asiaparkscongress

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 * November 13-17** [|Asia Parks Congress] Sendai, Japan

Headlines
http://www.iucn.org/about/work/programmes/gpap_home/gpap_news/?14027/Asia-Parks-Congress-concludes-with-pledge-for-new-era-in-protected-area-collaboration [|World’s fastest-growing region to host its first congress on protected areas]

Social Web
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Questions
Will the Asia Parks Congress provide livestreaming video for remote participants? Does the congress have a hashtag?

Background
The Asia Parks Congress connects protected area practitioners with a wide range of stakeholders for addressing issues and opportunities in parks and protected areas throughout Asia and the world. The Congress expects a total of approximately 500 participants, including 300 from the host country Japan.

The Asia Parks Congress theme is “Parks Connect”, illustrating the concept of the connections at many different levels which link nature with people, people with people, and protected areas with pressing world challenges.

The Asia Parks Congress serves as a lead-in to the 2014 IUCN World Parks Congress.

Goals and Outcomes

 * Strengthening partnerships which aim at: contributing to realizing the Aichi Targets and the [|Programme of Work on Protected Areas (PoWPA)] ; supporting the creation of a Pan Asia Protected Areas Network; promotion of trans-boundary protected areas and sister parks; and sharing information on the current status of protected areas and their management and governance.
 * Establishment of an Asian Charter for Protected Areas which acts as catalyst for cooperation, improvement of protected area governance, and integration of conservation and development.
 * Presentation of the Protected Planet Asia report - the first regional report in the Protected Planet series, which takes stock of protected areas and their status, including progress toward the CBD Aichi Targets, analysis of PA laws and policies, an evaluation of management effectiveness and a review of well-managed PAs.
 * Position statements on areas of critical relevance to protected areas in Asia, which will include: protected areas as buffers to natural disaster, achieving effective protected area governance, reconciling development challenges and protected areas as drivers for sustainable tourism.

Questions for the Congress

 * Will the event have livestreaming video?
 * Will presentations and videos be archived online?
 * What is the hashtag for the event?

Key Links
http://asia-parks.org/presentation.html http://asia-parks.org/program.html http://asia-parks.org/outline.html