Story | 29 Sep, 2020

Asia Protected Areas Partnership builds Members’ capacities on Other Effective Area-based Conservation Measures (OECMs)

Sixty-six representatives from the members of the Asia Protected Areas Partnership (APAP) and other Protected Areas (PA) staff from the region learned ways of identifying, recognising, supporting and reporting other effective area-based conservation measures (OECMs) through the 6th APAP Technical Workshop, held virtually on 13 August 2020 with funding support from the Korea National Park Service.

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Participants agreed that using OECMs as a framework could lead to a greater number of areas outside protected areas being identified as important to broader conservation networks. It was also proposed that the framework could be a useful means to engage with indigenous peoples, local communities, and the private sector, either to recognise their ongoing conservation contributions or to help enhance local or sectoral practices.

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About APAP

APAP has been designed as a key platform to help governments and other stakeholders collaborate for more effective management of protected areas in the region.

The partnership was initiated in 2013 at the first-ever Asia Parks Congress held in Japan, and formally launched the following year at the IUCN World Parks Congress in Australia. It is chaired by IUCN, International Union for Conservation of Nature, and co-chaired by an APAP member organisation on a rotational basis. The Ministry of Environment, Republic of Korea, is the current co-chair.