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The Pan-European Ecological Network and protected areas : a major instrument for implementing the CBD in Europe

The Pan-European Ecological Network (PEEN) provides the governments of the countries of the Pan-European Region with a political framework for action at all levels – local, regional, national and international – enabling them to provide sustainable socio-economic development in their respective ...

Understanding the Relationship Between PAs and Poverty: New Evidence on the Impacts of Protected Areas on Local Livelihoods

A number of different agencies are currently involved in assessments of the benefits and costs of Protected Areas to communities living in and around these areas using a range of newly developed methodologies. This effort addresses the concern that evidence of the positive and negative impacts o ...

Tourism and protected areas

Presentation of Case studies from tourism and sustainable financing in World Heritage sites in Europe and Latin America

Contributing to the implementation the CBD Programme of Work on Protected Areas at the sub-national level: the experience of the Lazio Region

Presentation of the activities carried out by the Regional Agency for Parks of the Lazio Region (Italy) to support the establishment of a comprehensive system of Protected Areas, including the identification of under-represented ecosystems and irreplaceable areas, the establishment of a monitori ...

Issue-Based Module on Protected Areas TEMATEA: An update on the Issue-Based Modules and introduction of the new module on protected areas - making commitments for Parties from biodiversity-related Conventions easily accessible

Introduction to TEMATEA, the UNEP/IUCN project on issue-based modules on the coherent implementation of biodiversity relevant Conventions and information about related capacity building activities. Presentation of the new module on protected areas.

La Mappa della Primavera (Map of Spring)

Monitoring vegetation in Italian protected areas: this is the aim of the project La Mappa della Primavera (Map of Spring), supported by and with the patronage of the Italian Ministry for Environment and Safeguarding of Territory and Sea, and carried out by Federparchi, Legambiente and Coldiretti ...

LAUNCHING OF THE BOOK ON " BIODIVERSITY AND HEALTH

Sustaining Life: How Human Health Depends on Biodiversity Book Launch

The Earth’s biodiversity is disappearing at an alarming rate, and while some of the ramifications of this loss have been explored in other works, Sustaining Life is the first to examine the full range of potential threats that diminishing biodiversity poses to human health. At this side event, j ...

ASSESSING IMPLEMENTATION: TRIAL OF A ASSESSING IMPLEMENTATION: TRIAL OF A REPORT CARD

Presentation of the results of a trial run of a report card developed by WWF’s Protected Areas for a Living Planet programme. The card aims to give a rapid assessment of national implementation of the programme of work on protected areas. The results will be presented to participating countries ...

Financing Protected Areas

This side event will illustrate the trends in financing for protected areas including current needs and gaps. It will also explore opportunities and barriers to securing a diversified set of funding, including financial mechanisms based on extraction of natural resources (royalties, severance fe ...

Protected Areas and Indigenous Rights: examples of illegitimate management of protected areas

The side event will include presentations by Indigenous Peoples' representatives on protected areas in countries like Tanzania, Aotearoa/New Zealand, Uganda and Paraguay, which have been established on Indigenous lands. Is protected area management legitimate if the territorial rights of Indige ...

Indigenous and Local Communities' Rights and Participation in Protected Areas: a Review of the CBD Programme of Work and suggestions for overcoming obstacles.

This side event will review the implementation of provisions from the CBD Programme of Work relevant to indigenous and local communities' rights and participation in protected areas through case studies from Bangladesh, Uganda, Thailand and Suriname (and possibly other countries). The discussion ...

Managing Protected Areas in the 21st Century

Presentation of the new guide: Managing Protected Area:A global guide, which for the first time brings together state of the art thinking from around the world on the issue of managing protected areas. Ceremony for the signature of the city of Rome of the Countdown 2010 declaration and discussio ...

Key Biodiversity Areas as a basis for national protected area gap analyses

As part of the Program of Work on Protected Areas, the CBD has mandated national protected area gap analyses to assess how well protected areas conserve biodiversity, and where the highest priorities are for expanding and reinforcing existing protected areas. As 2010 approaches governments may ...

Innovations in the management and financing of protected areas: the Brazilian experience

Presentation and discussion of recent Brazilian experiences in the management and financing of protected areas, including the mechanism of environmental compensation, the national database on protected areas and the management strategies of the Amazon protected areas project (ARPA)

Strengthening National Capacity to Implement the Programme of Work: Activities since WGPA1 and a potential plan of action through to COP-10.

WGPA1 called for regional workshops to strengthen knowledge sharing and capacity for implementing the Programme of Work on Protected Areas. In response, a series of 9 regional workshops involving over 450 protected area practitioners were delivered in 2008. It is clear that a more comprehensive ...

ARGUMENTS FOR PROTECTION AND THE BENEFITS ASSESSMENT TOOL

The Arguments for protection series aims to identify, and where possible quantify, a wide range of the benefits derived from protected areas in order to increase support for protection and strengthen management strategies. This side event presents the series so far and introduces a new tool for ...

National Ingredients for Successful Implementation of the Programme of Work on Protected Areas

This side event will feature a discussion about factors that have proven crucial for enabling implementation of the PoW in a number of countries, including national multi-stakeholder coalitions, action grants, multi-country voluntary commitments, and regional catalyzing workshops. It will also p ...

Protected Areas Values: livelihoods, poverty reduction and Millennium Development Goals

Although protected areas provide a vast amount of goods and services to the people, specially to the poor; they are greatly undervalued by markets, politicians, and the by general public. As a result, they are extremely under-funded, overlooked and face constant threats. Based on recommendations ...

In situ and remote-sensing activities for terrestrial and marine Protected Areas: the role of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

The side event will illustrate different views on FAO’s work on and support for the establishment, management and monitoring of both terrestrial and marine protected areas. Thematic issues to be illustrated and discussed will cover in situ activities highlighting local actions, with a particular ...

El “Territorio Indígena de Conservación” como modelo de gobernanza de áreas protegidas

El Sistema Internacional de Categorías de Areas Protegidas hace poca referencia respecto a los territorios indígenas que constituyen áreas protegidas, por lo que no existe un adecuado reconocimiento de los aspectos de la gobernanza indígena en estos territorios. La UICN conjuntamente con el For ...

ECOREGIONAL BASED CONSERVATION IN CENTRAL MEDITERRANEAN AND ALPS ECOREGIONS AND THE EFFECTIVENESS OF MANAGEMENT IN MARINE PROTECTED AREAS. Areas.

Ecoregional based Conservation is an approach promoted by WWF worldwide to identified Priority areas and strategy for biodiversity. In the last years, WWF Italy and several partners, has developed two processes for definition of Biodiversity Vision in Central Mediterranean and Alps Ecoregions. ...

MPAS: Perspectives from small-scale fishing communities

This side event will present case studies about MPA implementation in several countries, from a small-scale fisheries perspective. A film, Right to Survive, on turtle conservation and fisheries livelihoods will also be screened. The event will highlight ways in which conservation initiatives can ...

Global Islands Partnership (GLISPA) - status and perspectives

Review of progress on the implementation of the Islands Biodiversity Programme of Work through GLISPA, and support for new and additional commitments

The project SelfPAs (Self-financing Protected Areas): guidelines, tools, best-practice and guidance on how to improve their financial self-reliance.

Thanks to the variety of points of view and experiences that Federparchi and the other partner PAs have contributed with, a vast series of elements have emerged that have allowed the project to identify the “ingredients” that make the difference between a thriving PA and a PA trying to survive. ...

THE FUTURE OF FINANCING FOR BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION

THE FUTURE OF FINANCING FOR BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION A round table discussion of the future of financing for biodiversity conservation, with the participation of speakers from the CBD Secretariat, FAO, GEF, IUCN, the German Ministry for the Environment, TNC, and WWF. The discussion will be b ...

Lessons Learned and Conditions for Success of Voluntary Regional Commitments: Experiences from the Micronesian Challenge, Caribbean and Coral Triangle

This event will feature a discussion among governments and support organisations of the potential of multi-country voluntary commitments to dramatically catalyze protected area conservation on a national and regional scale. Progress being made by the Micronesian Challenge will share the experien ...

UNDP/GEF/CBD project Supporting Country Action for CBD Programme of Work on Protected Areas

The side even will present the above mentioned project, running since July 2007. The project is providing grants to countries, focusing on SIDS and LDCs, to support the implementation of critical PoWPA activities. The presentation will describe the grant making / review process, eligibility requ ...

ECLOGICAL, ECONIMIC, CULTURAL AND SOCIAL BENEFITS OF PROTECTED AREAS

Although protected areas provide a vast amount of goods and services to the people, specially to the poor; they are greatly undervalued by markets, politicians, and by the general public. As a result, they are extremely under-funded, overlooked and face constant threats. During this side event, ...

SECOND MEETING OF AD HOC OPEN ENDEND WORKING GROUP ON PROTECED AREAS (WGPA-2)

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Protected Areas for a Living Planet - delivering on CBD Commitments

Presentation of progress and lessons learned from Protected Areas for a Living Planet - a WWF programme aimed at supporting implementation of the Programme of work on protected areas in 28 countries in Europe, Central Asia and West Africa.

Implementing the PoW on Protected Areas: governance as the key for effective and equitable Protected Area systems

The side event, organized by IUCN’s TILCEPA (a joint Theme of IUCN Commissions WCPA and CEESP) will review the concept and practice of governance of protected areas — one of the less understood and more useful entry points for a successful implementation of the CBD Programme of Work on Pro ...

The LifeWeb Initiative - A global initiative on protected areas (launch at CBD COP 9 - High Level Segment)

Presentation of/discussion on the LifeWeb Initiative for enhanced designation and financing of protected areas. The initiative aims at gathering voluntary commitments of Parties and will be launched at the COP 9/CBD High Level Segment.

WHAT IS THE STATE OF WORLD'S PARKS? GLOBAL STUDY OF MANAGEMENT EFFECTIVENESS

This side event will present an analysis of the Global Study of Management Effectiveness of Protected Areas including information on assessments of over 6300 protected areas in more than 100 countries. We will review progress that countries have made towards meeting the CBD Programme of Work tar ...