Europe's wilderness from 2008 to 5%
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I presented this during the Europarc 2012 annual conference. The presentation has two parts: 1) chronological view of how wilderness protection evolved between 2008 and 2012, 2) what PAN Parks is planning to contribute to wilderness protection in Europe in 2013 Enjoy reading and sharing it!
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- 1. Strengthening the protection of Europe’s wilderness from 2008 to 5% Zoltan Kun, Executive Director PAN Parks Foundation Paanajärvi NP ©Viktor Gritsuk
- 2. What happened between 2008-2012 Soomaa NP © Mati Kose
- 3. What happened between 2008-2012 • Civil Society initiated a Resolution on Wilderness • submitted to EC • signed by over 100 organisations including Birdlife, Europarc, IUCN, PAN Parks, WWF Paanajärvi NP ©Viktor Gritsuk
- 4. What happened between 2008-2012 European Parliament special report on wilderness • adopted on 3 February 2009 • provides a popular mandate as vaste majority approved • follow-up needed now ©iStock/Graeme Purdy
- 5. What happened between 2008-2012 EC Presidency Conference in Prague, May 2009 • adopted the Agenda for Europe’s wilderness with 24 recommendations • Policy • Awareness building • Information needs Majella NP © Barbara Mayer • Supporting capacity
- 6. What happened between 2008-2012 Wilderness Working Group chaired by Europarc • participants from NGO sector and protected areas • main focus on developing a wilderness definition • finalised in April 2012 approved by EC in September Majella NP © Bruno D’Amicis
- 7. Wilderness definition A wilderness is an area governed by natural processes. It is composed of native habitats and species, and large enough for the effective ecological functioning of natural processes. It is unmodified or only slightly modified and without intrusive or extractive human activity, settlements, infrastructure or visual disturbance.
- 8. All forms of PAs are contributing to biodiversity conservation! Wilderness area Other protected areas Too small Wild areas to be wilderness Current stage of natural development (indicated by eg. IUCN category) Non-intervention (current mgmt practice) intervention
- 9. What happened between 2008-2012 EC Presidency Conference on wilderness restoration in Brussels November 2010 • announcing the inclusion of wilderness in EC 2020 Biodiversity Strategy • announcing the development of a guidance document for N2000 managers Soomaa NP © Arne Ader
- 10. What happened between 2008-2012 The Economic of Wilderness mini-conference in Brussels (European Parliament) on January 2012 • the EP calls on the Commission and Member States to co-operate with local non-governmental organisations to promote the value of wilderness Borjomi-Kharagauli NP © Kote Gabrichidze
- 11. What happened between 2008-2012 EC wilderness guidance document for N2000 sites • Alterra, Eurosite, PAN Parks • final draft submitted in March 2012 • final document soon available on EC website Oulanka NP © Paavo Hamunen
- 12. What happened between 2008-2012 Wilderness Register to be set as foundation of European Wilderness Preservation System • Alterra, University of Leeds, PAN Parks • unique database available on EEA (by Sept 2013) • currently in consultation Majella NP © Bruno D’Amicis phase with preliminary list
- 13. What happened between 2008-2012 We are running for WILD10 which is to be organised in Salamanca, Spain in October 2013 Photo: Simon Kertys Paanajärvi NP ©Viktor Gritsuk Chamois © Bruno D’Amicis
- 14. PAN Parks contributions Retezat NP © Andreas Beckmann
- 15. Who we are PAN Parks is the only European-wide organisation focusing on the protection of wilderness areas Photo: Simon Kertys Paanajärvi NP ©Viktor Gritsuk © Bruno D’Amicis
- 16. PAN Parks contributions PAN Parks works to protect Europe’s wilderness , the continent’s most undisturbed areas of nature and contributes to implementing the Agenda for Europe’s Wilderness (outputs of Prague conference) Paanajärvi NP ©Viktor Gritsuk
- 17. PAN Parks contributions Work programme 2013: Linking wilderness to EC policies and priorities in order to ensure proper protection and representation of wilderness within N2000 network Paanajärvi NP © Minna Koramo
- 18. PAN Parks contributions Linking to EC priorities • wilderness is part of the 2020 Biodiversity Strategy • Green Infrastructure / Cohesion policy • CAP reform discussion • Financing biodiversity • PES / Biz & Biodiversity Majella NP ©MNP
- 19. Analysing legal protection under the current nature directives Borjomi-Kharagauli NP © Konstantin Gabrichidze
- 20. Promoting N2000 guidance document Fulufjället NP © Vitantonio Dell’Orto/exuviaphoto.com
- 21. Collecting best-practice for mgmt Peneda-Geres NP © Marcos Veiga
- 22. Contributing to wilderness register Archipelago NP © Janne Görling
- 23. PAN Parks contributions ‘The Million Project’ provides the framework to organisations working on the protection of wilderness and to more protected areas throughout Europe to join Protecting 1 million hectares of wilderness by 2015
- 25. Pro-biodiversity business examples Wilderness for people – people for wilderness Borjomi-Kharagauli NP © Kote Gabrichidze Tourism / Finance, investment / Forestry
- 26. PAN Parks contributions Developing research agenda for wilderness • What the benefits of wilderness protection are • Joint report with Society for Conservation Biology • Wilderness Resource Bank Fulufjallet NP © Vitantonio Dell’Orto
- 27. Wilderness Funding Programme Archipelago NP © Janne Görling FR event in the House of Lords, London species protection / training / interpretation
- 28. Awareness Promoting wilderness on social media Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest Youtube.com
- 29. PAN Parks contributions Wilderness is closer than you think!
- 30. International Year of Wilderness Paanajärvi NP ©Viktor Gritsuk
- 31. WILD10, Salamanca, October 2013 Oulanka NP © Kimmo Salminen
- 32. Linkage with Europarc Federation Charter for sustainable tourism / Transboundary protection / EEIG for Soomaa NP © Arne Ader
- 33. 5% vision – moral argument 23 October: EEA reported 21% protection in Retezat NP © Mihai Moiceanu Europe! Is 5% too much?
- 35. PAN Parks works to protect Europe’s wilderness, the continent’s most undisturbed areas of nature http://panparks.org http://facebook.com/panparks http://panparks.org/user/register http://linkedin.com/panparksgroup http://youtube.com/user/PANParks http://storiesofwilderness.panparks.org http://mymillionproject.ning.com info@panparks.org
Editor's Notes
- But do we actually deliver on this if we keep focusing only on verification?
- Some wilderness values that can be experienced in PAN Parks
- Ways to explore PAN Parks
- The Message from Prague also ask for actions quantification of the value of non-extractive economic benefits identify and promote the linkage of ecosystem services to wilderness key economic dimensions, challenges and opportunities of wilderness areas in E urope. TEEB report not penetrated yet into PA management particular importance to define the ecosystem services and potential payment methods for wilderness
- Other special exciting activities in PAN Parks
- But do we actually deliver on this if we keep focusing only on verification?
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- Fabulous mountains also host wild areas ...
- Wilderness does exist on our continent ... In amazing old growth forests both in northern countries...
- and in Mediterrnean areas
- With incredible underwater wilderness and flora on islands
- W ilderness is there in the world of meandering rivers...
- freshwater ecosystems
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