In pictures: IUCN Europe, North and Central Asia Regional Conservation Forum

Dr Grethel Aguilar, IUCN Director General, welcomes delegates at the opening of the Europe, North and Central Asia Regional Conservation Forum.

Boris Erg, European Regional Director, moderates the Global Transformation Dialogue in the plenary.

Boris Erg, IUCN European Regional Director, Mirela Kumbaro, Albanian Minister of Tourism and Environment; Dr Musonda Mumba, General Secretary of the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands; Dr Grethel Aguilar, IUCN Director General and Diana Garlytska, Chair of the IUCN Youth Advisory Committee.

Participants in the plenary.

Alberto Arroyo Schnell, IUCN European Region Head of Programme and Policy; Penélope Gómez, Advisor on Sustainable Environmental Development of Malaga Municipality; Jurgen Tack, Secretary General at European Landowners' Organization; Humberto Delgado Rosa, Director for Natural Capital, DG Environment; Jochen Gebauer, Director General for Nature Conservation, Sustainable Use of Natural Resources and Nature-Based Climate Action, BMUV and Madhu Rao, Chair of IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas.

Hilde Eggermont, IUCN Vice President and Director General, Research Institute of Nature and Forest, presents as part of the IUCN 20-year Strategic Vision plenary.

Intergenerational breakfast.

Participants collect ideas in a discussion on the IUCN Vision and Programme.

Participants in the Bruges Meeting and Convention Centre, overlooking Bruges, Belgium.

Flemish band, Die Verdammte Spielerei, marks the start of the event.