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November 2005
Update from Graeme Worboys, Vice Chair Mountains Biome IUCN-WCPA

With direct input to the World Wilderness Congress in Alaska, and the International Mountain Corridors Conference in Spain, the Mountains team has been very busy in the lead up to 2006. Both of these gatherings were very successful, and will contribute further to the conservation of mountains and improved protected area management.

With IUCN WCPA’s 2005-2008 Strategic Plan focusing on large scale connectivity conservation in mountain areas, this work will continue during 2006 and beyond. Our Quito Ecuador workshop on connectivity conservation will generate a practical book on “how to manage” large scale connectivity conservation”. The book will assist managers, and is planned to be used for capacity building for connectivity conservation management. The workshop is to be held from November 14-17th 2006. Further details can be found below.

Mountain PA Network member Ms. Shaenandhoa Garcia-Rangel, is a Ph. D. candidate at the Wildlife Research Group, University of Cambridge (England). She has created a series of Newsletter updates (see links below) for the Connectivity Conservation Management Workshop (CC2006) to held in Ecuador in 2006. One of the outputs from this conference will be development of a Connectivity Conservation Management Book ( .doc format 102k) focused on the "Lessons learned" by practitioners.

The workshop's Newsletter is designed to keep conference participants and other interested individuals updated on the progress underway for this important event.

Workshop Newsletter Update--May 2005
(Note: you can rotate the pages in the file by clicking
the "Rotate clockwise" button next to the "Zoom" button)
Workshop Newsletter Update--February 2005

Past Conferences

8th World Wilderness Congress
September 30 – October 6, 2005
Anchorage, Alaska
Hosted by The Wild Foundation

Delegates from an estimated 26 nations, attended this international Congress at the William A. Egan Civic & Convention Center and the Alaska Center for the Performing Arts, Sept. 30 – Oct. 6, 2005. The theme of the WWC was Wilderness, Wildlands and People: A Partnership for the Future. The WWC is the world’s longest-running, public environmental forum.

Organised by the Fundacio Territori i Paisatge in collaboration with the Mountain Theme team of IUCN-WCPA. Discusssions included the role of Natura 2000 Network for keeping the natural corridors for important species such as Brown Bear and Wolf. This Workshop and the corridor project was the result of work initiated in Durban and the 2004 Conference on Mountain Corridors organised by the "Y2Y - Yellowstone to Yukon Initiative", and was another step towards a future IUCN Conference and a book on Mountain Corridors in 2006.

Communication of new results from long-term research on global change that can be implemented in Mountain Biosphere Reserves and other mountain locations in both industrialised and developing countries.

Here is an overview to our participation at the WCPA events at the Congress in Bangkok 2004

Here is an overview to our participation at WCPA events at the 5th World Parks Congress

Key Recommendations for Mountains

Visit the extensive Photo Gallery showing the Mountain PA Network's participation:
Before the World Parks Congress at our Drakensberg Workshop in KwaZulu-Natal near the border with Lesotho, and during the World Parks Congress in Durban

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Many of our Network members were in Bangkok at the World Conservation Congress in 2004. It gave us a great opportunity to follow up on ideas and work generated by our participation at the World Parks Congress in 2003.

Prior to the World Parks Congress, our network held a multi-day workshop in the Drakensberg region of South Africa. We studied local projects and villages there, like Mnweni shown below, for viable ways to protect mountain environments while allowing benefits from them to flow "beyond boundaries".

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