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DELIVERING THE PROMISE OF SYDNEY
MARCH 2019
INSPIRING PEOPLE
Pastoralist women in Northern Tanzania
The Pastoral Women’s Council was founded in 1997 by ten
Maasai women, including the current Executive Director
Maanda Ngoitiko. Maanda Ngoitiko is a Maasai from the
Ngorongoro district of northern Tanzania. Her family are
traditional pastoralists. In the early years, the PWC
worked on forming women's’ solidarity groups and
initiating community fundraisers to start microcredit
activities and to support girls’ education in the Loliondo
area.
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INSPIRING PLACES
Isla San Pedro Mártir Biosphere Reserve
This Mexican Biosphere Reserve is one of the best-
preserved sites in the Gulf of California (Sea of Cortez), has
great scientific relevance and should be considered a natural
laboratory of adaptation and evolution. It hosts a has great
biological richness, with 292 species of flora and fauna, both
marine and terrestrial, of which 42 species are protected
under Mexican law, 30 on the IUCN Red List, and 36 in
CITES. This marine protectd areas is also an IUCN Green-
listed site.
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INSPIRING SOLUTIONS
Forest Landscape Restoration in the Shouf
The Shouf Biosphere Reserve, a Green-listed site,
designed and implemented its own Forest Landscape
Restoration Project. This led to the production of
briquettes, distributed to the local communities for
heating, the production of compost, the restoration of
abandoned stonewall terraces, and providing access and
water for fire-fighting, charcoal production, and grazing
as a method of controlling re-sprouting.
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OPINION
Getting priorities right for tourism and protected
areas
The 2019 World Protected Areas Leaders’ Forum (WPALF)
was convened by Parks Victoria in Melbourne and the
Wilson’s Promontory National Park from 25-29 March,
with a focus on the role of tourism in protected and
conserved areas. Read the opinion of one participant at
this forum, Trevor Sandwith, Director of IUCN's Global Protected Areas Programme.
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BIOPAMA
L'Afrique Centrale renforce les capacités des
gestionnaires des aires protégées
Dans le premier trimestre du 2019, avec le soutien du
Programme BIOPAMA, l’Observatoire des Forêts d’Afrique
Centrale (OFAC) a organisé une série de formations au
Rwanda, Cameroun, Tchad et République centrafricaine
pour renforcer les capacités des gestionnaires des aires
protégées à produire, générer et collecter les données sur
les aires protégées en utilisant l’outil intégré sur l’efficacité
de gestion (IMET).
En savoir plus
GREEN LIST
IUCN lists 6 more new sites as world’s best
protected areas
IUCN has admitted 6 new natural sites to the IUCN Green
List of Protected and Conserved Areas – the first global
standard recognising best practice in protected areas.
Sites in France and Mexico received the certification at a
meeting of the IUCN Green List Committee, bringing the
total number of sites on the IUCN Green List to 46.
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Sharing experiences with the IUCN Green List in
Africa
Five African countries are now implementing the IUCN
Green List initiative: Kenya was the pilot country in 2014,
followed by Benin in 2016, Cote d’Ivoire in 2017, and
Madagascar and Nigeria in 2018. In order to build a Green
List network in Africa dedicated to sharing successful
conservation solutions throughout the continent, there is a
strong need for collaboration.
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Read the Green List bulletin - March 2019 for the latest Green List updates!
PROTECTED PLANET
60th birthday of the World Database on Protected
Areas
The World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA) is the
most comprehensive global database of protected
areas, updated on a monthly basis, and is one of the key
global biodiversity data sets used widely by scientists,
businesses, governments, Multilateral Environmental
Agreements (MEAs), and many more, to inform
planning, policy decisions and management.
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PANORAMA
PANORAMA wins IUCN “One Programme” Impact
Award
Often, lessons learnt from conservation and sustainable
development initiatives are not well captured and shared to
inform future planning. Means and tools for practitioners to benefit from learning about similar
experiences across sectors and geographies are under-developed. PANORAMA – Solutions for
a Healthy Planet addresses this gap by supporting peer-learning from existing solutions,
earning it the 2018 IUCN Impact Award in the “One Programme” category.
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GOVERNANCE
Exploring conserved areas in Viet Nam
The decision late last year by the Parties to the CBD to
recognise “conserved areas” is stimulating new
conversations at the national level on diverse forms of
nature conservation taking place outside protected areas.
In March 2019, the IUCN Global Protected Areas
Programme and the IUCN Hanoi office convened a
national stakeholder workshop on these very topics.
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Good governance is the key to success
The recent assessment using the IUCN Green List Standard
has illuminated a unique natural and cultural landscape in
Van Long Wetland Nature Reserve in Viet Nam. The initial
focus of the Green list examined the governance aspects:
the decision makers, their processes and how others can
get involved in the decision making for Van Long, but also
examines the history, culture and land uses from both local
village residents and other stakeholders.
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HOT OFF THE PRESS
IUCN 70 years : International Union for Conservation of
Nature annual report 2018
The IUCN annual report 2018 is available in English, French and
Spanish.
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State of World’s Biodiversity for Food and Agriculture
The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has ) recently
published the State of World’s Biodiversity for Food and
Agriculture. IUCN provided inputs, through analysis of The IUCN
Red List of Threatened Species™ of species for human food and
the extent to which species used for food are located within
protected areas. IUCN’s analysis finds that over 98% of species
used for human food (95% of threatened species) are “covered”
by protected areas (i.e. a predetermined percentage of a species
geographic range is within protected areas).
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News on African Protected Areas
The NAPA #128 is about the design or re-design of protected areas in order to face the
changes expected on the African continent. It also recalls that a new session of our 5 MOOCs
on conservation is now live.
La NAPA n°128 s'intéresse à la reconfiguration, possible ou nécessaire, des AP à la lueur des
changements que connait l'Afrique. Elle rappelle qu'une nouvelle session de nos 5 MOOC sur
la conservation vient de débuter.
Webinar series: protected area data and tools
The Eastern and Southern African region recently hosted the first in a series of webinars aimed
at providing information on the BIOPAMA Reference Information System (RIS) and other data
products, tools and services to support conservation actions and decisions.
Watch them here
EVENTS & GET INVOLVED
IUCN World Conservation Congress 2020
Subscribe to the IUCN World Conservation Congress newsletter!
The third Latin American and the Caribbean Parks Congress
The registrations to the third Latin American and the Caribbean Parks Congress are now open.
Read more (en espanol)
Get ready for the European Day of Parks, 24 May
EUROPARC invites all protected areas to organise events in and around the 24th of May. The
European day of Parks aims at bringing people closer to nature by offering a diversity of
activities and events in protected areas across the EUROPARC Network.
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Your Solutions featured in a special EUROPARC-PANORAMA webinar
For this year’s European Day of Parks, EUROPARC and IUCN are looking for specific success
stories from European protected areas. These can relate to any aspect of management or
governance: financing, tourism, enforcement etc. Please submit your solution on the
“protected areas” portal of the PANORAMA web platform Solutions will then be reviewed and
published on the platform. Selected “solution providers” will be invited to present their cases
in a public webinar on 24th April.
Submit your solution
New MOOC by IUCN PAPACO
On 4 March 2019, IUCN-PAPACO launched yet another session of their MOOCs (Massive Open
Online Courses). The usual selection (Protected area management, Ecological monitoring, Law
enforcement and Species conservation) now includes a brand-new MOOC on the Valorisation
of protected area resources and Sustainable tourism. The goal of this new course is to know
how the valorisation of different protected area resources can take place, and to understand
protected area valorisation through tourism. Registration are open until 1 June 2019.
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Host the BIOPAMA Observatory for West Africa
BIOPAMA is seeking a suitable host organisation for the West Africa Regional Observatory for
Biodiversity and Protected Areas. This is an exciting opportunity for a dynamic, regionally
active organisation that shares the mission of BIOPAMA and is interested in becoming part of
and helping to shape, the development of the Regional Observatory and supporting the
delivery of its core functions. Expressions of Interest should be submitted by 29 April 2019.
Read more (EN)
En savoir plus (FR)
World Parks Week 2019
The theme for World Parks Week 2019 is “Kids Outdoors" and will be held from April 27 to
May 4, 2019.World Parks Week is all about enjoying, learning about and celebrating parks of
all kinds. In anticipation of the 60th anniversary of the World Commission on Protected Areas
(WCPA) in 2020, participation in World Parks Week is a great way to highlight and promote
parks of all kinds and other nature-rich spaces in your community.
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