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Chairs Comments Aroha Te Pareake Mead Earlier this year I was asked if I would want to have theMoa bird brought back from extinction The questionwasnacirceurotradet random it was posed at a workshop onSynthetic Biology amp Conservation by someone who is partof a small group of scientists working on acirceuroœde-extinctionacirceuro The workshop was an exploratory meetingdesigned to bring together the synthetic biology andconservation communities to discuss the implications thatsynthetic biology may have on the natural world andconservation
Conference organiser and CEESP and CEM memberKent Redford introduced the workshop by sayingExtinction might not be forever if synthetic biologists and others pursue their proposals touse advanced genetic engineering techniques to save endangered species and returnextinct ones Kentacirceurotrades report on the meeting is included in this Newsletter It was afascinating meeting that provided a glimpse into an area of science that at one level wasnew to me but at another level (social cultural ethical concerns) was very familiar to theearly days of the discussions on genetic research on indigenous peoples and use ofintellectual property assertions for traditional foods This is a controversial area of sciencethat requires broader discussion on the social cultural ethical issues My response to thequestion was No
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Guest Editorial | A story from Tanzania on being too busyacirceurobrvbar byNicholas Winer Everywhere getting a job done is the practised art of choosing priorities delivering on themand then covering up later when some of the choices turn out to have been wrong It is thatsinking feeling we get realising sometimes too late and sometimes just in time that theboring and half forgotten memo from so and so in the field actually came wired to someundetected dynamite about to explode all over our corporate reputation and call ourjudgement into question
Itacirceurotrades always that acirceuro˜how come I missed itacirceurotrade feeling that gives us all the answerslong after they should have been delivered Guilt mixes with acirceuro˜I can do better nexttimeacirceurotrade until in the morning we are once again submerged in the familiar juggling act oftelephone email in tray out tray and meetings It is a wonder anyone can generateeffective and accountable priorities while trying to stay afloat in todayacirceurotrades tsunami ofinformation That is the problem of being too busy
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Spanish Website for CEESP In 2012 as part of the Work Plan of the CEESPRegional Vice President Office for South AmericaGonzalo Zambrana Avila designed the CEESP websitein Spanish for the use of Spanish-speaking members
To implement this initiative Victor Hugo InchaustyExecutive Director of IUCN-South helped in authorizingthe hosting of this website on IUCN-South servers with
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the support of Aracelly Pazmino and technical work ofVeronica Moreno both of IUCN-South it was possible toupload this website
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CEESP TGER Chair and South AmericaRegional Chair meet at the Potato Festival inLima Peru celebrating farmers who areproducing traditional potato varieties for themarket Dr Janis Alcorn (CEESP TGER) visited Pierina BenitesAlfaro the CEESP Vice Chair for Latin America at theIVth Festival of the Potato in the Parque de laExposicion in Lima Peru on 1 June 2013 Pierinamanaged the exhibit of certified seeds from the FAOAndean Potato Seed project for which she is aconsultant
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Two new Co-Chairs of TILCEPA Two additional Co-Chairs for the joint CEESPWCPATheme on Indigenous Peoples Local CommunitiesEquity and Protected Areas (TILCEPA) have beenappointed to work with Nigel Crawhall in the lead-up tothe World Parks Congress Prof Amran Hamzah fromMalaysia and Dr Trisha Kehaulani Watson-Sproat fromHawaiacirceurotradei
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Theme on culture and conservation co-chairs updates Theme on culture and conservation co-chairs AdiMeretui Ratunabuabua and Dr Elise Huffer have initiateda community capacity building exchange programbetween communities that live on World Heritage sites inthe Pacific Canada Africa and Australia incollaboration with the theme on sustainable livelihoodCo chairs Iain Davidson Hunt and MasegoMadzmawuse
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SIDS New Emerging Issues meeting UN DESA May 14-16 2013Cambridge University On 14-16 May 2013 in Cambridge
United Kingdom the Department ofEconomic and Social Affairs (DESA) andthe United Nations EnvironmentProgram (UNEP) co-hosted an expertgroup meeting on acirceuroœEmerging Issuesin Small Islands Developing Statesacirceuro
The meeting was held in the midst of theUNEP-initiated acirceuroœForesightacirceuroprocess which uses a methodologyoriginally designed to identify new issuesin environmental science
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CEESP Youth Network and the Task Force on InterngenerationalPartnership for Sustainability Beginning a new programme for 2013-2016 Using the 2012 World Conservation Congress and the resulting Action Plan on YouthEngagement and Intergenerational Partnership (available here) as a spring board for theimplementation of the new IUCN programme young CEESP members are active leaderswithin the Commission collaborating across Commissions and leading Working Groupswithin the Task Force on Inter generational Partnership for Sustainability (Task Force or
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CEESP TGER Natural ResourcesGovernance Framework Working GroupProgress update and meetings An informal pre-inception workshop meeting was held inGland 15-16 May SC member Dr Janis Alcorn who ischairing the NRGF Working Group and NRGFconsultant Jessica Campese author of the 2012 IUCNreview of governance assessment tools participatedfrom CEESP at the invitation of Stewart Maginnis Headof IUCNs Nature Based Solutions program
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CEESP member Mersie Ejigu attendsAfrican Diaspora in BiodiversityConservation CEESP SC member Mersie was one of the speakers ata discussion event on the role of the African Diaspora inBiodiversity Conservation organized by the AfricanBiodiversity Collaborative Group (ABCG) with thesupport of USAID Hosted by the Embassy of theRepublic of the Congo in Washington DC the eventwas seen as a part of the celebration of the AfricanUnion Golden Jubilee (May 25 1963 - May 25 2013) todiscuss the findings of the USAID commissioned studyreport The African Diaspora in the US and itsInteraction with Biodiversity Conservation in Africa
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Members of the Theme on the EnvironmentMacroeconomics Trade and Investment(TEMTI) to participate in the Winter Schoolon Economic Justice Members of the Theme on the EnvironmentMacroeconomics Trade and Investment (TEMTI) will beparticipating in the Winter School on Economic Justiceorganized by the Open Society Initiative for SouthernAfrica (OSISA) Masego Madzwamuse the Economic
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Justice Programme manager (and also a member ofCEESPs SC) is responsible for the entire project
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MEMBERS NEWS amp REPORTS
Summary of the youth discussions as follow up on the participation ofyouth fisherfolks in Jeju During the acirceuroœJornada de Aprendizajeacirceuro in Honduras supported by ICSFCONFEPESCA and CoopeSoliDar RL with the support of the organizations RECOTURHand APROCUS a session on youth was held in order to open up a space to talk about theimportance of youth in small-scale fisheries where the young representatives attendingthis workshop participated facilitating discussions
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Cultural mapping and policy for Wallis and Futuna underway Wallis and Futuna thetwo islands that togetherform a single country inthe heart of the Pacifichave begun a processof cultural mapping towork towardsdeveloping a culturalpolicy in whichagricultural andenvironmental traditionalknowledge andconservation will play a
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central role
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Restoring Traditional Hawaiian Fishpond Systems In Hawaiacirceuro˜i Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary continues tomake extraordinary strides in serving its community through facilitating projects thatenhance the use of traditional knowledge in coastal resource management There is arenewed interest in the repair and operation of traditional Hawaiian fishponds for theircultural economic and ecological value
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National Conference on ICCAs inthe Philippines A conference was jointly organized byKASAPI and PAFID with support from theUNDP-GEF and the Philippine TropicalForest Conservation Foundation TheICCA consortium in the Philippines wasformally launched during a three-dayconference at the NORFIL FoundationTraining Center in Quezon City from 19-22February 2013
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Perceptions of the value of traditionalecological knowledge to formal schoolcurricula opportunities and challenges Joe McCarter (Postdoctoral Fellow) and Mike Gavin
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(Assistant Professor and Academic DirectorConservation Leadership Through Learning Programbased in the Department of Human Dimensions ofNatural Resources at Colorado State University (CSU)have worked broadly to examine patterns of biologicaland cultural diversity and spans a variety of topics fromglobal linguistic diversity to distribution and variation oftraditional ecological knowledge (TEK)
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Innovation needs no boundariesbiodiversity through partnership(Biodiversity for Food and Nutrition project) If you want to go far go together acirceuroldquo Four countriesunite for the conservation of nutritionally-relevantagrobiodiversity
Brazil Kenya Sri Lanka and Turkey have thus joinedforces under the umbrella of the Biodiversity for Food(BFN Project) and Nutrition project - funded by theGlobal Environment Facility (GEF) and coordinated byBioversity International - to explore how best to promotenutritionally-rich species and by so-doing develop andconserve them
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Report from the March IUCN workshop on criteria for delineating keybiodiversity areas The joint task force of the World Commission of protected Areas (WCPA) and the SpeciesSurvival Commission initiated the process of defining of Key Biodiversity Areas (KBAs) thatcontribute significantly to the global persistence of biodiversity The initiative is not meant toduplicate but build upon some of the existing delineations like important plant fungal andbird areas
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Background documents produced prior to the KBA criteria anddelineation workshop
Key biodiversity areas are places of internationalimportance for the conservation of biodiversity throughprotected areas and other governance mechanisms Theyare identified nationally using simple standard criteriabased on their importance in maintaining speciespopulations
As the building blocks for designing the ecosystemapproach and maintaining effective ecological networks key
biodiversity areas are the starting point for conservation planning at landscape level
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Report on the acirceuro˜Conservation and LandGrabbingacirceurotrade Symposium In recent years the pace of global land acquisition hasdramatically increased due to changes in commoditymarkets agricultural investment strategies land pricesand a range of other policy and market forces Thissurge in land acquisition is widespread but particularlypronounced in a) countries with relatively weakgovernance and protection of customary land rights b)in the global acirceuro˜commonsacirceurotrade ie lands which arecustomarily used collectively at the local scale includingforests rangelands and wetlands
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EU ACP Cultures projects Music Bridges a cross-cultural musiccamp in Santo Vanuatu When music bridges not just people but in a continental kind of way Singaot (for the)Miusik Kamp This overview details a current EU ACP Cultures project Music Bridgeswhich is currently in preparation stage for a cross-cultural music camp in Santo Vanuatufor SeptemberOctober
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CEESP Member Dr Teki Surayya attendsInternational Congress on acirceuroœPlantedForests CEESP member Dr Teki Surayya presented a paper onacirceuroœRole of Afforestation on Dry and Degraded Lands ampDevelopmental Finance in Generating SustainableLivelihood and Strategies to Arrest Desertification casestudies-Indiaacirceuro during the 2013 InternationalCongress on acirceuroœPlanted Forests The conference wassponsored by International Union of Forest ResearchOrganisations (IUFRO) There were 200 researchersthinkers and policy makers from 59 countries whoparticipated
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UN Expert Panel on IntergenerationalSolidarity A UN meeting was held in New York on May 9th 2013 on
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Intergenerational Solidarity Intergenerational solidarityand justice is deeply embedded in the concept ofsustainable development Yet many questions remain tobe answered How to define the needs and rights offuture generations What are the duties of currentgeneration to future generations
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Be one of the first to list your area on theGDI Registry The Green Development Initiative (GDI) is establishingan online GDI Registry of areas which are managed in abiodiversity responsible way These areas could becommunity-based public or private To be listed on theRegistry as a Registered or Certified GDI Area the areawill need to be in compliance with the GDI Standard
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TILCEPAs Mountain Connectivity and SocialPolicy Specialist Group organize panel onMountain Trails As part of an initiative to develop a Walking amp WorkingMountain Trails Network CEESP Youth advisor CatieBurlando and TILCEPA Mountains Co-Vice Chair ElaineHsiao will be presenting on European Mountain Trailsand Mountain Trails as Biocultural Corridors for Peace
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Second edition of the Living Convention at the UNPFII and the WINC Indigenous peoples and local communities often ask what their rights are at the
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international level The answer to this crucial question is complicated for several reasonsincluding the fact that the provisions containing the rights are spread across a wide rangeof international instruments each with its own particular focus
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Analysis of CITES from the perspective ofwhat the latest COP means for sustainableuse and livelihoods The 16th Conference of the Parties to CITES - theConvention on International Trade in EndangeredSpecies of Fauna and Flora - took place in Bangkok inearly March Over 1000 representatives from 170 of the178 state Parties attended along with around 1000observers from inter-governmental and non-governmental organisations IUCN and TRAFFIC bothhad large delegations in attendance - Rosie Cooney wasthe part of the IUCN delegation
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SULi Update Since the last newsletter in March weve taken workforward in a number of our key areas We would like tobetter understand what others are doing in these areasand keen to collaborate so please get in touch if you areinterested
SULi was involved in highlighting the contribution ofsustainable wildlife management to food securitythrough helping the organisation of a side-event at theRome FAO Forests and Food Security and Nutritionmeeting in May
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Community-based networks of Odisha Community-based forest networks of India and Nepal have been suffering from seriousneglect and left at disadvantage due to lack of legal recognition A brief review of literatureon community-based forest networks found that they lack certain attributes that arenecessary to be considered as equal partners in the activities aimed at forest conservationand livelihood improvement In this review a brief on the informal community-based forestnetworks of Odisha and their status of recognition through Forest Rights Act (FRA) 2006 ispresented
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Hangzhou Declaration on Culture amp Sustainable Development Co-Chairs of the CEESP Theme on Culture and Conservation Elise Hufer and Adi MeretuiRatunabuabua together with CEESP Chair Aroha Mead participated in the UNESCOInternational Congress on Culture Key to Sustainable Development held in HangzhouChina
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IUCN President Zhang Xinsheng alsoparticipated The meeting developed aHangzhou Declaration Placing Culture atthe heart of Sustainable DevelopmentPolicies which was subsequentlypresented to the UN General Assembly
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Synthetic Biology and Conservation An Imminent Encounter
Synthetic biology is a new technologywith enormous promise to change thehuman relationships with the naturalworld and with fellow human beings Though there is no commonly agreedupon definition synthetic biology can bethought of as acirceuro˜acirceuro˜a scientific discipline
that relies on chemically synthesized DNA along with standardized and automatableprocesses to address human needs by the creation of organisms with novel or enhancedcharacteristics or traitsacirceurotradeacirceurotrade Billions of dollars are being invested globally anddevelopments of novel applications are constantly being reported
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Adopted Alta Outcome Document In June 10-12 indigenous representatives were invited by the Saami to Alta Norway to apreparatory meeting for the United Nations High Level Plenary Meeting of the GeneralAssembly on Indigenous Peoples which is being held at the UN-HQ in September 2014
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The Alta meeting finalised the Alta Outcome Document which is available in English andFrench Read more
World Indigenous Network (WIN) Conference CEESP Members Nigel Crawhall and Trisha Kehaulani Watson-Sproat attended the WorldIndigenous Network (WIN) Conference Marine Protected Areas Connections hasproduced a special edition on Tribal and Indigenous Peoples on MPAs which includes areport on the WIN Conference In May 2013 over 1200 delegates and representativesfrom more than 50 countries from every corner of the globe attended the World IndigenousNetwork (WIN) Conference in Darwin Australia The Larrakia Nation of Northern Australiaare the traditional owners of what is now the Darwin area and they were gracious andwarm hosts for this important gathering
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Publications amp Resources
E-book produced by IUCN WCPA for the World Parks Congress E-book concerns one of the major legacy projects for the World Parks Congress GraemeWorboys is leading a team of writers and editors to produce a major new book on thebasics of Protected Areas Governance amp Management The book is intended for bothconservation students at tertiary level as well as professionals wanting a handbook
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Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining In AndAround Protected Areas And CriticalEcosystems Project (Asm-Pace) Timothy Healy with his colleague from AQUATERREMadagascar produced a new publication on artisanalmining (gems and gold) and conflicts with protected andsensitive ecological areas in Madagascar The overallobjective of this ASM in Madagascar StrategicManagement of Artisanal Rushes Tool and LessonsLearned Study Project is to address the growing threatof Artisanal and Small Scale Mining on in and aroundMadagascaracirceurotrades protected areas (PAs) and criticalecosystems and ideally in a way that can ensurecontinued socioeconomic development withoutundermining ecological resiliency
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Opportunities and Challenges forEstablishing Synergies and Areas forEnhanced Cooperation in the BiodiversityCluster The following article by Marina von WeissenbergCEESP member was recently published in a bookentitled acirceuroœInternational Environmental Law-makingand Diplomacy Review 2011acirceuro produced by theUniversity of Eastern Finland The paper examinesopportunities and challenges that exist for establishingsynergies and generally enhancing cooperation withinthe biodiversity-related cluster of MEAs
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Issues in Agricultural Biodiversity a newbook series published byEarthscanRoutledge in Association withBiodiversity International Conservation and sustainable use of agriculturalbiodiversity can improve peopleacirceurotrades wellbeing andfood and nutrition security EarthscanRoutledge inAssociation with Biodiversity International has published
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a new book series edited by Michael Halewood andDanny Hunter both at Biodiversity International andSeries Editors
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Caring for country through participatory art Creating a boundary objectfor communicating Indigenous knowledge and values The following article by Melanie Zurba CEESP member and PhD Candidate - NaturalResources Institute University of Manitoba was recently published in Local EnvironmentThe international journal of justice and sustainability The article argues the trend towardsthe inclusion of diverse groups in environmental decision-making that has led to the needto explore new forms of communication to engage communities in expressing their valuesand aspirations
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Assessing anthropogenic pressure and itsimpact on Hippophae salicifolia pockets inCentral Himalaya
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The following article by Shalini Dhyani and DeepakDhyani CEESP member was recently published inJournal of Mountain Science The article argues thatNatural habitat of Hippophae salicifolia in CentralHimalaya is continuously being degraded due to habitatdestruction and harvesting Although logging isprohibited habitat destruction has increased because ofregular road construction repairing and broadeningactivities
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Right Scale Resilient WatershedsManaging Complexity through NodalNetworks What does the group of Wall Street tradAcirc ers focused onbanks of computer screens have in common with thewaAcirc tershed communities of South AmeriAcirc caacirceurotrades GranChaco the second largest ecosystem on the continentthe priests of Bali where some of the earAcirc liest evidenceof irrigation used in rice cultivation is found the ArcticCircleacirceurotrades indigenous communities of herders andhunters and National Heritage Areas A great deal
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Mexican Lessons To Take to Heart -- Traveling The Path to Biodiversityand Forest Conservation in Our Age of Global Change Written by Mexican and international and including a preface by CEESP member Janis
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Alcorn Community Action for Conservation Mexican Experiences is a lively and deep-running resource that offers invaluable stories and analyses of the Mexican experiencewith conservation This book provides an in-depth analysis on community conservation inMexico
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Cloaking not Bleaching the Back Storyfrom Inside Bureaucracy acirceuroœacirceurobrvbar In other words the way that bureaucracies workis by bleaching out local context and coming up with bigsimplificationsacirceuro acirceuroldquo Andrew Mathews
CEESP SC member Janis Alcorn writes I wouldcounter by positing that good bureaucracies do notbleach out local context Instead they create bigsimplified umbrellas that cloak the complex dynamicrange of local circumstances and thereby give the staffof government bureaucracies the space to address localcircumstances despite changes in political direction
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The Right to Responsibility - new book forpeer review Weacirceurotradere pleased to announce that Natural Justice andthe United Nations University acirceuroldquo Institute of AdvancedStudies (UNU-IAS) have just released a new book forpeer review entitled The Right to ResponsibilityResisting and Engaging Development Conservationand the Law in Asia
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ARE YOU A MEMBER OF CEESP
At the end of every World Conservation CongressCommissions are asked to revisit and renew their membershipCEESP applied what we considered to be a fairly straightforward renewal process but it turned to be far more complexthan we thought By the end of the renewal period we had lost just over 300members because they did not respond or we had no record of their response tothe calls for renewal
A list of the new membership of CEESP can be found here
NEED TO RENEW
Please check to see if your name is entered and the details correct We do notdisclose email addresses only names country and Theme(s)SGs If you did renewyour membership in CEESP welcome back and look forward to working with youover the next three years If you missed the opportunity to renew andor would like to join CEESP membershipforms in EnglishSpanishFrench and Portuguese can be found on the followingpage
CEESP Members page by clicking here
CEESP NEWSLETTER
This edition of the CEESP newsletter has been compiled by Shalini Dyani from India andNikolasa Biasny-Thule (NZ) A call for contributions will be sent to all CEESP members forthe next edition shortly Deadline for receipt of articles for the August edition is 8August 2013 and should be sent to
CEESPNEWSiucnorg
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Guest Editorial | A story from Tanzania on being too busyacirceurobrvbar byNicholas Winer Everywhere getting a job done is the practised art of choosing priorities delivering on themand then covering up later when some of the choices turn out to have been wrong It is thatsinking feeling we get realising sometimes too late and sometimes just in time that theboring and half forgotten memo from so and so in the field actually came wired to someundetected dynamite about to explode all over our corporate reputation and call ourjudgement into question
Itacirceurotrades always that acirceuro˜how come I missed itacirceurotrade feeling that gives us all the answerslong after they should have been delivered Guilt mixes with acirceuro˜I can do better nexttimeacirceurotrade until in the morning we are once again submerged in the familiar juggling act oftelephone email in tray out tray and meetings It is a wonder anyone can generateeffective and accountable priorities while trying to stay afloat in todayacirceurotrades tsunami ofinformation That is the problem of being too busy
STEERING COMMITTEE NEWS
Spanish Website for CEESP In 2012 as part of the Work Plan of the CEESPRegional Vice President Office for South AmericaGonzalo Zambrana Avila designed the CEESP websitein Spanish for the use of Spanish-speaking members
To implement this initiative Victor Hugo InchaustyExecutive Director of IUCN-South helped in authorizingthe hosting of this website on IUCN-South servers with
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the support of Aracelly Pazmino and technical work ofVeronica Moreno both of IUCN-South it was possible toupload this website
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CEESP TGER Chair and South AmericaRegional Chair meet at the Potato Festival inLima Peru celebrating farmers who areproducing traditional potato varieties for themarket Dr Janis Alcorn (CEESP TGER) visited Pierina BenitesAlfaro the CEESP Vice Chair for Latin America at theIVth Festival of the Potato in the Parque de laExposicion in Lima Peru on 1 June 2013 Pierinamanaged the exhibit of certified seeds from the FAOAndean Potato Seed project for which she is aconsultant
Read more
Two new Co-Chairs of TILCEPA Two additional Co-Chairs for the joint CEESPWCPATheme on Indigenous Peoples Local CommunitiesEquity and Protected Areas (TILCEPA) have beenappointed to work with Nigel Crawhall in the lead-up tothe World Parks Congress Prof Amran Hamzah fromMalaysia and Dr Trisha Kehaulani Watson-Sproat fromHawaiacirceurotradei
Read more
Theme on culture and conservation co-chairs updates Theme on culture and conservation co-chairs AdiMeretui Ratunabuabua and Dr Elise Huffer have initiateda community capacity building exchange programbetween communities that live on World Heritage sites inthe Pacific Canada Africa and Australia incollaboration with the theme on sustainable livelihoodCo chairs Iain Davidson Hunt and MasegoMadzmawuse
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SIDS New Emerging Issues meeting UN DESA May 14-16 2013Cambridge University On 14-16 May 2013 in Cambridge
United Kingdom the Department ofEconomic and Social Affairs (DESA) andthe United Nations EnvironmentProgram (UNEP) co-hosted an expertgroup meeting on acirceuroœEmerging Issuesin Small Islands Developing Statesacirceuro
The meeting was held in the midst of theUNEP-initiated acirceuroœForesightacirceuroprocess which uses a methodologyoriginally designed to identify new issuesin environmental science
Read more
CEESP Youth Network and the Task Force on InterngenerationalPartnership for Sustainability Beginning a new programme for 2013-2016 Using the 2012 World Conservation Congress and the resulting Action Plan on YouthEngagement and Intergenerational Partnership (available here) as a spring board for theimplementation of the new IUCN programme young CEESP members are active leaderswithin the Commission collaborating across Commissions and leading Working Groupswithin the Task Force on Inter generational Partnership for Sustainability (Task Force or
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CEESP TGER Natural ResourcesGovernance Framework Working GroupProgress update and meetings An informal pre-inception workshop meeting was held inGland 15-16 May SC member Dr Janis Alcorn who ischairing the NRGF Working Group and NRGFconsultant Jessica Campese author of the 2012 IUCNreview of governance assessment tools participatedfrom CEESP at the invitation of Stewart Maginnis Headof IUCNs Nature Based Solutions program
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CEESP member Mersie Ejigu attendsAfrican Diaspora in BiodiversityConservation CEESP SC member Mersie was one of the speakers ata discussion event on the role of the African Diaspora inBiodiversity Conservation organized by the AfricanBiodiversity Collaborative Group (ABCG) with thesupport of USAID Hosted by the Embassy of theRepublic of the Congo in Washington DC the eventwas seen as a part of the celebration of the AfricanUnion Golden Jubilee (May 25 1963 - May 25 2013) todiscuss the findings of the USAID commissioned studyreport The African Diaspora in the US and itsInteraction with Biodiversity Conservation in Africa
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Members of the Theme on the EnvironmentMacroeconomics Trade and Investment(TEMTI) to participate in the Winter Schoolon Economic Justice Members of the Theme on the EnvironmentMacroeconomics Trade and Investment (TEMTI) will beparticipating in the Winter School on Economic Justiceorganized by the Open Society Initiative for SouthernAfrica (OSISA) Masego Madzwamuse the Economic
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MEMBERS NEWS amp REPORTS
Summary of the youth discussions as follow up on the participation ofyouth fisherfolks in Jeju During the acirceuroœJornada de Aprendizajeacirceuro in Honduras supported by ICSFCONFEPESCA and CoopeSoliDar RL with the support of the organizations RECOTURHand APROCUS a session on youth was held in order to open up a space to talk about theimportance of youth in small-scale fisheries where the young representatives attendingthis workshop participated facilitating discussions
Read more
Cultural mapping and policy for Wallis and Futuna underway Wallis and Futuna thetwo islands that togetherform a single country inthe heart of the Pacifichave begun a processof cultural mapping towork towardsdeveloping a culturalpolicy in whichagricultural andenvironmental traditionalknowledge andconservation will play a
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central role
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Restoring Traditional Hawaiian Fishpond Systems In Hawaiacirceuro˜i Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary continues tomake extraordinary strides in serving its community through facilitating projects thatenhance the use of traditional knowledge in coastal resource management There is arenewed interest in the repair and operation of traditional Hawaiian fishponds for theircultural economic and ecological value
Read more
National Conference on ICCAs inthe Philippines A conference was jointly organized byKASAPI and PAFID with support from theUNDP-GEF and the Philippine TropicalForest Conservation Foundation TheICCA consortium in the Philippines wasformally launched during a three-dayconference at the NORFIL FoundationTraining Center in Quezon City from 19-22February 2013
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Perceptions of the value of traditionalecological knowledge to formal schoolcurricula opportunities and challenges Joe McCarter (Postdoctoral Fellow) and Mike Gavin
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(Assistant Professor and Academic DirectorConservation Leadership Through Learning Programbased in the Department of Human Dimensions ofNatural Resources at Colorado State University (CSU)have worked broadly to examine patterns of biologicaland cultural diversity and spans a variety of topics fromglobal linguistic diversity to distribution and variation oftraditional ecological knowledge (TEK)
Read more
Innovation needs no boundariesbiodiversity through partnership(Biodiversity for Food and Nutrition project) If you want to go far go together acirceuroldquo Four countriesunite for the conservation of nutritionally-relevantagrobiodiversity
Brazil Kenya Sri Lanka and Turkey have thus joinedforces under the umbrella of the Biodiversity for Food(BFN Project) and Nutrition project - funded by theGlobal Environment Facility (GEF) and coordinated byBioversity International - to explore how best to promotenutritionally-rich species and by so-doing develop andconserve them
Read more
Report from the March IUCN workshop on criteria for delineating keybiodiversity areas The joint task force of the World Commission of protected Areas (WCPA) and the SpeciesSurvival Commission initiated the process of defining of Key Biodiversity Areas (KBAs) thatcontribute significantly to the global persistence of biodiversity The initiative is not meant toduplicate but build upon some of the existing delineations like important plant fungal andbird areas
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Background documents produced prior to the KBA criteria anddelineation workshop
Key biodiversity areas are places of internationalimportance for the conservation of biodiversity throughprotected areas and other governance mechanisms Theyare identified nationally using simple standard criteriabased on their importance in maintaining speciespopulations
As the building blocks for designing the ecosystemapproach and maintaining effective ecological networks key
biodiversity areas are the starting point for conservation planning at landscape level
Read more
Report on the acirceuro˜Conservation and LandGrabbingacirceurotrade Symposium In recent years the pace of global land acquisition hasdramatically increased due to changes in commoditymarkets agricultural investment strategies land pricesand a range of other policy and market forces Thissurge in land acquisition is widespread but particularlypronounced in a) countries with relatively weakgovernance and protection of customary land rights b)in the global acirceuro˜commonsacirceurotrade ie lands which arecustomarily used collectively at the local scale includingforests rangelands and wetlands
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EU ACP Cultures projects Music Bridges a cross-cultural musiccamp in Santo Vanuatu When music bridges not just people but in a continental kind of way Singaot (for the)Miusik Kamp This overview details a current EU ACP Cultures project Music Bridgeswhich is currently in preparation stage for a cross-cultural music camp in Santo Vanuatufor SeptemberOctober
Read more
CEESP Member Dr Teki Surayya attendsInternational Congress on acirceuroœPlantedForests CEESP member Dr Teki Surayya presented a paper onacirceuroœRole of Afforestation on Dry and Degraded Lands ampDevelopmental Finance in Generating SustainableLivelihood and Strategies to Arrest Desertification casestudies-Indiaacirceuro during the 2013 InternationalCongress on acirceuroœPlanted Forests The conference wassponsored by International Union of Forest ResearchOrganisations (IUFRO) There were 200 researchersthinkers and policy makers from 59 countries whoparticipated
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UN Expert Panel on IntergenerationalSolidarity A UN meeting was held in New York on May 9th 2013 on
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Intergenerational Solidarity Intergenerational solidarityand justice is deeply embedded in the concept ofsustainable development Yet many questions remain tobe answered How to define the needs and rights offuture generations What are the duties of currentgeneration to future generations
Read more
Be one of the first to list your area on theGDI Registry The Green Development Initiative (GDI) is establishingan online GDI Registry of areas which are managed in abiodiversity responsible way These areas could becommunity-based public or private To be listed on theRegistry as a Registered or Certified GDI Area the areawill need to be in compliance with the GDI Standard
Read more
TILCEPAs Mountain Connectivity and SocialPolicy Specialist Group organize panel onMountain Trails As part of an initiative to develop a Walking amp WorkingMountain Trails Network CEESP Youth advisor CatieBurlando and TILCEPA Mountains Co-Vice Chair ElaineHsiao will be presenting on European Mountain Trailsand Mountain Trails as Biocultural Corridors for Peace
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Second edition of the Living Convention at the UNPFII and the WINC Indigenous peoples and local communities often ask what their rights are at the
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international level The answer to this crucial question is complicated for several reasonsincluding the fact that the provisions containing the rights are spread across a wide rangeof international instruments each with its own particular focus
Read more
Analysis of CITES from the perspective ofwhat the latest COP means for sustainableuse and livelihoods The 16th Conference of the Parties to CITES - theConvention on International Trade in EndangeredSpecies of Fauna and Flora - took place in Bangkok inearly March Over 1000 representatives from 170 of the178 state Parties attended along with around 1000observers from inter-governmental and non-governmental organisations IUCN and TRAFFIC bothhad large delegations in attendance - Rosie Cooney wasthe part of the IUCN delegation
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SULi Update Since the last newsletter in March weve taken workforward in a number of our key areas We would like tobetter understand what others are doing in these areasand keen to collaborate so please get in touch if you areinterested
SULi was involved in highlighting the contribution ofsustainable wildlife management to food securitythrough helping the organisation of a side-event at theRome FAO Forests and Food Security and Nutritionmeeting in May
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Community-based networks of Odisha Community-based forest networks of India and Nepal have been suffering from seriousneglect and left at disadvantage due to lack of legal recognition A brief review of literatureon community-based forest networks found that they lack certain attributes that arenecessary to be considered as equal partners in the activities aimed at forest conservationand livelihood improvement In this review a brief on the informal community-based forestnetworks of Odisha and their status of recognition through Forest Rights Act (FRA) 2006 ispresented
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Hangzhou Declaration on Culture amp Sustainable Development Co-Chairs of the CEESP Theme on Culture and Conservation Elise Hufer and Adi MeretuiRatunabuabua together with CEESP Chair Aroha Mead participated in the UNESCOInternational Congress on Culture Key to Sustainable Development held in HangzhouChina
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IUCN President Zhang Xinsheng alsoparticipated The meeting developed aHangzhou Declaration Placing Culture atthe heart of Sustainable DevelopmentPolicies which was subsequentlypresented to the UN General Assembly
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Synthetic Biology and Conservation An Imminent Encounter
Synthetic biology is a new technologywith enormous promise to change thehuman relationships with the naturalworld and with fellow human beings Though there is no commonly agreedupon definition synthetic biology can bethought of as acirceuro˜acirceuro˜a scientific discipline
that relies on chemically synthesized DNA along with standardized and automatableprocesses to address human needs by the creation of organisms with novel or enhancedcharacteristics or traitsacirceurotradeacirceurotrade Billions of dollars are being invested globally anddevelopments of novel applications are constantly being reported
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Adopted Alta Outcome Document In June 10-12 indigenous representatives were invited by the Saami to Alta Norway to apreparatory meeting for the United Nations High Level Plenary Meeting of the GeneralAssembly on Indigenous Peoples which is being held at the UN-HQ in September 2014
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The Alta meeting finalised the Alta Outcome Document which is available in English andFrench Read more
World Indigenous Network (WIN) Conference CEESP Members Nigel Crawhall and Trisha Kehaulani Watson-Sproat attended the WorldIndigenous Network (WIN) Conference Marine Protected Areas Connections hasproduced a special edition on Tribal and Indigenous Peoples on MPAs which includes areport on the WIN Conference In May 2013 over 1200 delegates and representativesfrom more than 50 countries from every corner of the globe attended the World IndigenousNetwork (WIN) Conference in Darwin Australia The Larrakia Nation of Northern Australiaare the traditional owners of what is now the Darwin area and they were gracious andwarm hosts for this important gathering
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Publications amp Resources
E-book produced by IUCN WCPA for the World Parks Congress E-book concerns one of the major legacy projects for the World Parks Congress GraemeWorboys is leading a team of writers and editors to produce a major new book on thebasics of Protected Areas Governance amp Management The book is intended for bothconservation students at tertiary level as well as professionals wanting a handbook
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Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining In AndAround Protected Areas And CriticalEcosystems Project (Asm-Pace) Timothy Healy with his colleague from AQUATERREMadagascar produced a new publication on artisanalmining (gems and gold) and conflicts with protected andsensitive ecological areas in Madagascar The overallobjective of this ASM in Madagascar StrategicManagement of Artisanal Rushes Tool and LessonsLearned Study Project is to address the growing threatof Artisanal and Small Scale Mining on in and aroundMadagascaracirceurotrades protected areas (PAs) and criticalecosystems and ideally in a way that can ensurecontinued socioeconomic development withoutundermining ecological resiliency
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Opportunities and Challenges forEstablishing Synergies and Areas forEnhanced Cooperation in the BiodiversityCluster The following article by Marina von WeissenbergCEESP member was recently published in a bookentitled acirceuroœInternational Environmental Law-makingand Diplomacy Review 2011acirceuro produced by theUniversity of Eastern Finland The paper examinesopportunities and challenges that exist for establishingsynergies and generally enhancing cooperation withinthe biodiversity-related cluster of MEAs
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Issues in Agricultural Biodiversity a newbook series published byEarthscanRoutledge in Association withBiodiversity International Conservation and sustainable use of agriculturalbiodiversity can improve peopleacirceurotrades wellbeing andfood and nutrition security EarthscanRoutledge inAssociation with Biodiversity International has published
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a new book series edited by Michael Halewood andDanny Hunter both at Biodiversity International andSeries Editors
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Caring for country through participatory art Creating a boundary objectfor communicating Indigenous knowledge and values The following article by Melanie Zurba CEESP member and PhD Candidate - NaturalResources Institute University of Manitoba was recently published in Local EnvironmentThe international journal of justice and sustainability The article argues the trend towardsthe inclusion of diverse groups in environmental decision-making that has led to the needto explore new forms of communication to engage communities in expressing their valuesand aspirations
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Assessing anthropogenic pressure and itsimpact on Hippophae salicifolia pockets inCentral Himalaya
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The following article by Shalini Dhyani and DeepakDhyani CEESP member was recently published inJournal of Mountain Science The article argues thatNatural habitat of Hippophae salicifolia in CentralHimalaya is continuously being degraded due to habitatdestruction and harvesting Although logging isprohibited habitat destruction has increased because ofregular road construction repairing and broadeningactivities
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Right Scale Resilient WatershedsManaging Complexity through NodalNetworks What does the group of Wall Street tradAcirc ers focused onbanks of computer screens have in common with thewaAcirc tershed communities of South AmeriAcirc caacirceurotrades GranChaco the second largest ecosystem on the continentthe priests of Bali where some of the earAcirc liest evidenceof irrigation used in rice cultivation is found the ArcticCircleacirceurotrades indigenous communities of herders andhunters and National Heritage Areas A great deal
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Mexican Lessons To Take to Heart -- Traveling The Path to Biodiversityand Forest Conservation in Our Age of Global Change Written by Mexican and international and including a preface by CEESP member Janis
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Alcorn Community Action for Conservation Mexican Experiences is a lively and deep-running resource that offers invaluable stories and analyses of the Mexican experiencewith conservation This book provides an in-depth analysis on community conservation inMexico
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Cloaking not Bleaching the Back Storyfrom Inside Bureaucracy acirceuroœacirceurobrvbar In other words the way that bureaucracies workis by bleaching out local context and coming up with bigsimplificationsacirceuro acirceuroldquo Andrew Mathews
CEESP SC member Janis Alcorn writes I wouldcounter by positing that good bureaucracies do notbleach out local context Instead they create bigsimplified umbrellas that cloak the complex dynamicrange of local circumstances and thereby give the staffof government bureaucracies the space to address localcircumstances despite changes in political direction
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The Right to Responsibility - new book forpeer review Weacirceurotradere pleased to announce that Natural Justice andthe United Nations University acirceuroldquo Institute of AdvancedStudies (UNU-IAS) have just released a new book forpeer review entitled The Right to ResponsibilityResisting and Engaging Development Conservationand the Law in Asia
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ARE YOU A MEMBER OF CEESP
At the end of every World Conservation CongressCommissions are asked to revisit and renew their membershipCEESP applied what we considered to be a fairly straightforward renewal process but it turned to be far more complexthan we thought By the end of the renewal period we had lost just over 300members because they did not respond or we had no record of their response tothe calls for renewal
A list of the new membership of CEESP can be found here
NEED TO RENEW
Please check to see if your name is entered and the details correct We do notdisclose email addresses only names country and Theme(s)SGs If you did renewyour membership in CEESP welcome back and look forward to working with youover the next three years If you missed the opportunity to renew andor would like to join CEESP membershipforms in EnglishSpanishFrench and Portuguese can be found on the followingpage
CEESP Members page by clicking here
CEESP NEWSLETTER
This edition of the CEESP newsletter has been compiled by Shalini Dyani from India andNikolasa Biasny-Thule (NZ) A call for contributions will be sent to all CEESP members forthe next edition shortly Deadline for receipt of articles for the August edition is 8August 2013 and should be sent to
CEESPNEWSiucnorg
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the support of Aracelly Pazmino and technical work ofVeronica Moreno both of IUCN-South it was possible toupload this website
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CEESP TGER Chair and South AmericaRegional Chair meet at the Potato Festival inLima Peru celebrating farmers who areproducing traditional potato varieties for themarket Dr Janis Alcorn (CEESP TGER) visited Pierina BenitesAlfaro the CEESP Vice Chair for Latin America at theIVth Festival of the Potato in the Parque de laExposicion in Lima Peru on 1 June 2013 Pierinamanaged the exhibit of certified seeds from the FAOAndean Potato Seed project for which she is aconsultant
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Two new Co-Chairs of TILCEPA Two additional Co-Chairs for the joint CEESPWCPATheme on Indigenous Peoples Local CommunitiesEquity and Protected Areas (TILCEPA) have beenappointed to work with Nigel Crawhall in the lead-up tothe World Parks Congress Prof Amran Hamzah fromMalaysia and Dr Trisha Kehaulani Watson-Sproat fromHawaiacirceurotradei
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Theme on culture and conservation co-chairs updates Theme on culture and conservation co-chairs AdiMeretui Ratunabuabua and Dr Elise Huffer have initiateda community capacity building exchange programbetween communities that live on World Heritage sites inthe Pacific Canada Africa and Australia incollaboration with the theme on sustainable livelihoodCo chairs Iain Davidson Hunt and MasegoMadzmawuse
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SIDS New Emerging Issues meeting UN DESA May 14-16 2013Cambridge University On 14-16 May 2013 in Cambridge
United Kingdom the Department ofEconomic and Social Affairs (DESA) andthe United Nations EnvironmentProgram (UNEP) co-hosted an expertgroup meeting on acirceuroœEmerging Issuesin Small Islands Developing Statesacirceuro
The meeting was held in the midst of theUNEP-initiated acirceuroœForesightacirceuroprocess which uses a methodologyoriginally designed to identify new issuesin environmental science
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CEESP Youth Network and the Task Force on InterngenerationalPartnership for Sustainability Beginning a new programme for 2013-2016 Using the 2012 World Conservation Congress and the resulting Action Plan on YouthEngagement and Intergenerational Partnership (available here) as a spring board for theimplementation of the new IUCN programme young CEESP members are active leaderswithin the Commission collaborating across Commissions and leading Working Groupswithin the Task Force on Inter generational Partnership for Sustainability (Task Force or
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IPS)
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CEESP TGER Natural ResourcesGovernance Framework Working GroupProgress update and meetings An informal pre-inception workshop meeting was held inGland 15-16 May SC member Dr Janis Alcorn who ischairing the NRGF Working Group and NRGFconsultant Jessica Campese author of the 2012 IUCNreview of governance assessment tools participatedfrom CEESP at the invitation of Stewart Maginnis Headof IUCNs Nature Based Solutions program
Read more
CEESP member Mersie Ejigu attendsAfrican Diaspora in BiodiversityConservation CEESP SC member Mersie was one of the speakers ata discussion event on the role of the African Diaspora inBiodiversity Conservation organized by the AfricanBiodiversity Collaborative Group (ABCG) with thesupport of USAID Hosted by the Embassy of theRepublic of the Congo in Washington DC the eventwas seen as a part of the celebration of the AfricanUnion Golden Jubilee (May 25 1963 - May 25 2013) todiscuss the findings of the USAID commissioned studyreport The African Diaspora in the US and itsInteraction with Biodiversity Conservation in Africa
Read more
Members of the Theme on the EnvironmentMacroeconomics Trade and Investment(TEMTI) to participate in the Winter Schoolon Economic Justice Members of the Theme on the EnvironmentMacroeconomics Trade and Investment (TEMTI) will beparticipating in the Winter School on Economic Justiceorganized by the Open Society Initiative for SouthernAfrica (OSISA) Masego Madzwamuse the Economic
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Justice Programme manager (and also a member ofCEESPs SC) is responsible for the entire project
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MEMBERS NEWS amp REPORTS
Summary of the youth discussions as follow up on the participation ofyouth fisherfolks in Jeju During the acirceuroœJornada de Aprendizajeacirceuro in Honduras supported by ICSFCONFEPESCA and CoopeSoliDar RL with the support of the organizations RECOTURHand APROCUS a session on youth was held in order to open up a space to talk about theimportance of youth in small-scale fisheries where the young representatives attendingthis workshop participated facilitating discussions
Read more
Cultural mapping and policy for Wallis and Futuna underway Wallis and Futuna thetwo islands that togetherform a single country inthe heart of the Pacifichave begun a processof cultural mapping towork towardsdeveloping a culturalpolicy in whichagricultural andenvironmental traditionalknowledge andconservation will play a
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central role
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Restoring Traditional Hawaiian Fishpond Systems In Hawaiacirceuro˜i Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary continues tomake extraordinary strides in serving its community through facilitating projects thatenhance the use of traditional knowledge in coastal resource management There is arenewed interest in the repair and operation of traditional Hawaiian fishponds for theircultural economic and ecological value
Read more
National Conference on ICCAs inthe Philippines A conference was jointly organized byKASAPI and PAFID with support from theUNDP-GEF and the Philippine TropicalForest Conservation Foundation TheICCA consortium in the Philippines wasformally launched during a three-dayconference at the NORFIL FoundationTraining Center in Quezon City from 19-22February 2013
Read more
Perceptions of the value of traditionalecological knowledge to formal schoolcurricula opportunities and challenges Joe McCarter (Postdoctoral Fellow) and Mike Gavin
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(Assistant Professor and Academic DirectorConservation Leadership Through Learning Programbased in the Department of Human Dimensions ofNatural Resources at Colorado State University (CSU)have worked broadly to examine patterns of biologicaland cultural diversity and spans a variety of topics fromglobal linguistic diversity to distribution and variation oftraditional ecological knowledge (TEK)
Read more
Innovation needs no boundariesbiodiversity through partnership(Biodiversity for Food and Nutrition project) If you want to go far go together acirceuroldquo Four countriesunite for the conservation of nutritionally-relevantagrobiodiversity
Brazil Kenya Sri Lanka and Turkey have thus joinedforces under the umbrella of the Biodiversity for Food(BFN Project) and Nutrition project - funded by theGlobal Environment Facility (GEF) and coordinated byBioversity International - to explore how best to promotenutritionally-rich species and by so-doing develop andconserve them
Read more
Report from the March IUCN workshop on criteria for delineating keybiodiversity areas The joint task force of the World Commission of protected Areas (WCPA) and the SpeciesSurvival Commission initiated the process of defining of Key Biodiversity Areas (KBAs) thatcontribute significantly to the global persistence of biodiversity The initiative is not meant toduplicate but build upon some of the existing delineations like important plant fungal andbird areas
Read more
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Background documents produced prior to the KBA criteria anddelineation workshop
Key biodiversity areas are places of internationalimportance for the conservation of biodiversity throughprotected areas and other governance mechanisms Theyare identified nationally using simple standard criteriabased on their importance in maintaining speciespopulations
As the building blocks for designing the ecosystemapproach and maintaining effective ecological networks key
biodiversity areas are the starting point for conservation planning at landscape level
Read more
Report on the acirceuro˜Conservation and LandGrabbingacirceurotrade Symposium In recent years the pace of global land acquisition hasdramatically increased due to changes in commoditymarkets agricultural investment strategies land pricesand a range of other policy and market forces Thissurge in land acquisition is widespread but particularlypronounced in a) countries with relatively weakgovernance and protection of customary land rights b)in the global acirceuro˜commonsacirceurotrade ie lands which arecustomarily used collectively at the local scale includingforests rangelands and wetlands
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EU ACP Cultures projects Music Bridges a cross-cultural musiccamp in Santo Vanuatu When music bridges not just people but in a continental kind of way Singaot (for the)Miusik Kamp This overview details a current EU ACP Cultures project Music Bridgeswhich is currently in preparation stage for a cross-cultural music camp in Santo Vanuatufor SeptemberOctober
Read more
CEESP Member Dr Teki Surayya attendsInternational Congress on acirceuroœPlantedForests CEESP member Dr Teki Surayya presented a paper onacirceuroœRole of Afforestation on Dry and Degraded Lands ampDevelopmental Finance in Generating SustainableLivelihood and Strategies to Arrest Desertification casestudies-Indiaacirceuro during the 2013 InternationalCongress on acirceuroœPlanted Forests The conference wassponsored by International Union of Forest ResearchOrganisations (IUFRO) There were 200 researchersthinkers and policy makers from 59 countries whoparticipated
Read more
UN Expert Panel on IntergenerationalSolidarity A UN meeting was held in New York on May 9th 2013 on
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Intergenerational Solidarity Intergenerational solidarityand justice is deeply embedded in the concept ofsustainable development Yet many questions remain tobe answered How to define the needs and rights offuture generations What are the duties of currentgeneration to future generations
Read more
Be one of the first to list your area on theGDI Registry The Green Development Initiative (GDI) is establishingan online GDI Registry of areas which are managed in abiodiversity responsible way These areas could becommunity-based public or private To be listed on theRegistry as a Registered or Certified GDI Area the areawill need to be in compliance with the GDI Standard
Read more
TILCEPAs Mountain Connectivity and SocialPolicy Specialist Group organize panel onMountain Trails As part of an initiative to develop a Walking amp WorkingMountain Trails Network CEESP Youth advisor CatieBurlando and TILCEPA Mountains Co-Vice Chair ElaineHsiao will be presenting on European Mountain Trailsand Mountain Trails as Biocultural Corridors for Peace
Read more
Second edition of the Living Convention at the UNPFII and the WINC Indigenous peoples and local communities often ask what their rights are at the
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international level The answer to this crucial question is complicated for several reasonsincluding the fact that the provisions containing the rights are spread across a wide rangeof international instruments each with its own particular focus
Read more
Analysis of CITES from the perspective ofwhat the latest COP means for sustainableuse and livelihoods The 16th Conference of the Parties to CITES - theConvention on International Trade in EndangeredSpecies of Fauna and Flora - took place in Bangkok inearly March Over 1000 representatives from 170 of the178 state Parties attended along with around 1000observers from inter-governmental and non-governmental organisations IUCN and TRAFFIC bothhad large delegations in attendance - Rosie Cooney wasthe part of the IUCN delegation
Read more
SULi Update Since the last newsletter in March weve taken workforward in a number of our key areas We would like tobetter understand what others are doing in these areasand keen to collaborate so please get in touch if you areinterested
SULi was involved in highlighting the contribution ofsustainable wildlife management to food securitythrough helping the organisation of a side-event at theRome FAO Forests and Food Security and Nutritionmeeting in May
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Community-based networks of Odisha Community-based forest networks of India and Nepal have been suffering from seriousneglect and left at disadvantage due to lack of legal recognition A brief review of literatureon community-based forest networks found that they lack certain attributes that arenecessary to be considered as equal partners in the activities aimed at forest conservationand livelihood improvement In this review a brief on the informal community-based forestnetworks of Odisha and their status of recognition through Forest Rights Act (FRA) 2006 ispresented
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Hangzhou Declaration on Culture amp Sustainable Development Co-Chairs of the CEESP Theme on Culture and Conservation Elise Hufer and Adi MeretuiRatunabuabua together with CEESP Chair Aroha Mead participated in the UNESCOInternational Congress on Culture Key to Sustainable Development held in HangzhouChina
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IUCN President Zhang Xinsheng alsoparticipated The meeting developed aHangzhou Declaration Placing Culture atthe heart of Sustainable DevelopmentPolicies which was subsequentlypresented to the UN General Assembly
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Synthetic Biology and Conservation An Imminent Encounter
Synthetic biology is a new technologywith enormous promise to change thehuman relationships with the naturalworld and with fellow human beings Though there is no commonly agreedupon definition synthetic biology can bethought of as acirceuro˜acirceuro˜a scientific discipline
that relies on chemically synthesized DNA along with standardized and automatableprocesses to address human needs by the creation of organisms with novel or enhancedcharacteristics or traitsacirceurotradeacirceurotrade Billions of dollars are being invested globally anddevelopments of novel applications are constantly being reported
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Adopted Alta Outcome Document In June 10-12 indigenous representatives were invited by the Saami to Alta Norway to apreparatory meeting for the United Nations High Level Plenary Meeting of the GeneralAssembly on Indigenous Peoples which is being held at the UN-HQ in September 2014
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The Alta meeting finalised the Alta Outcome Document which is available in English andFrench Read more
World Indigenous Network (WIN) Conference CEESP Members Nigel Crawhall and Trisha Kehaulani Watson-Sproat attended the WorldIndigenous Network (WIN) Conference Marine Protected Areas Connections hasproduced a special edition on Tribal and Indigenous Peoples on MPAs which includes areport on the WIN Conference In May 2013 over 1200 delegates and representativesfrom more than 50 countries from every corner of the globe attended the World IndigenousNetwork (WIN) Conference in Darwin Australia The Larrakia Nation of Northern Australiaare the traditional owners of what is now the Darwin area and they were gracious andwarm hosts for this important gathering
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E-book produced by IUCN WCPA for the World Parks Congress E-book concerns one of the major legacy projects for the World Parks Congress GraemeWorboys is leading a team of writers and editors to produce a major new book on thebasics of Protected Areas Governance amp Management The book is intended for bothconservation students at tertiary level as well as professionals wanting a handbook
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Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining In AndAround Protected Areas And CriticalEcosystems Project (Asm-Pace) Timothy Healy with his colleague from AQUATERREMadagascar produced a new publication on artisanalmining (gems and gold) and conflicts with protected andsensitive ecological areas in Madagascar The overallobjective of this ASM in Madagascar StrategicManagement of Artisanal Rushes Tool and LessonsLearned Study Project is to address the growing threatof Artisanal and Small Scale Mining on in and aroundMadagascaracirceurotrades protected areas (PAs) and criticalecosystems and ideally in a way that can ensurecontinued socioeconomic development withoutundermining ecological resiliency
Read more
Opportunities and Challenges forEstablishing Synergies and Areas forEnhanced Cooperation in the BiodiversityCluster The following article by Marina von WeissenbergCEESP member was recently published in a bookentitled acirceuroœInternational Environmental Law-makingand Diplomacy Review 2011acirceuro produced by theUniversity of Eastern Finland The paper examinesopportunities and challenges that exist for establishingsynergies and generally enhancing cooperation withinthe biodiversity-related cluster of MEAs
Read more
Issues in Agricultural Biodiversity a newbook series published byEarthscanRoutledge in Association withBiodiversity International Conservation and sustainable use of agriculturalbiodiversity can improve peopleacirceurotrades wellbeing andfood and nutrition security EarthscanRoutledge inAssociation with Biodiversity International has published
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a new book series edited by Michael Halewood andDanny Hunter both at Biodiversity International andSeries Editors
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Caring for country through participatory art Creating a boundary objectfor communicating Indigenous knowledge and values The following article by Melanie Zurba CEESP member and PhD Candidate - NaturalResources Institute University of Manitoba was recently published in Local EnvironmentThe international journal of justice and sustainability The article argues the trend towardsthe inclusion of diverse groups in environmental decision-making that has led to the needto explore new forms of communication to engage communities in expressing their valuesand aspirations
Read more
Assessing anthropogenic pressure and itsimpact on Hippophae salicifolia pockets inCentral Himalaya
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The following article by Shalini Dhyani and DeepakDhyani CEESP member was recently published inJournal of Mountain Science The article argues thatNatural habitat of Hippophae salicifolia in CentralHimalaya is continuously being degraded due to habitatdestruction and harvesting Although logging isprohibited habitat destruction has increased because ofregular road construction repairing and broadeningactivities
Read more
Right Scale Resilient WatershedsManaging Complexity through NodalNetworks What does the group of Wall Street tradAcirc ers focused onbanks of computer screens have in common with thewaAcirc tershed communities of South AmeriAcirc caacirceurotrades GranChaco the second largest ecosystem on the continentthe priests of Bali where some of the earAcirc liest evidenceof irrigation used in rice cultivation is found the ArcticCircleacirceurotrades indigenous communities of herders andhunters and National Heritage Areas A great deal
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Mexican Lessons To Take to Heart -- Traveling The Path to Biodiversityand Forest Conservation in Our Age of Global Change Written by Mexican and international and including a preface by CEESP member Janis
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Alcorn Community Action for Conservation Mexican Experiences is a lively and deep-running resource that offers invaluable stories and analyses of the Mexican experiencewith conservation This book provides an in-depth analysis on community conservation inMexico
Read more
Cloaking not Bleaching the Back Storyfrom Inside Bureaucracy acirceuroœacirceurobrvbar In other words the way that bureaucracies workis by bleaching out local context and coming up with bigsimplificationsacirceuro acirceuroldquo Andrew Mathews
CEESP SC member Janis Alcorn writes I wouldcounter by positing that good bureaucracies do notbleach out local context Instead they create bigsimplified umbrellas that cloak the complex dynamicrange of local circumstances and thereby give the staffof government bureaucracies the space to address localcircumstances despite changes in political direction
Read more
The Right to Responsibility - new book forpeer review Weacirceurotradere pleased to announce that Natural Justice andthe United Nations University acirceuroldquo Institute of AdvancedStudies (UNU-IAS) have just released a new book forpeer review entitled The Right to ResponsibilityResisting and Engaging Development Conservationand the Law in Asia
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ARE YOU A MEMBER OF CEESP
At the end of every World Conservation CongressCommissions are asked to revisit and renew their membershipCEESP applied what we considered to be a fairly straightforward renewal process but it turned to be far more complexthan we thought By the end of the renewal period we had lost just over 300members because they did not respond or we had no record of their response tothe calls for renewal
A list of the new membership of CEESP can be found here
NEED TO RENEW
Please check to see if your name is entered and the details correct We do notdisclose email addresses only names country and Theme(s)SGs If you did renewyour membership in CEESP welcome back and look forward to working with youover the next three years If you missed the opportunity to renew andor would like to join CEESP membershipforms in EnglishSpanishFrench and Portuguese can be found on the followingpage
CEESP Members page by clicking here
CEESP NEWSLETTER
This edition of the CEESP newsletter has been compiled by Shalini Dyani from India andNikolasa Biasny-Thule (NZ) A call for contributions will be sent to all CEESP members forthe next edition shortly Deadline for receipt of articles for the August edition is 8August 2013 and should be sent to
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SIDS New Emerging Issues meeting UN DESA May 14-16 2013Cambridge University On 14-16 May 2013 in Cambridge
United Kingdom the Department ofEconomic and Social Affairs (DESA) andthe United Nations EnvironmentProgram (UNEP) co-hosted an expertgroup meeting on acirceuroœEmerging Issuesin Small Islands Developing Statesacirceuro
The meeting was held in the midst of theUNEP-initiated acirceuroœForesightacirceuroprocess which uses a methodologyoriginally designed to identify new issuesin environmental science
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CEESP Youth Network and the Task Force on InterngenerationalPartnership for Sustainability Beginning a new programme for 2013-2016 Using the 2012 World Conservation Congress and the resulting Action Plan on YouthEngagement and Intergenerational Partnership (available here) as a spring board for theimplementation of the new IUCN programme young CEESP members are active leaderswithin the Commission collaborating across Commissions and leading Working Groupswithin the Task Force on Inter generational Partnership for Sustainability (Task Force or
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CEESP TGER Natural ResourcesGovernance Framework Working GroupProgress update and meetings An informal pre-inception workshop meeting was held inGland 15-16 May SC member Dr Janis Alcorn who ischairing the NRGF Working Group and NRGFconsultant Jessica Campese author of the 2012 IUCNreview of governance assessment tools participatedfrom CEESP at the invitation of Stewart Maginnis Headof IUCNs Nature Based Solutions program
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CEESP member Mersie Ejigu attendsAfrican Diaspora in BiodiversityConservation CEESP SC member Mersie was one of the speakers ata discussion event on the role of the African Diaspora inBiodiversity Conservation organized by the AfricanBiodiversity Collaborative Group (ABCG) with thesupport of USAID Hosted by the Embassy of theRepublic of the Congo in Washington DC the eventwas seen as a part of the celebration of the AfricanUnion Golden Jubilee (May 25 1963 - May 25 2013) todiscuss the findings of the USAID commissioned studyreport The African Diaspora in the US and itsInteraction with Biodiversity Conservation in Africa
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Members of the Theme on the EnvironmentMacroeconomics Trade and Investment(TEMTI) to participate in the Winter Schoolon Economic Justice Members of the Theme on the EnvironmentMacroeconomics Trade and Investment (TEMTI) will beparticipating in the Winter School on Economic Justiceorganized by the Open Society Initiative for SouthernAfrica (OSISA) Masego Madzwamuse the Economic
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Justice Programme manager (and also a member ofCEESPs SC) is responsible for the entire project
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Summary of the youth discussions as follow up on the participation ofyouth fisherfolks in Jeju During the acirceuroœJornada de Aprendizajeacirceuro in Honduras supported by ICSFCONFEPESCA and CoopeSoliDar RL with the support of the organizations RECOTURHand APROCUS a session on youth was held in order to open up a space to talk about theimportance of youth in small-scale fisheries where the young representatives attendingthis workshop participated facilitating discussions
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Cultural mapping and policy for Wallis and Futuna underway Wallis and Futuna thetwo islands that togetherform a single country inthe heart of the Pacifichave begun a processof cultural mapping towork towardsdeveloping a culturalpolicy in whichagricultural andenvironmental traditionalknowledge andconservation will play a
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central role
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Restoring Traditional Hawaiian Fishpond Systems In Hawaiacirceuro˜i Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary continues tomake extraordinary strides in serving its community through facilitating projects thatenhance the use of traditional knowledge in coastal resource management There is arenewed interest in the repair and operation of traditional Hawaiian fishponds for theircultural economic and ecological value
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National Conference on ICCAs inthe Philippines A conference was jointly organized byKASAPI and PAFID with support from theUNDP-GEF and the Philippine TropicalForest Conservation Foundation TheICCA consortium in the Philippines wasformally launched during a three-dayconference at the NORFIL FoundationTraining Center in Quezon City from 19-22February 2013
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Perceptions of the value of traditionalecological knowledge to formal schoolcurricula opportunities and challenges Joe McCarter (Postdoctoral Fellow) and Mike Gavin
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(Assistant Professor and Academic DirectorConservation Leadership Through Learning Programbased in the Department of Human Dimensions ofNatural Resources at Colorado State University (CSU)have worked broadly to examine patterns of biologicaland cultural diversity and spans a variety of topics fromglobal linguistic diversity to distribution and variation oftraditional ecological knowledge (TEK)
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Innovation needs no boundariesbiodiversity through partnership(Biodiversity for Food and Nutrition project) If you want to go far go together acirceuroldquo Four countriesunite for the conservation of nutritionally-relevantagrobiodiversity
Brazil Kenya Sri Lanka and Turkey have thus joinedforces under the umbrella of the Biodiversity for Food(BFN Project) and Nutrition project - funded by theGlobal Environment Facility (GEF) and coordinated byBioversity International - to explore how best to promotenutritionally-rich species and by so-doing develop andconserve them
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Report from the March IUCN workshop on criteria for delineating keybiodiversity areas The joint task force of the World Commission of protected Areas (WCPA) and the SpeciesSurvival Commission initiated the process of defining of Key Biodiversity Areas (KBAs) thatcontribute significantly to the global persistence of biodiversity The initiative is not meant toduplicate but build upon some of the existing delineations like important plant fungal andbird areas
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Background documents produced prior to the KBA criteria anddelineation workshop
Key biodiversity areas are places of internationalimportance for the conservation of biodiversity throughprotected areas and other governance mechanisms Theyare identified nationally using simple standard criteriabased on their importance in maintaining speciespopulations
As the building blocks for designing the ecosystemapproach and maintaining effective ecological networks key
biodiversity areas are the starting point for conservation planning at landscape level
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Report on the acirceuro˜Conservation and LandGrabbingacirceurotrade Symposium In recent years the pace of global land acquisition hasdramatically increased due to changes in commoditymarkets agricultural investment strategies land pricesand a range of other policy and market forces Thissurge in land acquisition is widespread but particularlypronounced in a) countries with relatively weakgovernance and protection of customary land rights b)in the global acirceuro˜commonsacirceurotrade ie lands which arecustomarily used collectively at the local scale includingforests rangelands and wetlands
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EU ACP Cultures projects Music Bridges a cross-cultural musiccamp in Santo Vanuatu When music bridges not just people but in a continental kind of way Singaot (for the)Miusik Kamp This overview details a current EU ACP Cultures project Music Bridgeswhich is currently in preparation stage for a cross-cultural music camp in Santo Vanuatufor SeptemberOctober
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CEESP Member Dr Teki Surayya attendsInternational Congress on acirceuroœPlantedForests CEESP member Dr Teki Surayya presented a paper onacirceuroœRole of Afforestation on Dry and Degraded Lands ampDevelopmental Finance in Generating SustainableLivelihood and Strategies to Arrest Desertification casestudies-Indiaacirceuro during the 2013 InternationalCongress on acirceuroœPlanted Forests The conference wassponsored by International Union of Forest ResearchOrganisations (IUFRO) There were 200 researchersthinkers and policy makers from 59 countries whoparticipated
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UN Expert Panel on IntergenerationalSolidarity A UN meeting was held in New York on May 9th 2013 on
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Intergenerational Solidarity Intergenerational solidarityand justice is deeply embedded in the concept ofsustainable development Yet many questions remain tobe answered How to define the needs and rights offuture generations What are the duties of currentgeneration to future generations
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Be one of the first to list your area on theGDI Registry The Green Development Initiative (GDI) is establishingan online GDI Registry of areas which are managed in abiodiversity responsible way These areas could becommunity-based public or private To be listed on theRegistry as a Registered or Certified GDI Area the areawill need to be in compliance with the GDI Standard
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TILCEPAs Mountain Connectivity and SocialPolicy Specialist Group organize panel onMountain Trails As part of an initiative to develop a Walking amp WorkingMountain Trails Network CEESP Youth advisor CatieBurlando and TILCEPA Mountains Co-Vice Chair ElaineHsiao will be presenting on European Mountain Trailsand Mountain Trails as Biocultural Corridors for Peace
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Second edition of the Living Convention at the UNPFII and the WINC Indigenous peoples and local communities often ask what their rights are at the
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international level The answer to this crucial question is complicated for several reasonsincluding the fact that the provisions containing the rights are spread across a wide rangeof international instruments each with its own particular focus
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Analysis of CITES from the perspective ofwhat the latest COP means for sustainableuse and livelihoods The 16th Conference of the Parties to CITES - theConvention on International Trade in EndangeredSpecies of Fauna and Flora - took place in Bangkok inearly March Over 1000 representatives from 170 of the178 state Parties attended along with around 1000observers from inter-governmental and non-governmental organisations IUCN and TRAFFIC bothhad large delegations in attendance - Rosie Cooney wasthe part of the IUCN delegation
Read more
SULi Update Since the last newsletter in March weve taken workforward in a number of our key areas We would like tobetter understand what others are doing in these areasand keen to collaborate so please get in touch if you areinterested
SULi was involved in highlighting the contribution ofsustainable wildlife management to food securitythrough helping the organisation of a side-event at theRome FAO Forests and Food Security and Nutritionmeeting in May
Read more
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Community-based networks of Odisha Community-based forest networks of India and Nepal have been suffering from seriousneglect and left at disadvantage due to lack of legal recognition A brief review of literatureon community-based forest networks found that they lack certain attributes that arenecessary to be considered as equal partners in the activities aimed at forest conservationand livelihood improvement In this review a brief on the informal community-based forestnetworks of Odisha and their status of recognition through Forest Rights Act (FRA) 2006 ispresented
Read more
Hangzhou Declaration on Culture amp Sustainable Development Co-Chairs of the CEESP Theme on Culture and Conservation Elise Hufer and Adi MeretuiRatunabuabua together with CEESP Chair Aroha Mead participated in the UNESCOInternational Congress on Culture Key to Sustainable Development held in HangzhouChina
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IUCN President Zhang Xinsheng alsoparticipated The meeting developed aHangzhou Declaration Placing Culture atthe heart of Sustainable DevelopmentPolicies which was subsequentlypresented to the UN General Assembly
Read more
Synthetic Biology and Conservation An Imminent Encounter
Synthetic biology is a new technologywith enormous promise to change thehuman relationships with the naturalworld and with fellow human beings Though there is no commonly agreedupon definition synthetic biology can bethought of as acirceuro˜acirceuro˜a scientific discipline
that relies on chemically synthesized DNA along with standardized and automatableprocesses to address human needs by the creation of organisms with novel or enhancedcharacteristics or traitsacirceurotradeacirceurotrade Billions of dollars are being invested globally anddevelopments of novel applications are constantly being reported
Read more
Adopted Alta Outcome Document In June 10-12 indigenous representatives were invited by the Saami to Alta Norway to apreparatory meeting for the United Nations High Level Plenary Meeting of the GeneralAssembly on Indigenous Peoples which is being held at the UN-HQ in September 2014
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The Alta meeting finalised the Alta Outcome Document which is available in English andFrench Read more
World Indigenous Network (WIN) Conference CEESP Members Nigel Crawhall and Trisha Kehaulani Watson-Sproat attended the WorldIndigenous Network (WIN) Conference Marine Protected Areas Connections hasproduced a special edition on Tribal and Indigenous Peoples on MPAs which includes areport on the WIN Conference In May 2013 over 1200 delegates and representativesfrom more than 50 countries from every corner of the globe attended the World IndigenousNetwork (WIN) Conference in Darwin Australia The Larrakia Nation of Northern Australiaare the traditional owners of what is now the Darwin area and they were gracious andwarm hosts for this important gathering
Read more
Publications amp Resources
E-book produced by IUCN WCPA for the World Parks Congress E-book concerns one of the major legacy projects for the World Parks Congress GraemeWorboys is leading a team of writers and editors to produce a major new book on thebasics of Protected Areas Governance amp Management The book is intended for bothconservation students at tertiary level as well as professionals wanting a handbook
Read more
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Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining In AndAround Protected Areas And CriticalEcosystems Project (Asm-Pace) Timothy Healy with his colleague from AQUATERREMadagascar produced a new publication on artisanalmining (gems and gold) and conflicts with protected andsensitive ecological areas in Madagascar The overallobjective of this ASM in Madagascar StrategicManagement of Artisanal Rushes Tool and LessonsLearned Study Project is to address the growing threatof Artisanal and Small Scale Mining on in and aroundMadagascaracirceurotrades protected areas (PAs) and criticalecosystems and ideally in a way that can ensurecontinued socioeconomic development withoutundermining ecological resiliency
Read more
Opportunities and Challenges forEstablishing Synergies and Areas forEnhanced Cooperation in the BiodiversityCluster The following article by Marina von WeissenbergCEESP member was recently published in a bookentitled acirceuroœInternational Environmental Law-makingand Diplomacy Review 2011acirceuro produced by theUniversity of Eastern Finland The paper examinesopportunities and challenges that exist for establishingsynergies and generally enhancing cooperation withinthe biodiversity-related cluster of MEAs
Read more
Issues in Agricultural Biodiversity a newbook series published byEarthscanRoutledge in Association withBiodiversity International Conservation and sustainable use of agriculturalbiodiversity can improve peopleacirceurotrades wellbeing andfood and nutrition security EarthscanRoutledge inAssociation with Biodiversity International has published
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a new book series edited by Michael Halewood andDanny Hunter both at Biodiversity International andSeries Editors
Read more
Caring for country through participatory art Creating a boundary objectfor communicating Indigenous knowledge and values The following article by Melanie Zurba CEESP member and PhD Candidate - NaturalResources Institute University of Manitoba was recently published in Local EnvironmentThe international journal of justice and sustainability The article argues the trend towardsthe inclusion of diverse groups in environmental decision-making that has led to the needto explore new forms of communication to engage communities in expressing their valuesand aspirations
Read more
Assessing anthropogenic pressure and itsimpact on Hippophae salicifolia pockets inCentral Himalaya
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The following article by Shalini Dhyani and DeepakDhyani CEESP member was recently published inJournal of Mountain Science The article argues thatNatural habitat of Hippophae salicifolia in CentralHimalaya is continuously being degraded due to habitatdestruction and harvesting Although logging isprohibited habitat destruction has increased because ofregular road construction repairing and broadeningactivities
Read more
Right Scale Resilient WatershedsManaging Complexity through NodalNetworks What does the group of Wall Street tradAcirc ers focused onbanks of computer screens have in common with thewaAcirc tershed communities of South AmeriAcirc caacirceurotrades GranChaco the second largest ecosystem on the continentthe priests of Bali where some of the earAcirc liest evidenceof irrigation used in rice cultivation is found the ArcticCircleacirceurotrades indigenous communities of herders andhunters and National Heritage Areas A great deal
Read more
Mexican Lessons To Take to Heart -- Traveling The Path to Biodiversityand Forest Conservation in Our Age of Global Change Written by Mexican and international and including a preface by CEESP member Janis
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Alcorn Community Action for Conservation Mexican Experiences is a lively and deep-running resource that offers invaluable stories and analyses of the Mexican experiencewith conservation This book provides an in-depth analysis on community conservation inMexico
Read more
Cloaking not Bleaching the Back Storyfrom Inside Bureaucracy acirceuroœacirceurobrvbar In other words the way that bureaucracies workis by bleaching out local context and coming up with bigsimplificationsacirceuro acirceuroldquo Andrew Mathews
CEESP SC member Janis Alcorn writes I wouldcounter by positing that good bureaucracies do notbleach out local context Instead they create bigsimplified umbrellas that cloak the complex dynamicrange of local circumstances and thereby give the staffof government bureaucracies the space to address localcircumstances despite changes in political direction
Read more
The Right to Responsibility - new book forpeer review Weacirceurotradere pleased to announce that Natural Justice andthe United Nations University acirceuroldquo Institute of AdvancedStudies (UNU-IAS) have just released a new book forpeer review entitled The Right to ResponsibilityResisting and Engaging Development Conservationand the Law in Asia
Read more
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ARE YOU A MEMBER OF CEESP
At the end of every World Conservation CongressCommissions are asked to revisit and renew their membershipCEESP applied what we considered to be a fairly straightforward renewal process but it turned to be far more complexthan we thought By the end of the renewal period we had lost just over 300members because they did not respond or we had no record of their response tothe calls for renewal
A list of the new membership of CEESP can be found here
NEED TO RENEW
Please check to see if your name is entered and the details correct We do notdisclose email addresses only names country and Theme(s)SGs If you did renewyour membership in CEESP welcome back and look forward to working with youover the next three years If you missed the opportunity to renew andor would like to join CEESP membershipforms in EnglishSpanishFrench and Portuguese can be found on the followingpage
CEESP Members page by clicking here
CEESP NEWSLETTER
This edition of the CEESP newsletter has been compiled by Shalini Dyani from India andNikolasa Biasny-Thule (NZ) A call for contributions will be sent to all CEESP members forthe next edition shortly Deadline for receipt of articles for the August edition is 8August 2013 and should be sent to
CEESPNEWSiucnorg
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CEESP TGER Natural ResourcesGovernance Framework Working GroupProgress update and meetings An informal pre-inception workshop meeting was held inGland 15-16 May SC member Dr Janis Alcorn who ischairing the NRGF Working Group and NRGFconsultant Jessica Campese author of the 2012 IUCNreview of governance assessment tools participatedfrom CEESP at the invitation of Stewart Maginnis Headof IUCNs Nature Based Solutions program
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CEESP member Mersie Ejigu attendsAfrican Diaspora in BiodiversityConservation CEESP SC member Mersie was one of the speakers ata discussion event on the role of the African Diaspora inBiodiversity Conservation organized by the AfricanBiodiversity Collaborative Group (ABCG) with thesupport of USAID Hosted by the Embassy of theRepublic of the Congo in Washington DC the eventwas seen as a part of the celebration of the AfricanUnion Golden Jubilee (May 25 1963 - May 25 2013) todiscuss the findings of the USAID commissioned studyreport The African Diaspora in the US and itsInteraction with Biodiversity Conservation in Africa
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Members of the Theme on the EnvironmentMacroeconomics Trade and Investment(TEMTI) to participate in the Winter Schoolon Economic Justice Members of the Theme on the EnvironmentMacroeconomics Trade and Investment (TEMTI) will beparticipating in the Winter School on Economic Justiceorganized by the Open Society Initiative for SouthernAfrica (OSISA) Masego Madzwamuse the Economic
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MEMBERS NEWS amp REPORTS
Summary of the youth discussions as follow up on the participation ofyouth fisherfolks in Jeju During the acirceuroœJornada de Aprendizajeacirceuro in Honduras supported by ICSFCONFEPESCA and CoopeSoliDar RL with the support of the organizations RECOTURHand APROCUS a session on youth was held in order to open up a space to talk about theimportance of youth in small-scale fisheries where the young representatives attendingthis workshop participated facilitating discussions
Read more
Cultural mapping and policy for Wallis and Futuna underway Wallis and Futuna thetwo islands that togetherform a single country inthe heart of the Pacifichave begun a processof cultural mapping towork towardsdeveloping a culturalpolicy in whichagricultural andenvironmental traditionalknowledge andconservation will play a
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central role
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Restoring Traditional Hawaiian Fishpond Systems In Hawaiacirceuro˜i Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary continues tomake extraordinary strides in serving its community through facilitating projects thatenhance the use of traditional knowledge in coastal resource management There is arenewed interest in the repair and operation of traditional Hawaiian fishponds for theircultural economic and ecological value
Read more
National Conference on ICCAs inthe Philippines A conference was jointly organized byKASAPI and PAFID with support from theUNDP-GEF and the Philippine TropicalForest Conservation Foundation TheICCA consortium in the Philippines wasformally launched during a three-dayconference at the NORFIL FoundationTraining Center in Quezon City from 19-22February 2013
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Perceptions of the value of traditionalecological knowledge to formal schoolcurricula opportunities and challenges Joe McCarter (Postdoctoral Fellow) and Mike Gavin
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(Assistant Professor and Academic DirectorConservation Leadership Through Learning Programbased in the Department of Human Dimensions ofNatural Resources at Colorado State University (CSU)have worked broadly to examine patterns of biologicaland cultural diversity and spans a variety of topics fromglobal linguistic diversity to distribution and variation oftraditional ecological knowledge (TEK)
Read more
Innovation needs no boundariesbiodiversity through partnership(Biodiversity for Food and Nutrition project) If you want to go far go together acirceuroldquo Four countriesunite for the conservation of nutritionally-relevantagrobiodiversity
Brazil Kenya Sri Lanka and Turkey have thus joinedforces under the umbrella of the Biodiversity for Food(BFN Project) and Nutrition project - funded by theGlobal Environment Facility (GEF) and coordinated byBioversity International - to explore how best to promotenutritionally-rich species and by so-doing develop andconserve them
Read more
Report from the March IUCN workshop on criteria for delineating keybiodiversity areas The joint task force of the World Commission of protected Areas (WCPA) and the SpeciesSurvival Commission initiated the process of defining of Key Biodiversity Areas (KBAs) thatcontribute significantly to the global persistence of biodiversity The initiative is not meant toduplicate but build upon some of the existing delineations like important plant fungal andbird areas
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Background documents produced prior to the KBA criteria anddelineation workshop
Key biodiversity areas are places of internationalimportance for the conservation of biodiversity throughprotected areas and other governance mechanisms Theyare identified nationally using simple standard criteriabased on their importance in maintaining speciespopulations
As the building blocks for designing the ecosystemapproach and maintaining effective ecological networks key
biodiversity areas are the starting point for conservation planning at landscape level
Read more
Report on the acirceuro˜Conservation and LandGrabbingacirceurotrade Symposium In recent years the pace of global land acquisition hasdramatically increased due to changes in commoditymarkets agricultural investment strategies land pricesand a range of other policy and market forces Thissurge in land acquisition is widespread but particularlypronounced in a) countries with relatively weakgovernance and protection of customary land rights b)in the global acirceuro˜commonsacirceurotrade ie lands which arecustomarily used collectively at the local scale includingforests rangelands and wetlands
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EU ACP Cultures projects Music Bridges a cross-cultural musiccamp in Santo Vanuatu When music bridges not just people but in a continental kind of way Singaot (for the)Miusik Kamp This overview details a current EU ACP Cultures project Music Bridgeswhich is currently in preparation stage for a cross-cultural music camp in Santo Vanuatufor SeptemberOctober
Read more
CEESP Member Dr Teki Surayya attendsInternational Congress on acirceuroœPlantedForests CEESP member Dr Teki Surayya presented a paper onacirceuroœRole of Afforestation on Dry and Degraded Lands ampDevelopmental Finance in Generating SustainableLivelihood and Strategies to Arrest Desertification casestudies-Indiaacirceuro during the 2013 InternationalCongress on acirceuroœPlanted Forests The conference wassponsored by International Union of Forest ResearchOrganisations (IUFRO) There were 200 researchersthinkers and policy makers from 59 countries whoparticipated
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UN Expert Panel on IntergenerationalSolidarity A UN meeting was held in New York on May 9th 2013 on
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Intergenerational Solidarity Intergenerational solidarityand justice is deeply embedded in the concept ofsustainable development Yet many questions remain tobe answered How to define the needs and rights offuture generations What are the duties of currentgeneration to future generations
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Be one of the first to list your area on theGDI Registry The Green Development Initiative (GDI) is establishingan online GDI Registry of areas which are managed in abiodiversity responsible way These areas could becommunity-based public or private To be listed on theRegistry as a Registered or Certified GDI Area the areawill need to be in compliance with the GDI Standard
Read more
TILCEPAs Mountain Connectivity and SocialPolicy Specialist Group organize panel onMountain Trails As part of an initiative to develop a Walking amp WorkingMountain Trails Network CEESP Youth advisor CatieBurlando and TILCEPA Mountains Co-Vice Chair ElaineHsiao will be presenting on European Mountain Trailsand Mountain Trails as Biocultural Corridors for Peace
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Second edition of the Living Convention at the UNPFII and the WINC Indigenous peoples and local communities often ask what their rights are at the
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international level The answer to this crucial question is complicated for several reasonsincluding the fact that the provisions containing the rights are spread across a wide rangeof international instruments each with its own particular focus
Read more
Analysis of CITES from the perspective ofwhat the latest COP means for sustainableuse and livelihoods The 16th Conference of the Parties to CITES - theConvention on International Trade in EndangeredSpecies of Fauna and Flora - took place in Bangkok inearly March Over 1000 representatives from 170 of the178 state Parties attended along with around 1000observers from inter-governmental and non-governmental organisations IUCN and TRAFFIC bothhad large delegations in attendance - Rosie Cooney wasthe part of the IUCN delegation
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SULi Update Since the last newsletter in March weve taken workforward in a number of our key areas We would like tobetter understand what others are doing in these areasand keen to collaborate so please get in touch if you areinterested
SULi was involved in highlighting the contribution ofsustainable wildlife management to food securitythrough helping the organisation of a side-event at theRome FAO Forests and Food Security and Nutritionmeeting in May
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Community-based networks of Odisha Community-based forest networks of India and Nepal have been suffering from seriousneglect and left at disadvantage due to lack of legal recognition A brief review of literatureon community-based forest networks found that they lack certain attributes that arenecessary to be considered as equal partners in the activities aimed at forest conservationand livelihood improvement In this review a brief on the informal community-based forestnetworks of Odisha and their status of recognition through Forest Rights Act (FRA) 2006 ispresented
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Hangzhou Declaration on Culture amp Sustainable Development Co-Chairs of the CEESP Theme on Culture and Conservation Elise Hufer and Adi MeretuiRatunabuabua together with CEESP Chair Aroha Mead participated in the UNESCOInternational Congress on Culture Key to Sustainable Development held in HangzhouChina
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IUCN President Zhang Xinsheng alsoparticipated The meeting developed aHangzhou Declaration Placing Culture atthe heart of Sustainable DevelopmentPolicies which was subsequentlypresented to the UN General Assembly
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Synthetic Biology and Conservation An Imminent Encounter
Synthetic biology is a new technologywith enormous promise to change thehuman relationships with the naturalworld and with fellow human beings Though there is no commonly agreedupon definition synthetic biology can bethought of as acirceuro˜acirceuro˜a scientific discipline
that relies on chemically synthesized DNA along with standardized and automatableprocesses to address human needs by the creation of organisms with novel or enhancedcharacteristics or traitsacirceurotradeacirceurotrade Billions of dollars are being invested globally anddevelopments of novel applications are constantly being reported
Read more
Adopted Alta Outcome Document In June 10-12 indigenous representatives were invited by the Saami to Alta Norway to apreparatory meeting for the United Nations High Level Plenary Meeting of the GeneralAssembly on Indigenous Peoples which is being held at the UN-HQ in September 2014
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The Alta meeting finalised the Alta Outcome Document which is available in English andFrench Read more
World Indigenous Network (WIN) Conference CEESP Members Nigel Crawhall and Trisha Kehaulani Watson-Sproat attended the WorldIndigenous Network (WIN) Conference Marine Protected Areas Connections hasproduced a special edition on Tribal and Indigenous Peoples on MPAs which includes areport on the WIN Conference In May 2013 over 1200 delegates and representativesfrom more than 50 countries from every corner of the globe attended the World IndigenousNetwork (WIN) Conference in Darwin Australia The Larrakia Nation of Northern Australiaare the traditional owners of what is now the Darwin area and they were gracious andwarm hosts for this important gathering
Read more
Publications amp Resources
E-book produced by IUCN WCPA for the World Parks Congress E-book concerns one of the major legacy projects for the World Parks Congress GraemeWorboys is leading a team of writers and editors to produce a major new book on thebasics of Protected Areas Governance amp Management The book is intended for bothconservation students at tertiary level as well as professionals wanting a handbook
Read more
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Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining In AndAround Protected Areas And CriticalEcosystems Project (Asm-Pace) Timothy Healy with his colleague from AQUATERREMadagascar produced a new publication on artisanalmining (gems and gold) and conflicts with protected andsensitive ecological areas in Madagascar The overallobjective of this ASM in Madagascar StrategicManagement of Artisanal Rushes Tool and LessonsLearned Study Project is to address the growing threatof Artisanal and Small Scale Mining on in and aroundMadagascaracirceurotrades protected areas (PAs) and criticalecosystems and ideally in a way that can ensurecontinued socioeconomic development withoutundermining ecological resiliency
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Opportunities and Challenges forEstablishing Synergies and Areas forEnhanced Cooperation in the BiodiversityCluster The following article by Marina von WeissenbergCEESP member was recently published in a bookentitled acirceuroœInternational Environmental Law-makingand Diplomacy Review 2011acirceuro produced by theUniversity of Eastern Finland The paper examinesopportunities and challenges that exist for establishingsynergies and generally enhancing cooperation withinthe biodiversity-related cluster of MEAs
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Issues in Agricultural Biodiversity a newbook series published byEarthscanRoutledge in Association withBiodiversity International Conservation and sustainable use of agriculturalbiodiversity can improve peopleacirceurotrades wellbeing andfood and nutrition security EarthscanRoutledge inAssociation with Biodiversity International has published
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a new book series edited by Michael Halewood andDanny Hunter both at Biodiversity International andSeries Editors
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Caring for country through participatory art Creating a boundary objectfor communicating Indigenous knowledge and values The following article by Melanie Zurba CEESP member and PhD Candidate - NaturalResources Institute University of Manitoba was recently published in Local EnvironmentThe international journal of justice and sustainability The article argues the trend towardsthe inclusion of diverse groups in environmental decision-making that has led to the needto explore new forms of communication to engage communities in expressing their valuesand aspirations
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Assessing anthropogenic pressure and itsimpact on Hippophae salicifolia pockets inCentral Himalaya
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The following article by Shalini Dhyani and DeepakDhyani CEESP member was recently published inJournal of Mountain Science The article argues thatNatural habitat of Hippophae salicifolia in CentralHimalaya is continuously being degraded due to habitatdestruction and harvesting Although logging isprohibited habitat destruction has increased because ofregular road construction repairing and broadeningactivities
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Right Scale Resilient WatershedsManaging Complexity through NodalNetworks What does the group of Wall Street tradAcirc ers focused onbanks of computer screens have in common with thewaAcirc tershed communities of South AmeriAcirc caacirceurotrades GranChaco the second largest ecosystem on the continentthe priests of Bali where some of the earAcirc liest evidenceof irrigation used in rice cultivation is found the ArcticCircleacirceurotrades indigenous communities of herders andhunters and National Heritage Areas A great deal
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Mexican Lessons To Take to Heart -- Traveling The Path to Biodiversityand Forest Conservation in Our Age of Global Change Written by Mexican and international and including a preface by CEESP member Janis
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Alcorn Community Action for Conservation Mexican Experiences is a lively and deep-running resource that offers invaluable stories and analyses of the Mexican experiencewith conservation This book provides an in-depth analysis on community conservation inMexico
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Cloaking not Bleaching the Back Storyfrom Inside Bureaucracy acirceuroœacirceurobrvbar In other words the way that bureaucracies workis by bleaching out local context and coming up with bigsimplificationsacirceuro acirceuroldquo Andrew Mathews
CEESP SC member Janis Alcorn writes I wouldcounter by positing that good bureaucracies do notbleach out local context Instead they create bigsimplified umbrellas that cloak the complex dynamicrange of local circumstances and thereby give the staffof government bureaucracies the space to address localcircumstances despite changes in political direction
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The Right to Responsibility - new book forpeer review Weacirceurotradere pleased to announce that Natural Justice andthe United Nations University acirceuroldquo Institute of AdvancedStudies (UNU-IAS) have just released a new book forpeer review entitled The Right to ResponsibilityResisting and Engaging Development Conservationand the Law in Asia
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ARE YOU A MEMBER OF CEESP
At the end of every World Conservation CongressCommissions are asked to revisit and renew their membershipCEESP applied what we considered to be a fairly straightforward renewal process but it turned to be far more complexthan we thought By the end of the renewal period we had lost just over 300members because they did not respond or we had no record of their response tothe calls for renewal
A list of the new membership of CEESP can be found here
NEED TO RENEW
Please check to see if your name is entered and the details correct We do notdisclose email addresses only names country and Theme(s)SGs If you did renewyour membership in CEESP welcome back and look forward to working with youover the next three years If you missed the opportunity to renew andor would like to join CEESP membershipforms in EnglishSpanishFrench and Portuguese can be found on the followingpage
CEESP Members page by clicking here
CEESP NEWSLETTER
This edition of the CEESP newsletter has been compiled by Shalini Dyani from India andNikolasa Biasny-Thule (NZ) A call for contributions will be sent to all CEESP members forthe next edition shortly Deadline for receipt of articles for the August edition is 8August 2013 and should be sent to
CEESPNEWSiucnorg
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MEMBERS NEWS amp REPORTS
Summary of the youth discussions as follow up on the participation ofyouth fisherfolks in Jeju During the acirceuroœJornada de Aprendizajeacirceuro in Honduras supported by ICSFCONFEPESCA and CoopeSoliDar RL with the support of the organizations RECOTURHand APROCUS a session on youth was held in order to open up a space to talk about theimportance of youth in small-scale fisheries where the young representatives attendingthis workshop participated facilitating discussions
Read more
Cultural mapping and policy for Wallis and Futuna underway Wallis and Futuna thetwo islands that togetherform a single country inthe heart of the Pacifichave begun a processof cultural mapping towork towardsdeveloping a culturalpolicy in whichagricultural andenvironmental traditionalknowledge andconservation will play a
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central role
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Restoring Traditional Hawaiian Fishpond Systems In Hawaiacirceuro˜i Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary continues tomake extraordinary strides in serving its community through facilitating projects thatenhance the use of traditional knowledge in coastal resource management There is arenewed interest in the repair and operation of traditional Hawaiian fishponds for theircultural economic and ecological value
Read more
National Conference on ICCAs inthe Philippines A conference was jointly organized byKASAPI and PAFID with support from theUNDP-GEF and the Philippine TropicalForest Conservation Foundation TheICCA consortium in the Philippines wasformally launched during a three-dayconference at the NORFIL FoundationTraining Center in Quezon City from 19-22February 2013
Read more
Perceptions of the value of traditionalecological knowledge to formal schoolcurricula opportunities and challenges Joe McCarter (Postdoctoral Fellow) and Mike Gavin
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(Assistant Professor and Academic DirectorConservation Leadership Through Learning Programbased in the Department of Human Dimensions ofNatural Resources at Colorado State University (CSU)have worked broadly to examine patterns of biologicaland cultural diversity and spans a variety of topics fromglobal linguistic diversity to distribution and variation oftraditional ecological knowledge (TEK)
Read more
Innovation needs no boundariesbiodiversity through partnership(Biodiversity for Food and Nutrition project) If you want to go far go together acirceuroldquo Four countriesunite for the conservation of nutritionally-relevantagrobiodiversity
Brazil Kenya Sri Lanka and Turkey have thus joinedforces under the umbrella of the Biodiversity for Food(BFN Project) and Nutrition project - funded by theGlobal Environment Facility (GEF) and coordinated byBioversity International - to explore how best to promotenutritionally-rich species and by so-doing develop andconserve them
Read more
Report from the March IUCN workshop on criteria for delineating keybiodiversity areas The joint task force of the World Commission of protected Areas (WCPA) and the SpeciesSurvival Commission initiated the process of defining of Key Biodiversity Areas (KBAs) thatcontribute significantly to the global persistence of biodiversity The initiative is not meant toduplicate but build upon some of the existing delineations like important plant fungal andbird areas
Read more
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Background documents produced prior to the KBA criteria anddelineation workshop
Key biodiversity areas are places of internationalimportance for the conservation of biodiversity throughprotected areas and other governance mechanisms Theyare identified nationally using simple standard criteriabased on their importance in maintaining speciespopulations
As the building blocks for designing the ecosystemapproach and maintaining effective ecological networks key
biodiversity areas are the starting point for conservation planning at landscape level
Read more
Report on the acirceuro˜Conservation and LandGrabbingacirceurotrade Symposium In recent years the pace of global land acquisition hasdramatically increased due to changes in commoditymarkets agricultural investment strategies land pricesand a range of other policy and market forces Thissurge in land acquisition is widespread but particularlypronounced in a) countries with relatively weakgovernance and protection of customary land rights b)in the global acirceuro˜commonsacirceurotrade ie lands which arecustomarily used collectively at the local scale includingforests rangelands and wetlands
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EU ACP Cultures projects Music Bridges a cross-cultural musiccamp in Santo Vanuatu When music bridges not just people but in a continental kind of way Singaot (for the)Miusik Kamp This overview details a current EU ACP Cultures project Music Bridgeswhich is currently in preparation stage for a cross-cultural music camp in Santo Vanuatufor SeptemberOctober
Read more
CEESP Member Dr Teki Surayya attendsInternational Congress on acirceuroœPlantedForests CEESP member Dr Teki Surayya presented a paper onacirceuroœRole of Afforestation on Dry and Degraded Lands ampDevelopmental Finance in Generating SustainableLivelihood and Strategies to Arrest Desertification casestudies-Indiaacirceuro during the 2013 InternationalCongress on acirceuroœPlanted Forests The conference wassponsored by International Union of Forest ResearchOrganisations (IUFRO) There were 200 researchersthinkers and policy makers from 59 countries whoparticipated
Read more
UN Expert Panel on IntergenerationalSolidarity A UN meeting was held in New York on May 9th 2013 on
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Intergenerational Solidarity Intergenerational solidarityand justice is deeply embedded in the concept ofsustainable development Yet many questions remain tobe answered How to define the needs and rights offuture generations What are the duties of currentgeneration to future generations
Read more
Be one of the first to list your area on theGDI Registry The Green Development Initiative (GDI) is establishingan online GDI Registry of areas which are managed in abiodiversity responsible way These areas could becommunity-based public or private To be listed on theRegistry as a Registered or Certified GDI Area the areawill need to be in compliance with the GDI Standard
Read more
TILCEPAs Mountain Connectivity and SocialPolicy Specialist Group organize panel onMountain Trails As part of an initiative to develop a Walking amp WorkingMountain Trails Network CEESP Youth advisor CatieBurlando and TILCEPA Mountains Co-Vice Chair ElaineHsiao will be presenting on European Mountain Trailsand Mountain Trails as Biocultural Corridors for Peace
Read more
Second edition of the Living Convention at the UNPFII and the WINC Indigenous peoples and local communities often ask what their rights are at the
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international level The answer to this crucial question is complicated for several reasonsincluding the fact that the provisions containing the rights are spread across a wide rangeof international instruments each with its own particular focus
Read more
Analysis of CITES from the perspective ofwhat the latest COP means for sustainableuse and livelihoods The 16th Conference of the Parties to CITES - theConvention on International Trade in EndangeredSpecies of Fauna and Flora - took place in Bangkok inearly March Over 1000 representatives from 170 of the178 state Parties attended along with around 1000observers from inter-governmental and non-governmental organisations IUCN and TRAFFIC bothhad large delegations in attendance - Rosie Cooney wasthe part of the IUCN delegation
Read more
SULi Update Since the last newsletter in March weve taken workforward in a number of our key areas We would like tobetter understand what others are doing in these areasand keen to collaborate so please get in touch if you areinterested
SULi was involved in highlighting the contribution ofsustainable wildlife management to food securitythrough helping the organisation of a side-event at theRome FAO Forests and Food Security and Nutritionmeeting in May
Read more
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Community-based networks of Odisha Community-based forest networks of India and Nepal have been suffering from seriousneglect and left at disadvantage due to lack of legal recognition A brief review of literatureon community-based forest networks found that they lack certain attributes that arenecessary to be considered as equal partners in the activities aimed at forest conservationand livelihood improvement In this review a brief on the informal community-based forestnetworks of Odisha and their status of recognition through Forest Rights Act (FRA) 2006 ispresented
Read more
Hangzhou Declaration on Culture amp Sustainable Development Co-Chairs of the CEESP Theme on Culture and Conservation Elise Hufer and Adi MeretuiRatunabuabua together with CEESP Chair Aroha Mead participated in the UNESCOInternational Congress on Culture Key to Sustainable Development held in HangzhouChina
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IUCN President Zhang Xinsheng alsoparticipated The meeting developed aHangzhou Declaration Placing Culture atthe heart of Sustainable DevelopmentPolicies which was subsequentlypresented to the UN General Assembly
Read more
Synthetic Biology and Conservation An Imminent Encounter
Synthetic biology is a new technologywith enormous promise to change thehuman relationships with the naturalworld and with fellow human beings Though there is no commonly agreedupon definition synthetic biology can bethought of as acirceuro˜acirceuro˜a scientific discipline
that relies on chemically synthesized DNA along with standardized and automatableprocesses to address human needs by the creation of organisms with novel or enhancedcharacteristics or traitsacirceurotradeacirceurotrade Billions of dollars are being invested globally anddevelopments of novel applications are constantly being reported
Read more
Adopted Alta Outcome Document In June 10-12 indigenous representatives were invited by the Saami to Alta Norway to apreparatory meeting for the United Nations High Level Plenary Meeting of the GeneralAssembly on Indigenous Peoples which is being held at the UN-HQ in September 2014
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The Alta meeting finalised the Alta Outcome Document which is available in English andFrench Read more
World Indigenous Network (WIN) Conference CEESP Members Nigel Crawhall and Trisha Kehaulani Watson-Sproat attended the WorldIndigenous Network (WIN) Conference Marine Protected Areas Connections hasproduced a special edition on Tribal and Indigenous Peoples on MPAs which includes areport on the WIN Conference In May 2013 over 1200 delegates and representativesfrom more than 50 countries from every corner of the globe attended the World IndigenousNetwork (WIN) Conference in Darwin Australia The Larrakia Nation of Northern Australiaare the traditional owners of what is now the Darwin area and they were gracious andwarm hosts for this important gathering
Read more
Publications amp Resources
E-book produced by IUCN WCPA for the World Parks Congress E-book concerns one of the major legacy projects for the World Parks Congress GraemeWorboys is leading a team of writers and editors to produce a major new book on thebasics of Protected Areas Governance amp Management The book is intended for bothconservation students at tertiary level as well as professionals wanting a handbook
Read more
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Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining In AndAround Protected Areas And CriticalEcosystems Project (Asm-Pace) Timothy Healy with his colleague from AQUATERREMadagascar produced a new publication on artisanalmining (gems and gold) and conflicts with protected andsensitive ecological areas in Madagascar The overallobjective of this ASM in Madagascar StrategicManagement of Artisanal Rushes Tool and LessonsLearned Study Project is to address the growing threatof Artisanal and Small Scale Mining on in and aroundMadagascaracirceurotrades protected areas (PAs) and criticalecosystems and ideally in a way that can ensurecontinued socioeconomic development withoutundermining ecological resiliency
Read more
Opportunities and Challenges forEstablishing Synergies and Areas forEnhanced Cooperation in the BiodiversityCluster The following article by Marina von WeissenbergCEESP member was recently published in a bookentitled acirceuroœInternational Environmental Law-makingand Diplomacy Review 2011acirceuro produced by theUniversity of Eastern Finland The paper examinesopportunities and challenges that exist for establishingsynergies and generally enhancing cooperation withinthe biodiversity-related cluster of MEAs
Read more
Issues in Agricultural Biodiversity a newbook series published byEarthscanRoutledge in Association withBiodiversity International Conservation and sustainable use of agriculturalbiodiversity can improve peopleacirceurotrades wellbeing andfood and nutrition security EarthscanRoutledge inAssociation with Biodiversity International has published
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a new book series edited by Michael Halewood andDanny Hunter both at Biodiversity International andSeries Editors
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Caring for country through participatory art Creating a boundary objectfor communicating Indigenous knowledge and values The following article by Melanie Zurba CEESP member and PhD Candidate - NaturalResources Institute University of Manitoba was recently published in Local EnvironmentThe international journal of justice and sustainability The article argues the trend towardsthe inclusion of diverse groups in environmental decision-making that has led to the needto explore new forms of communication to engage communities in expressing their valuesand aspirations
Read more
Assessing anthropogenic pressure and itsimpact on Hippophae salicifolia pockets inCentral Himalaya
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The following article by Shalini Dhyani and DeepakDhyani CEESP member was recently published inJournal of Mountain Science The article argues thatNatural habitat of Hippophae salicifolia in CentralHimalaya is continuously being degraded due to habitatdestruction and harvesting Although logging isprohibited habitat destruction has increased because ofregular road construction repairing and broadeningactivities
Read more
Right Scale Resilient WatershedsManaging Complexity through NodalNetworks What does the group of Wall Street tradAcirc ers focused onbanks of computer screens have in common with thewaAcirc tershed communities of South AmeriAcirc caacirceurotrades GranChaco the second largest ecosystem on the continentthe priests of Bali where some of the earAcirc liest evidenceof irrigation used in rice cultivation is found the ArcticCircleacirceurotrades indigenous communities of herders andhunters and National Heritage Areas A great deal
Read more
Mexican Lessons To Take to Heart -- Traveling The Path to Biodiversityand Forest Conservation in Our Age of Global Change Written by Mexican and international and including a preface by CEESP member Janis
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Alcorn Community Action for Conservation Mexican Experiences is a lively and deep-running resource that offers invaluable stories and analyses of the Mexican experiencewith conservation This book provides an in-depth analysis on community conservation inMexico
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Cloaking not Bleaching the Back Storyfrom Inside Bureaucracy acirceuroœacirceurobrvbar In other words the way that bureaucracies workis by bleaching out local context and coming up with bigsimplificationsacirceuro acirceuroldquo Andrew Mathews
CEESP SC member Janis Alcorn writes I wouldcounter by positing that good bureaucracies do notbleach out local context Instead they create bigsimplified umbrellas that cloak the complex dynamicrange of local circumstances and thereby give the staffof government bureaucracies the space to address localcircumstances despite changes in political direction
Read more
The Right to Responsibility - new book forpeer review Weacirceurotradere pleased to announce that Natural Justice andthe United Nations University acirceuroldquo Institute of AdvancedStudies (UNU-IAS) have just released a new book forpeer review entitled The Right to ResponsibilityResisting and Engaging Development Conservationand the Law in Asia
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ARE YOU A MEMBER OF CEESP
At the end of every World Conservation CongressCommissions are asked to revisit and renew their membershipCEESP applied what we considered to be a fairly straightforward renewal process but it turned to be far more complexthan we thought By the end of the renewal period we had lost just over 300members because they did not respond or we had no record of their response tothe calls for renewal
A list of the new membership of CEESP can be found here
NEED TO RENEW
Please check to see if your name is entered and the details correct We do notdisclose email addresses only names country and Theme(s)SGs If you did renewyour membership in CEESP welcome back and look forward to working with youover the next three years If you missed the opportunity to renew andor would like to join CEESP membershipforms in EnglishSpanishFrench and Portuguese can be found on the followingpage
CEESP Members page by clicking here
CEESP NEWSLETTER
This edition of the CEESP newsletter has been compiled by Shalini Dyani from India andNikolasa Biasny-Thule (NZ) A call for contributions will be sent to all CEESP members forthe next edition shortly Deadline for receipt of articles for the August edition is 8August 2013 and should be sent to
CEESPNEWSiucnorg
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central role
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Restoring Traditional Hawaiian Fishpond Systems In Hawaiacirceuro˜i Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary continues tomake extraordinary strides in serving its community through facilitating projects thatenhance the use of traditional knowledge in coastal resource management There is arenewed interest in the repair and operation of traditional Hawaiian fishponds for theircultural economic and ecological value
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National Conference on ICCAs inthe Philippines A conference was jointly organized byKASAPI and PAFID with support from theUNDP-GEF and the Philippine TropicalForest Conservation Foundation TheICCA consortium in the Philippines wasformally launched during a three-dayconference at the NORFIL FoundationTraining Center in Quezon City from 19-22February 2013
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Perceptions of the value of traditionalecological knowledge to formal schoolcurricula opportunities and challenges Joe McCarter (Postdoctoral Fellow) and Mike Gavin
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(Assistant Professor and Academic DirectorConservation Leadership Through Learning Programbased in the Department of Human Dimensions ofNatural Resources at Colorado State University (CSU)have worked broadly to examine patterns of biologicaland cultural diversity and spans a variety of topics fromglobal linguistic diversity to distribution and variation oftraditional ecological knowledge (TEK)
Read more
Innovation needs no boundariesbiodiversity through partnership(Biodiversity for Food and Nutrition project) If you want to go far go together acirceuroldquo Four countriesunite for the conservation of nutritionally-relevantagrobiodiversity
Brazil Kenya Sri Lanka and Turkey have thus joinedforces under the umbrella of the Biodiversity for Food(BFN Project) and Nutrition project - funded by theGlobal Environment Facility (GEF) and coordinated byBioversity International - to explore how best to promotenutritionally-rich species and by so-doing develop andconserve them
Read more
Report from the March IUCN workshop on criteria for delineating keybiodiversity areas The joint task force of the World Commission of protected Areas (WCPA) and the SpeciesSurvival Commission initiated the process of defining of Key Biodiversity Areas (KBAs) thatcontribute significantly to the global persistence of biodiversity The initiative is not meant toduplicate but build upon some of the existing delineations like important plant fungal andbird areas
Read more
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Background documents produced prior to the KBA criteria anddelineation workshop
Key biodiversity areas are places of internationalimportance for the conservation of biodiversity throughprotected areas and other governance mechanisms Theyare identified nationally using simple standard criteriabased on their importance in maintaining speciespopulations
As the building blocks for designing the ecosystemapproach and maintaining effective ecological networks key
biodiversity areas are the starting point for conservation planning at landscape level
Read more
Report on the acirceuro˜Conservation and LandGrabbingacirceurotrade Symposium In recent years the pace of global land acquisition hasdramatically increased due to changes in commoditymarkets agricultural investment strategies land pricesand a range of other policy and market forces Thissurge in land acquisition is widespread but particularlypronounced in a) countries with relatively weakgovernance and protection of customary land rights b)in the global acirceuro˜commonsacirceurotrade ie lands which arecustomarily used collectively at the local scale includingforests rangelands and wetlands
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EU ACP Cultures projects Music Bridges a cross-cultural musiccamp in Santo Vanuatu When music bridges not just people but in a continental kind of way Singaot (for the)Miusik Kamp This overview details a current EU ACP Cultures project Music Bridgeswhich is currently in preparation stage for a cross-cultural music camp in Santo Vanuatufor SeptemberOctober
Read more
CEESP Member Dr Teki Surayya attendsInternational Congress on acirceuroœPlantedForests CEESP member Dr Teki Surayya presented a paper onacirceuroœRole of Afforestation on Dry and Degraded Lands ampDevelopmental Finance in Generating SustainableLivelihood and Strategies to Arrest Desertification casestudies-Indiaacirceuro during the 2013 InternationalCongress on acirceuroœPlanted Forests The conference wassponsored by International Union of Forest ResearchOrganisations (IUFRO) There were 200 researchersthinkers and policy makers from 59 countries whoparticipated
Read more
UN Expert Panel on IntergenerationalSolidarity A UN meeting was held in New York on May 9th 2013 on
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Intergenerational Solidarity Intergenerational solidarityand justice is deeply embedded in the concept ofsustainable development Yet many questions remain tobe answered How to define the needs and rights offuture generations What are the duties of currentgeneration to future generations
Read more
Be one of the first to list your area on theGDI Registry The Green Development Initiative (GDI) is establishingan online GDI Registry of areas which are managed in abiodiversity responsible way These areas could becommunity-based public or private To be listed on theRegistry as a Registered or Certified GDI Area the areawill need to be in compliance with the GDI Standard
Read more
TILCEPAs Mountain Connectivity and SocialPolicy Specialist Group organize panel onMountain Trails As part of an initiative to develop a Walking amp WorkingMountain Trails Network CEESP Youth advisor CatieBurlando and TILCEPA Mountains Co-Vice Chair ElaineHsiao will be presenting on European Mountain Trailsand Mountain Trails as Biocultural Corridors for Peace
Read more
Second edition of the Living Convention at the UNPFII and the WINC Indigenous peoples and local communities often ask what their rights are at the
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international level The answer to this crucial question is complicated for several reasonsincluding the fact that the provisions containing the rights are spread across a wide rangeof international instruments each with its own particular focus
Read more
Analysis of CITES from the perspective ofwhat the latest COP means for sustainableuse and livelihoods The 16th Conference of the Parties to CITES - theConvention on International Trade in EndangeredSpecies of Fauna and Flora - took place in Bangkok inearly March Over 1000 representatives from 170 of the178 state Parties attended along with around 1000observers from inter-governmental and non-governmental organisations IUCN and TRAFFIC bothhad large delegations in attendance - Rosie Cooney wasthe part of the IUCN delegation
Read more
SULi Update Since the last newsletter in March weve taken workforward in a number of our key areas We would like tobetter understand what others are doing in these areasand keen to collaborate so please get in touch if you areinterested
SULi was involved in highlighting the contribution ofsustainable wildlife management to food securitythrough helping the organisation of a side-event at theRome FAO Forests and Food Security and Nutritionmeeting in May
Read more
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Community-based networks of Odisha Community-based forest networks of India and Nepal have been suffering from seriousneglect and left at disadvantage due to lack of legal recognition A brief review of literatureon community-based forest networks found that they lack certain attributes that arenecessary to be considered as equal partners in the activities aimed at forest conservationand livelihood improvement In this review a brief on the informal community-based forestnetworks of Odisha and their status of recognition through Forest Rights Act (FRA) 2006 ispresented
Read more
Hangzhou Declaration on Culture amp Sustainable Development Co-Chairs of the CEESP Theme on Culture and Conservation Elise Hufer and Adi MeretuiRatunabuabua together with CEESP Chair Aroha Mead participated in the UNESCOInternational Congress on Culture Key to Sustainable Development held in HangzhouChina
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IUCN President Zhang Xinsheng alsoparticipated The meeting developed aHangzhou Declaration Placing Culture atthe heart of Sustainable DevelopmentPolicies which was subsequentlypresented to the UN General Assembly
Read more
Synthetic Biology and Conservation An Imminent Encounter
Synthetic biology is a new technologywith enormous promise to change thehuman relationships with the naturalworld and with fellow human beings Though there is no commonly agreedupon definition synthetic biology can bethought of as acirceuro˜acirceuro˜a scientific discipline
that relies on chemically synthesized DNA along with standardized and automatableprocesses to address human needs by the creation of organisms with novel or enhancedcharacteristics or traitsacirceurotradeacirceurotrade Billions of dollars are being invested globally anddevelopments of novel applications are constantly being reported
Read more
Adopted Alta Outcome Document In June 10-12 indigenous representatives were invited by the Saami to Alta Norway to apreparatory meeting for the United Nations High Level Plenary Meeting of the GeneralAssembly on Indigenous Peoples which is being held at the UN-HQ in September 2014
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The Alta meeting finalised the Alta Outcome Document which is available in English andFrench Read more
World Indigenous Network (WIN) Conference CEESP Members Nigel Crawhall and Trisha Kehaulani Watson-Sproat attended the WorldIndigenous Network (WIN) Conference Marine Protected Areas Connections hasproduced a special edition on Tribal and Indigenous Peoples on MPAs which includes areport on the WIN Conference In May 2013 over 1200 delegates and representativesfrom more than 50 countries from every corner of the globe attended the World IndigenousNetwork (WIN) Conference in Darwin Australia The Larrakia Nation of Northern Australiaare the traditional owners of what is now the Darwin area and they were gracious andwarm hosts for this important gathering
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Publications amp Resources
E-book produced by IUCN WCPA for the World Parks Congress E-book concerns one of the major legacy projects for the World Parks Congress GraemeWorboys is leading a team of writers and editors to produce a major new book on thebasics of Protected Areas Governance amp Management The book is intended for bothconservation students at tertiary level as well as professionals wanting a handbook
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Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining In AndAround Protected Areas And CriticalEcosystems Project (Asm-Pace) Timothy Healy with his colleague from AQUATERREMadagascar produced a new publication on artisanalmining (gems and gold) and conflicts with protected andsensitive ecological areas in Madagascar The overallobjective of this ASM in Madagascar StrategicManagement of Artisanal Rushes Tool and LessonsLearned Study Project is to address the growing threatof Artisanal and Small Scale Mining on in and aroundMadagascaracirceurotrades protected areas (PAs) and criticalecosystems and ideally in a way that can ensurecontinued socioeconomic development withoutundermining ecological resiliency
Read more
Opportunities and Challenges forEstablishing Synergies and Areas forEnhanced Cooperation in the BiodiversityCluster The following article by Marina von WeissenbergCEESP member was recently published in a bookentitled acirceuroœInternational Environmental Law-makingand Diplomacy Review 2011acirceuro produced by theUniversity of Eastern Finland The paper examinesopportunities and challenges that exist for establishingsynergies and generally enhancing cooperation withinthe biodiversity-related cluster of MEAs
Read more
Issues in Agricultural Biodiversity a newbook series published byEarthscanRoutledge in Association withBiodiversity International Conservation and sustainable use of agriculturalbiodiversity can improve peopleacirceurotrades wellbeing andfood and nutrition security EarthscanRoutledge inAssociation with Biodiversity International has published
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a new book series edited by Michael Halewood andDanny Hunter both at Biodiversity International andSeries Editors
Read more
Caring for country through participatory art Creating a boundary objectfor communicating Indigenous knowledge and values The following article by Melanie Zurba CEESP member and PhD Candidate - NaturalResources Institute University of Manitoba was recently published in Local EnvironmentThe international journal of justice and sustainability The article argues the trend towardsthe inclusion of diverse groups in environmental decision-making that has led to the needto explore new forms of communication to engage communities in expressing their valuesand aspirations
Read more
Assessing anthropogenic pressure and itsimpact on Hippophae salicifolia pockets inCentral Himalaya
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The following article by Shalini Dhyani and DeepakDhyani CEESP member was recently published inJournal of Mountain Science The article argues thatNatural habitat of Hippophae salicifolia in CentralHimalaya is continuously being degraded due to habitatdestruction and harvesting Although logging isprohibited habitat destruction has increased because ofregular road construction repairing and broadeningactivities
Read more
Right Scale Resilient WatershedsManaging Complexity through NodalNetworks What does the group of Wall Street tradAcirc ers focused onbanks of computer screens have in common with thewaAcirc tershed communities of South AmeriAcirc caacirceurotrades GranChaco the second largest ecosystem on the continentthe priests of Bali where some of the earAcirc liest evidenceof irrigation used in rice cultivation is found the ArcticCircleacirceurotrades indigenous communities of herders andhunters and National Heritage Areas A great deal
Read more
Mexican Lessons To Take to Heart -- Traveling The Path to Biodiversityand Forest Conservation in Our Age of Global Change Written by Mexican and international and including a preface by CEESP member Janis
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Alcorn Community Action for Conservation Mexican Experiences is a lively and deep-running resource that offers invaluable stories and analyses of the Mexican experiencewith conservation This book provides an in-depth analysis on community conservation inMexico
Read more
Cloaking not Bleaching the Back Storyfrom Inside Bureaucracy acirceuroœacirceurobrvbar In other words the way that bureaucracies workis by bleaching out local context and coming up with bigsimplificationsacirceuro acirceuroldquo Andrew Mathews
CEESP SC member Janis Alcorn writes I wouldcounter by positing that good bureaucracies do notbleach out local context Instead they create bigsimplified umbrellas that cloak the complex dynamicrange of local circumstances and thereby give the staffof government bureaucracies the space to address localcircumstances despite changes in political direction
Read more
The Right to Responsibility - new book forpeer review Weacirceurotradere pleased to announce that Natural Justice andthe United Nations University acirceuroldquo Institute of AdvancedStudies (UNU-IAS) have just released a new book forpeer review entitled The Right to ResponsibilityResisting and Engaging Development Conservationand the Law in Asia
Read more
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ARE YOU A MEMBER OF CEESP
At the end of every World Conservation CongressCommissions are asked to revisit and renew their membershipCEESP applied what we considered to be a fairly straightforward renewal process but it turned to be far more complexthan we thought By the end of the renewal period we had lost just over 300members because they did not respond or we had no record of their response tothe calls for renewal
A list of the new membership of CEESP can be found here
NEED TO RENEW
Please check to see if your name is entered and the details correct We do notdisclose email addresses only names country and Theme(s)SGs If you did renewyour membership in CEESP welcome back and look forward to working with youover the next three years If you missed the opportunity to renew andor would like to join CEESP membershipforms in EnglishSpanishFrench and Portuguese can be found on the followingpage
CEESP Members page by clicking here
CEESP NEWSLETTER
This edition of the CEESP newsletter has been compiled by Shalini Dyani from India andNikolasa Biasny-Thule (NZ) A call for contributions will be sent to all CEESP members forthe next edition shortly Deadline for receipt of articles for the August edition is 8August 2013 and should be sent to
CEESPNEWSiucnorg
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(Assistant Professor and Academic DirectorConservation Leadership Through Learning Programbased in the Department of Human Dimensions ofNatural Resources at Colorado State University (CSU)have worked broadly to examine patterns of biologicaland cultural diversity and spans a variety of topics fromglobal linguistic diversity to distribution and variation oftraditional ecological knowledge (TEK)
Read more
Innovation needs no boundariesbiodiversity through partnership(Biodiversity for Food and Nutrition project) If you want to go far go together acirceuroldquo Four countriesunite for the conservation of nutritionally-relevantagrobiodiversity
Brazil Kenya Sri Lanka and Turkey have thus joinedforces under the umbrella of the Biodiversity for Food(BFN Project) and Nutrition project - funded by theGlobal Environment Facility (GEF) and coordinated byBioversity International - to explore how best to promotenutritionally-rich species and by so-doing develop andconserve them
Read more
Report from the March IUCN workshop on criteria for delineating keybiodiversity areas The joint task force of the World Commission of protected Areas (WCPA) and the SpeciesSurvival Commission initiated the process of defining of Key Biodiversity Areas (KBAs) thatcontribute significantly to the global persistence of biodiversity The initiative is not meant toduplicate but build upon some of the existing delineations like important plant fungal andbird areas
Read more
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Background documents produced prior to the KBA criteria anddelineation workshop
Key biodiversity areas are places of internationalimportance for the conservation of biodiversity throughprotected areas and other governance mechanisms Theyare identified nationally using simple standard criteriabased on their importance in maintaining speciespopulations
As the building blocks for designing the ecosystemapproach and maintaining effective ecological networks key
biodiversity areas are the starting point for conservation planning at landscape level
Read more
Report on the acirceuro˜Conservation and LandGrabbingacirceurotrade Symposium In recent years the pace of global land acquisition hasdramatically increased due to changes in commoditymarkets agricultural investment strategies land pricesand a range of other policy and market forces Thissurge in land acquisition is widespread but particularlypronounced in a) countries with relatively weakgovernance and protection of customary land rights b)in the global acirceuro˜commonsacirceurotrade ie lands which arecustomarily used collectively at the local scale includingforests rangelands and wetlands
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EU ACP Cultures projects Music Bridges a cross-cultural musiccamp in Santo Vanuatu When music bridges not just people but in a continental kind of way Singaot (for the)Miusik Kamp This overview details a current EU ACP Cultures project Music Bridgeswhich is currently in preparation stage for a cross-cultural music camp in Santo Vanuatufor SeptemberOctober
Read more
CEESP Member Dr Teki Surayya attendsInternational Congress on acirceuroœPlantedForests CEESP member Dr Teki Surayya presented a paper onacirceuroœRole of Afforestation on Dry and Degraded Lands ampDevelopmental Finance in Generating SustainableLivelihood and Strategies to Arrest Desertification casestudies-Indiaacirceuro during the 2013 InternationalCongress on acirceuroœPlanted Forests The conference wassponsored by International Union of Forest ResearchOrganisations (IUFRO) There were 200 researchersthinkers and policy makers from 59 countries whoparticipated
Read more
UN Expert Panel on IntergenerationalSolidarity A UN meeting was held in New York on May 9th 2013 on
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Intergenerational Solidarity Intergenerational solidarityand justice is deeply embedded in the concept ofsustainable development Yet many questions remain tobe answered How to define the needs and rights offuture generations What are the duties of currentgeneration to future generations
Read more
Be one of the first to list your area on theGDI Registry The Green Development Initiative (GDI) is establishingan online GDI Registry of areas which are managed in abiodiversity responsible way These areas could becommunity-based public or private To be listed on theRegistry as a Registered or Certified GDI Area the areawill need to be in compliance with the GDI Standard
Read more
TILCEPAs Mountain Connectivity and SocialPolicy Specialist Group organize panel onMountain Trails As part of an initiative to develop a Walking amp WorkingMountain Trails Network CEESP Youth advisor CatieBurlando and TILCEPA Mountains Co-Vice Chair ElaineHsiao will be presenting on European Mountain Trailsand Mountain Trails as Biocultural Corridors for Peace
Read more
Second edition of the Living Convention at the UNPFII and the WINC Indigenous peoples and local communities often ask what their rights are at the
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international level The answer to this crucial question is complicated for several reasonsincluding the fact that the provisions containing the rights are spread across a wide rangeof international instruments each with its own particular focus
Read more
Analysis of CITES from the perspective ofwhat the latest COP means for sustainableuse and livelihoods The 16th Conference of the Parties to CITES - theConvention on International Trade in EndangeredSpecies of Fauna and Flora - took place in Bangkok inearly March Over 1000 representatives from 170 of the178 state Parties attended along with around 1000observers from inter-governmental and non-governmental organisations IUCN and TRAFFIC bothhad large delegations in attendance - Rosie Cooney wasthe part of the IUCN delegation
Read more
SULi Update Since the last newsletter in March weve taken workforward in a number of our key areas We would like tobetter understand what others are doing in these areasand keen to collaborate so please get in touch if you areinterested
SULi was involved in highlighting the contribution ofsustainable wildlife management to food securitythrough helping the organisation of a side-event at theRome FAO Forests and Food Security and Nutritionmeeting in May
Read more
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Community-based networks of Odisha Community-based forest networks of India and Nepal have been suffering from seriousneglect and left at disadvantage due to lack of legal recognition A brief review of literatureon community-based forest networks found that they lack certain attributes that arenecessary to be considered as equal partners in the activities aimed at forest conservationand livelihood improvement In this review a brief on the informal community-based forestnetworks of Odisha and their status of recognition through Forest Rights Act (FRA) 2006 ispresented
Read more
Hangzhou Declaration on Culture amp Sustainable Development Co-Chairs of the CEESP Theme on Culture and Conservation Elise Hufer and Adi MeretuiRatunabuabua together with CEESP Chair Aroha Mead participated in the UNESCOInternational Congress on Culture Key to Sustainable Development held in HangzhouChina
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IUCN President Zhang Xinsheng alsoparticipated The meeting developed aHangzhou Declaration Placing Culture atthe heart of Sustainable DevelopmentPolicies which was subsequentlypresented to the UN General Assembly
Read more
Synthetic Biology and Conservation An Imminent Encounter
Synthetic biology is a new technologywith enormous promise to change thehuman relationships with the naturalworld and with fellow human beings Though there is no commonly agreedupon definition synthetic biology can bethought of as acirceuro˜acirceuro˜a scientific discipline
that relies on chemically synthesized DNA along with standardized and automatableprocesses to address human needs by the creation of organisms with novel or enhancedcharacteristics or traitsacirceurotradeacirceurotrade Billions of dollars are being invested globally anddevelopments of novel applications are constantly being reported
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Adopted Alta Outcome Document In June 10-12 indigenous representatives were invited by the Saami to Alta Norway to apreparatory meeting for the United Nations High Level Plenary Meeting of the GeneralAssembly on Indigenous Peoples which is being held at the UN-HQ in September 2014
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The Alta meeting finalised the Alta Outcome Document which is available in English andFrench Read more
World Indigenous Network (WIN) Conference CEESP Members Nigel Crawhall and Trisha Kehaulani Watson-Sproat attended the WorldIndigenous Network (WIN) Conference Marine Protected Areas Connections hasproduced a special edition on Tribal and Indigenous Peoples on MPAs which includes areport on the WIN Conference In May 2013 over 1200 delegates and representativesfrom more than 50 countries from every corner of the globe attended the World IndigenousNetwork (WIN) Conference in Darwin Australia The Larrakia Nation of Northern Australiaare the traditional owners of what is now the Darwin area and they were gracious andwarm hosts for this important gathering
Read more
Publications amp Resources
E-book produced by IUCN WCPA for the World Parks Congress E-book concerns one of the major legacy projects for the World Parks Congress GraemeWorboys is leading a team of writers and editors to produce a major new book on thebasics of Protected Areas Governance amp Management The book is intended for bothconservation students at tertiary level as well as professionals wanting a handbook
Read more
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Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining In AndAround Protected Areas And CriticalEcosystems Project (Asm-Pace) Timothy Healy with his colleague from AQUATERREMadagascar produced a new publication on artisanalmining (gems and gold) and conflicts with protected andsensitive ecological areas in Madagascar The overallobjective of this ASM in Madagascar StrategicManagement of Artisanal Rushes Tool and LessonsLearned Study Project is to address the growing threatof Artisanal and Small Scale Mining on in and aroundMadagascaracirceurotrades protected areas (PAs) and criticalecosystems and ideally in a way that can ensurecontinued socioeconomic development withoutundermining ecological resiliency
Read more
Opportunities and Challenges forEstablishing Synergies and Areas forEnhanced Cooperation in the BiodiversityCluster The following article by Marina von WeissenbergCEESP member was recently published in a bookentitled acirceuroœInternational Environmental Law-makingand Diplomacy Review 2011acirceuro produced by theUniversity of Eastern Finland The paper examinesopportunities and challenges that exist for establishingsynergies and generally enhancing cooperation withinthe biodiversity-related cluster of MEAs
Read more
Issues in Agricultural Biodiversity a newbook series published byEarthscanRoutledge in Association withBiodiversity International Conservation and sustainable use of agriculturalbiodiversity can improve peopleacirceurotrades wellbeing andfood and nutrition security EarthscanRoutledge inAssociation with Biodiversity International has published
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a new book series edited by Michael Halewood andDanny Hunter both at Biodiversity International andSeries Editors
Read more
Caring for country through participatory art Creating a boundary objectfor communicating Indigenous knowledge and values The following article by Melanie Zurba CEESP member and PhD Candidate - NaturalResources Institute University of Manitoba was recently published in Local EnvironmentThe international journal of justice and sustainability The article argues the trend towardsthe inclusion of diverse groups in environmental decision-making that has led to the needto explore new forms of communication to engage communities in expressing their valuesand aspirations
Read more
Assessing anthropogenic pressure and itsimpact on Hippophae salicifolia pockets inCentral Himalaya
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The following article by Shalini Dhyani and DeepakDhyani CEESP member was recently published inJournal of Mountain Science The article argues thatNatural habitat of Hippophae salicifolia in CentralHimalaya is continuously being degraded due to habitatdestruction and harvesting Although logging isprohibited habitat destruction has increased because ofregular road construction repairing and broadeningactivities
Read more
Right Scale Resilient WatershedsManaging Complexity through NodalNetworks What does the group of Wall Street tradAcirc ers focused onbanks of computer screens have in common with thewaAcirc tershed communities of South AmeriAcirc caacirceurotrades GranChaco the second largest ecosystem on the continentthe priests of Bali where some of the earAcirc liest evidenceof irrigation used in rice cultivation is found the ArcticCircleacirceurotrades indigenous communities of herders andhunters and National Heritage Areas A great deal
Read more
Mexican Lessons To Take to Heart -- Traveling The Path to Biodiversityand Forest Conservation in Our Age of Global Change Written by Mexican and international and including a preface by CEESP member Janis
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Alcorn Community Action for Conservation Mexican Experiences is a lively and deep-running resource that offers invaluable stories and analyses of the Mexican experiencewith conservation This book provides an in-depth analysis on community conservation inMexico
Read more
Cloaking not Bleaching the Back Storyfrom Inside Bureaucracy acirceuroœacirceurobrvbar In other words the way that bureaucracies workis by bleaching out local context and coming up with bigsimplificationsacirceuro acirceuroldquo Andrew Mathews
CEESP SC member Janis Alcorn writes I wouldcounter by positing that good bureaucracies do notbleach out local context Instead they create bigsimplified umbrellas that cloak the complex dynamicrange of local circumstances and thereby give the staffof government bureaucracies the space to address localcircumstances despite changes in political direction
Read more
The Right to Responsibility - new book forpeer review Weacirceurotradere pleased to announce that Natural Justice andthe United Nations University acirceuroldquo Institute of AdvancedStudies (UNU-IAS) have just released a new book forpeer review entitled The Right to ResponsibilityResisting and Engaging Development Conservationand the Law in Asia
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ARE YOU A MEMBER OF CEESP
At the end of every World Conservation CongressCommissions are asked to revisit and renew their membershipCEESP applied what we considered to be a fairly straightforward renewal process but it turned to be far more complexthan we thought By the end of the renewal period we had lost just over 300members because they did not respond or we had no record of their response tothe calls for renewal
A list of the new membership of CEESP can be found here
NEED TO RENEW
Please check to see if your name is entered and the details correct We do notdisclose email addresses only names country and Theme(s)SGs If you did renewyour membership in CEESP welcome back and look forward to working with youover the next three years If you missed the opportunity to renew andor would like to join CEESP membershipforms in EnglishSpanishFrench and Portuguese can be found on the followingpage
CEESP Members page by clicking here
CEESP NEWSLETTER
This edition of the CEESP newsletter has been compiled by Shalini Dyani from India andNikolasa Biasny-Thule (NZ) A call for contributions will be sent to all CEESP members forthe next edition shortly Deadline for receipt of articles for the August edition is 8August 2013 and should be sent to
CEESPNEWSiucnorg
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Background documents produced prior to the KBA criteria anddelineation workshop
Key biodiversity areas are places of internationalimportance for the conservation of biodiversity throughprotected areas and other governance mechanisms Theyare identified nationally using simple standard criteriabased on their importance in maintaining speciespopulations
As the building blocks for designing the ecosystemapproach and maintaining effective ecological networks key
biodiversity areas are the starting point for conservation planning at landscape level
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Report on the acirceuro˜Conservation and LandGrabbingacirceurotrade Symposium In recent years the pace of global land acquisition hasdramatically increased due to changes in commoditymarkets agricultural investment strategies land pricesand a range of other policy and market forces Thissurge in land acquisition is widespread but particularlypronounced in a) countries with relatively weakgovernance and protection of customary land rights b)in the global acirceuro˜commonsacirceurotrade ie lands which arecustomarily used collectively at the local scale includingforests rangelands and wetlands
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EU ACP Cultures projects Music Bridges a cross-cultural musiccamp in Santo Vanuatu When music bridges not just people but in a continental kind of way Singaot (for the)Miusik Kamp This overview details a current EU ACP Cultures project Music Bridgeswhich is currently in preparation stage for a cross-cultural music camp in Santo Vanuatufor SeptemberOctober
Read more
CEESP Member Dr Teki Surayya attendsInternational Congress on acirceuroœPlantedForests CEESP member Dr Teki Surayya presented a paper onacirceuroœRole of Afforestation on Dry and Degraded Lands ampDevelopmental Finance in Generating SustainableLivelihood and Strategies to Arrest Desertification casestudies-Indiaacirceuro during the 2013 InternationalCongress on acirceuroœPlanted Forests The conference wassponsored by International Union of Forest ResearchOrganisations (IUFRO) There were 200 researchersthinkers and policy makers from 59 countries whoparticipated
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UN Expert Panel on IntergenerationalSolidarity A UN meeting was held in New York on May 9th 2013 on
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Intergenerational Solidarity Intergenerational solidarityand justice is deeply embedded in the concept ofsustainable development Yet many questions remain tobe answered How to define the needs and rights offuture generations What are the duties of currentgeneration to future generations
Read more
Be one of the first to list your area on theGDI Registry The Green Development Initiative (GDI) is establishingan online GDI Registry of areas which are managed in abiodiversity responsible way These areas could becommunity-based public or private To be listed on theRegistry as a Registered or Certified GDI Area the areawill need to be in compliance with the GDI Standard
Read more
TILCEPAs Mountain Connectivity and SocialPolicy Specialist Group organize panel onMountain Trails As part of an initiative to develop a Walking amp WorkingMountain Trails Network CEESP Youth advisor CatieBurlando and TILCEPA Mountains Co-Vice Chair ElaineHsiao will be presenting on European Mountain Trailsand Mountain Trails as Biocultural Corridors for Peace
Read more
Second edition of the Living Convention at the UNPFII and the WINC Indigenous peoples and local communities often ask what their rights are at the
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international level The answer to this crucial question is complicated for several reasonsincluding the fact that the provisions containing the rights are spread across a wide rangeof international instruments each with its own particular focus
Read more
Analysis of CITES from the perspective ofwhat the latest COP means for sustainableuse and livelihoods The 16th Conference of the Parties to CITES - theConvention on International Trade in EndangeredSpecies of Fauna and Flora - took place in Bangkok inearly March Over 1000 representatives from 170 of the178 state Parties attended along with around 1000observers from inter-governmental and non-governmental organisations IUCN and TRAFFIC bothhad large delegations in attendance - Rosie Cooney wasthe part of the IUCN delegation
Read more
SULi Update Since the last newsletter in March weve taken workforward in a number of our key areas We would like tobetter understand what others are doing in these areasand keen to collaborate so please get in touch if you areinterested
SULi was involved in highlighting the contribution ofsustainable wildlife management to food securitythrough helping the organisation of a side-event at theRome FAO Forests and Food Security and Nutritionmeeting in May
Read more
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Community-based networks of Odisha Community-based forest networks of India and Nepal have been suffering from seriousneglect and left at disadvantage due to lack of legal recognition A brief review of literatureon community-based forest networks found that they lack certain attributes that arenecessary to be considered as equal partners in the activities aimed at forest conservationand livelihood improvement In this review a brief on the informal community-based forestnetworks of Odisha and their status of recognition through Forest Rights Act (FRA) 2006 ispresented
Read more
Hangzhou Declaration on Culture amp Sustainable Development Co-Chairs of the CEESP Theme on Culture and Conservation Elise Hufer and Adi MeretuiRatunabuabua together with CEESP Chair Aroha Mead participated in the UNESCOInternational Congress on Culture Key to Sustainable Development held in HangzhouChina
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IUCN President Zhang Xinsheng alsoparticipated The meeting developed aHangzhou Declaration Placing Culture atthe heart of Sustainable DevelopmentPolicies which was subsequentlypresented to the UN General Assembly
Read more
Synthetic Biology and Conservation An Imminent Encounter
Synthetic biology is a new technologywith enormous promise to change thehuman relationships with the naturalworld and with fellow human beings Though there is no commonly agreedupon definition synthetic biology can bethought of as acirceuro˜acirceuro˜a scientific discipline
that relies on chemically synthesized DNA along with standardized and automatableprocesses to address human needs by the creation of organisms with novel or enhancedcharacteristics or traitsacirceurotradeacirceurotrade Billions of dollars are being invested globally anddevelopments of novel applications are constantly being reported
Read more
Adopted Alta Outcome Document In June 10-12 indigenous representatives were invited by the Saami to Alta Norway to apreparatory meeting for the United Nations High Level Plenary Meeting of the GeneralAssembly on Indigenous Peoples which is being held at the UN-HQ in September 2014
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The Alta meeting finalised the Alta Outcome Document which is available in English andFrench Read more
World Indigenous Network (WIN) Conference CEESP Members Nigel Crawhall and Trisha Kehaulani Watson-Sproat attended the WorldIndigenous Network (WIN) Conference Marine Protected Areas Connections hasproduced a special edition on Tribal and Indigenous Peoples on MPAs which includes areport on the WIN Conference In May 2013 over 1200 delegates and representativesfrom more than 50 countries from every corner of the globe attended the World IndigenousNetwork (WIN) Conference in Darwin Australia The Larrakia Nation of Northern Australiaare the traditional owners of what is now the Darwin area and they were gracious andwarm hosts for this important gathering
Read more
Publications amp Resources
E-book produced by IUCN WCPA for the World Parks Congress E-book concerns one of the major legacy projects for the World Parks Congress GraemeWorboys is leading a team of writers and editors to produce a major new book on thebasics of Protected Areas Governance amp Management The book is intended for bothconservation students at tertiary level as well as professionals wanting a handbook
Read more
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Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining In AndAround Protected Areas And CriticalEcosystems Project (Asm-Pace) Timothy Healy with his colleague from AQUATERREMadagascar produced a new publication on artisanalmining (gems and gold) and conflicts with protected andsensitive ecological areas in Madagascar The overallobjective of this ASM in Madagascar StrategicManagement of Artisanal Rushes Tool and LessonsLearned Study Project is to address the growing threatof Artisanal and Small Scale Mining on in and aroundMadagascaracirceurotrades protected areas (PAs) and criticalecosystems and ideally in a way that can ensurecontinued socioeconomic development withoutundermining ecological resiliency
Read more
Opportunities and Challenges forEstablishing Synergies and Areas forEnhanced Cooperation in the BiodiversityCluster The following article by Marina von WeissenbergCEESP member was recently published in a bookentitled acirceuroœInternational Environmental Law-makingand Diplomacy Review 2011acirceuro produced by theUniversity of Eastern Finland The paper examinesopportunities and challenges that exist for establishingsynergies and generally enhancing cooperation withinthe biodiversity-related cluster of MEAs
Read more
Issues in Agricultural Biodiversity a newbook series published byEarthscanRoutledge in Association withBiodiversity International Conservation and sustainable use of agriculturalbiodiversity can improve peopleacirceurotrades wellbeing andfood and nutrition security EarthscanRoutledge inAssociation with Biodiversity International has published
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a new book series edited by Michael Halewood andDanny Hunter both at Biodiversity International andSeries Editors
Read more
Caring for country through participatory art Creating a boundary objectfor communicating Indigenous knowledge and values The following article by Melanie Zurba CEESP member and PhD Candidate - NaturalResources Institute University of Manitoba was recently published in Local EnvironmentThe international journal of justice and sustainability The article argues the trend towardsthe inclusion of diverse groups in environmental decision-making that has led to the needto explore new forms of communication to engage communities in expressing their valuesand aspirations
Read more
Assessing anthropogenic pressure and itsimpact on Hippophae salicifolia pockets inCentral Himalaya
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The following article by Shalini Dhyani and DeepakDhyani CEESP member was recently published inJournal of Mountain Science The article argues thatNatural habitat of Hippophae salicifolia in CentralHimalaya is continuously being degraded due to habitatdestruction and harvesting Although logging isprohibited habitat destruction has increased because ofregular road construction repairing and broadeningactivities
Read more
Right Scale Resilient WatershedsManaging Complexity through NodalNetworks What does the group of Wall Street tradAcirc ers focused onbanks of computer screens have in common with thewaAcirc tershed communities of South AmeriAcirc caacirceurotrades GranChaco the second largest ecosystem on the continentthe priests of Bali where some of the earAcirc liest evidenceof irrigation used in rice cultivation is found the ArcticCircleacirceurotrades indigenous communities of herders andhunters and National Heritage Areas A great deal
Read more
Mexican Lessons To Take to Heart -- Traveling The Path to Biodiversityand Forest Conservation in Our Age of Global Change Written by Mexican and international and including a preface by CEESP member Janis
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Alcorn Community Action for Conservation Mexican Experiences is a lively and deep-running resource that offers invaluable stories and analyses of the Mexican experiencewith conservation This book provides an in-depth analysis on community conservation inMexico
Read more
Cloaking not Bleaching the Back Storyfrom Inside Bureaucracy acirceuroœacirceurobrvbar In other words the way that bureaucracies workis by bleaching out local context and coming up with bigsimplificationsacirceuro acirceuroldquo Andrew Mathews
CEESP SC member Janis Alcorn writes I wouldcounter by positing that good bureaucracies do notbleach out local context Instead they create bigsimplified umbrellas that cloak the complex dynamicrange of local circumstances and thereby give the staffof government bureaucracies the space to address localcircumstances despite changes in political direction
Read more
The Right to Responsibility - new book forpeer review Weacirceurotradere pleased to announce that Natural Justice andthe United Nations University acirceuroldquo Institute of AdvancedStudies (UNU-IAS) have just released a new book forpeer review entitled The Right to ResponsibilityResisting and Engaging Development Conservationand the Law in Asia
Read more
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ARE YOU A MEMBER OF CEESP
At the end of every World Conservation CongressCommissions are asked to revisit and renew their membershipCEESP applied what we considered to be a fairly straightforward renewal process but it turned to be far more complexthan we thought By the end of the renewal period we had lost just over 300members because they did not respond or we had no record of their response tothe calls for renewal
A list of the new membership of CEESP can be found here
NEED TO RENEW
Please check to see if your name is entered and the details correct We do notdisclose email addresses only names country and Theme(s)SGs If you did renewyour membership in CEESP welcome back and look forward to working with youover the next three years If you missed the opportunity to renew andor would like to join CEESP membershipforms in EnglishSpanishFrench and Portuguese can be found on the followingpage
CEESP Members page by clicking here
CEESP NEWSLETTER
This edition of the CEESP newsletter has been compiled by Shalini Dyani from India andNikolasa Biasny-Thule (NZ) A call for contributions will be sent to all CEESP members forthe next edition shortly Deadline for receipt of articles for the August edition is 8August 2013 and should be sent to
CEESPNEWSiucnorg
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EU ACP Cultures projects Music Bridges a cross-cultural musiccamp in Santo Vanuatu When music bridges not just people but in a continental kind of way Singaot (for the)Miusik Kamp This overview details a current EU ACP Cultures project Music Bridgeswhich is currently in preparation stage for a cross-cultural music camp in Santo Vanuatufor SeptemberOctober
Read more
CEESP Member Dr Teki Surayya attendsInternational Congress on acirceuroœPlantedForests CEESP member Dr Teki Surayya presented a paper onacirceuroœRole of Afforestation on Dry and Degraded Lands ampDevelopmental Finance in Generating SustainableLivelihood and Strategies to Arrest Desertification casestudies-Indiaacirceuro during the 2013 InternationalCongress on acirceuroœPlanted Forests The conference wassponsored by International Union of Forest ResearchOrganisations (IUFRO) There were 200 researchersthinkers and policy makers from 59 countries whoparticipated
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UN Expert Panel on IntergenerationalSolidarity A UN meeting was held in New York on May 9th 2013 on
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Intergenerational Solidarity Intergenerational solidarityand justice is deeply embedded in the concept ofsustainable development Yet many questions remain tobe answered How to define the needs and rights offuture generations What are the duties of currentgeneration to future generations
Read more
Be one of the first to list your area on theGDI Registry The Green Development Initiative (GDI) is establishingan online GDI Registry of areas which are managed in abiodiversity responsible way These areas could becommunity-based public or private To be listed on theRegistry as a Registered or Certified GDI Area the areawill need to be in compliance with the GDI Standard
Read more
TILCEPAs Mountain Connectivity and SocialPolicy Specialist Group organize panel onMountain Trails As part of an initiative to develop a Walking amp WorkingMountain Trails Network CEESP Youth advisor CatieBurlando and TILCEPA Mountains Co-Vice Chair ElaineHsiao will be presenting on European Mountain Trailsand Mountain Trails as Biocultural Corridors for Peace
Read more
Second edition of the Living Convention at the UNPFII and the WINC Indigenous peoples and local communities often ask what their rights are at the
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international level The answer to this crucial question is complicated for several reasonsincluding the fact that the provisions containing the rights are spread across a wide rangeof international instruments each with its own particular focus
Read more
Analysis of CITES from the perspective ofwhat the latest COP means for sustainableuse and livelihoods The 16th Conference of the Parties to CITES - theConvention on International Trade in EndangeredSpecies of Fauna and Flora - took place in Bangkok inearly March Over 1000 representatives from 170 of the178 state Parties attended along with around 1000observers from inter-governmental and non-governmental organisations IUCN and TRAFFIC bothhad large delegations in attendance - Rosie Cooney wasthe part of the IUCN delegation
Read more
SULi Update Since the last newsletter in March weve taken workforward in a number of our key areas We would like tobetter understand what others are doing in these areasand keen to collaborate so please get in touch if you areinterested
SULi was involved in highlighting the contribution ofsustainable wildlife management to food securitythrough helping the organisation of a side-event at theRome FAO Forests and Food Security and Nutritionmeeting in May
Read more
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Community-based networks of Odisha Community-based forest networks of India and Nepal have been suffering from seriousneglect and left at disadvantage due to lack of legal recognition A brief review of literatureon community-based forest networks found that they lack certain attributes that arenecessary to be considered as equal partners in the activities aimed at forest conservationand livelihood improvement In this review a brief on the informal community-based forestnetworks of Odisha and their status of recognition through Forest Rights Act (FRA) 2006 ispresented
Read more
Hangzhou Declaration on Culture amp Sustainable Development Co-Chairs of the CEESP Theme on Culture and Conservation Elise Hufer and Adi MeretuiRatunabuabua together with CEESP Chair Aroha Mead participated in the UNESCOInternational Congress on Culture Key to Sustainable Development held in HangzhouChina
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IUCN President Zhang Xinsheng alsoparticipated The meeting developed aHangzhou Declaration Placing Culture atthe heart of Sustainable DevelopmentPolicies which was subsequentlypresented to the UN General Assembly
Read more
Synthetic Biology and Conservation An Imminent Encounter
Synthetic biology is a new technologywith enormous promise to change thehuman relationships with the naturalworld and with fellow human beings Though there is no commonly agreedupon definition synthetic biology can bethought of as acirceuro˜acirceuro˜a scientific discipline
that relies on chemically synthesized DNA along with standardized and automatableprocesses to address human needs by the creation of organisms with novel or enhancedcharacteristics or traitsacirceurotradeacirceurotrade Billions of dollars are being invested globally anddevelopments of novel applications are constantly being reported
Read more
Adopted Alta Outcome Document In June 10-12 indigenous representatives were invited by the Saami to Alta Norway to apreparatory meeting for the United Nations High Level Plenary Meeting of the GeneralAssembly on Indigenous Peoples which is being held at the UN-HQ in September 2014
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The Alta meeting finalised the Alta Outcome Document which is available in English andFrench Read more
World Indigenous Network (WIN) Conference CEESP Members Nigel Crawhall and Trisha Kehaulani Watson-Sproat attended the WorldIndigenous Network (WIN) Conference Marine Protected Areas Connections hasproduced a special edition on Tribal and Indigenous Peoples on MPAs which includes areport on the WIN Conference In May 2013 over 1200 delegates and representativesfrom more than 50 countries from every corner of the globe attended the World IndigenousNetwork (WIN) Conference in Darwin Australia The Larrakia Nation of Northern Australiaare the traditional owners of what is now the Darwin area and they were gracious andwarm hosts for this important gathering
Read more
Publications amp Resources
E-book produced by IUCN WCPA for the World Parks Congress E-book concerns one of the major legacy projects for the World Parks Congress GraemeWorboys is leading a team of writers and editors to produce a major new book on thebasics of Protected Areas Governance amp Management The book is intended for bothconservation students at tertiary level as well as professionals wanting a handbook
Read more
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Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining In AndAround Protected Areas And CriticalEcosystems Project (Asm-Pace) Timothy Healy with his colleague from AQUATERREMadagascar produced a new publication on artisanalmining (gems and gold) and conflicts with protected andsensitive ecological areas in Madagascar The overallobjective of this ASM in Madagascar StrategicManagement of Artisanal Rushes Tool and LessonsLearned Study Project is to address the growing threatof Artisanal and Small Scale Mining on in and aroundMadagascaracirceurotrades protected areas (PAs) and criticalecosystems and ideally in a way that can ensurecontinued socioeconomic development withoutundermining ecological resiliency
Read more
Opportunities and Challenges forEstablishing Synergies and Areas forEnhanced Cooperation in the BiodiversityCluster The following article by Marina von WeissenbergCEESP member was recently published in a bookentitled acirceuroœInternational Environmental Law-makingand Diplomacy Review 2011acirceuro produced by theUniversity of Eastern Finland The paper examinesopportunities and challenges that exist for establishingsynergies and generally enhancing cooperation withinthe biodiversity-related cluster of MEAs
Read more
Issues in Agricultural Biodiversity a newbook series published byEarthscanRoutledge in Association withBiodiversity International Conservation and sustainable use of agriculturalbiodiversity can improve peopleacirceurotrades wellbeing andfood and nutrition security EarthscanRoutledge inAssociation with Biodiversity International has published
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a new book series edited by Michael Halewood andDanny Hunter both at Biodiversity International andSeries Editors
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Caring for country through participatory art Creating a boundary objectfor communicating Indigenous knowledge and values The following article by Melanie Zurba CEESP member and PhD Candidate - NaturalResources Institute University of Manitoba was recently published in Local EnvironmentThe international journal of justice and sustainability The article argues the trend towardsthe inclusion of diverse groups in environmental decision-making that has led to the needto explore new forms of communication to engage communities in expressing their valuesand aspirations
Read more
Assessing anthropogenic pressure and itsimpact on Hippophae salicifolia pockets inCentral Himalaya
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The following article by Shalini Dhyani and DeepakDhyani CEESP member was recently published inJournal of Mountain Science The article argues thatNatural habitat of Hippophae salicifolia in CentralHimalaya is continuously being degraded due to habitatdestruction and harvesting Although logging isprohibited habitat destruction has increased because ofregular road construction repairing and broadeningactivities
Read more
Right Scale Resilient WatershedsManaging Complexity through NodalNetworks What does the group of Wall Street tradAcirc ers focused onbanks of computer screens have in common with thewaAcirc tershed communities of South AmeriAcirc caacirceurotrades GranChaco the second largest ecosystem on the continentthe priests of Bali where some of the earAcirc liest evidenceof irrigation used in rice cultivation is found the ArcticCircleacirceurotrades indigenous communities of herders andhunters and National Heritage Areas A great deal
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Mexican Lessons To Take to Heart -- Traveling The Path to Biodiversityand Forest Conservation in Our Age of Global Change Written by Mexican and international and including a preface by CEESP member Janis
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Alcorn Community Action for Conservation Mexican Experiences is a lively and deep-running resource that offers invaluable stories and analyses of the Mexican experiencewith conservation This book provides an in-depth analysis on community conservation inMexico
Read more
Cloaking not Bleaching the Back Storyfrom Inside Bureaucracy acirceuroœacirceurobrvbar In other words the way that bureaucracies workis by bleaching out local context and coming up with bigsimplificationsacirceuro acirceuroldquo Andrew Mathews
CEESP SC member Janis Alcorn writes I wouldcounter by positing that good bureaucracies do notbleach out local context Instead they create bigsimplified umbrellas that cloak the complex dynamicrange of local circumstances and thereby give the staffof government bureaucracies the space to address localcircumstances despite changes in political direction
Read more
The Right to Responsibility - new book forpeer review Weacirceurotradere pleased to announce that Natural Justice andthe United Nations University acirceuroldquo Institute of AdvancedStudies (UNU-IAS) have just released a new book forpeer review entitled The Right to ResponsibilityResisting and Engaging Development Conservationand the Law in Asia
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At the end of every World Conservation CongressCommissions are asked to revisit and renew their membershipCEESP applied what we considered to be a fairly straightforward renewal process but it turned to be far more complexthan we thought By the end of the renewal period we had lost just over 300members because they did not respond or we had no record of their response tothe calls for renewal
A list of the new membership of CEESP can be found here
NEED TO RENEW
Please check to see if your name is entered and the details correct We do notdisclose email addresses only names country and Theme(s)SGs If you did renewyour membership in CEESP welcome back and look forward to working with youover the next three years If you missed the opportunity to renew andor would like to join CEESP membershipforms in EnglishSpanishFrench and Portuguese can be found on the followingpage
CEESP Members page by clicking here
CEESP NEWSLETTER
This edition of the CEESP newsletter has been compiled by Shalini Dyani from India andNikolasa Biasny-Thule (NZ) A call for contributions will be sent to all CEESP members forthe next edition shortly Deadline for receipt of articles for the August edition is 8August 2013 and should be sent to
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Intergenerational Solidarity Intergenerational solidarityand justice is deeply embedded in the concept ofsustainable development Yet many questions remain tobe answered How to define the needs and rights offuture generations What are the duties of currentgeneration to future generations
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Be one of the first to list your area on theGDI Registry The Green Development Initiative (GDI) is establishingan online GDI Registry of areas which are managed in abiodiversity responsible way These areas could becommunity-based public or private To be listed on theRegistry as a Registered or Certified GDI Area the areawill need to be in compliance with the GDI Standard
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TILCEPAs Mountain Connectivity and SocialPolicy Specialist Group organize panel onMountain Trails As part of an initiative to develop a Walking amp WorkingMountain Trails Network CEESP Youth advisor CatieBurlando and TILCEPA Mountains Co-Vice Chair ElaineHsiao will be presenting on European Mountain Trailsand Mountain Trails as Biocultural Corridors for Peace
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Second edition of the Living Convention at the UNPFII and the WINC Indigenous peoples and local communities often ask what their rights are at the
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international level The answer to this crucial question is complicated for several reasonsincluding the fact that the provisions containing the rights are spread across a wide rangeof international instruments each with its own particular focus
Read more
Analysis of CITES from the perspective ofwhat the latest COP means for sustainableuse and livelihoods The 16th Conference of the Parties to CITES - theConvention on International Trade in EndangeredSpecies of Fauna and Flora - took place in Bangkok inearly March Over 1000 representatives from 170 of the178 state Parties attended along with around 1000observers from inter-governmental and non-governmental organisations IUCN and TRAFFIC bothhad large delegations in attendance - Rosie Cooney wasthe part of the IUCN delegation
Read more
SULi Update Since the last newsletter in March weve taken workforward in a number of our key areas We would like tobetter understand what others are doing in these areasand keen to collaborate so please get in touch if you areinterested
SULi was involved in highlighting the contribution ofsustainable wildlife management to food securitythrough helping the organisation of a side-event at theRome FAO Forests and Food Security and Nutritionmeeting in May
Read more
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Community-based networks of Odisha Community-based forest networks of India and Nepal have been suffering from seriousneglect and left at disadvantage due to lack of legal recognition A brief review of literatureon community-based forest networks found that they lack certain attributes that arenecessary to be considered as equal partners in the activities aimed at forest conservationand livelihood improvement In this review a brief on the informal community-based forestnetworks of Odisha and their status of recognition through Forest Rights Act (FRA) 2006 ispresented
Read more
Hangzhou Declaration on Culture amp Sustainable Development Co-Chairs of the CEESP Theme on Culture and Conservation Elise Hufer and Adi MeretuiRatunabuabua together with CEESP Chair Aroha Mead participated in the UNESCOInternational Congress on Culture Key to Sustainable Development held in HangzhouChina
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IUCN President Zhang Xinsheng alsoparticipated The meeting developed aHangzhou Declaration Placing Culture atthe heart of Sustainable DevelopmentPolicies which was subsequentlypresented to the UN General Assembly
Read more
Synthetic Biology and Conservation An Imminent Encounter
Synthetic biology is a new technologywith enormous promise to change thehuman relationships with the naturalworld and with fellow human beings Though there is no commonly agreedupon definition synthetic biology can bethought of as acirceuro˜acirceuro˜a scientific discipline
that relies on chemically synthesized DNA along with standardized and automatableprocesses to address human needs by the creation of organisms with novel or enhancedcharacteristics or traitsacirceurotradeacirceurotrade Billions of dollars are being invested globally anddevelopments of novel applications are constantly being reported
Read more
Adopted Alta Outcome Document In June 10-12 indigenous representatives were invited by the Saami to Alta Norway to apreparatory meeting for the United Nations High Level Plenary Meeting of the GeneralAssembly on Indigenous Peoples which is being held at the UN-HQ in September 2014
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The Alta meeting finalised the Alta Outcome Document which is available in English andFrench Read more
World Indigenous Network (WIN) Conference CEESP Members Nigel Crawhall and Trisha Kehaulani Watson-Sproat attended the WorldIndigenous Network (WIN) Conference Marine Protected Areas Connections hasproduced a special edition on Tribal and Indigenous Peoples on MPAs which includes areport on the WIN Conference In May 2013 over 1200 delegates and representativesfrom more than 50 countries from every corner of the globe attended the World IndigenousNetwork (WIN) Conference in Darwin Australia The Larrakia Nation of Northern Australiaare the traditional owners of what is now the Darwin area and they were gracious andwarm hosts for this important gathering
Read more
Publications amp Resources
E-book produced by IUCN WCPA for the World Parks Congress E-book concerns one of the major legacy projects for the World Parks Congress GraemeWorboys is leading a team of writers and editors to produce a major new book on thebasics of Protected Areas Governance amp Management The book is intended for bothconservation students at tertiary level as well as professionals wanting a handbook
Read more
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Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining In AndAround Protected Areas And CriticalEcosystems Project (Asm-Pace) Timothy Healy with his colleague from AQUATERREMadagascar produced a new publication on artisanalmining (gems and gold) and conflicts with protected andsensitive ecological areas in Madagascar The overallobjective of this ASM in Madagascar StrategicManagement of Artisanal Rushes Tool and LessonsLearned Study Project is to address the growing threatof Artisanal and Small Scale Mining on in and aroundMadagascaracirceurotrades protected areas (PAs) and criticalecosystems and ideally in a way that can ensurecontinued socioeconomic development withoutundermining ecological resiliency
Read more
Opportunities and Challenges forEstablishing Synergies and Areas forEnhanced Cooperation in the BiodiversityCluster The following article by Marina von WeissenbergCEESP member was recently published in a bookentitled acirceuroœInternational Environmental Law-makingand Diplomacy Review 2011acirceuro produced by theUniversity of Eastern Finland The paper examinesopportunities and challenges that exist for establishingsynergies and generally enhancing cooperation withinthe biodiversity-related cluster of MEAs
Read more
Issues in Agricultural Biodiversity a newbook series published byEarthscanRoutledge in Association withBiodiversity International Conservation and sustainable use of agriculturalbiodiversity can improve peopleacirceurotrades wellbeing andfood and nutrition security EarthscanRoutledge inAssociation with Biodiversity International has published
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a new book series edited by Michael Halewood andDanny Hunter both at Biodiversity International andSeries Editors
Read more
Caring for country through participatory art Creating a boundary objectfor communicating Indigenous knowledge and values The following article by Melanie Zurba CEESP member and PhD Candidate - NaturalResources Institute University of Manitoba was recently published in Local EnvironmentThe international journal of justice and sustainability The article argues the trend towardsthe inclusion of diverse groups in environmental decision-making that has led to the needto explore new forms of communication to engage communities in expressing their valuesand aspirations
Read more
Assessing anthropogenic pressure and itsimpact on Hippophae salicifolia pockets inCentral Himalaya
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The following article by Shalini Dhyani and DeepakDhyani CEESP member was recently published inJournal of Mountain Science The article argues thatNatural habitat of Hippophae salicifolia in CentralHimalaya is continuously being degraded due to habitatdestruction and harvesting Although logging isprohibited habitat destruction has increased because ofregular road construction repairing and broadeningactivities
Read more
Right Scale Resilient WatershedsManaging Complexity through NodalNetworks What does the group of Wall Street tradAcirc ers focused onbanks of computer screens have in common with thewaAcirc tershed communities of South AmeriAcirc caacirceurotrades GranChaco the second largest ecosystem on the continentthe priests of Bali where some of the earAcirc liest evidenceof irrigation used in rice cultivation is found the ArcticCircleacirceurotrades indigenous communities of herders andhunters and National Heritage Areas A great deal
Read more
Mexican Lessons To Take to Heart -- Traveling The Path to Biodiversityand Forest Conservation in Our Age of Global Change Written by Mexican and international and including a preface by CEESP member Janis
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Alcorn Community Action for Conservation Mexican Experiences is a lively and deep-running resource that offers invaluable stories and analyses of the Mexican experiencewith conservation This book provides an in-depth analysis on community conservation inMexico
Read more
Cloaking not Bleaching the Back Storyfrom Inside Bureaucracy acirceuroœacirceurobrvbar In other words the way that bureaucracies workis by bleaching out local context and coming up with bigsimplificationsacirceuro acirceuroldquo Andrew Mathews
CEESP SC member Janis Alcorn writes I wouldcounter by positing that good bureaucracies do notbleach out local context Instead they create bigsimplified umbrellas that cloak the complex dynamicrange of local circumstances and thereby give the staffof government bureaucracies the space to address localcircumstances despite changes in political direction
Read more
The Right to Responsibility - new book forpeer review Weacirceurotradere pleased to announce that Natural Justice andthe United Nations University acirceuroldquo Institute of AdvancedStudies (UNU-IAS) have just released a new book forpeer review entitled The Right to ResponsibilityResisting and Engaging Development Conservationand the Law in Asia
Read more
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ARE YOU A MEMBER OF CEESP
At the end of every World Conservation CongressCommissions are asked to revisit and renew their membershipCEESP applied what we considered to be a fairly straightforward renewal process but it turned to be far more complexthan we thought By the end of the renewal period we had lost just over 300members because they did not respond or we had no record of their response tothe calls for renewal
A list of the new membership of CEESP can be found here
NEED TO RENEW
Please check to see if your name is entered and the details correct We do notdisclose email addresses only names country and Theme(s)SGs If you did renewyour membership in CEESP welcome back and look forward to working with youover the next three years If you missed the opportunity to renew andor would like to join CEESP membershipforms in EnglishSpanishFrench and Portuguese can be found on the followingpage
CEESP Members page by clicking here
CEESP NEWSLETTER
This edition of the CEESP newsletter has been compiled by Shalini Dyani from India andNikolasa Biasny-Thule (NZ) A call for contributions will be sent to all CEESP members forthe next edition shortly Deadline for receipt of articles for the August edition is 8August 2013 and should be sent to
CEESPNEWSiucnorg
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international level The answer to this crucial question is complicated for several reasonsincluding the fact that the provisions containing the rights are spread across a wide rangeof international instruments each with its own particular focus
Read more
Analysis of CITES from the perspective ofwhat the latest COP means for sustainableuse and livelihoods The 16th Conference of the Parties to CITES - theConvention on International Trade in EndangeredSpecies of Fauna and Flora - took place in Bangkok inearly March Over 1000 representatives from 170 of the178 state Parties attended along with around 1000observers from inter-governmental and non-governmental organisations IUCN and TRAFFIC bothhad large delegations in attendance - Rosie Cooney wasthe part of the IUCN delegation
Read more
SULi Update Since the last newsletter in March weve taken workforward in a number of our key areas We would like tobetter understand what others are doing in these areasand keen to collaborate so please get in touch if you areinterested
SULi was involved in highlighting the contribution ofsustainable wildlife management to food securitythrough helping the organisation of a side-event at theRome FAO Forests and Food Security and Nutritionmeeting in May
Read more
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Community-based networks of Odisha Community-based forest networks of India and Nepal have been suffering from seriousneglect and left at disadvantage due to lack of legal recognition A brief review of literatureon community-based forest networks found that they lack certain attributes that arenecessary to be considered as equal partners in the activities aimed at forest conservationand livelihood improvement In this review a brief on the informal community-based forestnetworks of Odisha and their status of recognition through Forest Rights Act (FRA) 2006 ispresented
Read more
Hangzhou Declaration on Culture amp Sustainable Development Co-Chairs of the CEESP Theme on Culture and Conservation Elise Hufer and Adi MeretuiRatunabuabua together with CEESP Chair Aroha Mead participated in the UNESCOInternational Congress on Culture Key to Sustainable Development held in HangzhouChina
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IUCN President Zhang Xinsheng alsoparticipated The meeting developed aHangzhou Declaration Placing Culture atthe heart of Sustainable DevelopmentPolicies which was subsequentlypresented to the UN General Assembly
Read more
Synthetic Biology and Conservation An Imminent Encounter
Synthetic biology is a new technologywith enormous promise to change thehuman relationships with the naturalworld and with fellow human beings Though there is no commonly agreedupon definition synthetic biology can bethought of as acirceuro˜acirceuro˜a scientific discipline
that relies on chemically synthesized DNA along with standardized and automatableprocesses to address human needs by the creation of organisms with novel or enhancedcharacteristics or traitsacirceurotradeacirceurotrade Billions of dollars are being invested globally anddevelopments of novel applications are constantly being reported
Read more
Adopted Alta Outcome Document In June 10-12 indigenous representatives were invited by the Saami to Alta Norway to apreparatory meeting for the United Nations High Level Plenary Meeting of the GeneralAssembly on Indigenous Peoples which is being held at the UN-HQ in September 2014
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The Alta meeting finalised the Alta Outcome Document which is available in English andFrench Read more
World Indigenous Network (WIN) Conference CEESP Members Nigel Crawhall and Trisha Kehaulani Watson-Sproat attended the WorldIndigenous Network (WIN) Conference Marine Protected Areas Connections hasproduced a special edition on Tribal and Indigenous Peoples on MPAs which includes areport on the WIN Conference In May 2013 over 1200 delegates and representativesfrom more than 50 countries from every corner of the globe attended the World IndigenousNetwork (WIN) Conference in Darwin Australia The Larrakia Nation of Northern Australiaare the traditional owners of what is now the Darwin area and they were gracious andwarm hosts for this important gathering
Read more
Publications amp Resources
E-book produced by IUCN WCPA for the World Parks Congress E-book concerns one of the major legacy projects for the World Parks Congress GraemeWorboys is leading a team of writers and editors to produce a major new book on thebasics of Protected Areas Governance amp Management The book is intended for bothconservation students at tertiary level as well as professionals wanting a handbook
Read more
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Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining In AndAround Protected Areas And CriticalEcosystems Project (Asm-Pace) Timothy Healy with his colleague from AQUATERREMadagascar produced a new publication on artisanalmining (gems and gold) and conflicts with protected andsensitive ecological areas in Madagascar The overallobjective of this ASM in Madagascar StrategicManagement of Artisanal Rushes Tool and LessonsLearned Study Project is to address the growing threatof Artisanal and Small Scale Mining on in and aroundMadagascaracirceurotrades protected areas (PAs) and criticalecosystems and ideally in a way that can ensurecontinued socioeconomic development withoutundermining ecological resiliency
Read more
Opportunities and Challenges forEstablishing Synergies and Areas forEnhanced Cooperation in the BiodiversityCluster The following article by Marina von WeissenbergCEESP member was recently published in a bookentitled acirceuroœInternational Environmental Law-makingand Diplomacy Review 2011acirceuro produced by theUniversity of Eastern Finland The paper examinesopportunities and challenges that exist for establishingsynergies and generally enhancing cooperation withinthe biodiversity-related cluster of MEAs
Read more
Issues in Agricultural Biodiversity a newbook series published byEarthscanRoutledge in Association withBiodiversity International Conservation and sustainable use of agriculturalbiodiversity can improve peopleacirceurotrades wellbeing andfood and nutrition security EarthscanRoutledge inAssociation with Biodiversity International has published
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a new book series edited by Michael Halewood andDanny Hunter both at Biodiversity International andSeries Editors
Read more
Caring for country through participatory art Creating a boundary objectfor communicating Indigenous knowledge and values The following article by Melanie Zurba CEESP member and PhD Candidate - NaturalResources Institute University of Manitoba was recently published in Local EnvironmentThe international journal of justice and sustainability The article argues the trend towardsthe inclusion of diverse groups in environmental decision-making that has led to the needto explore new forms of communication to engage communities in expressing their valuesand aspirations
Read more
Assessing anthropogenic pressure and itsimpact on Hippophae salicifolia pockets inCentral Himalaya
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The following article by Shalini Dhyani and DeepakDhyani CEESP member was recently published inJournal of Mountain Science The article argues thatNatural habitat of Hippophae salicifolia in CentralHimalaya is continuously being degraded due to habitatdestruction and harvesting Although logging isprohibited habitat destruction has increased because ofregular road construction repairing and broadeningactivities
Read more
Right Scale Resilient WatershedsManaging Complexity through NodalNetworks What does the group of Wall Street tradAcirc ers focused onbanks of computer screens have in common with thewaAcirc tershed communities of South AmeriAcirc caacirceurotrades GranChaco the second largest ecosystem on the continentthe priests of Bali where some of the earAcirc liest evidenceof irrigation used in rice cultivation is found the ArcticCircleacirceurotrades indigenous communities of herders andhunters and National Heritage Areas A great deal
Read more
Mexican Lessons To Take to Heart -- Traveling The Path to Biodiversityand Forest Conservation in Our Age of Global Change Written by Mexican and international and including a preface by CEESP member Janis
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Alcorn Community Action for Conservation Mexican Experiences is a lively and deep-running resource that offers invaluable stories and analyses of the Mexican experiencewith conservation This book provides an in-depth analysis on community conservation inMexico
Read more
Cloaking not Bleaching the Back Storyfrom Inside Bureaucracy acirceuroœacirceurobrvbar In other words the way that bureaucracies workis by bleaching out local context and coming up with bigsimplificationsacirceuro acirceuroldquo Andrew Mathews
CEESP SC member Janis Alcorn writes I wouldcounter by positing that good bureaucracies do notbleach out local context Instead they create bigsimplified umbrellas that cloak the complex dynamicrange of local circumstances and thereby give the staffof government bureaucracies the space to address localcircumstances despite changes in political direction
Read more
The Right to Responsibility - new book forpeer review Weacirceurotradere pleased to announce that Natural Justice andthe United Nations University acirceuroldquo Institute of AdvancedStudies (UNU-IAS) have just released a new book forpeer review entitled The Right to ResponsibilityResisting and Engaging Development Conservationand the Law in Asia
Read more
Newsletters
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ARE YOU A MEMBER OF CEESP
At the end of every World Conservation CongressCommissions are asked to revisit and renew their membershipCEESP applied what we considered to be a fairly straightforward renewal process but it turned to be far more complexthan we thought By the end of the renewal period we had lost just over 300members because they did not respond or we had no record of their response tothe calls for renewal
A list of the new membership of CEESP can be found here
NEED TO RENEW
Please check to see if your name is entered and the details correct We do notdisclose email addresses only names country and Theme(s)SGs If you did renewyour membership in CEESP welcome back and look forward to working with youover the next three years If you missed the opportunity to renew andor would like to join CEESP membershipforms in EnglishSpanishFrench and Portuguese can be found on the followingpage
CEESP Members page by clicking here
CEESP NEWSLETTER
This edition of the CEESP newsletter has been compiled by Shalini Dyani from India andNikolasa Biasny-Thule (NZ) A call for contributions will be sent to all CEESP members forthe next edition shortly Deadline for receipt of articles for the August edition is 8August 2013 and should be sent to
CEESPNEWSiucnorg
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Community-based networks of Odisha Community-based forest networks of India and Nepal have been suffering from seriousneglect and left at disadvantage due to lack of legal recognition A brief review of literatureon community-based forest networks found that they lack certain attributes that arenecessary to be considered as equal partners in the activities aimed at forest conservationand livelihood improvement In this review a brief on the informal community-based forestnetworks of Odisha and their status of recognition through Forest Rights Act (FRA) 2006 ispresented
Read more
Hangzhou Declaration on Culture amp Sustainable Development Co-Chairs of the CEESP Theme on Culture and Conservation Elise Hufer and Adi MeretuiRatunabuabua together with CEESP Chair Aroha Mead participated in the UNESCOInternational Congress on Culture Key to Sustainable Development held in HangzhouChina
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IUCN President Zhang Xinsheng alsoparticipated The meeting developed aHangzhou Declaration Placing Culture atthe heart of Sustainable DevelopmentPolicies which was subsequentlypresented to the UN General Assembly
Read more
Synthetic Biology and Conservation An Imminent Encounter
Synthetic biology is a new technologywith enormous promise to change thehuman relationships with the naturalworld and with fellow human beings Though there is no commonly agreedupon definition synthetic biology can bethought of as acirceuro˜acirceuro˜a scientific discipline
that relies on chemically synthesized DNA along with standardized and automatableprocesses to address human needs by the creation of organisms with novel or enhancedcharacteristics or traitsacirceurotradeacirceurotrade Billions of dollars are being invested globally anddevelopments of novel applications are constantly being reported
Read more
Adopted Alta Outcome Document In June 10-12 indigenous representatives were invited by the Saami to Alta Norway to apreparatory meeting for the United Nations High Level Plenary Meeting of the GeneralAssembly on Indigenous Peoples which is being held at the UN-HQ in September 2014
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The Alta meeting finalised the Alta Outcome Document which is available in English andFrench Read more
World Indigenous Network (WIN) Conference CEESP Members Nigel Crawhall and Trisha Kehaulani Watson-Sproat attended the WorldIndigenous Network (WIN) Conference Marine Protected Areas Connections hasproduced a special edition on Tribal and Indigenous Peoples on MPAs which includes areport on the WIN Conference In May 2013 over 1200 delegates and representativesfrom more than 50 countries from every corner of the globe attended the World IndigenousNetwork (WIN) Conference in Darwin Australia The Larrakia Nation of Northern Australiaare the traditional owners of what is now the Darwin area and they were gracious andwarm hosts for this important gathering
Read more
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E-book produced by IUCN WCPA for the World Parks Congress E-book concerns one of the major legacy projects for the World Parks Congress GraemeWorboys is leading a team of writers and editors to produce a major new book on thebasics of Protected Areas Governance amp Management The book is intended for bothconservation students at tertiary level as well as professionals wanting a handbook
Read more
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Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining In AndAround Protected Areas And CriticalEcosystems Project (Asm-Pace) Timothy Healy with his colleague from AQUATERREMadagascar produced a new publication on artisanalmining (gems and gold) and conflicts with protected andsensitive ecological areas in Madagascar The overallobjective of this ASM in Madagascar StrategicManagement of Artisanal Rushes Tool and LessonsLearned Study Project is to address the growing threatof Artisanal and Small Scale Mining on in and aroundMadagascaracirceurotrades protected areas (PAs) and criticalecosystems and ideally in a way that can ensurecontinued socioeconomic development withoutundermining ecological resiliency
Read more
Opportunities and Challenges forEstablishing Synergies and Areas forEnhanced Cooperation in the BiodiversityCluster The following article by Marina von WeissenbergCEESP member was recently published in a bookentitled acirceuroœInternational Environmental Law-makingand Diplomacy Review 2011acirceuro produced by theUniversity of Eastern Finland The paper examinesopportunities and challenges that exist for establishingsynergies and generally enhancing cooperation withinthe biodiversity-related cluster of MEAs
Read more
Issues in Agricultural Biodiversity a newbook series published byEarthscanRoutledge in Association withBiodiversity International Conservation and sustainable use of agriculturalbiodiversity can improve peopleacirceurotrades wellbeing andfood and nutrition security EarthscanRoutledge inAssociation with Biodiversity International has published
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Caring for country through participatory art Creating a boundary objectfor communicating Indigenous knowledge and values The following article by Melanie Zurba CEESP member and PhD Candidate - NaturalResources Institute University of Manitoba was recently published in Local EnvironmentThe international journal of justice and sustainability The article argues the trend towardsthe inclusion of diverse groups in environmental decision-making that has led to the needto explore new forms of communication to engage communities in expressing their valuesand aspirations
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Assessing anthropogenic pressure and itsimpact on Hippophae salicifolia pockets inCentral Himalaya
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The following article by Shalini Dhyani and DeepakDhyani CEESP member was recently published inJournal of Mountain Science The article argues thatNatural habitat of Hippophae salicifolia in CentralHimalaya is continuously being degraded due to habitatdestruction and harvesting Although logging isprohibited habitat destruction has increased because ofregular road construction repairing and broadeningactivities
Read more
Right Scale Resilient WatershedsManaging Complexity through NodalNetworks What does the group of Wall Street tradAcirc ers focused onbanks of computer screens have in common with thewaAcirc tershed communities of South AmeriAcirc caacirceurotrades GranChaco the second largest ecosystem on the continentthe priests of Bali where some of the earAcirc liest evidenceof irrigation used in rice cultivation is found the ArcticCircleacirceurotrades indigenous communities of herders andhunters and National Heritage Areas A great deal
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Mexican Lessons To Take to Heart -- Traveling The Path to Biodiversityand Forest Conservation in Our Age of Global Change Written by Mexican and international and including a preface by CEESP member Janis
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Alcorn Community Action for Conservation Mexican Experiences is a lively and deep-running resource that offers invaluable stories and analyses of the Mexican experiencewith conservation This book provides an in-depth analysis on community conservation inMexico
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Cloaking not Bleaching the Back Storyfrom Inside Bureaucracy acirceuroœacirceurobrvbar In other words the way that bureaucracies workis by bleaching out local context and coming up with bigsimplificationsacirceuro acirceuroldquo Andrew Mathews
CEESP SC member Janis Alcorn writes I wouldcounter by positing that good bureaucracies do notbleach out local context Instead they create bigsimplified umbrellas that cloak the complex dynamicrange of local circumstances and thereby give the staffof government bureaucracies the space to address localcircumstances despite changes in political direction
Read more
The Right to Responsibility - new book forpeer review Weacirceurotradere pleased to announce that Natural Justice andthe United Nations University acirceuroldquo Institute of AdvancedStudies (UNU-IAS) have just released a new book forpeer review entitled The Right to ResponsibilityResisting and Engaging Development Conservationand the Law in Asia
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At the end of every World Conservation CongressCommissions are asked to revisit and renew their membershipCEESP applied what we considered to be a fairly straightforward renewal process but it turned to be far more complexthan we thought By the end of the renewal period we had lost just over 300members because they did not respond or we had no record of their response tothe calls for renewal
A list of the new membership of CEESP can be found here
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Please check to see if your name is entered and the details correct We do notdisclose email addresses only names country and Theme(s)SGs If you did renewyour membership in CEESP welcome back and look forward to working with youover the next three years If you missed the opportunity to renew andor would like to join CEESP membershipforms in EnglishSpanishFrench and Portuguese can be found on the followingpage
CEESP Members page by clicking here
CEESP NEWSLETTER
This edition of the CEESP newsletter has been compiled by Shalini Dyani from India andNikolasa Biasny-Thule (NZ) A call for contributions will be sent to all CEESP members forthe next edition shortly Deadline for receipt of articles for the August edition is 8August 2013 and should be sent to
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IUCN President Zhang Xinsheng alsoparticipated The meeting developed aHangzhou Declaration Placing Culture atthe heart of Sustainable DevelopmentPolicies which was subsequentlypresented to the UN General Assembly
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Synthetic Biology and Conservation An Imminent Encounter
Synthetic biology is a new technologywith enormous promise to change thehuman relationships with the naturalworld and with fellow human beings Though there is no commonly agreedupon definition synthetic biology can bethought of as acirceuro˜acirceuro˜a scientific discipline
that relies on chemically synthesized DNA along with standardized and automatableprocesses to address human needs by the creation of organisms with novel or enhancedcharacteristics or traitsacirceurotradeacirceurotrade Billions of dollars are being invested globally anddevelopments of novel applications are constantly being reported
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Adopted Alta Outcome Document In June 10-12 indigenous representatives were invited by the Saami to Alta Norway to apreparatory meeting for the United Nations High Level Plenary Meeting of the GeneralAssembly on Indigenous Peoples which is being held at the UN-HQ in September 2014
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The Alta meeting finalised the Alta Outcome Document which is available in English andFrench Read more
World Indigenous Network (WIN) Conference CEESP Members Nigel Crawhall and Trisha Kehaulani Watson-Sproat attended the WorldIndigenous Network (WIN) Conference Marine Protected Areas Connections hasproduced a special edition on Tribal and Indigenous Peoples on MPAs which includes areport on the WIN Conference In May 2013 over 1200 delegates and representativesfrom more than 50 countries from every corner of the globe attended the World IndigenousNetwork (WIN) Conference in Darwin Australia The Larrakia Nation of Northern Australiaare the traditional owners of what is now the Darwin area and they were gracious andwarm hosts for this important gathering
Read more
Publications amp Resources
E-book produced by IUCN WCPA for the World Parks Congress E-book concerns one of the major legacy projects for the World Parks Congress GraemeWorboys is leading a team of writers and editors to produce a major new book on thebasics of Protected Areas Governance amp Management The book is intended for bothconservation students at tertiary level as well as professionals wanting a handbook
Read more
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Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining In AndAround Protected Areas And CriticalEcosystems Project (Asm-Pace) Timothy Healy with his colleague from AQUATERREMadagascar produced a new publication on artisanalmining (gems and gold) and conflicts with protected andsensitive ecological areas in Madagascar The overallobjective of this ASM in Madagascar StrategicManagement of Artisanal Rushes Tool and LessonsLearned Study Project is to address the growing threatof Artisanal and Small Scale Mining on in and aroundMadagascaracirceurotrades protected areas (PAs) and criticalecosystems and ideally in a way that can ensurecontinued socioeconomic development withoutundermining ecological resiliency
Read more
Opportunities and Challenges forEstablishing Synergies and Areas forEnhanced Cooperation in the BiodiversityCluster The following article by Marina von WeissenbergCEESP member was recently published in a bookentitled acirceuroœInternational Environmental Law-makingand Diplomacy Review 2011acirceuro produced by theUniversity of Eastern Finland The paper examinesopportunities and challenges that exist for establishingsynergies and generally enhancing cooperation withinthe biodiversity-related cluster of MEAs
Read more
Issues in Agricultural Biodiversity a newbook series published byEarthscanRoutledge in Association withBiodiversity International Conservation and sustainable use of agriculturalbiodiversity can improve peopleacirceurotrades wellbeing andfood and nutrition security EarthscanRoutledge inAssociation with Biodiversity International has published
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Caring for country through participatory art Creating a boundary objectfor communicating Indigenous knowledge and values The following article by Melanie Zurba CEESP member and PhD Candidate - NaturalResources Institute University of Manitoba was recently published in Local EnvironmentThe international journal of justice and sustainability The article argues the trend towardsthe inclusion of diverse groups in environmental decision-making that has led to the needto explore new forms of communication to engage communities in expressing their valuesand aspirations
Read more
Assessing anthropogenic pressure and itsimpact on Hippophae salicifolia pockets inCentral Himalaya
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The following article by Shalini Dhyani and DeepakDhyani CEESP member was recently published inJournal of Mountain Science The article argues thatNatural habitat of Hippophae salicifolia in CentralHimalaya is continuously being degraded due to habitatdestruction and harvesting Although logging isprohibited habitat destruction has increased because ofregular road construction repairing and broadeningactivities
Read more
Right Scale Resilient WatershedsManaging Complexity through NodalNetworks What does the group of Wall Street tradAcirc ers focused onbanks of computer screens have in common with thewaAcirc tershed communities of South AmeriAcirc caacirceurotrades GranChaco the second largest ecosystem on the continentthe priests of Bali where some of the earAcirc liest evidenceof irrigation used in rice cultivation is found the ArcticCircleacirceurotrades indigenous communities of herders andhunters and National Heritage Areas A great deal
Read more
Mexican Lessons To Take to Heart -- Traveling The Path to Biodiversityand Forest Conservation in Our Age of Global Change Written by Mexican and international and including a preface by CEESP member Janis
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Alcorn Community Action for Conservation Mexican Experiences is a lively and deep-running resource that offers invaluable stories and analyses of the Mexican experiencewith conservation This book provides an in-depth analysis on community conservation inMexico
Read more
Cloaking not Bleaching the Back Storyfrom Inside Bureaucracy acirceuroœacirceurobrvbar In other words the way that bureaucracies workis by bleaching out local context and coming up with bigsimplificationsacirceuro acirceuroldquo Andrew Mathews
CEESP SC member Janis Alcorn writes I wouldcounter by positing that good bureaucracies do notbleach out local context Instead they create bigsimplified umbrellas that cloak the complex dynamicrange of local circumstances and thereby give the staffof government bureaucracies the space to address localcircumstances despite changes in political direction
Read more
The Right to Responsibility - new book forpeer review Weacirceurotradere pleased to announce that Natural Justice andthe United Nations University acirceuroldquo Institute of AdvancedStudies (UNU-IAS) have just released a new book forpeer review entitled The Right to ResponsibilityResisting and Engaging Development Conservationand the Law in Asia
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ARE YOU A MEMBER OF CEESP
At the end of every World Conservation CongressCommissions are asked to revisit and renew their membershipCEESP applied what we considered to be a fairly straightforward renewal process but it turned to be far more complexthan we thought By the end of the renewal period we had lost just over 300members because they did not respond or we had no record of their response tothe calls for renewal
A list of the new membership of CEESP can be found here
NEED TO RENEW
Please check to see if your name is entered and the details correct We do notdisclose email addresses only names country and Theme(s)SGs If you did renewyour membership in CEESP welcome back and look forward to working with youover the next three years If you missed the opportunity to renew andor would like to join CEESP membershipforms in EnglishSpanishFrench and Portuguese can be found on the followingpage
CEESP Members page by clicking here
CEESP NEWSLETTER
This edition of the CEESP newsletter has been compiled by Shalini Dyani from India andNikolasa Biasny-Thule (NZ) A call for contributions will be sent to all CEESP members forthe next edition shortly Deadline for receipt of articles for the August edition is 8August 2013 and should be sent to
CEESPNEWSiucnorg
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The Alta meeting finalised the Alta Outcome Document which is available in English andFrench Read more
World Indigenous Network (WIN) Conference CEESP Members Nigel Crawhall and Trisha Kehaulani Watson-Sproat attended the WorldIndigenous Network (WIN) Conference Marine Protected Areas Connections hasproduced a special edition on Tribal and Indigenous Peoples on MPAs which includes areport on the WIN Conference In May 2013 over 1200 delegates and representativesfrom more than 50 countries from every corner of the globe attended the World IndigenousNetwork (WIN) Conference in Darwin Australia The Larrakia Nation of Northern Australiaare the traditional owners of what is now the Darwin area and they were gracious andwarm hosts for this important gathering
Read more
Publications amp Resources
E-book produced by IUCN WCPA for the World Parks Congress E-book concerns one of the major legacy projects for the World Parks Congress GraemeWorboys is leading a team of writers and editors to produce a major new book on thebasics of Protected Areas Governance amp Management The book is intended for bothconservation students at tertiary level as well as professionals wanting a handbook
Read more
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Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining In AndAround Protected Areas And CriticalEcosystems Project (Asm-Pace) Timothy Healy with his colleague from AQUATERREMadagascar produced a new publication on artisanalmining (gems and gold) and conflicts with protected andsensitive ecological areas in Madagascar The overallobjective of this ASM in Madagascar StrategicManagement of Artisanal Rushes Tool and LessonsLearned Study Project is to address the growing threatof Artisanal and Small Scale Mining on in and aroundMadagascaracirceurotrades protected areas (PAs) and criticalecosystems and ideally in a way that can ensurecontinued socioeconomic development withoutundermining ecological resiliency
Read more
Opportunities and Challenges forEstablishing Synergies and Areas forEnhanced Cooperation in the BiodiversityCluster The following article by Marina von WeissenbergCEESP member was recently published in a bookentitled acirceuroœInternational Environmental Law-makingand Diplomacy Review 2011acirceuro produced by theUniversity of Eastern Finland The paper examinesopportunities and challenges that exist for establishingsynergies and generally enhancing cooperation withinthe biodiversity-related cluster of MEAs
Read more
Issues in Agricultural Biodiversity a newbook series published byEarthscanRoutledge in Association withBiodiversity International Conservation and sustainable use of agriculturalbiodiversity can improve peopleacirceurotrades wellbeing andfood and nutrition security EarthscanRoutledge inAssociation with Biodiversity International has published
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Caring for country through participatory art Creating a boundary objectfor communicating Indigenous knowledge and values The following article by Melanie Zurba CEESP member and PhD Candidate - NaturalResources Institute University of Manitoba was recently published in Local EnvironmentThe international journal of justice and sustainability The article argues the trend towardsthe inclusion of diverse groups in environmental decision-making that has led to the needto explore new forms of communication to engage communities in expressing their valuesand aspirations
Read more
Assessing anthropogenic pressure and itsimpact on Hippophae salicifolia pockets inCentral Himalaya
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The following article by Shalini Dhyani and DeepakDhyani CEESP member was recently published inJournal of Mountain Science The article argues thatNatural habitat of Hippophae salicifolia in CentralHimalaya is continuously being degraded due to habitatdestruction and harvesting Although logging isprohibited habitat destruction has increased because ofregular road construction repairing and broadeningactivities
Read more
Right Scale Resilient WatershedsManaging Complexity through NodalNetworks What does the group of Wall Street tradAcirc ers focused onbanks of computer screens have in common with thewaAcirc tershed communities of South AmeriAcirc caacirceurotrades GranChaco the second largest ecosystem on the continentthe priests of Bali where some of the earAcirc liest evidenceof irrigation used in rice cultivation is found the ArcticCircleacirceurotrades indigenous communities of herders andhunters and National Heritage Areas A great deal
Read more
Mexican Lessons To Take to Heart -- Traveling The Path to Biodiversityand Forest Conservation in Our Age of Global Change Written by Mexican and international and including a preface by CEESP member Janis
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Alcorn Community Action for Conservation Mexican Experiences is a lively and deep-running resource that offers invaluable stories and analyses of the Mexican experiencewith conservation This book provides an in-depth analysis on community conservation inMexico
Read more
Cloaking not Bleaching the Back Storyfrom Inside Bureaucracy acirceuroœacirceurobrvbar In other words the way that bureaucracies workis by bleaching out local context and coming up with bigsimplificationsacirceuro acirceuroldquo Andrew Mathews
CEESP SC member Janis Alcorn writes I wouldcounter by positing that good bureaucracies do notbleach out local context Instead they create bigsimplified umbrellas that cloak the complex dynamicrange of local circumstances and thereby give the staffof government bureaucracies the space to address localcircumstances despite changes in political direction
Read more
The Right to Responsibility - new book forpeer review Weacirceurotradere pleased to announce that Natural Justice andthe United Nations University acirceuroldquo Institute of AdvancedStudies (UNU-IAS) have just released a new book forpeer review entitled The Right to ResponsibilityResisting and Engaging Development Conservationand the Law in Asia
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ARE YOU A MEMBER OF CEESP
At the end of every World Conservation CongressCommissions are asked to revisit and renew their membershipCEESP applied what we considered to be a fairly straightforward renewal process but it turned to be far more complexthan we thought By the end of the renewal period we had lost just over 300members because they did not respond or we had no record of their response tothe calls for renewal
A list of the new membership of CEESP can be found here
NEED TO RENEW
Please check to see if your name is entered and the details correct We do notdisclose email addresses only names country and Theme(s)SGs If you did renewyour membership in CEESP welcome back and look forward to working with youover the next three years If you missed the opportunity to renew andor would like to join CEESP membershipforms in EnglishSpanishFrench and Portuguese can be found on the followingpage
CEESP Members page by clicking here
CEESP NEWSLETTER
This edition of the CEESP newsletter has been compiled by Shalini Dyani from India andNikolasa Biasny-Thule (NZ) A call for contributions will be sent to all CEESP members forthe next edition shortly Deadline for receipt of articles for the August edition is 8August 2013 and should be sent to
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Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining In AndAround Protected Areas And CriticalEcosystems Project (Asm-Pace) Timothy Healy with his colleague from AQUATERREMadagascar produced a new publication on artisanalmining (gems and gold) and conflicts with protected andsensitive ecological areas in Madagascar The overallobjective of this ASM in Madagascar StrategicManagement of Artisanal Rushes Tool and LessonsLearned Study Project is to address the growing threatof Artisanal and Small Scale Mining on in and aroundMadagascaracirceurotrades protected areas (PAs) and criticalecosystems and ideally in a way that can ensurecontinued socioeconomic development withoutundermining ecological resiliency
Read more
Opportunities and Challenges forEstablishing Synergies and Areas forEnhanced Cooperation in the BiodiversityCluster The following article by Marina von WeissenbergCEESP member was recently published in a bookentitled acirceuroœInternational Environmental Law-makingand Diplomacy Review 2011acirceuro produced by theUniversity of Eastern Finland The paper examinesopportunities and challenges that exist for establishingsynergies and generally enhancing cooperation withinthe biodiversity-related cluster of MEAs
Read more
Issues in Agricultural Biodiversity a newbook series published byEarthscanRoutledge in Association withBiodiversity International Conservation and sustainable use of agriculturalbiodiversity can improve peopleacirceurotrades wellbeing andfood and nutrition security EarthscanRoutledge inAssociation with Biodiversity International has published
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Caring for country through participatory art Creating a boundary objectfor communicating Indigenous knowledge and values The following article by Melanie Zurba CEESP member and PhD Candidate - NaturalResources Institute University of Manitoba was recently published in Local EnvironmentThe international journal of justice and sustainability The article argues the trend towardsthe inclusion of diverse groups in environmental decision-making that has led to the needto explore new forms of communication to engage communities in expressing their valuesand aspirations
Read more
Assessing anthropogenic pressure and itsimpact on Hippophae salicifolia pockets inCentral Himalaya
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The following article by Shalini Dhyani and DeepakDhyani CEESP member was recently published inJournal of Mountain Science The article argues thatNatural habitat of Hippophae salicifolia in CentralHimalaya is continuously being degraded due to habitatdestruction and harvesting Although logging isprohibited habitat destruction has increased because ofregular road construction repairing and broadeningactivities
Read more
Right Scale Resilient WatershedsManaging Complexity through NodalNetworks What does the group of Wall Street tradAcirc ers focused onbanks of computer screens have in common with thewaAcirc tershed communities of South AmeriAcirc caacirceurotrades GranChaco the second largest ecosystem on the continentthe priests of Bali where some of the earAcirc liest evidenceof irrigation used in rice cultivation is found the ArcticCircleacirceurotrades indigenous communities of herders andhunters and National Heritage Areas A great deal
Read more
Mexican Lessons To Take to Heart -- Traveling The Path to Biodiversityand Forest Conservation in Our Age of Global Change Written by Mexican and international and including a preface by CEESP member Janis
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Alcorn Community Action for Conservation Mexican Experiences is a lively and deep-running resource that offers invaluable stories and analyses of the Mexican experiencewith conservation This book provides an in-depth analysis on community conservation inMexico
Read more
Cloaking not Bleaching the Back Storyfrom Inside Bureaucracy acirceuroœacirceurobrvbar In other words the way that bureaucracies workis by bleaching out local context and coming up with bigsimplificationsacirceuro acirceuroldquo Andrew Mathews
CEESP SC member Janis Alcorn writes I wouldcounter by positing that good bureaucracies do notbleach out local context Instead they create bigsimplified umbrellas that cloak the complex dynamicrange of local circumstances and thereby give the staffof government bureaucracies the space to address localcircumstances despite changes in political direction
Read more
The Right to Responsibility - new book forpeer review Weacirceurotradere pleased to announce that Natural Justice andthe United Nations University acirceuroldquo Institute of AdvancedStudies (UNU-IAS) have just released a new book forpeer review entitled The Right to ResponsibilityResisting and Engaging Development Conservationand the Law in Asia
Read more
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ARE YOU A MEMBER OF CEESP
At the end of every World Conservation CongressCommissions are asked to revisit and renew their membershipCEESP applied what we considered to be a fairly straightforward renewal process but it turned to be far more complexthan we thought By the end of the renewal period we had lost just over 300members because they did not respond or we had no record of their response tothe calls for renewal
A list of the new membership of CEESP can be found here
NEED TO RENEW
Please check to see if your name is entered and the details correct We do notdisclose email addresses only names country and Theme(s)SGs If you did renewyour membership in CEESP welcome back and look forward to working with youover the next three years If you missed the opportunity to renew andor would like to join CEESP membershipforms in EnglishSpanishFrench and Portuguese can be found on the followingpage
CEESP Members page by clicking here
CEESP NEWSLETTER
This edition of the CEESP newsletter has been compiled by Shalini Dyani from India andNikolasa Biasny-Thule (NZ) A call for contributions will be sent to all CEESP members forthe next edition shortly Deadline for receipt of articles for the August edition is 8August 2013 and should be sent to
CEESPNEWSiucnorg
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a new book series edited by Michael Halewood andDanny Hunter both at Biodiversity International andSeries Editors
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Caring for country through participatory art Creating a boundary objectfor communicating Indigenous knowledge and values The following article by Melanie Zurba CEESP member and PhD Candidate - NaturalResources Institute University of Manitoba was recently published in Local EnvironmentThe international journal of justice and sustainability The article argues the trend towardsthe inclusion of diverse groups in environmental decision-making that has led to the needto explore new forms of communication to engage communities in expressing their valuesand aspirations
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Assessing anthropogenic pressure and itsimpact on Hippophae salicifolia pockets inCentral Himalaya
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The following article by Shalini Dhyani and DeepakDhyani CEESP member was recently published inJournal of Mountain Science The article argues thatNatural habitat of Hippophae salicifolia in CentralHimalaya is continuously being degraded due to habitatdestruction and harvesting Although logging isprohibited habitat destruction has increased because ofregular road construction repairing and broadeningactivities
Read more
Right Scale Resilient WatershedsManaging Complexity through NodalNetworks What does the group of Wall Street tradAcirc ers focused onbanks of computer screens have in common with thewaAcirc tershed communities of South AmeriAcirc caacirceurotrades GranChaco the second largest ecosystem on the continentthe priests of Bali where some of the earAcirc liest evidenceof irrigation used in rice cultivation is found the ArcticCircleacirceurotrades indigenous communities of herders andhunters and National Heritage Areas A great deal
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Mexican Lessons To Take to Heart -- Traveling The Path to Biodiversityand Forest Conservation in Our Age of Global Change Written by Mexican and international and including a preface by CEESP member Janis
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Alcorn Community Action for Conservation Mexican Experiences is a lively and deep-running resource that offers invaluable stories and analyses of the Mexican experiencewith conservation This book provides an in-depth analysis on community conservation inMexico
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Cloaking not Bleaching the Back Storyfrom Inside Bureaucracy acirceuroœacirceurobrvbar In other words the way that bureaucracies workis by bleaching out local context and coming up with bigsimplificationsacirceuro acirceuroldquo Andrew Mathews
CEESP SC member Janis Alcorn writes I wouldcounter by positing that good bureaucracies do notbleach out local context Instead they create bigsimplified umbrellas that cloak the complex dynamicrange of local circumstances and thereby give the staffof government bureaucracies the space to address localcircumstances despite changes in political direction
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The Right to Responsibility - new book forpeer review Weacirceurotradere pleased to announce that Natural Justice andthe United Nations University acirceuroldquo Institute of AdvancedStudies (UNU-IAS) have just released a new book forpeer review entitled The Right to ResponsibilityResisting and Engaging Development Conservationand the Law in Asia
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ARE YOU A MEMBER OF CEESP
At the end of every World Conservation CongressCommissions are asked to revisit and renew their membershipCEESP applied what we considered to be a fairly straightforward renewal process but it turned to be far more complexthan we thought By the end of the renewal period we had lost just over 300members because they did not respond or we had no record of their response tothe calls for renewal
A list of the new membership of CEESP can be found here
NEED TO RENEW
Please check to see if your name is entered and the details correct We do notdisclose email addresses only names country and Theme(s)SGs If you did renewyour membership in CEESP welcome back and look forward to working with youover the next three years If you missed the opportunity to renew andor would like to join CEESP membershipforms in EnglishSpanishFrench and Portuguese can be found on the followingpage
CEESP Members page by clicking here
CEESP NEWSLETTER
This edition of the CEESP newsletter has been compiled by Shalini Dyani from India andNikolasa Biasny-Thule (NZ) A call for contributions will be sent to all CEESP members forthe next edition shortly Deadline for receipt of articles for the August edition is 8August 2013 and should be sent to
CEESPNEWSiucnorg
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The following article by Shalini Dhyani and DeepakDhyani CEESP member was recently published inJournal of Mountain Science The article argues thatNatural habitat of Hippophae salicifolia in CentralHimalaya is continuously being degraded due to habitatdestruction and harvesting Although logging isprohibited habitat destruction has increased because ofregular road construction repairing and broadeningactivities
Read more
Right Scale Resilient WatershedsManaging Complexity through NodalNetworks What does the group of Wall Street tradAcirc ers focused onbanks of computer screens have in common with thewaAcirc tershed communities of South AmeriAcirc caacirceurotrades GranChaco the second largest ecosystem on the continentthe priests of Bali where some of the earAcirc liest evidenceof irrigation used in rice cultivation is found the ArcticCircleacirceurotrades indigenous communities of herders andhunters and National Heritage Areas A great deal
Read more
Mexican Lessons To Take to Heart -- Traveling The Path to Biodiversityand Forest Conservation in Our Age of Global Change Written by Mexican and international and including a preface by CEESP member Janis
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Alcorn Community Action for Conservation Mexican Experiences is a lively and deep-running resource that offers invaluable stories and analyses of the Mexican experiencewith conservation This book provides an in-depth analysis on community conservation inMexico
Read more
Cloaking not Bleaching the Back Storyfrom Inside Bureaucracy acirceuroœacirceurobrvbar In other words the way that bureaucracies workis by bleaching out local context and coming up with bigsimplificationsacirceuro acirceuroldquo Andrew Mathews
CEESP SC member Janis Alcorn writes I wouldcounter by positing that good bureaucracies do notbleach out local context Instead they create bigsimplified umbrellas that cloak the complex dynamicrange of local circumstances and thereby give the staffof government bureaucracies the space to address localcircumstances despite changes in political direction
Read more
The Right to Responsibility - new book forpeer review Weacirceurotradere pleased to announce that Natural Justice andthe United Nations University acirceuroldquo Institute of AdvancedStudies (UNU-IAS) have just released a new book forpeer review entitled The Right to ResponsibilityResisting and Engaging Development Conservationand the Law in Asia
Read more
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ARE YOU A MEMBER OF CEESP
At the end of every World Conservation CongressCommissions are asked to revisit and renew their membershipCEESP applied what we considered to be a fairly straightforward renewal process but it turned to be far more complexthan we thought By the end of the renewal period we had lost just over 300members because they did not respond or we had no record of their response tothe calls for renewal
A list of the new membership of CEESP can be found here
NEED TO RENEW
Please check to see if your name is entered and the details correct We do notdisclose email addresses only names country and Theme(s)SGs If you did renewyour membership in CEESP welcome back and look forward to working with youover the next three years If you missed the opportunity to renew andor would like to join CEESP membershipforms in EnglishSpanishFrench and Portuguese can be found on the followingpage
CEESP Members page by clicking here
CEESP NEWSLETTER
This edition of the CEESP newsletter has been compiled by Shalini Dyani from India andNikolasa Biasny-Thule (NZ) A call for contributions will be sent to all CEESP members forthe next edition shortly Deadline for receipt of articles for the August edition is 8August 2013 and should be sent to
CEESPNEWSiucnorg
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Alcorn Community Action for Conservation Mexican Experiences is a lively and deep-running resource that offers invaluable stories and analyses of the Mexican experiencewith conservation This book provides an in-depth analysis on community conservation inMexico
Read more
Cloaking not Bleaching the Back Storyfrom Inside Bureaucracy acirceuroœacirceurobrvbar In other words the way that bureaucracies workis by bleaching out local context and coming up with bigsimplificationsacirceuro acirceuroldquo Andrew Mathews
CEESP SC member Janis Alcorn writes I wouldcounter by positing that good bureaucracies do notbleach out local context Instead they create bigsimplified umbrellas that cloak the complex dynamicrange of local circumstances and thereby give the staffof government bureaucracies the space to address localcircumstances despite changes in political direction
Read more
The Right to Responsibility - new book forpeer review Weacirceurotradere pleased to announce that Natural Justice andthe United Nations University acirceuroldquo Institute of AdvancedStudies (UNU-IAS) have just released a new book forpeer review entitled The Right to ResponsibilityResisting and Engaging Development Conservationand the Law in Asia
Read more
Newsletters
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10082018 CEESP Newsletter 1313 - 13 July 2013
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ARE YOU A MEMBER OF CEESP
At the end of every World Conservation CongressCommissions are asked to revisit and renew their membershipCEESP applied what we considered to be a fairly straightforward renewal process but it turned to be far more complexthan we thought By the end of the renewal period we had lost just over 300members because they did not respond or we had no record of their response tothe calls for renewal
A list of the new membership of CEESP can be found here
NEED TO RENEW
Please check to see if your name is entered and the details correct We do notdisclose email addresses only names country and Theme(s)SGs If you did renewyour membership in CEESP welcome back and look forward to working with youover the next three years If you missed the opportunity to renew andor would like to join CEESP membershipforms in EnglishSpanishFrench and Portuguese can be found on the followingpage
CEESP Members page by clicking here
CEESP NEWSLETTER
This edition of the CEESP newsletter has been compiled by Shalini Dyani from India andNikolasa Biasny-Thule (NZ) A call for contributions will be sent to all CEESP members forthe next edition shortly Deadline for receipt of articles for the August edition is 8August 2013 and should be sent to
CEESPNEWSiucnorg
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ARE YOU A MEMBER OF CEESP
At the end of every World Conservation CongressCommissions are asked to revisit and renew their membershipCEESP applied what we considered to be a fairly straightforward renewal process but it turned to be far more complexthan we thought By the end of the renewal period we had lost just over 300members because they did not respond or we had no record of their response tothe calls for renewal
A list of the new membership of CEESP can be found here
NEED TO RENEW
Please check to see if your name is entered and the details correct We do notdisclose email addresses only names country and Theme(s)SGs If you did renewyour membership in CEESP welcome back and look forward to working with youover the next three years If you missed the opportunity to renew andor would like to join CEESP membershipforms in EnglishSpanishFrench and Portuguese can be found on the followingpage
CEESP Members page by clicking here
CEESP NEWSLETTER
This edition of the CEESP newsletter has been compiled by Shalini Dyani from India andNikolasa Biasny-Thule (NZ) A call for contributions will be sent to all CEESP members forthe next edition shortly Deadline for receipt of articles for the August edition is 8August 2013 and should be sent to
CEESPNEWSiucnorg
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