IUCN CEC Annual Report 2017

Annual Report 2017

IUCN CEC Annual Report 2017

Chair and Deputy Chair’s message

Commission on Education and Communication#NatureForAll AchievementsCEC MembersCEC Social Media following2016 – 2020 CEC Steering CommitteeYouth Engagement and Intergenerational Partnership Representative

Regional ActivitiesMexico, North America and the CaribbeanMediterranean and West AsiaWest EuropeEastern Europe and Central AsiaWest, Central, East and Southern AfricaEast AsiaSoutheast Asia Latin America

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2017 has been a very active year for the IUCN Commission on Education and Communication (CEC). Our 2016-2020 Steering Committee and CEC members worked closely together to take forward our mandate of mobilising all people to support conservation action around the world. We are delighted to share this report with you highlighting the past year’s achievements and our current activities. Highlights from the last year include:

• The growth of #NatureForAll, a global movement to inspire love of nature that was launched at the 2016 IUCN World Conservation Congress in Hawaii. By the end of 2017, it has grown to include more than 200 partner organizations and published a variety of educational and promotional material. #NatureForAll partners come from all eight regions of IUCN with 36 countries represented. 35 success stories collected from partners offering insights and lessons learned are available on the #NatureForAll website, as well as the #NatureForAll Playbook that provides global guidance on how to connect people with nature. The Imagine #NatureForAll video is now shared in 22 languages, with more to come soon. Anna’s forest, a visually stunning comic book was published to communicate the #NatureForAll vision to new and different audiences.

• June 5th 2017 marked UN World Environment Day. New product launches on #NatureforAll social media channels garnered over 3.5 million impressions, and cross-promotion with partner organization reached a collective potential social media audience of more than 205 million people. Going forward, we will continue to amplify #NatureforAll’s network and message to scale up impact and increase support and action across sectors for nature conservation.

Chair and Deputy Chair’s Message

Dear CEC Members and friends,

• We participated in the preparation and in the jury of the Peace Pals International Art Exhibition and Awards Ceremony, where young people took centre stage to celebrate the links between peace and love of nature.

• We’ve been taking steps to renew our communication system at the CEC, with the aim to establish a virtual service centre: Communications Connect. Facilitated by CEC experts, we invite you to join the CEC and use this platform to share information, guidance, tools, and to access experts in order to respond to education, communications, and behavior change capacity needs.

We take this opportunity to thank CEC members for sharing news from your region on the CEC Blog and the CEC Facebook group. Your activity contributes to celebrate the diversity of our community. We always encourage you to increase and improve our engagement with us by inviting your fellows to our network, and by updating your profile on the Union Portal. Your Regional Vice Chairs are keen to know your vision and ideas for the CEC, and are ready to collaborate with you on regional Conservation Education and Communication projects, so reach out to them!

Last, but not least, 2018 marks the 70th Anniversary of IUCN, and we invite you to join the celebrations. As always, we look forward to receiving inspiring news and initiatives from your region!

Sean Southey IUCN CEC Chair

Katalin CzippánIUCN CEC Deputy Chair

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#NatureForAll was a big focus for the CEC in 2017.

#NatureForAll is now a growing coalition of active partners and collaborators working together to scale up the reach and impact of programming aimed at connecting people with nature and, by doing so, engendering increased support and action across sectors for nature conservation.

#NatureForAll Achievements for 2017

Convening stakeholders & networking• Developed a network of over 200 partner organizations from 36 countries, representing

all IUCN regions, to collaborate in launching and supporting #NatureForAll within IUCN’s 2017-2020 programme.

• Convened communication experts at the National Geographic Society in Washington, DC to discuss how to communicate “love of nature” in an effective and impactful way.

• Convened Canadian partners at the Children and Nature Network International Conference in Vancouver to launch a Canadian national #NatureForAll network.

Education, communication and awareness-raising • Developed and shared with partners a framework and tools to replicate and scale up

successful #NatureForAll programme areas, including: - The #NatureForAll Playbook, an Action Guide for Inspiring Love of Nature - 35+ success stories with partner insights and lessons learned - Success Stories, some of which are also featured on PANORAMA - IUCN Youth Voices Curriculum Sourcebook (with East-West Centre and IUCN

Secretariat)

• Developed and shared communications tools to reach new audiences, including: - The Imagine #NatureForAll video in 22 languages, and other videos that inspire a

connection with nature - Anna’s Forest, a visually stunning comic book to share the #NatureForAll vision with

new audiences

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• Expanded the reach of the #NatureForAll campaign through: - Celebrating UN Environment Day, under the theme of Connecting People to Nature,

with UN Environment and other partners, generating 3.5 million #NatureForAll social media impressions

- Reaching 1.3 million social media users in celebration of IUCN Goodwill Ambassador Alison Sudol (November 2016)

- Activating the #NatureForAll coalition of partners to reach their collective social media audience of more than 205 million

- Partnering on the Peace Pals International Art Exhibition and Awards to celebrate peace and nature through children’s art

- Participating in the Salzburg seminar to represent #NatureForAll

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CEC Members

The CEC is composed of change and management specialists, strategic communication and marketing experts, learning and capacity development practitioners, conservationists, behavioural and conservation psychologists, and educators from all sectors.

Members are provided access to a learning community with common goals and are invited to initiate and participate in activities, exchange ideas, contribute their opinions and apply their expertise. Members enjoy opportunities to advise on policy and strategy in support of IUCN priorities. All members are encouraged to exchange ideas, contribute opinions, apply their expertise and share updates about projects and programmes on CEC platforms: Union portal, CEC news page, CEC blog, Facebook and Twitter.

The following graph shows the membership distribution among IUCN regions:

CEC Social Media following By the end of 2017:

The Facebook group had 13,642 members

The CEC Twitter account had 3,085 followers

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2016 – 2020 CEC Steering Committee

CEC Steering Committee members met in Washington DC in April 2017. Christian Hofer, Steering Committee member offered his kind support in organising the two-day meeting at the Global Environment Facility Secretariat. The Steering Committee defined its detailed objectives to be achieved in the upcoming 3 years, and discussed roles, responsibilities and resources in order to work towards CEC goals.

The Steering Committee visited the Earth Optimism Summit organised for Earth Day, and Sean Southey, CEC Chair gave an uplifting and encouraging presentation. Earth Optimism aims at changing the conservation conversation from doom and gloom to optimism and opportunity. Earth Optimism is part of a growing, global movement building a global community of practice around what is working in conservation, why it’s working, and how to replicate and scale up best practices and good ideas. The session was well attended with over 100 people present.

Youth Engagement and Intergenerational Partnership Representative

In 2017, the CEC also focused on involving and attracting more young professionals to its community. A Call for a Youth Engagement and Intergenerational Partnership Representative was launched by the end of the year. We encouraged motivated young educators and communicators from among our members and beyond to apply. The Representative will stand for the views of young people, invite new and activate current young members of the IUCN CEC, collaborate with and align IUCN CEC strategies with the IUCN Task Force for Intergenerational Partnership for Sustainability, and coordinate activities through youth leadership in the other five IUCN Commissions.

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MexicoPuppet TheaterHistorias de nuestra comunidad, or “Stories from Our Community” is a community-based puppet theater that serves both educational and entertainment roles for local communities in the Bipsphere reserve of El Triunfo in Chiapas, Mexico.

#NatureForAll DayFor the #NFA day, we encouraged all our friends and followers to do one activity to connect with nature. We received more than 200 photographs from around the world, from families doing picnics in their local park to groups who went hiking to collect garbage on a mountain. We joined one of these groups in Chiapas and went hiking and cleaning. We picked up garbage from the river and cleaned graffiti from the rock, and finished the day doing

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Mexico, North America and the Caribbean

CanadaConnecting Communities to CoastlinesThe Vancouver Aquarium Marine Science Centre’s award-winning mobile education programmme visited schools and camps across the country this year to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Confederation. AquaVan 150: Connecting Communities to Coastlines will facilitate personal connections between youth and marine life, emphasizing that all of our waterways are connected.

Ozone Heroes CampaignAs part of the celebrations for the 30th Anniversary of the Montreal Protocol, the Ozone Secretariat at UN Environment, PCI Media, the government of Canada and the global community launched a public engagement campaign to celebrate the international agreement’s success in protecting Earth against ozone depletion and mitigating climate change. The Ozone Heroes campaign and the Guardians of the Galaxy – Ozone Heroes comic book, sought to inspire the same collaborative energy that propelled the Montreal Protocol’s mission 30 years ago. The campaign was created in partnership with Marvel, the company behind some of the world’s most beloved superheroes. It was launched September 15th, 2017 on the eve of World Ozone Day in Montreal, Canada.

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USAEarth Optimism SummitOn April 22nd, CEC Member Diogo Veríssimo organized a session on Conservation Marketing at the Earth Optimism Summit in Washington, DC. There is an increasing realisation that conserving biodiversity is in essence about managing human behaviour and its impact on the natural world. One emerging field that works to influence human behaviour to the benefit of people and nature is conservation marketing. This session explored how marketing principles can improve the way we engage conservation stakeholders, and had three speakers in addition to Diogo himself. Those were Sean Southey, CEC Chair and CEO of PCI Media, Kelley Dennings, President of the Social Marketing Association of North America, and Joe Starinchak, Outreach Coordinator for US Fish and Wildlife Service. The session was well attended with over 100 people present.

Mediterranean and West Asia

Our efforts in 2017 were focused on strengthening membership and three main developing programmes: #NatureForAll, initiated by CEC in collaboration with WCPA, E-learning, and the CEPA (communication, education, and public awareness) toolkit developed by Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD).

#NatureForAll builds support and action for nature conservation by sharing experiences and connections with nature (school clubs, hospital centres, maternal daycares, orphanages, handicap centres, detention buildings, etc.) The more people get in contact with nature, the more they enjoy, love, and care for it.

By the end of 2017, Med-West Asia members were informed about #NatureForAll, participated in e-learning and experienced the CEPA programme of the CEC. Membership in the region that covers 20 countries from the Atlantic Ocean to Golf Sea amounts to almost 100.

A Skype conference was organised between members from Morocco and Lebanon to talk about e-learning, including climate

some rock climbing. It was very inspiring to see the diversity of activities and people, all connecting with nature.

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change and environment protection, and to share information on the CEPA programme. Different groups of CEC members from this region took part in many activities (workshops, meetings and conferences) to promote #NatureForAll, e-learning, and CEPA programmes. They built new partnerships with university and park managers or NGO leaders to promote biodiversity conservation by strategic communication, capacity building, and field training. By the end of 2017, young people’s behaviour toward nature was improved if not changed.

In collaboration with IUCN Med and ROWA, talks are underway to deliver a workshop on CEPA for Park managers, forest staff and educators using CEC strategic Communications for Conservation.

West Europe

In 2017, the CEC focused on strengthening its membership and the #NatureForAll movement, initiated by CEC in collaboration with WCPA. #NatureForAll builds support and action for nature conservation by facilitating experiences and connections with nature. The more people experience nature, the more they appreciate, love, and care for it. By the end of 2017 European members made up 16% of the global coalition of 200 partners of #NatureForAll and CEC counts about 230 members in the region.

European members of CEC took part in many activities, workshops and conferences

to promote #NatureForAll, build new partnerships and support conservation by strategic communication, capacity building and behavioural change in 2017. The CEC worked on:

• Presenting on the Development & Environment Behavioural Insights Network (DEBIN) in Stockholm and in several educational events in Hungary.

• Running workshops about amplifying the voices of parks by #NatureForAll on the Central and Eastern Europe Members Assembly of EUROPARC in Šlunakov.

• CEC also provided storytelling training for conservation during the 2017 European Zoo Educators Conference in Paris. During the training participants learned skills to use storytelling for conservation, education and behaviour change.

• CEC is represented as a permanent member of the Action Group on ecological connectivity in the whole EUSALP territory (AG7). The representative supported the development of the declaration for Green Infrastructure and the participative work and strategic communication of the working group.

CEC-EU also collaborated with IUCN Asia, Mangroves for the Future (MFF) and the Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF) to deliver a workshop on Strategic Communications for Conservation. IUCN PACO, World Bank, OSS and CILSS also

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teamed up with CEC for a week-long regional workshop to increase participants’ communications skills.

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Eastern Europe and Central Asia

In 2017, the main focus of CEC in Eastern Europe, North and Central Asia was to communicate on CEC and IUCN activities in general, and engage members in environmental communication and education through the #NatureForAll movement. We also encouraged collaboration between Western and Eastern Europe, and North and Central Asia IUCN members. Information about CEC and #NatureForAll was mainly delivered at major forums and meetings in the region

in collaboration with IUCN ECARO. Interregional partnerships were fostered through a working group for national committees development. By the end of 2017 regional membership, unfortunately, remains low comparing to other regions and counts 24 members.

Despite the numbers, regional members initiated many activities and organised or took part in a number of meetings, workshops and conferences that promoted environmental education and communication specifically related to youth and Protected Areas. Special occasions were used in the Russian Federation, where 2017 was declared as the “Year of Ecology” and marked 100 years of the protected areas system.

The #NatureForAll movement was launched for Russia at the All-Russia Forum of Protected Areas and IUCN CEC was presented at thematic sessions and round-tables of the Forum.

An important outcome of the year was the establishment of seven new Protected Areas in Russia. Further activities were presented and communicated at the 18th International Environmental Forum “Baltic Sea Day”, and at the Arctic Forum, among many other occasions.

The history and the current state of territorial protection and species conservation was presented at the special exhibition “Protecting nature means protecting the native land” prepared in collaboration with

… a week-long regional workshop to increase participants’ communications skills.

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CEC and displayed at the Presidential library in St. Petersburg.

Regional members and partners got involved in other related initiatives like the “Let it grow” campaign.

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+Photos from activities in the region can be downloaded here.

• Two of the photos with landscapes are from the recently established protected areas: Khibiny (Hibiny) National Park and New Siberian Islands Federal Nature Reserve.

• All photos are provided by the IUCN member organization WWF Russia. Authors’ names are in the titles of each photo file. If you use them, please indicate the author’s name and ‘WWF Russia–IUCN member’.

West, Central, East and Southern Africa

The main focus for the Region in the reporting period was creating awareness on CEC and #NatureForAll, and membership recruitment. The existing members and potential members were contacted and informed about the election of a new Vice Chair for their region.

Raising public awareness is key to involving the community in conservation in areas that are habitats to endangered wildlife. In July 2017, close to 600 students and communities whose homes are within the Aberdares ecosystem were sensitised about the importance of protecting the elephants and the rhinos in the park. This was during the annual Aberdare fence run.

Kenyan members of the CEC were involved in various activities to support conservation by building the capacity of teachers in communicating conservation. CEC members conducted a teacher training workshop on October 12-14th, 2017. The teacher training workshop was held at Syracuse Wildlife House and Research Centre. The capacity building activity aimed to increase the number of people involved and introduce the next generation to appreciating nature and taking action to conserve the environment and biodiversity.

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Communicating conservation was a major component of the training aimed at building the teachers’ skills in imparting conservation knowledge to their students. A similar training workshop was also conducted in the Rift Valley Region from September 29th to October 1st, 2017 at the Lake Nakuru Conservation Education Centre in Lake Nakuru National Park. This year’s theme was ‘’Enhanced Environmental Education Delivery through Integrated ESD’’.

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The Transforming Intentions into Action Stakeholders’ Roundtable was organised in the field of Biodiversity Conservation in West and Central Africa. The roundtable was an initiative of the BirdLife International and Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund’s Regional Implementation Team for the Guinean Forests of West Africa Biodiversity Hotspot, hosted jointly by

the RIT and the West Africa Biodiversity and Climate Change Project (WABiCC). Participants included representatives of key donors and their executing agencies, private sector and civil society actors, currently supporting and/or implementing biodiversity conservation programmes in the Guinean Forest Biodiversity Hotspot, and the wider West and Central African sub-regions.

The main objective of the meeting was to provide an enabling platform for the various stakeholders to establish consensus with respect to the most significant threats to biodiversity in the sub-regions, especially in the GFWA Hotspot, and to determine the main challenges to grant making and other forms of support to civil society actors in efforts to address these threats. Key outcomes of the roundtable were a conservation stakeholder map for the Guinean Forests of West Africa Hotspot and an action programme to enhance donor coordination in supporting capacity development of CSOs in the Hotspot. IUCN France and IUCN Netherlands were also represented.

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Biodiversity Conservation Stakeholder Engagement Meeting was held at the Biodiversity and Renewable Energy Learning Centre (BRELC) in Freetown, Sierra Leone on 23rd March 2017.

The one-day seminar was co-hosted by the Guinean Forests of West Africa Regional Implementation Team (GFWA-RIT) and the GEF Small Grants Programme (Sierra Leone). The event brought together several actors working for biodiversity conservation and sustainable environmental management in Sierra Leone. Its primary objective was to create a platform for sharing and updating current information about the status of biodiversity and natural resource management in Sierra Leone, and more importantly, to introduce the GFWA-RIT and GEF SGP grant portfolios for the Biodiversity Hotspot. During the meeting, Tommy Garnett, CEC Regional Vice Chair introduced #NatureForAll, by showing the video ‘IMAGINE’ and informing the group about the CEC with contact details to enquire about possible membership.

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East Asia

The South and East Asia CEC regions conducted a variety of activities over the year. The list includes:

Conservation Education Experience with Local Stakeholders in Tibet areaCEC Steering Committee Member Hanying Li shared Conservation Education Experience with Local Stakeholders in Tibet area, Qinghai Province, China. Hanying was on a project mid-term review and implementation tasks, entrusted by an environmental NGO, which carries out projects in the Three River Sources area.

Saving Endangered Bluefin Tuna from Extinction: The EffortsIn July 2017, there was a very popular Chinese television drama series that advertised the consumption of Bluefin Tuna. “Come and taste this very best Bluefin Tuna”, said one of the main characters of the series. Being the most populated country in the world, China has the largest market for uprising seafood trends. However, the Bluefin tuna is highly priced due to the scarcity of the species. If the trend of eating Bluefin Tuna is given life in the Chinese market, what will happen to this endangered species?

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Knowledge exchange between members: China learns nature education experiences from AfricaCEC members Maria Moate, Manager on Environmental Education, South Africa National Parks and Margaret Otieno, CEO, Wildlife Clubs of Kenya were invited to Beijing to share their experiences on nature education, national parks management and wildlife conservation.

Hanying Li Spoke at a Community Environmental Education Seminar in ChinaUpon invitation of Oxfam, Hong Kong, Hanying shared CEC experiences in promoting community participation in nature reserve conservation through education. A total of 80 forest rangers, reserve managers, and local minority leaders from Maolan area of Guizhou province, China joined the Seminar in May 2017.

CEC SC Member Hanying Li attended the IUCN Asia Regional Members Committee Meeting (ARMC) on behalf of CECHanying joined the meeting in Zhejiang Province, China in September 2017 and presented a summary of CEC’s work in Asia, especially in China, around the topic of nature education and the #NatureForAll campaign.

The main objective of the meeting was to review the joint progress of IUCN members, commissions and secretariat on strengthening the programmatic presence of IUCN in Asia. Hanying took the opportunity to showcase CEC’s unique advantage in supporting the implementation of IUCN’s

Programme for 2017-2020 through creative, innovative, and effective communication and education.

Hanying briefed the participants on communications strategy trainings that CEC has organized in Asia, especially the one that she and Peter Paul van Kempen (another CEC Steering Committee member) delivered in July 2017 for the IUCN Asia office. At that training, 40 project managers and communication officers from 13 IUCN Asian country offices learned how to tell project stories and how to communicate with stakeholders. Training outcomes show that some programme offices have applied what they learned from the training and produced a few stories on positive change.

Hanying also had side discussions with representatives from IUCN Asia members, Asia country offices, and the other five committees on areas of common interests and potential collaborations.

CEC provided Communications Capacity Building training to a member’s organization in ChinaUpon request from a CEC member’s organization, China Society of Forestry (CSF - also a #NatureForAll partner), CEC SC member Hanying Li and Peter Paul van Kempen delivered a communications training course to over 40 forest managers and university students majoring in forest management during a CSF annual meeting in December 2017.

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Southeast Asia

With about 158 members of the Commission, the Southeast Asia region plays a key role in promoting the agenda of IUCN and the Commission. During the past several months, the following key activities were undertaken.

In order to reach out to current members and enhance the network, the region established an email group that has now connected all the members. Efforts are underway to create a mailing list and a calendar for use by the members in the region to share activity details, experiences and outcomes of activities. Several members are now actively pursuing the recruitment of more relevant members to the Commission in countries where representation has been limited.

The IUCN country office in Nepal hosted a meeting of all IUCN CEC members under the leadership of the IUCN Councillor, with a clear message to enhance work and reach as well as network with members of other Commissions to better communicate actions.

In partnership with the Forum for Law, Environment, Development and Governance (FLEDGE), Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology, UNESCO and others, a month-long student event called ‘Interlude’ was organized in November – December 2017. The aim of the event was to engage students and scholars in field-based research to communicate the

Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) more effectively. The results of the event were presented during the Steering Committee Meeting of IUCN CEC in Gland, Switzerland.

In collaboration with a number of scholars, a set of posters was developed for World Environment Day 2018, under the theme of pollution, to be launched during the World Environment Day celebrations in India in June 2018.

Discussions were held with the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) to further the work under the Specialist Group on Community Engagement and Traditional Knowledge. A number of ideas ranging from publishing a special compendium on biodiversity, people and culture during the CBD COP 15 meeting to contributing to the Article 8 (j) discussions for post 2020 global biodiversity framework are currently being pursued.

It is now planned to host a number of special webinars on communicating biodiversity to contribute to furthering the implementation of Aichi Biodiversity Target 1.

Activities that took place in the region include:

13th Anniversary of Radio ParyabaranRadio Paryabaran, the world’s first environmental radio created by Youth Awareness Environmental Forum (YAEF) in Nepal celebrated its 13th anniversary in February. Started in 2004, and a member of

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the World Association of Community Radio Broadcaster (AMARC), Radio Paryabaran is available at 104.2Mhz (ECR FM).

Communicating Marine Conservation Education to School Teachers in Southeast coast of IndiaA one-day training programme on Marine Conservation Education was organized for school teachers at OMCAR Palk Bay Environmental Education Centre located in the Southeast coast of India. The participating school teachers are the school level coordinators for environmental education activities. The event was organized to provide better orientation about how to communicate marine conservation messages to their students. The programme was funded by the Department of Environment, Government of Tamil Nadu.

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The 2017 work plan agreed upon with other CEC representatives in the region included the first ever call for the election of national focal points in 14 countries in Meso and South America. The results have been satisfactory for Argentina, Colombia, Bolivia, Uruguay, Brazil, Peru, Paraguay, El Salvador, Venezuela, Costa Rica, Ecuador and Panama. The degree of involvement of each country can be seen here, on the CEC Meso and South America regional website.

These efforts have allowed for more than 70% of the region’s members to interact, agree upon and endorse their representatives. At the end of this process and together with the new chairs, a process for the election of national focal points and criteria for basic regional governance were endorsed.

This mobilization effort of the Commission’s membership can be consolidated through face-to-face meetings to improve cohesion among members of the Caribbean, Meso and South America, potentially on the margins of the III Latin American and Caribbean Congress of Protected Areas taking place in Lima, Peru in March 2019.

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Going forward, regional objectives include guaranteeing participation of all countires, strengthening the governance of the Commission, adapting global campaigns such as #NatureForAll to the region, and planning cohesive regional actions with corresponding local initiatives.

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CEC activities carried out in the countries by members and their organizations include: the Biodiversity Conference Series held in Bolivia, the VII Environmental Education Days at the Arturo Ragonese Botanical Garden (JBAER) of the INTA Argentina, or the Systematization of new experiences in environmental education with integral focus of Latin America (March 2017), carried out by the Environmental Training Network for Latin America and the Caribbean together with UN Environment.

The work of the Spanish and Portuguese speaking community of CEC can be found on their website.

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Sean SoutheyIUCN CEC Chair

CEOPCI MediaNew York, NY, USA

Tommy GarnettIUCN CEC Regional Vice ChairWest and Central Africa

Executive DirectorEnvironmental Foundation for AfricaSierra Leone

Katalin CzippánIUCN CEC Deputy Chair

International CoordinatorBavarian Academy for Nature Conservation and Landscape Management (ANL)Hungary/Germany

Brahim HaddaneIUCN CEC Regional Vice ChairMediterranean

Director of Exotic Botanical Gardens of Salé-RabatFondation Mohamed VI pour la Protection de l’EnvironnementRabat, Morocco

Hanying LiIUCN CEC Regional Vice ChairEast Asia

CEOBeijing Dequan Management and Consulting Co. Ltd.Beijing, China

Ana Valerie Mandri RohenIUCN CEC Regional Vice ChairMexico, North America and the Caribbean

Executive DirectorEl Triunfo Conservation Fund (FONCET)Chiapas, Mexico

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Ana Julia GómezIUCN CEC Regional Vice ChairMeso and South America

ConsultantBuenos Aires, Argentina

Margaret OtienoIUCN CEC Regional Vice ChairEastern and Southern Africa

National Coordinator and CEOWildlife Clubs of KenyaNairobi, Kenya

Balakrishna PisupatiIUCN CEC Regional Vice ChairSouth and East Asia

Vice ChancellorTransDisciplinary UniversityIndia

Firas T. Abd-AlhadiIUCN CEC Regional Vice-ChairWest Asia

Program CoordinatorStakeholders for Human Development Training

Peter Paul van KempenIUCN CEC Regional Vice ChairWest Europe

van Kempen Consultancy; frogleapsAmsterdam, Netherlands

Aleksey A. ZavarzinIUCN CEC Regional Vice ChairEastern Europe and Central Asia

Deputy Director, N.I.Vavilov All-RussiaInstitute of Plant Genetic ResourcesSt. Petersburg, Russia

Florent KaiserYouth Engagement and Intergenerational Partnership Representative

Independent ConsultantRegenerative Actions in Forests, Landscapes, Business and SocietiesLima, Perú

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David AinsworthIUCN CEC Expert

Information Officer, Implementation and Outreach DivisionSecretariat of the Convention on Biological DiversityMontreal, Canada

Nancy ColletonIUCN CEC Expert

President, Institute for Global Environmental StrategiesArlington, Virginia, USA

Daniel CooneyIUCN CEC Expert

Communication Deputy DirectorUN EnvironmentNairobi, Kenya

Karen Keenleyside IUCN CEC Expert on #NatureForAll

Senior Advisor, Protected Areas Establishment and Conservation DirectorateParks CanadaGatineau, QC

Christian HoferIUCN CEC Expert

Senior Communications OfficerGlobal Environment Facility Washington DC, USA

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