Side Event

Securing Wildlife Resources to Secure Protected Areas

Organizer
TRAFFIC International

Date and Time
19 October 2010 18:15 - 19:45

Meeting
Tenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP 10)

Ensuring functioning Protected Area systems and the ongoing provision of ecosystem services derived from surrounding environs defines a major sector within biodiversity conservation. Viable Protected Area networks support the three objectives of the Convention on Biological Diversity. However, unreported, unsustainable and illegal harvest and trade of wild animals and plants remains a major challenge to functional Protected Areas and ecosystem integrity. Communities, governments and private protected-area managers often feel isolated in facing these challenges, and struggle to raise collective technical and financial resources to mitigate what is often driven by external regional or even global factors. At this side-event, TRAFFIC and its partners will depict and discuss support models and tools, including multi-stakeholder networking, to allow resource owners and users to increase the effectiveness of mitigating the overexploitation of wild natural resources to support well-managed protected areas. Language: English