tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-69702652952886864712024-03-13T03:13:11.353-07:00The StivardrNews and views on stewardship of the earth.Brent A. Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07728115375093135151noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6970265295288686471.post-17847253867540903362016-09-08T00:47:00.003-07:002016-09-08T00:47:56.580-07:00Urban at the World Conservation Congress<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Brent A. Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07728115375093135151noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6970265295288686471.post-14159995889654710712016-09-08T00:44:00.000-07:002016-09-08T00:44:07.281-07:00Youth at the World Conservation Congress<br />
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<br />Brent A. Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07728115375093135151noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6970265295288686471.post-87563265684427339982016-09-06T16:38:00.001-07:002016-09-06T16:38:24.602-07:00Networking on Networked Governance<br />
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I organized a session on networked governance in conservation at the Protected Planet Pavilion that was well-attended. <br />
Climate change, habitat fragmentation and globalization require that
conservation work at ever-larger scales. As we “scale up” to
system-level planning and connectivity conservation, we must complement a
focus on site-level management to accommodate and even embrace a
multiplicity of ownerships and interests across landscapes of diverse
and competing land uses. Our current treatment attempts to understand
governance of protected areas of such landscapes by delineating four
basic types (government, shared, private and indigenous/conserved). But
in practice this typology can appear to introduce division whereas
large-scale conservation requires integration.<br />
We concluded that networked governance merits further study by the World Commission on Protected Areas, not that a global institution would have a direct role in networks that best evolve internally and organically, but so that multi-laterals not act in ways counter to effective networks.Brent A. Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07728115375093135151noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6970265295288686471.post-38381633030505604982016-09-02T17:01:00.002-07:002016-09-02T17:01:26.105-07:00NAWPA Launch<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Launch of the NAWPA Committee Report, <a href="http://nawpacommittee.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Conservation-in-North-America.pdf" target="_blank">Conservation in North America: An Analysis of Land-based Conservation in Canada, Mexico and the United States</a>. NAWPA = North American Intergovernmental Committee on Cooperation for Wilderness and Protected Area Conservation<br />
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The World Conservation Congress opened this morning in
Honolulu, Hawai’i. The recent announcement of the expansion of <span style="font-family: "cambria"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Papahānaumokuākea </span>into
the largest protected area in the world lent the event a celebratory mood. The
host country greeted participants to epic traditional hula dances describing
the history and nature of the Hawaiian islands. Unfortunately, President Obama was not
in attendance. He’d spoken to a smaller group the night before at the
East-West Center but had to move on to Midway Island. We had his greeting read
out by the IUCN President,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="font-family: "cambria"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Zhang Xinsheng.</span><span class="st"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span>Later, Erik Solheim, Director of the United
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Hawaiian words were often employed during the event to
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than <i>aloha</i> and <i>mahalo</i>, the most common word was <i>kuleana</i>. Translated to mean
<i>responsibility</i>, a quick scan of online sources suggests that <i>kuleana</i> is something
much deeper, extending to the <i>value</i> of responsibility. It seems <i>kuleana</i> is not
just about accepting responsibility, but seeing it as a privilege. The word
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Interior Secretary Sally Jewell was introduced as the
“Steward-in-Chief…of approximately 20% of the United States.” She responded
that, “every day I think of my work as being in the forever business.” She
recognized the Centennial of the National Park Service, and later pointed to
“evidence that we are beginning to plan and think and work at a broader
landscape scale…the path to our sustainable future means pulling up to a larger
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The President of the Republic of Palau, <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Tommy
Remengesau, set the bar high for future conservation targets. He described how
his country has set aside 80% of its Exclusive Economic Zone as no-take marine
reserves. Returning to the theme of <span style="font-family: "cambria"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Papahānaumokuākea
he said, “Good start, President Obama. When you protect 80% of your EEZ, then
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Brent A. Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07728115375093135151noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6970265295288686471.post-85408195861090601922016-08-31T18:06:00.003-07:002016-08-31T18:14:29.953-07:00Program of Work<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Next week IUCN members will approve a program of work for the next four years, a broad vision modified slightly from the current plan, and cross-referenced with the United Nations Development Goals. The Steering Committee of the <a href="https://www.iucn.org/theme/protected-areas/wcpa" target="_blank">World Commission on Protected Areas</a> spent a long morning Wednesday walking through a more detailed program of work on PAs through 2020. (This is also the end date of the current targets of the Convention on Biological Diversity, critical to the protected areas agenda.) The Commission program marries strategic ambitions to practical realities of human and financial resources. The basic framework was set at the World Parks Congress two years ago, but some new issues came up today:<br />
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<li>Replicating work on Key Biodiversity Areas to identify areas needing protection for the ecosystem services they provide;</li>
<li>Growing concern about and activism against those protected areas that do not respect the rights of indigenous peoples, and the need for WCPA to address the issues directly and equitably; </li>
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The protected areas program of work will be finalized a few weeks after the World Conservation Congress.<br />
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The <a href="https://www.iucn.org/theme/protected-areas/wcpa" target="_blank">World Commission on Protected Areas</a> has over 2,700 expert members worldwide. It works though 24 <a href="https://www.iucn.org/protected-areas/world-commission-protected-areas/contact/wcpa-specialist-groups-and-task-forces" target="_blank">specialist groups and task forces</a> supported by a small staff at the IUCN <a href="https://www.iucn.org/theme/protected-areas/our-work" target="_blank">Global Protected Areas Programme</a>.Brent A. Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07728115375093135151noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6970265295288686471.post-30960589114699430362016-08-30T21:49:00.001-07:002016-08-30T21:49:20.151-07:00Stage<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The stage is being set for the planet's biggest nature conservation conference, the <a href="http://iucnworldconservationcongress.org/" target="_blank">World Conservation Congress</a>. #IUCNCongress. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It seems appropriate that my path to the World Conservation Congress in
this Centennial of the National Park Service should take me over one of
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<br /><br />Brent A. Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07728115375093135151noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6970265295288686471.post-6606708571314848562016-08-26T11:44:00.002-07:002016-08-26T11:45:59.127-07:00Pres. Obama to Open World Conservation Congress, Create World's Largest MPAIt is a time of superlatives. Barring a global crisis, American President Barack Obama will address the largest global nature conservation meeting, the <a href="http://iucnworldconservationcongress.org/" target="_blank">World Conservation Congress</a>, next Thursday in Hawaii. He has also announced a dramatic expansion of <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/26/us/politics/obamas-action-will-create-largest-marine-reserve-on-earth.html?smid=fb-share" target="_blank">Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument,</a> making it the largest marine protected area in the world.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">photo: Milletseed Butterflyfishes by Greg McFall</span></div>
Brent A. Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07728115375093135151noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6970265295288686471.post-61089073559331413792016-08-24T17:11:00.001-07:002016-08-24T20:26:32.285-07:00Private Philanthropy Creates a Public Protected Area (Again)President Barack Obama today designated the <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2016/08/24/presidential-proclamation-establishment-katahdin-woods-and-waters" target="_blank">Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument</a> in central Maine, creating America's 413th national park. The 35,400 hectare area is nearly twice the size of Acadia, the other big national park in Maine. The new national monument protects forests tracks adjacent to Maine's largest protected area, Baxter State Park, while allowing tradtional uses of fishing, hunting, hiking, snowmobiling and mountain biking in some sections. The land, plus an endowment to manage it, was donated by philanthropist and entrepreneur Roxanne Quimby. Katahdin joins a significant group of national parks created largely or entirely by donation, including Acadia, Grand Teton, Virgin Islands, and the first, Muir Woods in California.Brent A. Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07728115375093135151noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6970265295288686471.post-90006811510224214742016-08-24T17:03:00.001-07:002016-08-24T17:04:45.101-07:00Video announcing Katahdin Woods and Waters National Park<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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