[PCA] Plant Highlights from the IUCN World Conservation Congress

[Patricia_DeAngelis at fws.gov]

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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