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Invitation to the Forum Alternative Channel
Social Networking & Responsible Medias
30th April 2008 in Barcelona (Spain)
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| IUCN Spanish Committee Creates New Technical Office to Implement and Manage its Programme |
THIS IS THE RESULT OF THE STATUTORY REFORM TO FACILITATE THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A PERMANENT ADMINISTRATIVE AND TECHNICAL STRUCTURE
The General Assembly of the IUCN Spanish National Committee during their meeting held on 18-19 February 2008 in Camargo, has approved unanimously a statutory reform that will allow for the ... |
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| MEDITERRE - the Mediterranean Parks Fair |
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Mediterre 2008 – Earth, Water and Fire
7th-11th May 2008, Bari, Italy. |
 The Apulian Regional administration, the Italian Ministry for the Environment and the Protection of Land and Sea, and Federparchi, the Italian Parks Federation, are pleased to announce to national and local authorities, conservation agencies, scientific institutions, enterprises and associations working to protect the natural environment of the Mediterranean basin the fifth edition of MEDITERRE, the Mediterranean Parks Fair. The event will be taking place from the 7th to the 11th May 2008, at the Fiera del Levante trade fair in Bari.
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| National Association for Sustainable Development and the Conservation of Wild Life |
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| Honourable Presidency Award |
 The ANTPFS, nowadays called “National Association for Sustainable Development and the Conservation of Wild Life” (ANDDCVS, acronym in French), has received the honourable presidency award as the best association working for the conservation of wild fauna during 2005 in Tunisia.
This association is based in Tunisia and is member of IUCN since 1995.
For more details, please contact Ali Gharbi, ANDDCVS President gharbi.a@planet.tn |
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| Red lists at Bionatura 2007 |
| The links between biodiversity and the rural environment, marine areas and the two shores of the Mediterranean, Spain and Morocco, have been some of the themes discussed at the 2nd Spanish Congress on Biodiversity Conservation from 21-23 May in Seville, supported by the Andalusian local government. More than 30 environmental experts from Europe, Africa and the Americas, including IUCN, have discussed the status and threats to biodiversity, in particular “the alarming number of endangered species”: more than 23% of mammals, 12% of birds, 31% of amphibians and 40% of freshwater fishes – a group where Spain and Portugal are leading with the highest number of threatened species in Europe and the Mediterranean region.
The Mediterranean assessments are conducted thanks to the financial support of the Mava Foundation, the Spanish Ministry of Environment and the Consejería de Medio Ambiente of Andalousia’s regional government. |
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| The Use of IUCN Management Categories for Protected Areas in the Mediterranean Region |
The World Conservation Union-IUCN together with the World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA) are organising a World Summit on the IUCN Protected Area Management Categories, which will take place in Almería (Andalucía, Spain) on May 7-11, 2007 with the support from the Consejeria de Medio Ambiente of the Junta de Andalucia, Spain and Fundación Biodiversidad (Spain).
As you may know, there are over 4400 protected areas in the Mediterranean region and over ... |
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| Have your Say: E-forum on the IUCN Protected Areas Management Categories |
IUCN’s Programme on Protected Areas is hosting an e-discussion forum to obtain input for the upcoming Summit on the IUCN Protected Areas Management Categories, which will be held in Almería, Spain, 7-11 May 2007. This Summit is part of a broader consultation process leading to revised guidelines for the IUCN Category System.
Participation at the Summit is, unfortunately, limited and by invitation only. We are, therefore, inviting all IUCN Members, Councillors, Commissions, worldwide staff, as well as all those interested to provide their feedback through the e-discussion forum.
The online forum will be hosted between 12 March and 6 April. You are invited to make general comments on the Categories System or provide feedback on specific working papers. The e-forum will be moderated in English, but comments will be accepted in IUCN’s three official languages (English, Spanish and French).
Please participate and have your say by visiting: http://www.iucn.org/themes/wcpa/theme/categories/summit/summitpapers.html
For more information on the Categories Summit, please visit: http://www.iucn.org/themes/wcpa/theme/categories/summit/summit.html |
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| Global
Survey of IUCN Members satisfaction |
Dear IUCN Members,
Just a quick reminder to inform you that the first Global Survey of IUCN Members satisfaction was launched on 31 January 2007 and is available on line at: www.vitalresearchsurveys.com/IUCNMembership
Your input is valuable in helping us strengthen the strategic management of IUCN as a member-based organisation.
If you have not already done so, please spend a few minutes completing the survey and returning it to us through the on-line submission process. In order to give members a little more time to contribute, we have extended the deadline for response to 28 February 2007.
For those who experience difficulty in accessing the link through internet, the form is also available in a ‘Word’ format (3 languages attached with this message) which can be completed and emailed or posted to the Membership Unit for the attention of ignacio.cuevas@iucn.org
Please be assured that the responses are confidential.
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| Turkey: Present and Future of National Red Data Books |
The IUCN Turkish National Committee organized a workshop on 7-8 December 2006 in Ankara (Turkey) to decide on the process of producing “National Red Data Books in Turkey” with the financial support of the Italian Ministry of Environment and technical support of IUCN Centre for Mediterranean Cooperation. The workshop, coordinated by TEMA Foundation in partnership with the Turkish Ministry of Environment and Forestry, gathered around 100 participants. Experts from the Turkish Ministry of Environment and Forestry, academicians, NGO representatives, and IUCN representatives gathered to present the current status of the national red data books, to discuss the process for finalizing, maintaining and updating red data books of Turkey. Participants discussed “how national red data books can assist in implementing national policies on nature conservation”. |
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| Project approved: Shared Intercontinental Biosphere Reserve in the Mediterranean |
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The Mediterranean Intercontinental Biosphere Reserve Andalucia-Morocco has been definitively approved by UNESCO. During the meeting of the MaB Programme held on 24 and 25 October in Paris, the report prepared by the Co-ordinating Council of the Man and the Biosphere(Mab) Programme of UNESCO for the first Biosphere reserve between two continents was considered positively.
In addition to this report, supporting interventions by different members and responsibles for the Reserve such as the Spanish Minister of Environment, Cristina Narbona; |
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| MEDITERRE 2006 - the Mediterranean Parks Fair |
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For the fourth consecutive year, the Apulian Regional Government, the Italian Ministry of the Environment and Federparchi (the Italian Parks Federation) will be holding MEDITERRE - the Mediterranean Parks Fair. The event will be taking place from the 27th September to the 1st October 2006, at the Fiera del Levante trade fair in Bari.
MEDITERRE is an event dedicated to parks and natural protected areas throughout the Mediterranean. Its aim is to promote the exchange of ideas and common projects between the various bodies involved in running these areas. |
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Istituto Pangea - Italy
Countdown 2010: people and protected areas for biodiversity conservation
International Seminar
 “Countdown 2010: people and protected areas for biodiversity conservation” is an international seminar on the management of biodiversity and protected areas promoted by the European Training Task Force of WCPA, sponsored by the Majella National Park and by the Italian Protected Areas Federation.
The seminar is the first initiative being organized at European level, promoted according to the experiences carried in US by the National Park Service in the 80's and recently restarted by the Universities of Montana, Idaho, Colorado, with the US Department of Agriculture- Forest Service, in the framework of the IUCN WCPA Protected Areas Programme. |
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Junta de Andalucia - Turkey
Turkish delegation visits protected areas in Andalucia
15 December 2005
 A Turkish delegation made up of eleven representatives from the National Park of Koprulu Kanyon (Anatolia) visited several protected areas on Andalucia. This visit is part of a World Bank and Global Environment Facility programme that aims at promoting experience exchange amongst protected area managers. The IUCN Centre for Mediterranean Cooperation and Junta de Andalucia scheduled different visits to protected areas in order to show them different models of management, in particular those that encompass successful participatory processes.
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Junta de Andalucia - Morocco
Cross-border cooperation between Andalucia and Morocco on water technology transfer
December 2005, Malaga, Spain
 Andalucia and Morocco share a geographic location and similar hydrological systems determined by a Mediterranean climate that often cause strong drought and flood periods. Also, Morocco is facing new challenges on spatial planning and development that occurred in Andalucia a decade ago. A seminar to promote management and technological tools to face common problems regarding water provision at both sides of the Mediterranean sea was held in Malaga in November 2005. The seminar funded by the European Programme Interreg-IIIA, was organized by the regional government of Andalucia through the Centro de las Nuevas Tecnologias del Agua (CENTA) and the International University of Andalucia. |
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Federparchi, Diputació de Barcelona, Féderation de Parcs Régionaux Français, Generalitat de Catalunya, Junta de Andalucia and Legambiente
MEDIPARC: IUCN Mediterranean Members in Partnership
October 2005, Italy
 IUCN members along with other partners from the Mediterranean region have joined efforts to establish a partnership in the shape of a bid for the European Programme Interreg IIIB, MEDOCC. The project aims at creating a permanent network of protected area managers and practitioners in the Mediterranean region able to contribute to community and national policies on the protection and value of cultural, historical and natural heritage, in line with Natura 2000 Network.
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L'Union Nationale de la Femme Tunisienne - Tunisia
 Women and Environment in Tunisia
1 September 2005, Tunisie
The Union Nationale de la Femme Tunisienne (UNFT) is a non-governmental national organization which aims at promoting women rights and gender equity and equality. The UNFT also supports the role of women in the socio-economic development of the country by educating and informing women and stimulating their participation in decision-making processes and in other cultural and social institutions. Environmental protection is also a key area of work for this NGO. Through a programme named 'Alliance Femme et Environnement', they have been developing a range of activities such as field conservation projects, public awareness campaigns and solidarity actions... |
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The Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel and Israel Nature and Parks Authority - Israel
 The Red Book of Vertebrates in Israel
July 2005, Israel
The IUCN members in Israel along with experts have launched The Red Book of Vertebrates in Israel to promote nature conservation primarily by portraying the existing situation both qualitatively and quantitatively. One of the most serious hurdles facing nature stewards in Israel is the difficulty to obtain information on the biological processes related to conservation, particularly in restoring or improving damaged biological-ecological habitats. |
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A Roche - France
 Conserving Typical Mediterranean Ecosystems
June 2005, France
Located in the heart of Provence, at about 30 kilometers of the Mediterranean coast, the environmental studies centre of A Rocha France develops research/conservation and awareness actions on remarkable species, typical of the Mediterranean ecosystem... |
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Aula del Mar - Spain
 Best practice Guidelines for Environmental Volunteers
May 2005, Malaga, Spain
If, by any chance, while you are swimming this summer in the Andalusia waters and find a marine animal exhausted, unable to dive or floating on the surface, and nearly stranded on the beach, you will know what to do thanks to the Manual recently published by the Centre for the Recovery of Threatened Marine Species (CREMA).
The coastline of Andalusia stretches across 1000 kms from the Atlantic side (Huelva) to the Mediterranean beaches of Cabo de Gata (province of Almeria). It stands out as a unique area where the Atlantic and Mediterranean waters clash. |
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Junta de Andalucia - Spain
Hope for the Iberian Lynx: Birth of three Cubs in a Captivity Centre
April 2005, Doñana, Spain
 Three new cubs of Iberian lynx- the most endangered big cat species in the world - have been recently born in captivity in a breeding centre of Doñana National Park in Andalusia, Spain. It is the first time that a lynx is born in captivity. The captive breeding programme for the Iberian Lynx funded by the Spanish Ministry of Environment began in 1992 and in 2003 the Junta de Andalucia joined it in.The centre has housed only those lynxes which could not survive independently in the wild. There are currently 13 lynx (8 female and 5 male) in captivity distributed in two centres, El Acebuche in Doñana National Park and the Jerez Zoo.
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The Institute Centrale per la Ricerca
Scientifica e Tecnologica Applicata
al Mare (ICRAM) - Italia
ICRAM ongoing projects
April
2005, Roma, Italy
 The
Institute Centrale per la Ricerca
Scientifica e Tecnologica Applicata
al Mare (ICRAM) joined IUCN in February
2000. ICRAM's mission consists in
contributing to the care and protection
of the sea and its resources. This
is achieved through scientific consulting
and research activities regarding
marine management, conservation
and awareness building. ICRAM provides
the Italian Ministry of the Environment
the necessary scientific support for
the protection and defence of marine
resources.
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Croatian
Biological Society - Croatia
School
of Conservation Biology
March 2005,
Rovinj, Croatia.
 Conservation
biology as a science is a prerequisite
for effective biodiversity conservation
and effective sustainable development
as well as conservation planning and
environmental management. In order
to enhance education and capacity
building in the field of scientifically
sound biodiversity conservation, the
Croatian Biological Society is organizing
a School of Conservation Biology (SCB).
The School will take place in the
historic city of Rovinj, Croatia,
on the northern coast of the Adriatic
Sea, from 29 May to 5 June 2005, and
will be hosted by the Centre for Marine
Research, Institute "Rudjer Boskovic".
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Lliga
per a la Defensa del Patrimoni Natural (DEPANA)
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Network of environmental volunteers in Catalunya
March 2005, Tarragona.
 In
2001, a group of organisations interested
in promoting and improving the network of
volunteers in Catalunya began to work in
order to unify criteria, share experiences
and improve activities through a programme
of environmental volunteers. Most of the
forums or areas of work were focused on
social matters and there were no a platform
to meet the environmental volunteers needs...
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Junta
de Andalucia - Spain
Environmental
Information System in Andalusia
February 2005,
Sevilla.
 Advanced
information technology is more and
more essential for effectively managing
and delivering conservation information.
The Consejeria de Medio Ambiente of
the regional government of Andalucia
has developed a data management system
including software and information
technology tools to manage biodiversity
data and deliver practical products
and services. The system is called
Sistema de Información Ambiental
de Andalucía (SinambA).This
programme has been gathering information
on the state of the environmental
and natural resources in Andalucia
since 1984. A talented team has systematised,
centralised and standardised environmental
data in order to make biodiversity
information accessible to experts
and the general public through a web-based
data exploration tools.
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Carlos Sánchez Martínez, President of “Fundación Naturaleza y Hombre”, unanimously elected for the Presidency 2007 – 2010
