAfghanistan, Algeria, Bahrain, Cyprus, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syrian Arab Re-public, Tunisia, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Yemen

America

Brazil

CaribbeanAnguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Barba-dos, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Cuba, Dominica, Dom-incan Republic, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Haiti, Jamaica, Martinique, Montserrat, Netherland Antilles, Puerto Rico, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, Virgin Islands, (UK and US)

Central AmericaBelize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama

North AmericaCanada, Greenland, Mexico, St Pierre and Miquelon, United States

South AmericaArgentinia, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay, Venezuela

C2 Countries by WCPA Region

Asia

East AsiaChina, Japan, Korea DPR, Korea Republic, Macau, Mon-golia

South AsiaBangladesh, Bhutanm British Indian Ocean Territory, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka

South East AsiaBrunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Myanmar, Phillipines, Singapore, Thailand, Viet Nam

Australia / New Zealand

Australia, Christmas Island, Cocos, New Zealand, Norfolk Island

Europe

Albania, Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Faroe Islands, Finland, France, Germany, Gibralta, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechten-stein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malta, Mo-naco, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, San Marino, Serbia and Montenegro, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Svalbard and Jan mayen Islands, Sweden, Swit-zerland, United Kingdom, Vatican City State

North Eurasia

Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russian Federation, Tajikstan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan

Pacifi c

American Samoa, Cook Islands, Fiji, Guam, Hawai, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Naurau, New Caledonia, Niue, Northern Marina Islands, Palua, Papua New Guinea, Pitcairn, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Toke-lau, Tonga, Tuvalu, United States minor outlying Islands, Vanuatu, Wallis and Futuma Islands

Annex D

List of all WCPA Meetings held since 1961


Annex D list of all WCPA Meetings held since 1961

Record of Working Sessions and Main Events in History of WCPA/CNPPA (former name of WCPA

YEAR MONTH VENUE EVENT

1958 September Delphi, Greece Founding Meeting

1960 Warsaw, Poland General Assembly; CNPPA created; Harold Coolidge and10 members; Vice-Chair: Jean-Paul Harroy

1962 Seattle, USA First World Conference on National Parks

1963 Nairobi, Kenya Chair: Hal Coolidge; Vice-Chair Jean-Paul Harroy;

1964 2nd CNPPA; General Assembly

1966 Lucerne, Switzerland IUCN General Assembly3rd CNPPA;

1969 New Delhi, India 4th CNPPA; GA; C

1970 April 10-12 Morges, Switzerland 5th CNPPA

1971 December 6th CNPPA;

1972 September Banff/Yellowstone,Canada

7th CNPPA; 2nd World Parks Congress;

1973 Ambroes resigned; Ray Dasmann/ Holloway ActingExecutive Offi cers

1974 October Serengeti (Arusha),Tanzania

8th CNPPA; CNPPA Role

December San José, Costa Rica CNPPA

1975 February Christchurch, NewZealand

SPCNP -- R. Dasmann

May Tokyo, Japan CNPPA/Marine Parks;

September Kinshasa, Zaire IUCN General Assembly

1976 December Kino Bay, Sonera,Mexico

10th CNPPA Joint with SSC

1977 April Morges, Switzerland K. Miller appointed Chair

Geneva, Switzerland Extraordinary IUCN Gemeral Assembly11th CNPPA Harold Eidsvik appointed. Deputy Chair,

1977 June Paris, France 1st Session of the World Heritage Committee

1978 February Albufaro, Portugal 12th CNPPA/SSC;

September Washington, DC, USA 2nd Session of the World Heritage Committee

October Ashkhabad, USSR IUCN General Assembly13thCNPPA:

1979 March San José, Costa Rica 14th CNPPA/SSC;

October Luxor, Egypt 3rd Session of the World Heritage Committee

October Canberra, Snowy Mountains, Australia

15th CNPPA



1980 May Perth, Scotland andNetherlands

16th CNPPA:

September Paris, France 4th Session of the World Heritage Committee

October Garoua, Cameroon 17th CNPPA: Chair: K. Miller; Executive Offi cer Jeff McNeely

1981 June Lima, Peru 18th CNPPA:

October Sydney, Australia 5th Session of the World Heritage Committee

October Christchurch, New Zealand

IUCN General Assembly19th CNPPA,

1982 June Waterton, Canada 20th CNPPA:

October Bali, Indonesia 3rd World Parks Congress;

December Paris, France 6th Session of the World Heritage Committee

1983 May Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe

21st CNPPA:

June Gland, Switzerland Chair: H. Eidsvik (elected by Council)

October Minsk, USSR Man and Biosphere22nd CNPPA


1984 October Buenos Aires, Argentina 8th Session of the World Heritage Committee

1985 February Corbett, India 25th CNPPA,

July Apia, W. Samoa South Pacifi c Commission.


1986 March Bariloche, Argentina 27th CNPPA;

November Paris, France 10th Session of the World Heritage Committee

1987 March “W” National Park, Niger

28th CNPPA;

August Taupo, New Zealand 29th CNPPA;


1988 February San Jose, Costa Rica IUCN General Assembly30th CNPPA;

May Brasilia, Brazil 12th Session of the World Heritage Committee

June Morges, Switzerland CNPPA Steering Committee

1989 May Florence, Italy 31st CNPPA;

September Port Vila, Vanuatu 32nd CNPPA;

November Paris, France 13th Session of the World Heritage Committee

1990 June Krkonose,Czechoslovakia

33rd CNPPA;

November Perth, Australia IUCN General Assembly34th CNPPA;

December Banff, Canada 14th Session of the World Heritage Committee

1991 February Washington D.C., USA CNPPA Steering Committee

April-May Santo Domingo;Caribbean

35th CNPPA

October Tunis, Tunisia 36th CNPPA

December Bangkok, Thailand 37th CNPPA

December Carthage, Tunisa 15th Session of the World Heritage Committee



1992 February Caracas, Venezuela 4th World Parks Congress

October Etna, Italy 38th CNPPA North Africa and Middle East

December Santa Fe, USA 16th Session of the World Heritage Committee

1993 May Uganda 39th CNPPA

June Nykoping, Sweden 40th CNPPA

September Beijing, China 41st CNPPA;

December Cartagena, Colombia 17th Session of the World Heritage Committee

1994 September Islamabad, Pakistan 42nd CNPPA;

October Kruger National Park,South Africa

43rd CNPPA;

November WCMC, Cambridge, UK CNPPA Steering Committee;

December Phuket, Thailand 18th Session of the World Heritage Committee

1995 March Seville, Spain CNPPA Steering Committee Man and Biosphere Conference

1995 October Riyadh, Saudi Arabia 44th CNPPA;

October Banff National Park,Canada

45th CNPPA;

November IUCN HQ, Gland,Switzerland

CNPPA Steering Committee;

December Berlin, Germany 19th Session of the World Heritage Committee

1996 April Triglav Nat. Park,Slovenia

CNPPA Steering Committee;

May Bogor, Indonesia 46th CNPPA; Chair: A. Phillips; Deputy Chair: L Holowesko; Executive Offi cer: D. Sheppard; Main organiser: E. Sumardja

July Kishiro, Japan 47th CNPPA;

July Kishiro, Japan 2nd WCPA East Asia Conference,

October Montreal, Canada CNPPA Steering Committee;

October Montreal, Canada1 48th CNPPA Members’ meeting; *

December Merida, Mexico 20th Session of the World Heritage Committee

1997 April IUCN HQ, Gland,Switzerland

WCPA Steering Committee;

May Colombo, Sri Lanka 49th WCPA.

November Albany, W. Australia WCPA Steering Committee;

November Albany, W. Australia Mid-term review Meeting.

November Albany, W. Australia Protected Areas in the 21st Century: From Islands to Networks

November Rügen, Germany 50th WCPA.

December Naples, Italy 21st Session of the World Heritage Committee

1998 February Amman, Jordan 51st WCPA.

June Nassau, Bahamas WCPA Steering Committee;

December Kyoto, Japan 22nd Session of the World Heritage Committee



1999 July Moscow, Russia WCPA Steering Committee;

September Seoul, Korea 52nd WCPA.

November Sicily, Italy 53rd WCPA.

December Marrakesh, Morocco 23rd Session of the World Heritage Committee

December Pakse, Lao PDR 54th WCPA.

2000** February Warrenton, USA World Protected Areas Leadership Forum-1

June Rio de Janeiro, Brazil WCPA Steering Committee;

October Amman, Jordan 2nd World Conservation Congress; WCPA Members’ Meeting;

November Cairns, Australia 24th Session of the World Heritage Committee

2001 February Kathmandu, Nepal 55th WCPA.

May Teide National Park, Spain

World Protected Areas Leadership Forum-2

June Hong Kong 56th WCPA.

November Helsinki, Finland 25th Session of the World Heritage Committee

December Chavannes-de-Bogis, Switzerland

Steering Committee

2002 March Taipei 4th Confernce on Protected Areas of East Asia

May Sydney, Australia World Protected Areas Leadership Forum-3

June Budapest, Hungary 26th Session of the World Heritage Committee

October-November

Durban, South Africa Steering Committee and WPC

2003 June Paris, France 27th Session of the World Heritage Committee

September Durban, South Africa 5th World Parks Congress

2004 June Savonlinna, Finland Steering Committee

June Savonlinna, Finland World Protected Areas Leadership Forum-4

June Suzhou, China 28th Session of the World Heritage Committee

November Bangkok, Thailand IUCN World Conservation CongressWPCA Members Meeting,WCPA Steering Committee

Election of New Chair: Nik Lopoukhine

2005 April IUCN HQ, Gland,Switzerland

WCPA Steering Committee

June Banff, Canada World Protected Areas Leadership Forum-5WCPA Steering Committee

June Hong Kong, China World Commission on Protected Areas 5th Conference on Protected Areas of East Asia

July Durban, South Africa 29th Session of the World Heritage Committee

October Geelong Australia WCPA Steering Committee held in conjunction with IMPAC-1

2006 January Seville, Spain Financing Protected Areas in the Mediterranean

May Mexico, Mexico World Protected Areas Leadership Forum-6

June Stirling, Scotland International Ranger Federation 5th Congress

July Vilnius, Lithuania 30th Session of the World Heritage Committee

September Hohe Tauern, WCPA Steering Committee



2007 April Washington, USA WCPA Marine Summit

May Seville, Spain IUCN Protected Areas Categories Summit

June Wellington, New Zealand

30 Session of the World Heritage Committee

September Yellowstone, USA WCPA Steering Committee

October Bariloche, Argentinia IInd Latin American Parks Congress

Inverness, Scotland World Protected Areas Leadership Forum-7

*This working session was held in association with the IUCN World Conservation Congress, held in Montreal. At this Congress thename of the Commission on National Parks and Protected Areas (CNPPA) was changed to The World Commission on ProtectedAreas (WCPA).

**From 2000-2003 Many other regional meeting were held in preparation of the World Parks Congress - all of these are not shown here.

Annex E

List of all Fred Packard International Merit Award Recepients


Annex E List of all Fred Packard International Merit Award Recepients

2004Awards presented at the IUCN 5th World Conservation Congress, November, Bangkok Thailand

Bruce Amos

Bruce Amos has dedicated a lifelong commitment of time and energy towards protected areas and heritage conservation in his country, Canada, and worldwide. Starting in 1971 as Special Assistant to the Minister of Indian and Northern Affairs in Ottawa, his work rapidly expanded to cover policy, planning, conservation and socio-economic issues in Parks Canada; he fi nished his career as Director General of this infl uential institution. He was instrumental in the establishment of many new national parks and marine conservation areas across Canada. He was a leader in applying many innovative approaches to planning and management of protected areas, including application of new governance models for protected areas management, particularly in relation to involving indigenous peoples in protected areas management. He has served since 1994 as North American Vice-Chair of WCPA, expanding his active work to protected areas issues in USA and Mexico. He has also served as Chair of the Canada/MAB Working Group on Biosphere Reserves and was particularly infl uential through his role on the UNESCO International Advisory Committee on Biosphere Reserves. His active involvement in WCPA work has been fundamental in maintaining the leading global role of WCPA on protected areas issues.

Imogen Zethoven and Virginia Chadwick

This award recognises Imogen Zethoven and Virginia Chadwick for their role in one of the world’s major conservation victories- the decision by the Australian Government in 2004 to increase the no take zone within the Great Barrier Reef (the Reef) from just over 4% to over 33%. This represents an area of over ten million hectares, making it one of the world’s largest networks of highly protected areas. Imogen Zethoven, Great Barrier Reef campaigner for the Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF), worked tirelessly for many years to demonstrate the impact of government and industry actions on the ecology of the reef. She commissioned research to show that the overwhelming majority of Australians supported the proposed new zoning for the Reef. At the same time she persuaded relevant Governments to drastically limit terrestrial discharge to the Reef with the historic Reef Water Quality Protection Plan. Virginia Chadwick is the Chairman and CEO of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority. In this role she showed dynamic leadership which has been instrumental in the decision on the zoning for the Reef. She has overseen the development of the multiple use zoning plan which is global model for marine management. She has done this, with her staff, in a way that has ensured that the knowledge, values and views of all key stakeholders were taken fully into account

Allen Putney

Allen’s involvement on protected areas issues goes back to 1966 when he joined the US Peace Corps in Puyehue National Park, Chile. Since then he has devoted his time and energy to protected areas in Latin America and the Caribbean. Between the mid 70’s and 1992, his work was fundamental in developing of the Caribbean Natural Resources Institute, CANARI, which built capacity for protected areas management in the Region. From 1986 to 1992 he served as the Caribbean Vice-Chair of the IUCN’s Commission on National Parks and Protected Areas (CNPPA, today WCPA) and lead the process providing regional input to the IV World Parks Congress (Caracas, Venezuela, 1992). From 1992 to 1997 he was Director of Conservation Programmes in the IUCN-US offi ce. Allen then worked with the IUCN Regional Offi ce for South America, in organizing and implementing the First Latin American Congress on National Parks and Protected Areas (Santa Marta, Colombia, 1997). Since 1997 he has been leading the WCPA Task Force on Spiritual Values of Protected Areas which produced a number of valuable articles and landmark publications, helping to revitalize this important dimension of protected areas. He is now actively working with the IUCN-South American Offi ce and many partners in the development of the Great Inca Trail initiative which is attracting tremendous international attention and support.

Vsevolod Stepanitskiy

The last decade has witnessed many challenges in relation to conservation and protected areas in Russia. These have included frequent political, socio-economic and administrative changes and reorganisations. The leadership of Vsevolod Stepanitskiy has been vital in this period to enable the protected area network to adapt to and survive the many challenges faced. His leadership as Head of the Department of Nature Reserve Management of the Ministry of the Russian Federation for Environmental Protection, has been marked by his dedication and by his commitment to establish new protected areas. As a result of the efforts of Dr Stepanitskiy and his team, the last 15 years have witnessed the doubling of Russian Zapovedniks and National Parks from 20 to 40 million hectares. His experience, professional competence and ability to enthuse and mobilise the efforts of others for the sake of conservation have played a major role in conservation achievements in Russia in recent time

Jim Thorsell

Beginning as a park ranger in Banff National Park in 1962, Jim worked as a researcher, planner, trainer and project manager in Canada before working on international conservation work for more than 20 years. He joined IUCN Headquarters in 1984 as Executive Offi cer of IUCN’s Commission on National Parks and Protected Areas (CNPPA, today WCPA). Since 1990 he has served as the Senior IUCN Advisor to UNESCO’s


World Heritage Committee. He has personally evaluated over 145 sites nominated for World Heritage listing. His fi eld experience covers more than 600 protected areas in 90 countries. Jim has also been an active member of WCPA’s Mountain Theme and has published extensively on various park management issues. Most of the prestige that IUCN now enjoys in relation to UNESCO’s World Heritage Convention is the fruit of Jim’s efforts and strength in setting and maintaining the highest standards of technical input to this Convention. Today we are all proud of what IUCN - mainly through Jim’s efforts - has achieved for nature conservation. He has inspired much work on Protected Areas in many countries of the world and he continues to be very active in providing input to IUCN’s work on World Heritage and Mountain Protected Areas.

2003Awards Presented at the Vth World Parks Congress, in September, Durban South Africa

All Rangers who have lost their life in the line of duty

Rangers and others working at the fi eld level in areas of confl ict, often fi nd themselves on the frontline of a conservation battle to protect our precious wildlife, plants and heritage. It is an extraordinary testimony to their dedication, commitment and passion for conservation that they work in the most diffi cult of circumstances and that some make the ultimate sacrifi ce for conservation and protected areas. IUCN and the International Ranger Federation (IRF) are committed to profi ling this important issue at the Vth IUCN World Parks Congress. IUCN will provide an amount to support the families of Rangers who have lost their lives in the course of duty. This will be jointly managed by IUCN and the IRF.

All Young Conservationists around the World for their Efforts and Contributions

In recognition of the essential involvement of younger generations in securing the sustainable future of protected areas.

The World’s younger generations have an essential stake in the future of protected areas and share the responsibility of stewardship, to ensure that protected areas are passed onto future generations. The efforts and contributions of Young Conservationists working in all aspects of protected areas, while signifi cant, often remain undervalued and unrecognized. The early discovery and continued dedication of young people to nature must be nurtured, to foster a lifelong commitment to protecting biodiversity. Starting with the 2003 IUCN Vth World Parks Congress, IUCN recognizes the need to integrate the input of younger generations into local, regional and global dialogues on conservation. IUCN is committed to strengthening an even greater leadership role for Young Conservationists worldwide, to ensure that the benefi ts of protected areas extend beyond generations.

Arakwal Indigenous Land Agreement

On October 28th, 2001 an historic agreement allowed the creation of Arakwal National Park through an

Indigenous Land Use Agreement (ILUA. This agreement acknowledged the rights of the Arakwal people of Byron Bay (New South Wales, Australia) as traditional custodians and provided land for housing Arakwal Elders, a cultural centre and employment of Arakwal people. The Arakwal ILUA is an example of active reconciliation and is being used as a model for resolving other Native Title claims. The partnership between the Byron Bay Arakwal people and the Government of New South Wales is strengthened through the good working relationship established by the Joint Management Committee for the National Park. The focus for this partnership in the future will centre on a second ILUA over other lands within “Arakwal country” and the economic enterprises associated with the proposed Arakwal cultural centre. These developments will further consolidate the position of the Byron Bay Arakwal people in managing their own cultural landscape to ensure the protection of both natural and cultural heritage.

Jean Chretien, Canada

This award is presented to the Rt. Hon. Jean Chrétien, Prime Minister of Canada, in recognition of his outstanding achievements over the past 35 years in extending and protecting Canada’s world-renowned system of national parks. It acknowledges his creation of ten new national parks during his tenure as Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, his establishment of fi ve new national parks while Prime Minister, and his pledge in Johannesburg at the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development to complete Canada’s national parks system and establish fi ve new national marine conservation areas. Under his leadership, the Canadian government has passed bold new legislation to create the Parks Canada Agency, to strengthen the protection of national parks and to provide for national marine conservation areas. This award further acknowledges his strong commitment over the years to the negotiation of Aboriginal land claim settlements and the cooperative management of new national parks. Motivated by his love for Canada and its environment, Mr. Chrétien has demonstrated true political leadership and created a natural legacy for Canada and the world.

Lawrence Hamilton, USA

Dr Lawrence S. Hamilton has given exceptional service to conservation of protected areas throughout the world, in particular to mountains and their environments. As IUCN WCPA Vice Chair Mountains, since 1991, he established a world wide network of WCPA mountain managers and friends of mountains. His leadership has inspired continental scale conservation corridors, transboundary peace parks, and best practice protected area management. His workshops captured the wisdom of mountain protected area managers from around the world which he shared through books, proceedings, “mountain” editions of journals, the quarterly WCPA Mountain Protected Areas “Update” magazine, which is distributed globally, and IUCN WCPA best practice publications. He helped establish greater awareness for the conservation of mountains, by recognition given to the Mountains Biome in Chapter 13 of Agenda 21. Larry


is Emeritus Professor, and was Professor of Natural Resources Conservation, Cornell University; and was a Senior Fellow at the East-West Centre. He received two Fulbright Fellowships; and has authored or co-authored more than 300 publications including several books. Larry Hamilton is a true gentleman, kind, hospitable and passionately interested in the richness of humanity and a better planet. He is an outstanding achiever for IUCN WCPA and its membership.

Jaime Incer, Nicaragua

For more than 30 years, Dr. Jaime Incer has been committed to nature conservation and protected areas management in Nicaragua. He is recognized as the founder of the conservation movement in Nicaragua and his work was fundamental in establishment the country’s fi rst national park. Over the years he has combined his teaching and research activities with practical work on protected areas management including the preparation of management plans. He has also actively contributed to the National System Planning for Protected Areas in Nicaragua as well as the preparation of the National Strategy for Sustainable Development. Many of these actions on protected areas were consolidated between 1990-1994 when he was the Minister of the Environment and Natural Resources. He has been one of the key leading persons in promoting the Central American Alliance for Sustainable Development as well as the development of the Meso-American Biological Corridor. At present he is actively engage in the implementation of these important regional initiatives.

J. Michael McCloskey, USA

J. Michael McCloskey has devoted his life to protected area recognition, designation and care. After 38 years of conservation leadership, he retired as Sierra Club Chairman in 1999. He had a major role in many conservation victories in the United States, including establishment of North Cascades and Redwood National Parks and passage of the Wilderness Act and the Alaska Lands Act. Under his leadership as Executive Director, the Sierra Club successfully advocated the preservation of over 150 million acres of new parks, wilderness and other protected areas. He has also had a signifi cant infl uence on conservation internationally, writing the basic drafts for the UN’s Charter for Nature, proposing wilderness as a Protected Area category, conceiving a program to identify endangered protected areas around the world, and creating the fi rst worldwide inventories of de facto wilderness areas and the remaining wild rivers. Through published papers and talks he signifi cantly refi ned the wilderness concept; of all his contributions to the environment, his wilderness work may be the most signifi cant. As a global leader, inspiration and mentor to a whole generation of wilderness and parks advocates, Mike McCloskey has served with clarity of insight, wisdom, and dedication.

Carmen Miranda, Bolivia

For more than fi fteen years, Carmen Miranda has been committed to conservation, research and management of protected areas in Bolivia. She has made a substantial

contribution with her work as Director of the “Estación Biológica del Beni”. Her work since 1992 has focused on the necessity to make conservation of biological diversity of this protected area compatible with the sustainable development of the local populations and, especially, the relationship with the indigenous communities located at the surroundings of the Biological Station. She has been also leading research projects to identify natural areas that must be included into the Bolivian Protected Areas’ National System. She is currently working with a professional team in the design of the proposal for the Law of Protected Areas in Bolivia. She coordinates the Bolivian Committee of UICN. She is also an active member of the IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas, contributing with her experience and knowledge to the work of the Union in the South American region.

Mavuso Msimang, South Africa

Mavuso Msimang’s wisdom, experience and insight commands respect and admiration. His international experience spans the management of a range of projects that include rural water supplies, health, sanitation, agro-forestry, environmental education, refugee programmes as well as emergencies, both man-made and caused by natural disasters. Mavuso’s vision has taken South African National Parks to new heights and his leadership strategies have added credibility to the organisation in the eyes of the various stakeholders. His belief in co-operation, partnerships and sharing of resources has contributed to the concept of national conservation initiatives and goals which will indeed ensure the long-term survival of protected areas. By embracing others, he has broadened the basic foundation of conservation in South Africa and beyond.

Marshall Murphree

Marshall Murphree is particularly known for his leadership in the development of community-based wildlife management initiatives in Zimbabwe and for his leadership in bringing the benefi ts of conservation to rural communities through the CAMPFIRE programme. His efforts have infl uenced similar innovations on behalf of local communities through wildlife conservation in Southern Africa and many other world regions. As Head of the Centre of Applied Social Sciences at the University of Harare, Zimbabwe he has been coaching a new generation of conservationists who combine solid scholarship with sincere social concerns. His intellectual brightness and his ability to communicate fresh perspectives on conservation issues brought him to Chair IUCN’s Sustainable Use Specialist Group and to contribute to innumerable other conservation initiatives. The humanity which always infused his work, makes him at ease in all social environments and especially able to hear and convey the needs and wishes of the local communities who protect large parts of the Earth’s natural resource wealth.


2001(Presented at IUCN meeting “Asia Pacifi c Forum on Karst and World Heritage” in Sarawak, 25 – 30 May 2001.)

The Late Dr Clive W. Marsh, UK

“The late Dr Clive W. Marsh made substantial contributions to conservation and was instrumental in the establishment of new protected areas in Kenya (Tana River Primate Reserve) and Borneo (Danum Valley and Maliau Basin). Working with Yayasan Sabah in Sabah he helped to foster conservation within working production forests and encouraged young Malaysian students toundertake research and training on conservation issues. Clive’s fi nal years were spent in Lao PDR working to promote the conservation of some of the least-known tropical forests in the world. Clive was Senior Conservation Advisor to the Lao PDR Government and in that position sought to strengthen protected area management throughout Laos’ new protected area system. He organized a WCPA regional meeting at Pakse, Lao PDR, in 1999 for park managers and protected area professionals from Southeast Asia. The Pakse discussions and fi eld trips to protected areas helped to foster collaboration that have led to several follow-up regional initiatives. Clive Marsh was a strong supporter of WCPA and helped to establish and strengthen key conservation areas in Africa and Southeast Asia. He will be remembered with affection and respect by friends and colleagues in the conservation community.”

2000(Presented on 3 October, at the WCPA Members’ Meeting held prior to the IUCN World Conservation Congress, Amman, Jordan)

The Late Dr Nancy Foster, USA

“Marine scientist and coastal stewardship pioneer, the late Dr Nancy Foster made enormous contributions to international marine habitat and species protection. For more than 25 years, she was a leader in conservation advocacy and management for the marine and coastal environment. Through her senior position in the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NancyFoster promoted the idea of marine protected areas as key components of marine ecosystem management, and the application of the wilderness concept to marine ecosystems. She helped build consensus around the defi nition of marine protected areas, which became the foundation for a global, representative system of such areas. Her policy leadership on coral, mangrove and sea grass protection was essential in the International Coral Reef Initiative. She promoted leadership by capacity building across borders, increasing management opportunities for women and minorities, and applying information technology. Nancy Foster applied her formidable energies and wide experience to WCPA during her all too brief period as Vice Chair Marine. She marshalled the resources of the NOAA to assist the Commission, strengthened the global network of marine protected area experts, and offered to WCPA the benefi ts of NOAA’s experience in information technology.”

Mrs Marija Zupancic-Vicar, Slovenia

“Marija Zupancic-Vicar has had a long and distinguished career in former Yugoslavia and in her native Slovenia. She was Yugoslav Minister for the Environment and planning in the 1970s. As Director of the Triglav National Park in Slovenia in the 1980s, she was a tough defender of the park’s integrity and worked closely with local communities: as a result, Triglav is now one of the best managed Alpine protected areas in Europe. Marija Zupancic-Vicar was appointed WCPA vice chair for Europe in 1994. For six years she has led the “Parks for Life” programme in Europe. Her achievements include: the development of a Europe wide team of protected areas volunteer experts, the implementation of many protected area projects, and partnerships built with many other protected areas organisations. The results are a model of what an IUCN volunteer network can achieve. Marija Zupancic-Vicar’s devotion to WCPA has been outstanding. She has been a doughty fi ghter for conservation, but also the kindest and most thoughtful of colleagues. Her skill in motivating volunteers to work together is without equal. For her energies, commitment, warm personality and achievements, she is held in deep affection and great respect by WCPA members, in Europe and beyond.”

Prof. Adrian Phillips, UK

“Adrian Phillips has had a long and distinguished career in protected areas and nature conservation. Adrian’s unparalleled depth of experience e in these fi elds covers forty years, all continents, and staff positions with UNEP, IUCN, the United Kingdom Countryside Commission (as Director General) and the University of Cardiff (as Professor of Countryside and Environmental Planning). Adrian Phillips has a long association with WCPA. First as a member, then as WCPA Deputy Chair from 1988 to 1993 then as the WCPA Chair from 1993 to 2000. During his period as WCPA Chair, Adrian has developed WCPA into the world’s leading network of protected area professionals and has mobilised membership at all levels towards clear and effective achievements. The results provide a model of what an IUCN volunteer network can achieve. Adrian Phillips has brought many unique attributed to his work as WCPA Chair. His clarity of thought, his ability to distil and synthesise complex issues and arguments and present them in a clear and understandable way, has been a feature of his work. This has been applied in forums ranging from site visits to protected areas, to various international fora. Adrian’s ability and willingness to work incredibly hard and effi ciently, often behind the scenes, for the benefi t ofconservation and protected areas, has also been an integral feature of his work. Last, but by no means least, his personal qualities, particularly in the way in which he deals with people from all walks of life, has been a feature. All who have met Adrian are touched by his warmth, sincerity and genuine interest. For his energy, commitment, warm personality and achievements, he is held in the greatest affection and respect by all within the IUCN and WCPA family.”


1999(Presented on 9 September, at WCPA East Asia Regional Working Session, Seoul, South Korea)

Professor Woo Bo-Myeong, South Korea

“The Fred M. Packard International Award is presented to Professor Woo Bo-Myeong in recognition of his outstanding achievements in nature conservation in the Republic of Korea and across the region of East Asia. Within Korea, his is a distinguished professor in the Department of Forest Resources at the Seoul National University, and chairs the Korean Forestry Society. At the international level, Professor Woo has been a Co-Chair – since 1996 – of the Steering Committee of IUCN’s World commission on Protected Areas (WCPA) in East Asia. He has been very infl uential in ensuring the great success of WCPA in the region. As Chair of the Organising Committee, and through his energies and enthusiasm, Professor Woo has been the principal architect behind the highly successful Regional Conference on Protected Areas, held in Seoul, Korea, in September 1999.” (Presented on 10 December, at WCPA South East Asia Meeting, Pakse Lao PDR)

Datuk Lamri bin Ali

“For more than 25 years Datuk Lamri Ali, Director of Sabah Parks, has enthusiastically dedicated his energies to a range of conservation issues within the protected areas of Sabah in Malaysia. He was instrumental in preparing and implementing the conservation strategies which ensure the effective management of Sabah’s six parks and he initiated the establishment of one of the world’s fi rst transboundary marine protected areas between the Governments of Malaysia and the Philippines. Datuk is especially honoured for his energy and commitment to turtle conservation and for his leadership of the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Borneo Scientifi c Expeditions in 1989, 1992 and 1995. Datuk has contributed numerous scientifi c papers and is an active member of many organisations working to help protect Sabah’s parks. We applaud him for his inspirational work in protected area establishment and management.”

1998(Presented on 17 July 1998 at New South Wales, National Parks and Wildlife Service: “Visionssymposium”, Sydney, NSW, Australia)

The Hon. Robert Carr MP, Premier of New South Wales, NSW, Australia

“This award is presented to the Hon. Robert Carr MP, Premier of New South Wales, in recognition of his outstanding achievements in nature conservation and protected area management. It acknowledges his strong personal commitment over many years to the protection of wilderness, creation of national parks and nature reserves and most importantly fostering community understanding to the need to preserve our biodiversity for future generations to use, treasure and enjoy.”

Graeme Kelleher, AM, Australia

“This award is presented to Graeme Kelleher, AM, in recognition of his outstanding achievements over many years as Chairman of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority /1979-1994) and as Marine Vice-Chairman of the World Commission on Protected Areas (1986-1998). He has played a leading role in developing and applying techniques for multiple-use management which are now widely used internationally in marine conservation. His tireless efforts to promote the establishment of a globally representative system of marine protected areas have made a vital contribution to protection and management of the world’s seas. His deep personal commitment to conservation of marine biodiversity, wise and fair use of marine resources, and fostering community education, support and involvement in conservation has been an inspiration to others – in Australia and around the world.”

1997(Presented at the 1997 Santa Marta Latin American Parks Congress)

Kyran D. Thelen,

“Kyran D. Thelen ha dedicado más de 20 años de su vida a la conservación de los valores naturales y culturales de Latinoamérica, promoviendo a nivel regional y nacional el establecimiento de sistemas nacionales de áreas protegidas como contribución al desarrollo sostenible. Ha participado activamente en la capacitación de varias generaciones de especialistas en áreas protegidas. Como Ofi cial Forestal de la Ofi cina Regional de la FAO para América Latina y el Caribe, impulsó el establecimiento de la “Red Latinoamericana de Cooperación Técnica en Parques Nacionales, otras Areas Protegidas, Flora y Fauna Silvestres”, que ha facilitado el fortalecimiento de las áreas protegidas y del personal vinculado a las mismas en la región. Tuvo una contribución destacada en el IV Congreso Mundial de Parques Nacionales y Areas Protegidas (Caracas, Venezuela, 1992). Su esfuerzo de muchos años ha contribuido a que la región Latinoamericana haya mantenido una posición de liderazgo en el movimiento mundial de áreas protegidas.” Cuerpo de Guardabosques de la Reserva Natural del Bosque Mbaracayu “El Cuerpo de Guardabosques de la Reserva Natural del Bosque Mbaracayu fue creado en 1992 para proteger el último remanente de bosque alto y continuo del Paraguay. Sus miembros fueron seleccionados entre los líderes campesinos y mejores cazadores de la zona. El equipo superó con entereza el reto social de emprender un trabajo totalmente incomprendido en ese momento. Durante estos cinco años han enfrentado situaciones de gran riesgo y desgaste físico. También han mostrado el valor de su conocimiento del bosque, aportando valiosos datos sobre su diversidad biológica. Han valorado y aprendido la cultura de los indígenas Ache que habitan esta zona, convirtiéndose en sus aliados y defensores. Su valor les ha permitido salvar vidas indígenas y campesinas, arriesgándose aun más allá de sus obligaciones. Han desarrollado y mantenido un excelente espíritu de equipo que les ha permitido enfrentar no sólo el diario desafío de proteger esta Reserva Natural, sino


también el promover un cambio de mentalidad entre sus pobladores, lográndolo gracias a su alto grado de dedicación y compromiso por la conservación.”

Jorge Cabrera Hidalgo, Guatemala

“Jorge Cabrera Hidalgo ha hecho una contribución sobresaliente a las áreas protegidas no sólo en su país natal, Guatemala, pero también en Centro América. Fue coordinador de la Comisión Nacional de Medio Ambiente de Guatemala entre 1986-1990, período en el cual impulsó la declaración de la Ley Nacional de Mejoramiento del Medio Ambiente, y de la Ley de Areas Protegidas, que creó el Sistema Guatemalteco de Areas Protegidas. Bajo su cuidado se declaró la primera y más grande Reserva de la Biosfera de Guatemala, la Reserva de la Biosfera Maya. Entre 1991 y 1997 fue uno de los promotores, y posteriormente el Secretario, de la Comisión Centroamericana de Ambiente y Desarrollo. En el marco de esta comisión impulsó el desarrollo del convenio regionales de biodiversidad y áreas silvestres protegidas, y del convenio de bosques, y con ellos la creación del Consejo Centroamericano de Areas Protegidas y el Consejo Centroamericano de Bosques. Su trabajo y energía han facilitado el desarrollo de importantes proyectos para fortalecer el Sistema Centroamericano de Areas Protegidas así como el Corredor Biológico Centroamericano.”

Silvino González, Paraquay

“Silvino González es uno de los funcionarios de mayor antigüedad de la Dirección de Parques Nacionales y Vida Silvestre del Paraguay, trabajando por más de 17 años como administrador del Parque Nacional Defensores del Chaco. Ha demostrado un abnegado esfuerzo y valor en la protección de este Parque Nacional, caracterizado por la hostilidad de su semidesértico territorio. En 1994, y poniendo en riesgo su integridad personal, se enfrentó decididamente al poderío militar en su país, al denunciar acciones que atentaban contra la integridad del Parque Nacional bajo su cuidado. Durante sus largos años de servicio ha demostrado su compromiso por la conservación y su coraje, al enfrentar el poder de la institución en ese momento más poderosa del país. Su legendaria abnegación, habilidad e ingenio en un inhóspito ambiente le han valido el respeto de las comunidades locales y de técnicos y científi cos nacionales y extranjeros.”

(Presented November 1997 at WCPA Europe Regional Working Session, Rügen, Germany)

Ricardo Pascual Garcia, Spain

“For more than twenty years, Dr. Ricardo Pascual Garcia was the Director of the Parque Nacional de Ordesa y Monte Perdido in the Spanish Pyrenees. Under his direction, the park was esignated a Biosphere Reserve in 1977, greatly extended in 1982, designated as a Specially Protected Area under the Birds Directive in 1987, and awarded the European Diploma (Category A) for outstanding management in 1988. Over the years, Dr. Ricardo Pascual successfully protected the park

against various threats and built a strong basis of local support. In 1995, his achievements were crowned in the signing of a transboundary co-operative agreement with the neighbouring French Parc National des Pyrenées. Through his personal qualities and leadership, Dr. Ricardo Pascual has established the national and international reputation of Ordesa y Monte Perdido, andthereby set standards throughout Spain and beyond.”

Hannu Ormio, Finland

“For nearly 24 years, Mr Hannu Ormio has played a central role in Finland’s national parks and other protected areas. As one of the fi rst Finnish conservation experts to be exposed to North American experience, he led the effort to put the management of his country’s own parks on a professional footing. The co-author of the standard book in Finland on the topic, he has been aleader in raising standards in park and visitor management. Currently he is responsible for themanagement of eight national parks and almost 100 other protected areas in south Finland, including Nuuksio National Park, the showpiece on the edge of Helsinki. Throughout, Mr Ormio has shown a commitment to the cause of conservation far beyond the call of duty.”

(Presented May 1997 at WCPA South Asia Regional Working Session, Colombo, Sri Lanka)

A. K. Brahma, India

“Since 1981, Shri A.K. Brahma has been Range Offi cer in Manas National Park, a World Heritage site. He has shown outstanding courage in defence of Manas during recent incursions by militants, which have led to the deaths of some park staff, poaching and the destruction of infrastructure. Following several years of courageous defence of wildlife in the park, he was attacked and seriously injured by poachers in March 1993. During his three weeks hospitalisation, 22 rhinos were killed. He returned to duty before full recovery, took charge of the park’s defence one more, and – despite an offer to move elsewhere – has insisted on continuing to serve the cause of conservation in Manas. He is now working with student groups to build support for the park.”

D. D. Boro, India

“Since 1987, Mr D.D. Boro has worked at Kaziranga National Park, a World Heritage site, as Range Forest Offi cer. With India’s largest population of the Indian one-horned rhinos, Kaziranga is particularly exposed to organised poaching. Mr Boro has been involved in more than 100 encounters with well-armed poachers, in which death and injury have been common. Mr Boro also has worked with local villagers to get their support to combat poaching and has persuaded former poachers to assist him too. Due to his personal courage and leadership, there has recently been a marked decline in the number of poaching incidents. As a result, rhino populations have been stable for 10 years.”


1996(Presented at CNPPA Working Session held in Bogor, Indonesia)

Dr. Effendy A. Sumardja, Indonesia

“Dr. Effendy A. Sumardja is one of South East Asia’s most outstanding leaders in conservation, environmental management and protected areas. Internationally, his infl uence has been considerable, notably at the 1982 3rd World Parks Congress in Bali, in the Convention on Biological Diversity, in ASEAN institutions, and through his valued leadership in CNPPA. Within Indonesia he has successfully applied international experience and scientifi c knowledge on protected areas management, in a career which has taken him from fi eld offi cer to Assistant Minister. With his gentle, confi dent manner, Effendy’s continued leadership is essential in a country and a region of great biodiversity importance.”

(Presented at CNPPA Working Session held in Sydney, Australia, June 1996)

Peter Hitchcock, Australia

“Peter Hitchcock has made an outstanding contribution to nature conservation in Australia. From 1970 to 1991, he held a number of senior positions in the New South Wales National Parks and Wildlife Service. He was instrumental in reserving over 2 million ha. of land as National Park and was closely involved in the listing of World Heritage Sites. During 1987/88, Peter was a Commissioner on the Inquiry into the Lemonthyne and Southern Forests (Tasmania). His minority report identifi ed World Heritage values and was largely accepted by the Commonwealth Government. In 1991, he became the fi rst Executive Director of the West Tropics Management Authority, responsible for a particularly complex World Heritage Area. His leadership has built a dynamic organisation and a high level of community support.”

(Presented at CNPPA Working Session, held in Kushiro, Japan)

China Man and the Biosphere Reserve Council, China

“Since its founding in 1981, the Man and the Biosphere (MAB) National Council of China has played a prominent part in the development of China’s network of nature reserves. Its main contributions have been: to establish China’s own Biosphere Reserve network; to add key areas to the global MAB Biosphere Reserve network; to promote a management model for Biosphere Reserves; and to publish a journal: China’s Biosphere Reserves. The National Council has used the network of reserves to run training courses, promote scientifi c research and encourage sustainable utilisation and tourism. It has established a well-founded reputation as an innovative leader in Biosphere Reserves in the East Asia region; and globally it has won the commendation of the MAB Council.”

Mr. Kotaro Kusakabe, Japan

“Mr. Kotaro Kusakabe has been a leader in conservation and protected areas in Japan over many years. He spent 34 years in government service, beginning as a national parks manager/ranger in Hokkaido Prefecture, where his legacy is a network of nature-rich parks. His governmental career culminated as Director of the Environment Agency’s National Environmental Training Institute. In 1984, he moved to the non-governmental sector, heading up the Japan Environment Association.He is currently Director-General of the National Parks Association of Japan and a member of the National Council for Nature Conservation. Mr. Kusakabe has given leadership to CNPPA members in Japan and was the driving force behind the Second CNPPA conference, held in Kushiro, Japan, July 1996. No individual can have done more to promote the cause of protected areas in Japan in recent years than Mr. Kusakabe.”

(Presented during the CNPPA meeting prior to 1996 World Conservation Congress, held in Montreal, Canada)

Abeedulah Jan, Pakistan

“Mr. Abeedulah Jan has made an outstanding contribution to the protected areas of Pakistan. In 35 years of public service, he has been the driving force behind the numerous management plans for important forest and other conservation areas. He played a key role in securing the well-being of the Khunjerab and Margalla Hills national parks. His advocacy skills have helped obtain substantial external funding for Pakistan’s parks and reserves, and secure Ramsar listing and World Heritage status for important areas. Mr. Jan has been a much respected chair of national committees on mangrove forests, migratory birds and endangered species, and has promoted the making of fi lms about Pakistan’s wildlife.”

Perez Olindo, Kenya

“Perez Olindo’s life-time love for Africa’s wildlife began as a child in Kenya. He won a scholarship to study in the United States in 1960, returning to a newly-independent Kenya in 1965. He soon became Director of its National Parks. During his ten years of leadership, numerous parks and reserves were established in mountain, lake, forest, savanna and marine environments, wildlifepolicy was updated to emphasise community participation and education, and a new generation of African parks managers were trained. More recently, he has held senior conservation posts in government and in such NGOs as the African Wildlife Foundation, Wildlife Clubs of Kenya and the East African Wildlife Society. For a number of years, he has been CNPPA’s Vice Chair for East and Southern Africa, as well as IUCN Vice President and a key fi gure in the Species Survival Commission. Probably uniquely, he has participated in all four World Parks Congresses between 1962 and 1992. Throughout his long career, Perez Olindo has been a distinguished leader in Africa’s post-colonial conservation movement who has won respect around the world.”


H. S. Panwar, India

“H.S. Panwar has made an outstanding contribution to protected areas work in India over some 25 years. In Madhya Pradesh, he raised the profi le of the Kanha National Park and pioneered theinnovative management of the park. Subsequently, as Director of the India Government’s ProjectTiger, he established this as one of the world’s leading conservation projects. From 1985 to 1994,Shri Panwar was the fi rst Director of the Wildlife Institute of India; under his inspired leadership, this became a remarkable training ground for protected area professionals, wildlife biologists andadministrators. He is now training staff of the Sri Lanka Department of National Parks and WildlifeConservation, and implementing GEF-assisted protected area projects in that country.”

1995 (Presented at CNPPA Working Session held in Banff National Park, Canada)

Inuit Tapirisat of Canada on behalf of all Canadian Inuit, Canada “Canadian Inuit have fulfi lled a key role in the establishment of national parks and protected areas within their homelands in Northern Canada. Through their national, regional and local organizations, Canadian Inuit have been instrumental recently in the establishment of Ivvavik and Aulavik National Parks, Pingo Canadian Landmark, Prince Leopold Island Migratory Bird Sanctuary, Nirjutigavvik and Igaliqtuuq National Wildlife Areas, Kekerten Territorial Historic Park, and Katannilik Territorial Park. The Inuit continue their stewardship role through the co-operative management of these areas and they are pursuing the establishment of additional conservation areas throughout the Canadian Arctic.”

(Presented at CNPPA Working Session held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.)

Dr. Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz Bin Moammar, Saudi Arabia

“H.E. Dr. Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz Bin Moammarm, Minister of Agriculture and Water, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is well known for his work in directing large scale and effective initiatives to protect land from degradation, preparing legislation and overseeing its translation into realised actions. The results of his infl uence can be seen in the production of millions of trees and shrubs, their planting in threatened areas and measures taken to monitor their ecological impact. In addition, he has been closely involved in protection in perpetuity of existing vegetation and wildlife through the establishment of a system of National Parks. As a member of the Board of Directors of the NCWCD, he has given vital support to wildlife conservation at all levels.”

1994

(Presented at CNPPA meeting prior to 1994 IUCN General Assembly in Buenos Aires, Argentina)

Mr Troels M. Pedersen, Argentina

“Doctor Pedersen has managed his large estates in Corrientes Province, Argentina, with strict conservation measures for nigh on sixty years, permitting the native vegetation to return. The major habitats include palm groves, galery forest, marshes, grasslands and Chaco wood. The fauna is rich and equally varied; some endangered species are represented. On his retirement, he has donated the 15,000 hectares to National Parks, the fi rst such gift in the Province.”

The Late Luis Honorio Rolon, Argentina

“The late Dr Rolon always loved the rain forests of Misiones Province, Argentina. Between 1987 and 1989, as Under-secretary for Ecology in the Province, he created a system of provincial parks, thirteen in total between public and private lands (now twenty-three) in this the most threatened habitat in Argentina. The areas now covered exceeds 100,000 hectares. The most important - Urugay - complements Iguazu National Park, thus greatly enhancing its value and effect. His effort has put Misiones Province in the vanguard of provincial conservation.”

Dr Edgar Wayburn, USA

“Ed Wayburn has a long and distinguished record of environmental accomplishments which are the product of his lifetime commitment to protected areas and wilderness values and his tireless energy. His voluntary work through his fi fty years of service with the Sierra Club variously as its President and now Honorary President included the initiation and leadership of campaigns, which saw over 42 million hectares of public land in the United States given protected area status, specifi cally in California with the Redwood National Park, Golden Gate/Point Reyes region and vast areas in Alaska. His efforts, strongly supported by his wife, Peggy, have led to his being described as the present day incarnation of John Muir.”

I. Made Sutaadi, Indonesia

“A very effective, innovative and committed Area Supervisor for Bali Barat National Park, Bali, Indonesia who has contributed to conservation of protected areas in a great variety of ways including working in cooperation with villagers, using traditional techniques, enhancing patrolling, acting fi rmly and effectively against armed poachers on land and sea, fi ghting forest fi res andcarrying our effective reforestation.”

The Late Ian Craven, UK

“Ian Craven’s tragic death in a plane crash in Irian Jaya, Indonesia on 11 August 1993 robbed the conservation movement and WWF of one of its brightest and best


young fi eld workers. Only 31 years old when he died, Ian Craven had gained an outstanding reputation for his success in involving local communities and gaining their support in the demarcation and management of theArfak Mountains Nature Reserve and Wasur National Park. His quiet, conciliatory approach and outstanding personal skills and his caring approach to people and to conservation helped secure two of the most important protected areas in Irian Jaya.”

(Presented at the IUCN General Assembly, Buenos Aires, 1994)

Mr P. H. C. Bing Lucas, New Zealand

“The Commission gives the Fred M. Packard award for distinguished Service to Bing Lucas in recognition of his outstanding contribution to national parks and protected areas. Bing Lucas became a member of CNPPA in 1971. He was Deputy Chair from 1983 to 1988 and SeniorAdviser from 1988 until 1990, when he was elected Chair. Under his leadership, the Commission planned and implemented the highly successful Fourth World Parks Congress held in Caracas in 1992. Particularly noteworthy have been his contributions to: the development of the World Heritage Convention; parks and reserves systems in Nepal, the South Pacifi c and China; and the concept of protected landscapes. At home, Bing Lucas was the leading architect of the recentdevelopment of New Zealand’s park system, one of the world’s best. His distinguished career there culminated in his appointment as Director General of the Department of Lands and Survey. During this time, he was IUCN Regional Councillor for Australia and Oceania. Retiring from government service in 1986, he has remained involved in conservation in New Zealand, for example as National President of the Youth Hostels Association. Bing Lucas’s warm personality and good humour have earned him many friends. The qualities of integrity, sensitivity and judgement shine through his long list of achievements.”

(Presented at CNPPA Steering Committee, June, Gland, Switzerland, 1994)

Mr Robert Ferdinand Schloeth, Switzerland

Robert Schoeth gave a long and distinguished service from 1964 to 1990 as the fi rst full-time Director of the Swiss National Park. In this capacity, he showed deep respect for the natural values of the park and was very successful in conveying to visitors his sensitive perception of nature through his management of the park, his books, articles, lectures, talks and excursions. He is an inspiring example of dedication to the national park for which he held major responsibility.”

(Presented at CNPPA Working Session at Kruger National Park, South Africa)

Dr Robbie Robinson, Republic of South Africa

“Presently Chief Executive of the National Parks Board of South Africa, has been a pacesetter throughout his career. Coming from a scientifi c background, with a

doctorate in marine biology, he has led the organization into new fi elds and to new endeavours. Among many innovations was his development of the now famous Otter Trail, a pioneering concept 25 years ago. As he moved up through the ranks he continued to make major contributions in many fi elds of research andmanagement. In the transition to a democratic society, Dr. Robinson has played a crucial role in developing appropriate policies to ensure that the National Parks of South Africa are relevant to the lives of all its people, and specially to those previously excluded and alienated from those areas.”

1993

The Atiu Arongo Mana, Cook Islands

“The Arongo Mana of Atiu have been legal trustees of Takutea Island since 1950 and, as traditional island leaders, have conserved Takutea Island as a Wildlife Sanctuary. Takutea is a coral cay of 122 hectares, 22 kilometers north of Atiu Island in the Cook Islands Group in the south Pacifi c. Takutea has a history of resource use but, under the trusteeship of Arongo Mana of Atiu, has remained uninhabited with most of its forest regenerated and with protection for its colonies, the largest and most important in the Southern Cook Islands.”

(Presented at the CNPPA Working Session at Nykõping, Sweden)

Dr Arne Kaasik, Estonia

“Trained as a forester in Estonia. Arne Kaasik became the conservation offi cer of the Lahemaa National Park in 1972. Since 1988, he has been its able and courageous Director during a diffi cult period. He has used his membership of CNPPA to promote international cooperation. In 1990, his park was the fi rst in the former Soviet Union to join the Federation of Nature and National Parks of Europe. In 1991, he was instrumental in creating the Baltic Association of National Parks.”

Dr Lars-Erik Esping, Sweden

“Lars-Erik Esping has been at the centre of Swedish nature conservation for forty years. From 1963 until his recent retirement, he was head of the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency’s Department for Nature and Natural Resources. As an active member of CNPPA, his crowning achievement has been the Baltic Sea region Seminar and CNPPA Working Session for Europe, held here in Nykõping. A cleaner Baltic - and more and better protected areas in Europe - will be a fi tting reward for Lars-Erik’s distinguished contribution to nature conservation in Europe.”

(Presented at the CNPPA Working Session at Beijing, China)

Mr Tasuku Ono, Japan

“In recognition of outstanding service in furthering the conservation objectives of protected areas to society


Tsuku Ono - a longstanding member of CNPPA - has given 40 years of distinguished service to nature conservation in Japan and in East Asia. Now Chairman of the Marine Park Centre of Japan, he has devoted the past 10 years to working for the conservation in non-government organizations. Before this, he served with distinction for 30 years as a government offi cer in the National Parks Department and the Nature Conservation Bureau of the Environment Agency. His advice to ministers continues to be given through membership of the Nature Conservation Bureau and the Central Council for Forest management. Mr Uno has worked very effectively with volunteers through initiating the green Census and inspired nature interpretation and conservation activities with schools, community groups and the general public.”

The Laboratory of Quantitative Vegetation Ecology of the Institute of Botany, The ChineseAcademy of Sciences, China

“The Laboratory of Quantitative Vegetation Ecology (LQVE) has been active in promoting international cooperation and applying a scientifi c approach to the establishment and planning of the Qomolangma Protected Area in Xizang. In achieving this, the laboratory undertook comprehensive scientifi c observations, introduced a Geographical Information System, incorporated natural, social and economic considerations, and created the Xizang Plateau Ecological Information System. The laboratory has also make a vital contribution to conservation in East Asia through its excellent organization of the First Conference on National Parks and Protected Areas of East Asia in 1993 and through designing the associated conservation exhibition.”

1992(Presented at the IV World Congress on National Parks and Protected Areas, Caracas, Venezuela)

Don Carlos Mendez Montenegro and Alex Rudolfo Mendez Del Cid

“Don Carlos Mendez Montenegro and his son Alex Rudolfo Mendez Del Cid are recognized for their valour; both were wounded in an ambush on 29 April 1991. They had completed a fi eld trip to the Sierra de la Minas Biosphere Reserve, which had been established largely through the efforts of Don Carlos. On their return they were ambushed by a gang hired by a local land owner, injuring both the father, who was responsible for the Guards, and the son who was on the Reserve staff. They have both returned to their duties and Don Carlos continues helping the community conserve their resources.”

Mr. Joseph Mburugu, Kenya

“Mr. Joseph Mburugu is recognized for distinguished service. He has remained as the only continuous link in the administration of Kenya’s National Parks over a period of 30 years. Mr. Mburugu’s integrity is such that he has been trusted by both government and the general public in Kenya since the early 1960s. His dedication has

led him to a new role as Deputy Director of Wildlife, a position in which he continues to serve both the people and the protected areas of Kenya.”

Mr. Tom Van’t Hof, Netherlands Antilles

“Under his skilled and enthusiastic guidance, the marine parks of the Netherlands Antilles became actual managed parks, becoming a model for many other marine and coastal parks in the Caribbean area, and the world. Tom included in the management of marine parks new concepts like economic relevance, self-support through creative funding, public participation and aggressive public relations to sell sustainability. The Parks of Bonaire, Curaco, and Saba are based on sound scientifi c data and research backed up with the dedication and commitment of Tom van’t Hof.”

Dr. Jorge Ignacio Hernandez Camacho, Colombia

“Dr. Jorge Ignacio Hernandez Camacho, Scientifi c Director of UNIFEM-INDERENA, is cited for distinguished service. For thirty years Dr. Hernandez has led conservation efforts in Colombia, involving universities as well as government organizations. His work on park systems planning and the application of biogeographical theory have led to the conservation of Colombia’s exceptional biodiversity in an extensive system of protected areas.”

Dr. Hugh Lamprey, UK

“Dr. Hugh Lamprey, scientist, educator and conservationist was the fi rst Principal of the AfricanCollege of Wildlife Management at Mweka in Tanzania. He was also the founder of the Serengeti Research Institute, the Coordinator of the Integrated Arid Lands Project in Kenya. And the stimulus behind numerous protected area initiatives in eastern Africa. His consideration for others, his energy and dedication will continue to be refl ected through those he has trained as well as in the projects he has established.”

Dr. Abdulaziz H. Abuzinada, Saudi Arabia

“Dr. Abdulaziz H. Abuzinada is commended for his approach to protected areas in Saudi Arabia. In his own words, “Conserving nature is a moral obligation on every living person. It also makes sound pragmatic sense. By conserving and developing our renewable resources, using the best possible approach, we will also preserve man’s habitats and ability to survive and prosper on earth”. By combining conservation with the social needs of traditional peoples, Dr. Abuzinada is pioneering new efforts in the Arabian peninsula.”

Dr. Aila Keto, Australia

“Dr. Keto has been a leader in the conservation of the Wet Tropics of Queensland, as a respected scientist, as a high profi le public fi gure, and as a spokesperson for conservation. Her research and publications are of global importance in the conservation of biodiversity and the sustainable utilization of biological systems. She is


to be particularly commended for her selfl ess dedication to nature conservation using sound social and ecological principles.”

Mme Madeleine de Grandmaison, Martinique, France

“Madeleine de Grandmaison, Professor, Regional Councillor for Martinique and Premier Vice-president of Regional Nature Park of Martinique, has worked for many years towards the protection and enhancement of the environment, notably in the realm of protected areas. She has played an essential role in the creation of educational structures, research and education on environmental matters.”

Almirante IBSEN DE GUSMAO CAMARA, Brazil

“Thanks to this gentleman’s efforts, Brazil started to create units for marine conservation and for the protection of areas in Amazonia. He is a leader of the Movement for the Conservation of the Environment in Brazil. He was President for six years of the NGO that is the oldest and most reputed organization in Brazil. At present, he is developing projects for the protection of Atlantic Forests and of marine mammals and he is on the board of various NGOs, as well as SSC and CNPPA of the IUCN, which ensures him the respect he merits from the entire community.“

Mr. Carlos Castaño Uribe, Colombia

“Mr Carlos Castaño, Director of National Parks of Colombia, has played an important role in the Cooperation Treaty of the Amazon (“Tratado de Cooperación del Amazonas”), to secure theestablishment, the planning and the management of the network of national parks and protected areas of the Amazon Basin. Mr Castaño has dedicated years of service for the cause of national parks in his country in strengthening the cooperation between countries of the Region, including the bilateral cooperation with neighbouring parks.”

Mr Mario Gabaldón and the staff of INPARQUES, Venezuela

“who played an important role in securing the establishment, the planning and the management of the network of national parks and protected areas in Venezuela. Mr Gabaldón has dedicated years of service for the cause of national parks in his country and he has strengthened the cooperation between countries in the Region, including the bilateral cooperation in the planning of neighbouring parks.”

Mr P. Srinivas, India

“Mr. P. Srinivas was a man with a mission. He detested violence yet lost his life in an ambush by one of India’s most notorious poachers. He dedicated his life to conservation and used his many skills to educate villagers and wean them away from supporting poachers and poaching as a way of life. His growing success rate likely led to his death -- in an attempt at conciliation he

was cruelly ambushed and killed. His dedication and tenacity remain a goal for his many followers.”

Dr. Vladislav Vassiliev, USSR

“For twenty years Dr. Vassiliev has been deeply involved in research and management in the Krasnovodsk Nature Reserve. This is the largest reserve in Turkmenia and one of the most important ornithological areas in the Caspian Sea region. Dr. Vassiliev has combined his research with formal and public education programmes. In addition he has been involved in the charging and punishment of over 500 poachers, sometimes at high personal risk.

Dr. Vladimar Krinitsky

“In his early years Dr. Krinitsky carried out fi eld work in several Nature Reserves. His many successes led him to the position of Director of the State Nature Reserves, Forestry and Wildlife Directorate. From this position he became deeply involved in international conservation with IUCN, CNPPA, IWRB and MAB. He left his mark on a greatly expanded network of conservation areas in what was then the USSR. He was forward looking and outward looking during a diffi cult period for conservation in the USSR.”

1990(Recognized at the IUCN General Assembly in Perth, Australia)

Citoyen Mankoto ma Mbaelele, Zaire Samuel A. Cooke, Hawaii

“In recognition of outstanding service in furthering the conservation objectives of protected areas to society. Samuel Cooke, Director of the Nature Conservancy of Hawaii has, over a period of ten years, demonstrated distinguished leadership. He was instrumental in the success of the «Endangered Hawaiian Forest Bird Project» and the «Islands for Life Campaign».

Jiri Svoboda, Czechoslovakia

“Director (Emeritus) Krkonose National Park, in recognition of outstanding service in furthering the conservation objectives of protected areas to society. From 1974 to 1984 Jiri Svoboda provided leadership in the management of Krkonose National Park. He extended park management beyond the park’s boundary and initiated a programme of international cooperation which culminated in the International Conference entitled “Parks, People and Pollution.”

Ponsiano Ssemwezi, Uganda

“In recognition of outstanding service in furthering the conservation objectives of protected areas to society. Mr. Ponsiano Ssemwezi retired as Director of Ugandan National Parks in 1989. His distinguished career spanned a turbulent time in the history of Uganda. A brutal military regime led to the destruction of wildlife and park facilities. Mr. Ssemwezi persevered in his tireless and perilous task of convincing the military regime that the parks and


their wildlife must be saved. In spite of great hardship and personal risk, he succeeded. As a “Life Warden” he continues to serve the parks he loves. The international conservation community is grateful for his continuing dedication.”

Dr. Gerardo Budowski, Venezuela

“Gerardo Budowski has served conservation as a research offi cer, professor and administrator. His work has been published throughout the world. He has served National Parks and Protected Areas with distinction. At the 18th General Assembly of IUCN held in Perth, Australia, he was elected an Honorary Member of CNPPA.”

Dr. Duncan Poore, UK

“Since the creation of CNPPA in 1960, Dr. Poore has been at the centre of regional and global conservation issues. He has served with distinction as a forester, an ecologist, a professor and an administrator. His commitment has ensured the protection of many natural areas throughout the world. In recognition of his dedication he was elected an Honorary Member of CNPPA at the 18th General Assembly of IUCN which was held in Perth, Australia, November 1990.”

John Foster, UK

“In recognition of 40 years of distinguished service in landscape conservation and recreation planning and management, fi rst as Director of the Peak National Park in England and subsequently as the fi rst Director of the Countryside Commission for Scotland. John Foster has played an active part in CNPPA’s work at the international level from 1974 onwards, notably as Vice Chair for the Western Palaearctic Region between 1981 and 1988. He was also instrumental in reviving the European Federation of Nature and National Parks. He has made a particularly strong contribution to the development of interpretation techniques as tools of conservation education.”

Biocenosis AC and Lic. Manzanilla Shafer, Harold Eidsvik, Canada

1988(Announced at IUCN General Assembly in San Jose, Costa Rica)

Francisco Ponce, El Salvador

“Warden Ponce gave his life for conservation. Unarmed he was shot and killed on April 17, 1987, while protecting the birds of Laguna El Jocatal Biological Reserve. Senor Ponce gave more than 10 years of his life to the protection of wildlife. This sad event has strengthened the commitment of his colleagues to its conservation.”

Ricardo Luti, Argentina

“Ricardo Luti, conservationist, educator and catalyst, has stimulated the young and motivated many to work

for the conservation of nature. He was the founder of the Cordoba Committee for Nature Conservation. He has assisted in the establishment of many reserves, including the World Heritage Site Iguazu Falls. He is recognized by his colleagues for his continuing enthusiasm and dedication over more than three decades.”

Kenton Miller, USA

“This award acknowledges Kenton Miller’s commitment to conservation, his dedication to IUCN and his enthusiastic support for protected areas and species. He has met these challenges in the fi eld, in the classroom and in the boardroom. As Chairman of CNPPA and Director General of IUCN, he has carried the conservation message around the world. “

Josip Movcan, Yugoslavia

“Josip Movcan whose eye for natural beauty has created a harmony of man in nature in Plitvice National Park. His dedication to conservation is demonstrated by his 28 years of careful management of Plitvice.”

The Council of the Haida Nation, Canada “and Miles Richardson, Guujaaw, John Broadhead, Thom Henley, Bill Reid, Colleen McCrory, Vicky Husband, Paul George, Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society, Sierra Club of Western Canada, Canadian Nature Federation, Tom McMillan, John Fraser, Jim Fulton, Islands Protection Society

in recognition of outstanding service in furthering the conservation objectives of protected areas to society. The above mentioned individuals and groups worked tirelessly to preserve the South Moresby Wilderness Area, known as the Canadian Galapagos due to the large number ofendemic species, and also the ancestral home of the Haida nation, during a 13 year period in the face of extreme opposition from the logging and mining industries.”

Ray Dasmann, USA

“By enrolling Dr. Dasmann as an Honorary member of CNPPA, we would particularly like to recognize his early work on the classifi cation of biogeographic provinces and his pioneering descriptive work with respect to biosphere people and ecosystem people. Dr. Dasmann is also amember of IUCN’s Commission on Environmental Planning and Commission on Ecology. As a former Senior Ecologist to IUCN and now Professor of Environmental Studies, Dr. Dasmann continues to contribute in a major way to making the world a better place in which to live foreveryone.”

1987(Presented at the CNPPA meeting, Niamey, Niger)

Guards of Zakouma National Park, Tchad

“During the prolonged civil war, foreign occupation and drought, the guards of Zakouma have maintained their patrols without salary or equipment and by their presence


in the area have avoided total destruction of the park’s fauna.”

Mamadou Sadio, Senegal

“Mr. Sadio has distinguished himself by his courageous actions in carrying out anti-poaching missions, particularly in 1986. His demonstrated leadership has helped to ensure a secure future for the animals of Niokolo-Koba National Park.”

Robert Tei, Ivory Coast

“In January 1981, Warden Tei, while on patrol encountered poachers in the Tai National Park. Armed with only a machete, he was attacked by the poachers and shot in the abdomen. The poachers disbursed and the balance of the patrol assisted Robert Tei to the hospital, where after surgery, he recuperated.”

Ahmed Tcholli, Niger

“Mr. Tcholli has made a prolonged and dedicated effort, working with local people and the government of Niger to ensure the protection of the fl ora and fauna of the Air and Ténéré Regions of Niger. The creation of these nature reserves marks a signifi cant and symbolic achievement for conservation.”

1985

Sudabar Ali, India

“Several years ago Prime Minister Indira Ghandi said, “the survival of man is dependent on the survival of animal and plant life”. In today’s world this requires individuals dedicated to their work in sanctuaries such as Corbett National Park. Sudabar Ali is such an individual. In February 1984 he was badly mauled by a tiger. In recognition of his devotion to duty in spite of these dangers, he is at this time recognized for supporting Prime Minister Indira Ghandi’s objectives for conserving nature.”

Shri Qutub, India

“Working in Corbett National Park, Shri Qutub in the line of his duties demonstrated in February 1984 that not only must nature be protected but so must man. With the help of his elephant, he placed himself between a tiger who had attacked his colleague Sudabar Ali and placing his life at risk, saved that of his colleague.”

1984(Presented at the IUCN General Assembly in Madrid, Spain)

Passe Manner, Senegal

“Mr. Manner, a Senegalese National Park Guard, is recognized for his valorous act in pursuit of ivory poachers in Niokolo Koba National Park. In April 1984, a group of armed men were identifi ed in the park, where over the past decade poaching has brought the elephant

population from 300 to 87. Mr. Manner joined a group patrolling the area, spotted several poachers and gave chase. Despite being aware of the danger, Mr. Manner courageously pursued the men, and as a result, was shot and killed. Mr. Manner gave his life in demonstrating his commitment to protect wildlife and parks against great odds.”

Dr. Robert Brown, Australia

“Dr. Brown is recognized for his courageous personal leadership in defence of the Western Tasmania Wilderness National Parks World Heritage Site. He spearheaded the campaign to save the Franklin and Lower Gordon Rivers within the Western Tasmania Wilderness National Park from inundation by a hydroelectric project. His actions are in the highest tradition of individual leadership and the central roles played by non-governmental organizations in defence of the parks of the world.”

Alpine Rescue Team, New Zealand

“The Alpine rescue team of Mt. Cook National Park is recognized for an outstanding act of bravery and skill. During 1983, two members became trapped at 12,000 feet on the top of Mt. Cook. After several unsuccessful rescue attempts, one rescuer was fi nally lowered in gale force winds and winched the trapped climbers to safety. The skills and daring of both the rescued climbers and their rescuers are in the highest tradition of park professionals who often work at considerable personal risk to ensure the safety of visitors to the world’s national parks.”

Gabriel Charles, St. Lucia

“Mr. Charles, Director of the Forestry Division on the Caribbean Island of St. Lucia since 1975, isrecognized for his innovative development and management of protected areas. Mr. Charlesestablished the fi rst forest reserve on St. Lucia to protect the endangered St. Lucia parrot and its rainforest habitat. Mr. Charles’ creative leadership in integrating protected areas with development has extended to other islands of the region considering similar programmes.”

Robert Milne, USA

“Mr. Milne, Director of International Affairs of the US National Park Service since 1975, is recognized for over two decades of global leadership in support of park development and training. He has developed NPS bilateral cooperative programmes with many countries, including China, Saudi Arabia, India, and Sri Lanka. Mr. Milne’s patient, steady and modest leadership has been of great infl uence in building a network of park professionals throughout the world.”


1982(Presented at the Third World Congress on National Parks, Bali, Indonesia, 1982)

Syed Ahmed, India

“Driver, Ranthambhor Tiger Reserve, is recognized for his bold and valorous act of shielding and rescuing Fateh Singh Rathore during a vicious assault with sticks by illegal grazers in the Tiger Reserve in September 1981. Ahmed shielded Mr. Singh with his own body and was beaten with sticks, for which injuries he was later hospitalized. Without Mr. Ahmed’s intervention, the FieldDirector’s serious injuries could well have been fatal.”

Sir Charles G. Connell, UK

“Sir Charles Connell is recognized for his effective communication of national parks ideals and objectives to the public. A retired, distinguished Scottish lawyer, since the Second World War, Sir Charles has devoted his spare time and energy to nature conservation in Scotland. In his 84th year, he still plays an active part in the business of the Scottish Wildlife Trust which he founded in 1966.”

Myles J. Dunphy, Australia

“Myles Dunphy is recognized for championing the cause of national parks in Australia for most of his life. From 1916 until a few years ago, Mr. Dunphy waged an active campaign for a state-wide system of national parks containing wilderness areas, and completed wilderness parks. His voluntary efforts inspired others and gave impetus for the establishment of a comprehensive system of national parks in New South Wales, Australia.”

Dr. Jose Rafael Garcia, Venezuela

“Jose Garcia is recognized for his innovative management of parks. The present Director of theNational Parks Directorate of Venezuela, Garcia was appointed the fi rst Director-Superintendent in a national park in Venezuela in 1952. He has always been a strong advocate and defender of parks and protected areas. His leadership has resulted in the establishment of 26 national parks and 13 natural monuments as well as a number of management policies of signifi cance.”

Sylvanus Gorio, Papua New Guinea

“Sylvanus Gorio is recognized for his innovative management of parks. He joined the Papua NewGuinea National Parks Board in 1968 as a park ranger and became the fi rst local Director of the Board in 1975. He has developed a system of national parks and reserves which has placed PNG in the lead of this activity in the Oceanic Realm.”

Jean-Paul Harroy, Belgium

“Jean-Paul Harroy for many years directed IUCN’s National Parks Commission and inspired countries to develop protected natural areas. He built up the world list of national parks, and made it a signifi cant goal which

inspired nations to designate areas which would qualify for the list. He remains a dedicated leader in the fi eld of national parks and his infl uence will be long recognized.”

Kepala Seksis, Indonesia (received by Yus Rostandi, Senior Kepala Seksi)

“The Kepala Seksis (Section Heads/Park Superintendent or Chief Warden) of Indonesia are recognized for the important work which they have carried out in designing and planning Indonesia’s system of protected areas, and in the hope that the World National Parks Congress will help to encourage the fi eld personnel of Indonesia’s Directorate of Nature Conservation to implement, on the ground, the system which is now so impressive on the map.”

Sgt. Maj. Peter Logwe, Uganda (and the Kidepo Valley National Park Ranger Force)

“Sgt. Maj. Logwe is recognized for the team’s long record of distinguished service in confronting well-armed aggressive poachers who enter the park locally and also from neighbouring countries. Often outnumbered by better-armed poachers, this force has continually faced fi re from automatic rifl es, mortars, rocket launchers and machine guns as a result of which eight rangers have been killed in action over the past decade. Peter Logwe, a ranger since 1969 and leader of the force since 1976, has consistently exposed himself to danger from ambush and exchange of fi re.”

Fergus Lothian, Canada

“Fergus Lothian is recognized for his administrative service in the establishment and management of national parks and other protected areas, and for his undaunting efforts to preserve the national parks story of Canada for posterity. Mr. Lothian began work with the Department of the Interior in Canada in 1916, transferring to the national parks branch in 1924. He now has 58 years of service and has written a four-volume history of Parks Canada. At the age of 82, he continues to work on volume fi ve.”

Fateh Singh Rathore, India

“Fateh Singh Rathore, the Field Director of Ranthambhor Tiger Reserve is recognized for his conscientious application to duty under adverse circumstances. With outstanding work he achieved effective anti-poaching, control of grazing, fi re protection and development of wildfowl habitats. Mr. Rathore was instrumental in bringing about the amicable relocation of a number of villages from the heart of the Tiger Reserve by providing adequate and suitable alternatives to the affected villages. His perseverance and tactful efforts over almost a decade have fi nally eliminated domestic and commercial grazing from the core area of the Ranthambhor Tiger Reserve.”

Dr. George Ruhle, USA

““Doc” Ruhle is recognized for his many services in communicating national parks ideals and objectives to


the public, and his inspiration to younger national park offi cers. Dr. Ruhle has had 49 years of service with the US National Park Service and served as the fi rst naturalist in a number of parks, including Glacier National Park. He has served the international conservation effort in Thailand, South Korea, China and India.”

Miravaldo de Jesus Siguara, Brazil

“Miravaldo Siguara is recognized for his conscientious application to duty in the face of adverse circumstances. Siguara entered the Bahia Forest Service in 1955. Through innovative initiative, undaunting courage and drive, with very little support and staff, he succeeded in effectively establishing the Monte Pascoal National Park of Brazil against pressures from loggers and hunters.”

Dr. Soedjarwo and his Staff, Indonesia

“Soedjarwo is the Indonesian Director General of Forestry, responsible for providing the leadership which has guided one of the most impressive nature conservation efforts anywhere in the tropics. Beginning with a tiny staff and few protected areas, Soedjarwo has built the Directorate of Nature Conservation into a large, well-funded agency with some 11.4 million ha of the world’s richest and most diverse natural habitats.”

Robert I. Standish, USA

“Bob Standish was the founding editor of PARKS Magazine, the professional journal which units all those interested in national parks. He built up the magazine from an idea into a reality, tirelessly collecting material from around the world, building up the distribution list, and ensuring that the publication was always of high quality. His retirement from the Editorship of PARKS in 1982 marks the passing of an era.”

James Peter Stanton, Australia

“Jim Stanton is recognized for his innovative application of resource surveys to the planning of the Queensland park system. With his rare capacity for detailed fi eld work and dedication to the cause of national parks, he carried out the majority of assessments in the wide range of dissimilar Queensland’s national parks and protected areas, and proposals to protect representative samples of all major Queensland habitats.”

1981(Recognized at the Third World Congress on National Parks, Bali, Indonesia, 1982)

Joseph Kioko, Kenya

“As warden of Amboseli Game Reserve, Joseph Kioko showed outstanding ability and dedication in working with local people to ensure that the reserve was developed into a national park in harmony with the surrounding region, yielding meaningful benefi ts to the community, the nation and the world.”

Deceased Guards of Virunga National Park, Zaire

“During the turmoil between 1960 and 1967, over twenty rangers gave their lives in the defence of Virunga National Park. Their valour in this critical period ensured the survival of a World Heritage Site for all humanity.”

1980(Recognized at the Third World Congress on National Parks, Bali, Indonesia, 1982)

Insa Diatta and Yanya Danfa, Senegal

“Demonstrating exceptional bravery in the face of heavy automatic gunfi re, Insa Diatta and Yanya Danfa captured a team of poachers in Niokolo-Koba National Park. In bringing the case to court and prosecuting it successfully, they provided an outstanding example of how appropriateprocedures can be used to promote the protection of Senegal’s natural resources

Annex F

F1 IUCN Protected Area Offi cers

F2 IUCN Regional Offi ces

F3 IUCN Country Offi ces

F4 IUCN Outposted Offi ces

F5 IUCN Commissions


F1 IUCN Protected Area Offi cers Worldwide


M. Geoffroy MAUVAIS Protected Areas Offi cer Bureau Régional pour lÀfrique de lÒuestIUCN Ouagadougou Burkina Faso Email: [email protected]://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr

Dr Laurent NTAHUGA Regional Technical Coordinator for Biodiversity and Spe-cies IUCN Regional Offi ce for Eastern Africa PO Box 68200NairobiKenya Tel: ++254 (20) 890-605-12 Fax: +254 (20)890-605Email: [email protected]

Africa Mr Khaldoun AlomariProtected Areas Programme Offi cer IUCN WESCANA Regional Offi ce Residence 6Abdel-Karim Khalil StreetShmeisaniPO Box 942230Amman 11194Jordan Tel: +962 6 568 0105 Fax: +962 6 568 0355Email: [email protected]

Mrs. Rania FAOURI Communication Offi cer IUCN WESCANA Regional Offi ce Abdel Karim Khalil Street, No. 6PO Box 942230 Amman 11194 Jordan Tel: 00962 6 5680344 , 00962 6 5680322 ext (110) Fax: 00962 6 5680355 Email: [email protected] http://www.iucn.org/wescana

Mr Excellent HACHILEKA Country Programme Co-ordinator IUCN Zambia Country Offi ce Kwacha House Annex, 2nd FloorNorth End of Cairo RoadPrivate Bag W356LusakaZambia Tel: +260 (1) 231-866 Fax: +260 (1) 231 867Email: [email protected]

Mr Peter HOWARD IUCN Team LeaderIUCN-ESAROIUCN Regional Offi ce for Eastern and Southern AfricaWasaa Conservation CentreMukoma Road (off Magadi Road)City SquarePO Box 68200Nairobi00200Kenya Tel: ++254 (20) 890-606/07/08.../13 Fax: ++254 (20) 890-615


Asia

Mr Peter SHADIE Co-ordinator Regional Protected Areas Programme IUCN Asia Regional Offi ce 63 Sukhumvit Soi 39 (Prompong)WattanaBangkok 10010Thailand Tel: + 66 (0)2 662 4029 ext 302 Fax: +66 (0)2 662 4387 Email: [email protected]

Ms Patti MOORE HeadRegional Environmental Law ProgrammeIUCN Asia Regional Offi ce No. 63 Sukhumvit Soi 39Klongtan-Nua, WattanaBangkok 10110Thailand Tel: ++66-2/662-4029 ext. 128 Fax: ++66-2/662-4388Email: [email protected]

Mr Bernard Thomas O`CALLAGHAN Programme CoordinatorProgramme Development IUCN , Vietnam Villa 44/4Van Bao StreetBa DinhIPO Box 60HanoiVietnam Tel: ++ 84 4 726 1575 Fax: ++84 4 726 1561

Mr Minh Cong NGUYEN Biodiversity Support Offi cer IUCN Vietnam Country Offi ce Vila no. 44/4 Van Bao StreetBa DinhI.P.O. Box 60HanoiVietnam Tel: ++84 (4) 726-1575/6 Fax: ++84 (4) 726-1561Email: [email protected]

Ms Thi Yen NGUYEN Programme Offi cer IUCN Vietnam Vila no. 44/4 Van Bao StreetBa DinhI.P.O. Box 60HanoiVietnam Tel: ++84 (4) 726-1575/6 Fax: ++84 (4) 726-1561Email: [email protected]


Europe

Mr. Ameer ABDULLA Marine Programme Offi cerGlobal Marine ProgrammeIUCN Centre for Mediterranean Cooperation Parque Tecnológico de AndaluciàCalle Maria Curie, 35Campanillas - MalagaAndalucía 29590Spain Tel: 0034952028-430 Fax: 0034952028-145Email: [email protected]

Mr Andres ALCANTARA Protected Areas Senior Offi cer IUCN Centre for Mediterranean Cooperation Parque Tecnologico de AndaluciaCalle Maria Curie, 35Campanillas - MalagaAndalucía 29590Spain Tel: ++34 952 028 430 Fax: ++34 952 028 145 Email: [email protected]

Mr. Alois LANG European Green Belt Coordinator IUCN Programme Offi ce for South-Eastern Europe Dr. Ivana Ribara 91Belgrade 11 070Serbia Tel: +36 99 537 632, +36 30 382 8749Fax: +36 99 537 621Email: [email protected]

Ms Marina GOMEI MPA Programme Assistant Mediterranean Marine Programme IUCN Centre for Mediterranean Cooperation C/ Marie Curie 35. Edif. Sede Social PTACampanillasMálaga 29590Spain Tel: +34 952 028430 Fax: +34 952 028145 Email: [email protected] www.uicnmed.org

Dr. Andrew TERRY Project Offi cer: Protected Areas and Species IUCN Regional Offi ce for Europe Boulevard Louis Schmidt 64Brussels 1040Belgium Tel: ++32 (2) 732 03 11 Fax: ++32 (2) 732 94 99Email: [email protected]


America

Dr Victor Hugo INCHAUSTY BELTRAN Especialista, Director Adjunto Unidad Tecnica AP`s Areas protegidas y corrdores de conservacion Conservación Internacional - Bolivia Casilla @13593Calle Pinilla @291La Paz13593Bolivia Tel: ++593(2) 2261 075 ext. 212 Email: [email protected] Mr Robert HOFSTEDE Regional Programme CoordinatorProgramme UICN Ofi cina Regional para América del Sur Shyris 2680 y Gaspar de VillaroelEdif MITA COBADELSA. PHCasilla Postal 17-17-626QuitoEcuador Tel: ++593 (2) 226 1075 Fax: ++593 (2) 226 3075 Email: [email protected]

Ronald MCCARTHY RAMíREZ Ofi cial de ProyectoÁrea de Conservación de Bosques y Áreas ProtegidasUICN-ORMA Del Perimercado en Moravia 200 mts. Sur y 100 mts. EsteMoravia 146-2150Costa Rica Tel: 506 2410101 Fax: 506 2409934Email: [email protected]

Jorge Alberto SALAS AVILA CoordinadorÁrea de Conservación de Bosques y Áreas ProtegidasUICN-ORMA Del Perimercado en Moravia 200 mts. Sur y 100 mts. EsteMoravia 146-2150Costa Rica Tel: 506 241-0101 Fax: 506 240-9934Email: [email protected]

Mr Roberto ARIANO L. DE N. Adviser, Protected Areas Programme UICN, Ofi cina Regional para América del Sur Shyris 2680 y Gaspar de Villarroel QuitoEcuador Tel: ++593 2 2261075 Fax: ++593 2 2263075 Email: [email protected]


F2 IUCN Regional Offi ces

Africa

UICN-BRACBureau régional de lÙICN pour lÀfrique CentraleB.P. 5506YaoundeCameroon Tel: ++237 221-6496 Fax: ++237 221-6497 Email:[email protected]

UICN-BRAO Bureau régional de lÙICN pourlÀfrique de lÒuestAvenue Kwame N`Krumah01 B.P. 1618Ouagadougou 01Burkina Faso Tel: +226 50 328-500/+226 50 313-154 Fax: +226 50 307-561 Email:[email protected]

IUCN-EAROIUCN Regional Offi ce for Eastern AfricaWasaa Conservation CentreMukoma Road (off Magadi Road)City SquarePO Box 68200Nairobi 00200Kenya Tel: ++254 (20) 890-606/07/08.../13 Fax: ++254 (20) 890-615 Email:[email protected]

IUCN-ROSA IUCN Regional Offi ce for Southern Africa6 Lanark RdBelgraviaPO Box 745HarareZimbabwe Tel: ++263 (4) 728-266-7/ 706261/725723/738 Fax: ++263 (4) 705 714 Email:[email protected] www.iucnrosa.org

Asia

IUCN AROIUCN Regional Offi ce for AsiaN 63 Sukhumvit 39 Soi PhrompongSukhumvit Road, Wattana, KlongtanBangkok10110Thailand Tel: ++66 (2) 662-4029 Fax: ++66 (2) 662-4388 Email:[email protected]

WESCANA-RO IUCN Regional Offi ce for West Asia / Middle EastNo. 6, Abdul Karim Khalil StreetShmeisaniPO Box 942230Amman 11194Jordan Tel: ++962 6 568 0344 Fax: ++962 6 568 0355 Email:[email protected] http://www.iucn.org/wescana/

America

UICN-ORMA UICN Ofi cina Regional para MesoaméricaMoraviaApartado Postal 0146-2150San JoséCosta Rica Tel: ++(506) 241-0101 Fax: ++(506) 240-9934 Email:[email protected] www.iucn.org/places/orma/

UICN-SURIUCN Regional Offi ce for South AmericaAv. de los Shyris 2680 y Gaspar de VillarroelEdifi cio Mita Cobadelsa, Penthouse (PH)Casilla Postal 17-17-626QuitoEcuador Tel: ++593 (2) 226-1075 Fax: ++593 (2) 226-3075 Email:[email protected] www.sur.iucn.org

Europe

IUCN-ROfEIUCN Regional Offi ce for EuropeBoulevard Louis Schmidt 64Bruxelles 1040Belgium Tel: ++32 (0) 2 732-8299 Fax: ++32 (0) 2 732-9499 Email:[email protected]

Oceania

IUCN-OROIUCN Regional Offi ce for Oceania5 Maàfu StreetSuvaFiji Tel: ++679 331-9084 Email:[email protected] www.iucn.org/places/oceania/


F3 IUCN Country Offi ces

Africa

IUCN Senegal Country Offi ceAvenue BourguibaAngle rue 3 CastoreB.P. 3215Dakar RP 18524Senegal Tel: +221 869 0281 Fax: ++221 824-9246 Email:[email protected]

IUCN South Africa Country Offi ce1067 Arcadia StreetHatfi eldPO Box 11536Pretoria 0028South Africa Tel: ++27 (12) 3428304/5/6 Fax: ++27 (12) 342- 8289

IUCN Tanzania Country Offi ce63/1 Galu Street, Ada Estate, KinondoniPO Box 13513Dar es SalaamTanzania Tel: +255 22 2669084/5 Fax: +255 22 2669089 Email:[email protected]

IUCN Uganda Country Offi cePlot 39, Acaia AvenuePO Box 10950KampalaUganda Tel: ++256 (41) 344 508 Fax: ++256 (41) 342-298 Email:[email protected]

IUCN Zambia Country Offi ceKwacha House Annex, 2nd FloorNorth End of Cairo RoadPrivate Bag W356LusakaZambia Tel: ++260 (1) 231-866 Fax: ++260 (1) 231-867 Email:[email protected]

IUCN Botswana Country Offi ceKgale Siding, Area 1069Private Bag 00300GaboroneBotswana Tel: ++267 3901584 Fax: ++267 397-1584 Email:[email protected] www.iucnbot.bw

IUCN Burkina Faso Country Offi ce01 B.P. 3133Ouagadougou 01Burkina Faso Tel: ++226 313-154 Fax: ++226 301-351 Email:[email protected]

IUCN Guinea-Bissau Country Offi ceRua Angola Casa N°, Apartado 23Bissau 1033Guinea-Bissau Tel: ++245 20 12 30 Fax: ++245 20 11 68 Email:[email protected]

IUCN Mali Country Offi ceB.P. 1567BamakoMali Tel: ++223 (2) 227-572 Fax: ++223 (2) 230-092 Email:[email protected]

IUCN Mozambique Country Offi ceRua Fernão Melo e Castro 23PO Box 4770MaputoMozambique Tel: ++258 (21) 490-599 Fax: ++258 (21) 490-812 Email:[email protected] http://iucn.org/places/mozambique/

IUCN Niger Country Offi ceB.P. 10933NiameyNiger Tel: ++227 724-028 Fax: ++227 724-005 Email:[email protected]


IUCN Country Offi ces

Asia

IUCN Bangladesh Country Offi ceHouse - 11, Road - 138, Gulshan-1Dhaka 1212Bangladesh Tel: ++88 02 9890395 Fax: ++88 02 9892854 Email:[email protected] www.iucnbd.org

IUCN LaoIUCN Lao Peoples Democratic Republic Country Offi ce16 Fa Ngum RoadPO Box 4340VientianeLao Tel: (856) 21 216 401 Email:[email protected]

IUCN Nepal Country Offi ceKupondole, LalitpurPO Box 3923KathmanduNepal Tel: ++977-1-5528781/5528761 Fax: ++977-1-5536786 Email:[email protected] www.iucnnepal.org

IUCN Pakistan Country Offi ce1, Bath Island RoadKarachi75530Pakistan Tel: ++92 21-5861540 Fax: ++92 21-5835760 Email:[email protected] www.iucn.org/places/pakistan

IUCN Sri Lanka Country Offi ce53 Horton PlaceColombo 7Sri Lanka Tel: ++94 (11) 268 2418 Fax: ++94 (11) 268 2470 Email:[email protected] www.iucnsl.org

IUCN Vietnam - IUCN Vietnam Country Offi ceVilla 44/4 Van Bao StreetIPO Box 60Hanoi844Vietnam Tel: ++84 (4) 726-1575/6 Fax: ++84 (4) 726-1561 Email:offi [email protected]

IUCN Programme Offi ce for Central Europeul. Zwirki i Wigury 93 p. 3037Warsaw 02-089 Poland Tel: +48 22 554 07 22 Fax: +48 22 554 07 22 Email:[email protected] http://www.iucn-ce.org

IUCN RussiaIUCN Programme Offi ce for Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent StatesStolyarny pereulok 3Building 3Moscow 123022Russia Tel: ++7 (495) 609-3399 Fax: ++7 (495) 609-3411 Email:[email protected]

IUCN SEEIUCN Programme Offi ce for South-Eastern EuropeDr. Ivana Ribara 91Belgrade 11070Serbia Tel: ++381 11 2272 411 Fax: ++381 11 2272 531 Email:[email protected]

Europe/Eurasia


F4 IUCN Outposted Offi ces

IUCN Canada Offi ce555, René-Lévesque Blvd WestSuite 500Montréal Québec H2Z 1B1Canada Tel: ++1 (514) 287-9704 Fax: ++1 (514) 287-9687 Email:[email protected] www.iucn.org/places/canada

IUCN Centre for Mediterranean CooperationParque Tecnologico de AndaluciaCalle Maria Curie, 35Campanillas - MalagaAndalucía 29590Spain Tel: ++34 952 028 430 Fax: ++34 952 028 145 Email:[email protected] www.uicnmed.org

ELC - IUCN Environmental Law CentreGodesberger Allee 108-112Bonn 53175Germany Tel: ++49 (228) 269-2231 Fax: ++49 (228) 269-2250 Email:[email protected] www.iucn.org/themes/law

IUCN-SP-UKIUCN Species Programme Offi ce - Cambridge219c Huntingdon RoadCambridge CB3 0DLUnited Kingdom Tel: ++44 (1223) 277-966 Fax: ++44 (1223) 277-845 www.iucn.org/themes/ssc/programs/trade.htm

IUCN-US - IUCN USA Multilateral Offi ce1630 Connecticut Avenue NW3rd FloorWashington DC 20009-1053USA Tel: ++1(202)518-2047 Fax: ++1(202)387-4823 Email:[email protected] http://www.iucn.org/places/usa

IUCN-CSE-GSEAfUICN CSE Groupe des spécialistes de l`éléphant dÀfriquec/o UICN BRAO01 BP 1618Ouagadougou 01Burkina Faso Tel: ++226 307-047 Fax: ++226 307-561 Email:[email protected]


F5 IUCN Commissions

Commission on Education and Communication (CEC)

CEC champions the strategic use of communication and education to em-power and educate stakeholders for the sustainable use of natural resources. Members: 600.

http://cec.wcln.org

Commission on Environmental, Economic and Social Policy (CEESP)

CEESP provides expertise and policy advice on economic and social factors for the conservation and sustainable use of biological diversity. Members: 500.

http://www.iucn.org/themes/ceesp/

Commission on Ecosystem Management (CEM)

CEM provides expert guidance on integrated ecosystem approaches to the management of natural and modifi ed ecosystems. Members: 400.

http://www.iucn.org/themes/cem/

Commission on Environmental Law (CEL)

CEL advances environmental law by developing new legal concepts and in-struments, and by building the capacity of societies to employ environmental law for conservation and sustainable development. Members: 800.

http://www.iucn.org/themes/law/

Species Survival Commission (SSC)

SSC advises the Union on the technical aspects of species conservation and mobilizes action for those species that are threatened with extinction. Mem-bers: 7000.

http://www.iucn.org/themes/ssc/

World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA)

WCPA promotes the establishment and effective management of a worldwide representative network of terrestrial and marine protected areas. Members: 1400.

http://www.iucn.org/themes/wcpa/

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