WCC 2016 Res 036 - Activity Report

General Information

Period covered
IUCN Constituent
IUCN WCPA Privately Protected Areas and Nature Stewardship Specialist Group 2017-2020
Activities carried out to implement this Resolution
Relevant operative para(s) of Res/Rec Activities Overview Description Status
Capacity building
Offered a full-day training on privately protected areas, based on the 2018 IUCN Guidelines for Privately Protected Areas, at the IIIrd Latin American and Caribbean Protected Areas Congress, Lima, Peru, October 2019.
Completed
Capacity building
With support of Fundación Mar Adentro, translated the PPA Guidelines to Spanish, launched at the regional protected areas congress in Lima in October. See link to the publication below.
Completed
Education/Communication/Raising awareness
Maintaining a dedicated website, privateconservation.net, and dedicated online newsletter, The Stivardr. Speaking at national and regional conferences. Contributions to IUCN's Protecting the Planet newsletter.
On-going
Scientific/technical activities
Convened a workshop to develop training materials and strategy, based on the PPA Guidelines, on Vilm Island in April, 2019, hosted by Bundesamt für Naturschutz.
Completed
Scientific/technical activities
The IUCN WCPA specialist group maintains an email discussion group on PPAs. A core group convenes monthly to discuss needs, issues and strategy.
On-going

Actors involved

IUCN Members
Fundación Mar Adentro ( Chile )
Bundesamt für Naturschutz ( Germany )
Sociedad Peruana de Derecho Ambiental ( Peru )
IUCN Commissions
FB17E09E-5094-E611-97F4-005056BA6623
IUCN Secretariat
Yes
Other non-IUCN related organisations
QLF Atlantic Center for the Environment
Report status
Published
Identify and briefly describe what future actions/activities are planned for the implementation of this Resolution
Future action / activity
Capacity building
Description
Translations of the Guidelines for Privately Protected Areas into French and Portuguese are in final review stages and should be launched in 2020.
Future action / activity
Capacity building
Description
We will offer a two-day training based on the Guidelines at the Congress of the International Land Conservation Network in Catalonia in April, 2020. We have been accepted to organize a conservation campus on PPAs at the World Conservation Campus in Marseille in June. We expect to post video training modules and other materials on private conservation.net in mid-2020.
Future action / activity
Scientific/technical activities
Future action / activity
Scientific/technical activities
Description
The IUCN WCPA specialist group will continue to provide advice on PPAs to governments, NGOs, landholders and others on request.