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Little SydneyProtecting Nature in Europe
Workshop sessions
Donau-Auen National Park
Hainburg • Austria
28-31 May 2015
Theme 1
Reaching Conservation Goals
Theme 2
Supporting Human Life
Theme 3
Influencing Policy and Institutional Responses
Theme 4
Partnerships, Governance, Capacity Development and Mobilisation of Resources
29 May Session A Session B Session A Session B Session A Session B Session A Session B
9:30 -11:00 1a1
How much conservation land Europe need, and where?
1B1
IUCN Green List of Protected areas
2a1
Managing the mix: maintaining nature in protected areas whilst delivering sustainable development
2B1
Communicating the value of conservation
3a1
Natura 2000 fitness check
3B1
Multiple international protected area designations
4a1
Engaging youth in conservation
4B1
Opportunities to improve Pa professionalization in Europe
11:00 -12:30 2a2
Urban Protected areas
2B2
Healthy Parks, Healthy People
3a2
Towards harmonising agricultural and biodiversity policies in Europe
4a2
Transboundary parks: not to understand each other, but to cooperate
14:00 -15:30 1a2
Protecting natural diversity
1B2: Inclusion of biodiversity conservation at land- and seascape levels into global database
2a3
Payments for ecosystem services and self-financing of Pas
2B3
Marine protected areas and climate change, from problems to blue solutions
3a3
Connectivity and climate change
3B2
Management of wilderness in Europe in the lights of the EU Strategy 2020
4a3
Sustainable tourism at the WPC: Lessons learned, key trends and directions
4B2
Diversification of Natura 2000 governance models
15:30 -17:00 Conclusions Conclusions Conclusions Conclusions
Working session 1A1: How much conservation land Europe need, and where?The session will consider some big questions such as: which biographic areas are not adequately covered by protected areas, how much land should be more strictly protected and where are the opportunities to create new protected areas.
Organised by: Natural England (Dr Nicholas Macgregor, Dr Humphrey Crick)Contact: [email protected]
Working session 1A2:Protecting natural diversity: Identification of synergies in geodiversity and biodiversity protection in EuropeThere is close relationship between geodiversity and biodiversity. How can we best achieve conservation and management of geodiversity and geoheritage and what lessons can be learned from protection of biodiversity in Europe? Is Natura 2000 really a coherent European network?
Organised by: European Association for the Conservation of Geological Heritage (ProGEO) and EUROPARC CEE (Enrique Diaz-Martinez, Michael Hosek)Contact: [email protected], [email protected]
Working session 1B1:The IUCN Green List of Protected Areas (GLPA)The session will present of the IUCN GLPA initiative and its opportunities in Europe, including links to Natura 2000 sites. It will review the Standards and assurance procedure and explain the process for next nominations.
Organised by IUCN Global Protected Area Programme (Trevor Sandwith) and French Ministry for Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy (Jean-Phillipe Siblet)Contact: [email protected]
Working session 1B2:Inclusion of biodiversity conservation at land- and seascape levels into global databaseThis workshop seeks to identify common criteria by which to categorize connectivity initiatives and define a set of ecological features to capture relevant aspects of protected area networks at various scales, including migratory species, flyways, transboundary protected areas and marine corridors for inclusion into the global database.
Organised by: UNEP – World Conservation Monitoring Centre (Marcelo Goncalves de Lima, Nina Bhola)Contact: [email protected]
Working session 2A1:Managing the mix: maintaining special nature in protected areas whilst delivering sustainable social and economic development
There is increasing pressure for protected areas provide a range of ecosystem services linked to human well-being and economic development, whilst still providing core areas for species and habitats that are often special and unique. Managing the balance between social, economic and ecological needs is therefore a task of growing importance for protected area staff in partnership with key actors and stakeholders. This session will set out some of the key issues and provide a case study illustrating some of the key issues challenges as context for a discussion from which a number of action oriented recommendations will be drawn.
Organised by: Alterra (Lawrence Jones-Walters)Contact: [email protected]
Workshop sessions Donau-Auen National Park
Hainburg • Austria
28-31 May 2015
1A1
1A2
1B1
1B2
2A1
Working session 2A2: Urban Protected AreasUrban Protected areas are of special relevance to overcrowded and overpopulated European cities. If well designed and managed, they can contribute both to protection of biodiversity and enhancement of human life.
Organised by: WCPA Urban Protected Area Specialist Group (Louise LEZY-BRUNO)Contact: [email protected]
Working session 2A3:Payments for ecosystem services and self-financing of PAsThe session will facilitate interactive discussion on best practices on diverse forms of PES and self-financing mechanisms. The aim will be to highlight those innovative approaches that could secure financial resources to support effective management of protected areas.
Organised by: LIFE+ “Making Good Natura” project and LANDS NGO (Pierluca Gaglioppa)Contact: [email protected]
Working session 2B1:Communicating the value of nature conservationExpressions “Nature” and “Protected area” do not mean the same to different people and nations. This session will provide a platform for sharing experience in communicating the value of nature and protected areas in Europe and discuss which approaches have worked in the past for different audiences. What would be needed to design communication strategies to mobilise people’s support for nature?
Organised by: WWF Austria (Michael Zika )Contact: [email protected]
Working session 2B2:Marine protected areas and climate change, from problems to blue solutionsThe session will review the role of marine protected areas (MPA) in climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies in preparation for the 21th Conference of the Parties of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) with special attention to Natura 2000 network of marine sites.
Organised by: IUCN French Committee (Thierry Lefebvre) Contact: [email protected]
Working session 2B3:Healthy Parks, Healthy PeopleFor a sustainable future, the well-being of all societies depends on healthy ecosystems. Protected areas can conserve healthy ecosystems and improve our health and well-being. The Healthy Parks Healthy People working session will explore the diverse health benefits provided by protected areas
Organised by: EUROPARC (Carol Ritchie)Contact: [email protected]
Working session 3A1:Natura 2000 fitness checkThe European Commission is conducting a comprehensive policy evaluation, “fitness check” on the EU Birds and Habitats Directives. The session will serve as one source of information for drawing policy conclusions on the future of biodiversity conservation policy in the EU.
Organised by: WWF Austria (Michael Zika)Contact: [email protected]
Workshop sessions Donau-Auen National Park
Hainburg • Austria
28-31 May 2015
2A2
2A3
2B1
2B2
2B3
3A1
Working session 3A2:Towards harmonising agricultural and biodiversity policies in EuropeCurrent EU policies have an enormous potential to support or destroy the communal governance and management practices that conserved nature and natural resources through centuries of European history. Such practices keep providing enormous ecosystem services to the environment of Europe and its peoples. The session will provide a broad assessment of the communal governance phenomenon in our continent and an exploration of specific threats and opportunities to promote diverse and successful governance systems in Europe. In this light, the EU agricultural policies will be specifically examined and discussed.
Organised by: ICCA Consortuim (Sergio Couto, Concha Salguero)Contact: [email protected]
Working session 3A3:Connectivity Conservation and Climate ChangeThe session will look at management strategies, actions and best practices to address the challenges of planning for change in managing protected areas and connectivity conservation landscapes in the context of climate change: assessing and selecting adaptation options, moving to action in order to achieve adequate management to maintain species, ecosystems and processes, enabling governance frameworks that allow for holistic approach and integral solutions, building capacity for adaptation, designing resilient protected area networks, and mainstreaming protected areas as a natural solution to climate change.
Organised by: US National Park Service / WCPA-Climate Change Task Force (Leigh Welling), WCPA-IUCN Connectivity Conservation & Mountains / International Connectivity Conservation Network (Olivier Chassot)Contact: [email protected]
Working session 3B1:Multiple international protected area designationsThis session will review different PA designations, assess main challenges for the different Conventions and programmes, discuss the opportunities offered by designations to site managers and conclude with discussion on how to enhance coordination and synergies.
Organised by: WCPA Europe (Pierre Galland) and Bundesamt fur Naturschutz (Barbara Engels)Contact: [email protected]
Working session 3B2:Management of wilderness in Europe in the lights of the EU Strategy 2020This session will present the inclusion of the wilderness protection into the Natura 2000 network and enable discussion on the following questions: what are the challenges to ensure long term wilderness protection what are the challenges for field management actions and use of zonation systems.
Organised by: European Wilderness Society (Zoltan Kun)Contact: [email protected]
Working session 4A1:Engaging youth in conservationyouth are not only leaders of tomorrow; they are leading the way in developing and implementing conservation today. The session will highlight how conservation organizations can effectively empower and integrate youth into their programmes.
Organised by: WWF Austria (Nathan Spees)Contact: [email protected]
Workshop sessions Donau-Auen National Park
Hainburg • Austria
28-31 May 2015
3A2
3A3
3B1
3B2
4A1
Working session 4A2:Sustainable tourism at the World Parks Congress: Lessons learned, key trends and future directionsThis workshop discusses the body of work shared at the last World Parks Congress, including some of the cutting-edge issues, best practices, and inspiring initiatives relating to sustainable tourism, highlighting the role of different stakeholders in promoting sustainable tourism practices. It also considers how the tourism sector is reflected within the official records of the 2003 and 2014 WPCs, and implications for implementing the new UN Resolution and CBD Decisions on tourism. A debate will be focused in establishing priorities for taking forward the WPC outputs, highlighting any gaps, and indicating what stakeholders can do to address them.
Organised by: IUCN WCPA Tourism and Protected Areas Specialist Group (TAPAS) (Richared Tapper, Anna Spencley)Contact: [email protected]
Working session 4A3:Transboundary parks: Not only to understand each other, but to cooperateNational networks of protected areas differ from country to country. Although based on unified European legislative, even for Natura 2000 sites, established on European legislation, significant disconnection can be detected on state borders. Tools available for enhancement of transboundary cooperation will be presented and discussed.
Organised by: EUROPARC CEE (Handrij Hartel, Jakub Kaspar) and EUROPARC Transboundary Steering Group (Arto Ahokumpu) Contact: [email protected]
Working session 4B1: Opportunities to improve PA professionalization in EuropeThe session will present global competency standards for protected areas staff (IUCN) and model for professionalizing PA staff in Europe: network for promoting competence based approach for professionalization, registering official occupations at the European level to promote quality occupational standards and allow for staff mobility.
Organised by: WCPA Europe (Mike Appleton) and ProPARK (Erika Stanciu)Contact: [email protected]
Working session 4B2:Diversification of Natura 2000 governance modelsThe aim of this session is to identify possible improvements for governance of Natura 2000 sites. Several models of governance od Natura sites will be presented. The discussion will highlight the need for a policy on governance at the EU level.
Organised by: ProPARK (Alina Ionita, Erika Stanciu)Contact: [email protected]
Workshop sessions Donau-Auen National Park
Hainburg • Austria
28-31 May 2015
4A2
4A3
4B1
4B2