[PCA] Plant Highlights from the IUCN World Conservation Congress
Patricia_DeAngelis at fws.gov
Patricia_DeAngelis at fws.gov
Wed Nov 14 14:06:40 CST 2012
Listserve members may be interested in outcomes from the recent IUCN World
Conservation Congress, held in Jeju, Korea.
Below are some of the highlights of the meeting (prepared by one of my
colleagues). Also attaching a list of motions having to do with plant that
were adopted by the Congress - note the motion on fungi and the nod to
NatureServe, a long-standing close Cooperator with PCA's and the North
American Red List Authority!
Note that plants are mentioned several times in the Best Management
Practices for Marine protected Areas, as habitat or performing ecosystem
service, of course - but they are mentioned! It could also be assumed that
there are implicit references to plants throughout the document, where the
term "species" is used.
Patricia S. De Angelis, Ph.D.
Botanist, Division of Scientific Authority-US Fish & Wildlife
Service-International Affairs
Chair, Medicinal Plant Working Group-Plant Conservation Alliance
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Subject: products of IUCN World Conservation Congress
Motions/Resolutions:
IUCN is currently in the process of updating their website to reflect the
voting on the 186 motions.
http://www.iucnworldconservationcongress.org/member_s_assembly/motions/
Since several of you were asking, I have attached a file with web-links to
the status page of motions of interest to FWS.
Red List for Ecosystems: (notes from a workshop presentation) New web
site = http://www.iucnredlistofecosystems.org/
What will it do: Assess functional decline in ecosystems; "will identify
if an ecosystem is vulnerable, endangered, or critically endangered, based
on an agreed and internationally accepted set of criteria for risk
assessment."
Goal: By 2025 create a Red List of Ecosystems, says J.P. Rodriguez of
Venezuela.
Current trials of Red List criteria for ecosystems are being conducted. 18
test studies have been carried out including in N. America; France
(coastal lagoons); Senegal. In the period 2012-2014 a Red List of
Continental Ecosystems of the Americas is being developed. Who is
involved in the N. American effort: Patrick Conner, Chief Ecologist for
NatureServe; Western Governors? Association; Gordon and Betty Moore
Foundation; IUCN.
This workshop was attended by Cristian Samper, of WCS who sat in the
audience and listened. There were about 60 people in the audience for
this workshop.
Green List of Well-Managed Protected Areas:
Official launch will be at the next IUCN World Parks Congress to be held
in Australia in November 2014.
Protected areas wishing to be included on the IUCN Green List will have to
satisfy a threshold of agreed criteria, including meeting their
conservation goals, achieving effective management and facilitating
equitable governance.
Green List will also assist national governments and their conservation
partners to meet their goals under the Convention on Biological
Diversity?s Aichi Targets, particularly Target 11, which states that by
2020 at least 17% of the world?s terrestrial areas and 10% of marine areas
should be effectively and equitably managed and conserved.
Report: 100 Most Threatened Species (issued jointly by ZSL and
IUCN/SSC); (Note: this report has received the most media coverage.)
"For the first time ever, more than 8,000 scientists from the IUCN Species
Survival Commission (IUCN SSC) have come together to identify 100 of the
most threatened animals, plants and fungi on the planet." Read the
report at http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/44234ae6#/44234ae6/1
Protected Planet Report 2012:
The Protected Planet Report is a new initiative that tracks global
progress towards Target 11 of the Convention on Biological Diversity?s
(CBD) Aichi Biodiversity Targets:
Target 11: By 2020, at least 17 per cent of terrestrial and inland water
areas and 10 per cent of coastal and marine areas, especially areas of
particular importance for biodiversity and ecosystem services, are
conserved through effectively and equitably managed, ecologically
representative and well-connected systems of protected areas and other
effective area-based conservation measures, and integrated into the wider
landscape and seascape.
Read the report at
https://cmsdata.iucn.org/downloads/protected_planet_report.pdf
New product: Guidelines for Applying the IUCN Protected Area Management
Categories to Marine Protected Areas
http://cmsdata.iucn.org/downloads/iucn_categoriesmpa_eng.pdf
Gross National Happiness: the former Prime Minister of Bhutan was a
speaker at the Congress, and explained how GNHI is measured and
implemented
Watch the 3-minute video at:
http://www.iucnworldconservationcongress.org/news___press/?11004/Measuring-peoples-happiness
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