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related: iucn, parks, world parks congress

The aim of the IUCN Green List of Protected Areas is to recognize and reward excellence in protected areas, in order to:

•provide an incentive for policies and governance arrangements that will enable and catalyze more effective and equitable protected area systems

•stimulate investment in capacity and leadership that enable effective management and equitable governance of protected areas

Additionally, the IUCN Green List of Protected Areas will allow Protected Area participating countries to recognize and report on the quality of progress in the implementation of their national protected area systems towards meeting CBD Aichi Target 11 commitments:

By 2020, at least 17 percent of terrestrial and inland water, and 10 percent of coastal and marine areas, especially areas of particular importance for biodiversity and ecosystem services, are conserved through effectively and equitably managed, ecologically representative and well connected systems of protected areas and other effective area-based conservation measures, and integrated into the wider landscapes and seascapes.
 * CBD Aichi Target 11**

Consultation
The revised draft Standard for the IUCN Green List of Protected and Conserved Areas is currently open for public consultation. Are the current 20 criteria sufficient? Do they describe all the elements of success? Are there any gaps? Are social concerns and outcomes adequately addressed in the framework? Here is your chance to comment, and also read up on three diverse examples of Green List areas that show how protected areas can deliver health and well-being for local people. http://www.iucn.org/…/g…/gpap_greenlist/global_consultation

Headlines
http://planeta.com/cryptoconservation http://www.iucnworldconservationcongress.org/news/20160415/raising-conservation-standards-iucn-green-list [|Few nat'l parks, sanctuaries meet criteria for IUCN Green List]

Key Links
http://www.iucn.org https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/30904503/Concept%20Brief%20-%20The%20IUCN%20Green%20List%20Initiative%20June%202013%20%282%29.pdf (PDF) http://www.iucn.org/about/work/programmes/gpap_home/gpap_quality/gpap_greenlist/ http://www.iucn.org/about/work/programmes/gpap_home/gpap_quality/gpap_greenlist/gpap_greenlistprocess https://www.iucn.org/theme/protected-areas/our-work/iucn-green-list

Background
The IUCN already operates a Red List (http://www.iucnredlist.org) of endangered species widely recognized as the most comprehensive, objective global approach for evaluating the conservation status of plant and animal species. IUCN also operates the globally recognized IUCN Protected Area Management Categories which aims to strengthen the capacity to conserve the world's natural environment and biodiversity; and IUCN is the technical body to assess and advise on Natural Sites under the World Heritage Convention.

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