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Vth World Parks Congress - 7-17 September 2003, Durban, South Africa

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Mountain Protected Area Issues Workshop

5-8 September 2003, Durban, South Africa
Mountain Protected Area Issues Workshop
Building on the 2002 International Year of the Mountain the Congress will deal with mountain protected areas through a pre-Congress Workshop, 5-8 September, 2003 in the uKhahlamba-Drakensberg World Heritage Site. The field based workshop will cover a range relevant issues for mountain protected area systems linked to the Congress themes.
Larry Hamilton, the WCPA Mountain Biome Vice-Chair, is leading preparations for a significant World Heritage Mountain Protected Area Workshop as a prelude to next year's World Parks Congress.

The field based workshop will take place in the World Heritage listed uKhahlamba-Drakensberg National Park west of Durban, South Africa. The pre-congress workshop is scheduled for 4 days from September 5 to 8, 2003 and will cover a range of relevant issues for mountain protected area systems linked to the Congress themes.

The issues to be seen in the field will be:

Water, A Major Benefit Beyond Boundaries;

Transboundary Cooperation in Protected Area Management and Peace Parks;

Working Beyond Boundaries with Neighbors;
Cultural and Sacred Resource Conservation;

Providing for EcoTourism and Mountaineering, and Managing Impacts;

Fire and Alien Species - Do Boundaries Matter?;

Integrated Development Protected Area Planning.

The workshop will be limited to 40 participants and Larry is currently calling for nominations from interested people to attend.

More information may be found at http://www.georgewright.org/mtnworkshop.html.

Drakensburg Mountain, South Africa

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This section contains a breakdown of the programme per day, details of the workshops, side events and short courses. It also provides information about the exhibition, the field trips and pre / post congress tours.
Les résultats prévus au COngrèsLos resultados previstos del Congreso
The Durban Accord is a high level vision statement for PAs in the 21st Century - a message to the world from the Congress.
The WPC Recommendations are 30 stand-alone recommendations linked to WPC workshop streams and cross cuts themes.
The Inputs into the CBD process will provide input from the WPC to the Conference of the Parties (COP) 7. This COP will be held in Malaysia in February, 2004, and will focus on protected areas.
WPC Emerging Issues
Strengthening Protected Areas: Ten Target Areas for Action in the Next Decade
A number of other outputs are planned, which will relate to Tourism, Transboundary initiatives, Protected Area Categories Review, Extractive Industries, the Spiritual values of Protected Areas, Mountains and African protected areas.
Managing Protected Areas in the 21st Century will be a handbook for PA practitioners collating the learning from Durban. Rich in case studies, models, lessons learned and drawn mostly from the IUCN World Parks Congress Streams and Cross Cutting Themes, it will be the 'User Manual' for the Durban Accord.
Non Material Values of Protected Areas Outputs
PALNet - Protected Areas Learning Network
The United Nations List & State of the World's Protected Areas (PAs) Report will be the global report card for the world's PAs.
World Parks Congress Outputs from the Transboundary Protected Areas Task Force of the IUCN-WCPA

For more information, please contact
David Sheppard,

Head, Programme on Protected Areas, IUCN

 
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