Presentations
Welcome
and Introductions
- Jamie Skinner, Director of IUCN Centre for Mediterranean Cooperation
- Silvia Revenga Martinez De Pazos, Secretaria General de Pesca
Maritima
- Carl
Gustaf Lundin, Head, IUCN Global Marine Programme
- Simon Cripps, Director, WWF Endangered Seas Programme
- Kristina M. Gjerde, Project Coordinator
Highlights
of Scientific and Legal Background Papers as Relevant
to the Development of an Action Plan
- Tomme Rosanne
Young, J.D. "Protecting the Natural Resources
of the High Seas:
Relevant
policy and legal instruments and options for a strategy
to protect priority
areas
and promote a system of MPAs"
- Susan Gubbay,
PhD. "Protecting the Natural Resources of the
High Sea:
the
need for high seas MPAs and possible priority areas
suitable for management as MPAs"
Short
updates/ Presentations from Participants
- Simon Cripps, Global Oceans Governance in the Spotlight
- Guiseppe
Nortarbartolo di Sciara, Tullio Scovazzi and Patrick van Kleveran,
Case
study on the Ligurian Sea Sanctuary, the first MPA with a high seas Component
- Fernando Tempera, Update on the Protection of Oceanic Areas around
the Azores.
- Matt Gianni, Towards a System of High Seas Marine Reserves
- Hjalmar Thiel, Update on OSPAR MPAs (on behalf of Henning von
Nordheim) and Unique
Science Priority Areas
- Ronan Long, Update on Deep Water Coral Conservation in Ireland
and the European's
Approach to High Seas MPAs
- John Gage, Perspective of a Deep Sea Benthic Biologist
- Lyle
Glowka. Putting Marine Scientific Research on a Sustainable Footing
at Hydrothermal Vents
- David
Leary. The International seabed authority and designation of sensitive no mining
areas
for the conservation of hydrothermal vent ecosystems on the high seas:
legal
and practical
realities
- Vadim
O. Mokievsky. Marine protected areas in the High Seas
