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Nature
Protection in the Caucasus
Promoting
Transboundary Cooperation for
CBD Implementation
9-11
March 2006, Berlin - Germany
Programme
Wednesday,
8 March 2006
Konzerthaus
Berlin, Gendarmenmarkt
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| 20:00 |
Caucasus
pure - Concert of the Caucasian Chamber Orchestra
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Thursday,
9 March 2006
KfW
Bankengruppe, Berlin Branch, Charlottenstrasse 33/33a
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| 09:00
– 10:00 |
Registration |
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| 10:00
– 10:15 |
Welcome
Ingrid
Matthaeus-Maier, Member of the Board of Managing
Directors, KfW Bankengruppe
Dr.
Peter Prokosch, CEO, WWF - Germany |
| 10:15
– 10:30 |
Objectives
and Structure of the Conference
Dr.
Christopher Hails, Conference Chair |
| 10:30
– 11:00 |
Opening
Speech
Heidemarie
Wieczorek-Zeul, Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation
and Development - Germany |
| 11:00
– 11:30 |
Press
briefing and photo opportunity
Tea/Coffee |
| 11:30
– 12:00 |
Convention
on Biological Diversity: Implications for the Caucasus
Dr.
Hamdallah Zedan, Former Executive Secretary of the
Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) |
| 12:00
– 13:00 |
The
Eco-regional Conservation Plan (ECP) and the Implementation
Instruments
Dr.
Giorgi Sanadiradze, Director WWF Caucasus Programme
Office
Dr. Claudia
Loy, Vice President Europe, KfW Entwicklungsbank
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13:00
– 14:30 |
Lunch
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| 14:30
– 16:00 |
Presentations
of Activities towards the Implementation of CBD and
ECP
Moderator: Achim
Steiner, Director General IUCN |
16:00
– 16:30 |
Group
Picture and Tea/Coffee |
| 16:30
– 18:00 |
Contributions
of International Institutions and Donors
- Pierre
Borgoltz, European Commission, DG Relex
- Dr.
Rainer Goerdeler, Director for Asia, South-Eastern
Europe and Afghanistan, Federal Ministry of Economic
Cooperation and Development - Germany
- Agi
Kiss, World Bank, Lead Ecologist, Eastern Europe
and Central Asia
- Dan
Martin, Senior Managing Director, Conservation
International - Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
- Sylvi
Ofstad Samstag, Senior adviser, Ministry of Environment
- Norway
- Dr.
Peter Prokosch, CEO, WWF - Germany
- Rasmus
Reinvang, Terrestrial Programme Coordinator, WWF,
Norway
- Jan
Willem Sneep, Chair of the Council of Europe's
Committee of Experts
- Jorgen
Thomsen, Senior Vice President, Conservation International,
Executive Director, Critical Ecosystems Partnership
Fund
Moderator:
Achim Steiner,
Director General IUCN
Discussion |
18:00
– 18:15
18:30 |
 Closing
Remarks
Dr.
Christopher Hails, Conference Chair
Dinner
Invitation
at KfW Historischer Kassensaal |
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Friday,
10 March 2006
dbb
forum, Friedrichstrasse 169/170
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| 09:15
– 09:30 |
Overview
of the Day's Schedule and Working Group TOR
Dr.
Christopher Hails, Conference Chair |
| 09:30
– 11:30 |
Working
Group Sessions
Workshop A:
Financing Instruments for Biodiversity Conservation,
Session I
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more about Workshop A ...
Workshop B:
Transboundary Cooperation for Nature Reserves and Biodiversity
Monitoring, Session I: Transboundary Protected Areas
(TBPA)
Read
more about Workshop B - Session I ...
Workshop C:
Biodiversity and Economy - from Buffer Zone Development
to Regional Planning, Session I: Biodiversity and Economy
- Synergy in Protected Areas and Buffer Zones
Read
more about Workshop C - Session I ...
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| 11:30
- 12:15 |
Poster
Session
Contributions:
- Center
for International Migration and Development - Germany
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CUNA Georgica - Georgia
- Department
for Tourism - Georgia
- Federal
Agency for Nature Conservation – Germany
- Gesellschaft
fur Technische Zusammenarbeit – Germany
- Institute
for Botany and Landscape, Ecology University Greifswald
- Germany
- IUCN
- The World Conservation Union
- Michael
Succow Stiftung - Germany
- Naturschutzbund
– Germany
- Regional
Environmental Centre for the Caucasus - Georgia
- Staatliches
Museum fuer Naturkunde – Germany
- State
Commission for Threatened Species - Georgia
- Sustainable
Tourism Centre – Georgia
- Tema
Foundation - Turkey
- WWF
Caucasus Programme Office
Moderator:
R. Andreas Kraemer, Director Ecologic – Institute for
International and European Environmental Policy |
| 12:15
– 13:30 |
Lunch
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| 13:30
– 15:30 |
Working
Group Sessions continued
Workshop
A:
Financing Instruments for Biodiversity Conservation,
Session II
Read more about Workshop A ...
Workshop B:
Transboundary Cooperation for Nature Reserves and Biodiversity
Monitoring, Session II: Biodiversity Monitoring
Read
more about Workshop B - Session II ...
Workshop C:
Biodiversity and Economy - from Buffer Zone Development
to Regional Planning, Session II: Regional and Spatial
Planning
Read
more about Workshop C - Session II ...
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| 15:30
– 16:00 |
Tea/Coffee |
| 16:00
– 16:45 |
Presentation
and Discussion of Working Group Results |
| 16:45
– 17:00 |
Closing
Remarks
Dr.
Rolf D. Baldus, Head of Division Southern Caucasus and
Central Asia, Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation
and Development - Germany |
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Saturday,
11 March 2006
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| 10:00 |
Departure
of Shuttle to Protected Area / National Park |
| 11:30
– 17:00 |
Excursion
to Protected Area / National Park
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more about the excursion ... |
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Workshops
& Excursion
Workshop
A – Sessions I & II
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| Title:
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Financing
Instruments for Biodiversity Conservation |
| Date: |
Friday,
10 March 2006, 9:30-11:30 & 13:30-15:30 |
| Contents: |
The
workshop exploreD the need for financing instruments to
support the implementation of the CBD in the Caucasus
by looking at the current protected area system in the
South Caucasus and financial needs to support it. Possible
financial instruments were presented with special regard
to trust funds and the experience with trust funds from
other regions. The “Caucasus Protected Areas Trust Fund”
(to be established in early 2006) was presented and its
functioning was explained in detail. The group discussed
fundraising issues for the Caucasus Trust Fund and explored
opportunities and challenges for the application of trust
funds in the Caucasian parts of Turkey, Russia and Iran. |
| Outputs: |
- Common
understanding about Conservation Trust Funds and other
Financing Instruments
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Common understanding about the “Caucasus Protected
Areas Trust Fund”
- Identification
of fundraising opportunities and challenges for the
“Caucasus Protected Areas Trust Fund”
- First
ideas about opportunities and challenges in establishing
trust funds in the Caucasian parts of Turkey, Russia
and Iran
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| Contributions: |
Sustainable
financing of protected areas – a short overview
Hans
Friederich, Head Conservation Finance and Donor Relations,
IUCN |
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Trust
Funds, example from a different region
Kristina McNeff, Conservation International / Global Conservation
Fund |
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The
“Caucasus Protected Areas Trust Fund” and how it works
Michael Evers, WWF - Germany and
Dr. Marcus Stewen, KfW |
| Moderator: |
Tim
Christophersen, World Conservation Union (IUCN) |
Organisation:
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KfW
and WWF Germany |
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Workshop
B – Session I
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| Title: |
Transboundary
Cooperation for Nature Reserves and Biodiversity Monitoring,
Session
I: Transboundary Protected Areas (TBPA) |
| Date: |
Friday,
10 March 2006, 9:30-11:30 |
| Contents: |
The workshop highlighted Protected Areas and Biosphere
Reserves in border regions in general, as well as with
regard to the Caucasus region. The first part of the
session focused on legal and institutional conditions
(such as agreements and basic standards of IUCN and
UNESCO) for the establishment of transboundary parks.
Secondly, the workshop served to present case studies
of TBPA and Biosphere Reserves from other regions in
Europe. Finally, the workshop gave room for discussion
on the state of cooperation on and opportunities for
TBPA in the Caucasus Region. |
| Outputs: |
- Common
understanding of preconditions, requirements/needs
at regional and country level
- Common
understanding of elements, process and policy frame
of TB-cooperation
- Defining
regional challenges and opportunities
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| Contributions: |
Institutional
framework and policy challenges for Transboundary cooperation
in the Caucasus
Dr. Thomas Petermann, InWEnt (Capacity Building International,
Germany) and
Ivan Vashakmadze, Director of Sustainable Tourism Center
- Georgia |
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Transboundary
cooperation in protected areas: The case of the trilateral
“East Carpathians” Biosphere Reserve
Dr. Zbigniew Niewiadomski, Chair UNESCO International
Advisory Committee for Biosphere Reserves, Paris / Head
of Representative Office in Poland for the Foundation
for the Eastern Carpathians Biodiversity Conservation
(ECBC), Ustrzyki Gorne |
| Moderator: |
Dr.
Christopher Hails, Conference Chair |
| Organisation: |
InWEnt
(Capacity Building International, Germany) |
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Workshop
B – Session II
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| Title: |
Transboundary
Cooperation for Nature Reserves and Biodiversity Monitoring,
Session II: Biodiversity Monitoring |
| Date: |
Friday,
10 March 2006, 13:30-15:30 |
| Contents: |
The
workshop explored the needs for a regional monitoring
system for biodiversity and how this can help Caucasus
countries to fulfil their international obligations
under the CBD and other conventions. Existing biodiversity
monitoring efforts in other regions were presented.
A potential institutional structure for a regional monitoring
system in the Caucasus was presented for discussion
and opportunities and obstacles for its implementation
identified. |
| Outputs: |
- Common
understanding about the need and possibilities for
transboundary biodiversity monitoring
- First
draft for a potential institutional structure for
a regional monitoring system in the Caucasus
- Identification
of opportunities and obstacles to realizing a transboundary
biodiversity monitoring system
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| Contributions: |
Biodiversity
Monitoring and CBD
Hamdallah Zedan, Former Executive Secretary of the Convention
on Biological Diversity (CBD) |
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Overview
of biological monitoring schemes - problems and perspectives
Dr. Klaus Riede, Alexander Koenig Research Institute and
Museum of Zoology |
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A
proposal for a potential institutional structure for
a regional monitoring system in the Caucasus
Dr. Nugzar Zazanashvili, WWF Caucasus Programme Office |
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Priorities
for conservation of birds in Azerbaijan from the point
of view of transboundary cooperation
Elchin
Sultanov, Chairman, Ornithological Society - Azerbaijan |
| Moderator: |
Dr.
Christopher Hails, Conference Chair |
| Organisation: |
WWF
Germany |
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Workshop
C– Session I
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| Title: |
Biodiversity
and Economy - from Buffer Zone Development to Regional
Planning, Session
I: Biodiversity and Economy – Synergy in Protected Areas
and Buffer Zones |
| Date: |
Friday,
10 March 2006, 09:30-11:30 |
| Contents: |
The
morning session of the workshop discussed case studies
that show how local communities and individuals can conserve
and at the same time profitably utilize biodiversity and
natural resources. Thereby, the session aimed to provide
examples outlining that biodiversity conservation and
economic development are not contradictory to each other. |
| Outputs: |
- Exchange
of information on different forms of buffer zone development:
new ideas, factors of success and performance, lessons
learnt
- Case
studies from Borjomi-Kharagauli National Park (Georgia)
and Sochi Nationalpark (Russia)- blueprint for other
regions of the Caucasus?
- Identify
obstacles to and opportunities for successful development
of PAs and buffer zones in the Caucasus
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| Contributions: |
Welcome
Prof. Dr. Hartmut Vogtmann, President, German Federal
Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN) |
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Sustainable
harvesting and economic potential of medicinal plants
and herbs in the Southern Caucasus
Udo Hirsch, CUNA Georgia |
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Sustainable
tourism in the Caucasus - overview and case study Borjomi-Kharagauli
National Park (Georgia)
Dr. Karin Steinmetzer, Advisor to the Georgian Department
of Tourism |
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Protected
Areas and economy – Case study Sochinsky Nationalpark
(Russia)
Dr. Andrey Stetsenko, LOMONOSOV Moscow State University
- Russia |
| Moderator: |
Dr.
Bettina Hedden-Dunkhorst, German Federal Agency for Nature
Conservation (BfN) |
| Organisation: |
KfW
and WWF Germany |
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Workshop
C– Session II
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| Title: |
Biodiversity
and Economy - from Buffer Zone Development to Regional
Planning, Session
II: Regional and Spatial Planning |
| Date: |
Friday,
10 March 2006, 13:30-15:30 |
| Contents: |
This
workshop gave an overview of different methods of regional
planning to realize sustainable development. The group
then discussed the status of regional planning in the
respective countries in the Caucasus, determine the pros
and cons of the various methods and identify opportunities
and obstacles for their implementation. |
| Outputs: |
- Common
understanding about different methods of regional
planning for sustainable development
- Overview
of the status of regional planning in the Caucasian
countries
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Identify obstacles to and opportunities for realizing
regional planning in the Caucasus
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| Contributions: |
Landscape
Planning as an Instrument for Ecosystem Management
Prof. Dr. Christina von Haaren, University of Hannover
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The
Use of Landscape Planning for the Establishment of Biosphere
Reserves: The Example of Issyk-Kul Reserve in Kyrgyzstan
Adrian Hoppenstedt, POU GmbH (Planning Group for Ecology
and Environment), Hannover |
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The
High Conservation Value Forests (HCVF) Concept as a landscape
planning tool
Dr. Ruth Nussbaum, ProForest (UK) |
| Moderator: |
Dr.
Bettina Hedden-Dunkhorst, German Federal Agency for Nature
Conservation (BfN) |
| Organisation: |
German
Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN) and WWF
Germany |
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Excursion
to Nature Park "Uckermaerkische Seen"
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| Date: |
Saturday, 11 March 2006, 10:00-17:00 |
The
nature park Uckermarkische Seen was established in 1997,
and is located approximately 100 km north of Berlin.
Typical to the park are many lakes and beech forests.
Due to its biodiversity, the area has great national
significance - approximately 65% of the park is protected
under the EU Birds Directive and over 30% under the
EU Habitats Directive.
Since 1996 a Federal nature protection project, supported
by the WWF, has been carried out in the nature park
region. Efforts are made to reach cooperation between
agricultural, forestry, fishery, tourism, business and
industry decision-makers. A regional development concept
was drafted and innovative model actions are funded
by the European Union’s LEADER initiative.
The excursion on 11 March 2006 began (after a 90 minute
journey to the park) at 11:30 with a visit to castle
Boitzenburg. Anke Paschkowski, Dr. Ruediger Mauersberger
and Thomas Volpers explained the Federal nature protection
project and the LEADER initiative. Afterwards, there
was an exchange of opinions during a horse-drawn carriage
trip. The excursion visited a beech forest surrounding
lakes and wetlands, and ended at 15:30. The return to
Berlin was at 17:00.
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Under
the auspices of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation
and Development.
Organised by Ecologic - Institute for International and European
Environmental Policy. |
