Protected Areas - Natural Solutions
IUCN UK National Committee Conference and AGM
26th and 27th April 2012
Welcome to the conference
Stuart Brooks Conference Chair
Session 1:Protected Areas Overview – International and UK Contexts
Prof Martin Price Session Chair
Global and European Context – the importance and value of protected areas
Trevor Sandwith and
Kathy MacKinnon
UK and Overseas Territories context – protected areas policy
Marcus Yeo
Speakers Panel and Questions
Session Chair Prof Martin Price
Coffee break
Session 2: Challenges and Pressures on our Protected Areas
Session ChairAnne Selby
Pressure and approaches in National Parks
Andy Wilson
Protecting Wild Land in the UK – challenges and solutions
Helen McDade
Landscape-scale conservation and the role of protected areas
Stuart Housden
The Future for Marine Protected Areas
Jean-Luc Solandt
Speakers Panel and Questions
Session ChairAnne Selby
Lunch break
Session 3: Best Practice, Innovations, Opportunities and Solutions
Session ChairProf. Roger Crofts
Putting Nature On The Map – assigning IUCN Protected Area
Categories in the UK
Prof Adrian Phillips
‘The Categories’ – what do they mean for us and the work of protected area
managers?
Howard Davies
‘The Categories’ – what do they mean for us and the work of protected area
managers?
Simon Pryor
‘The Categories’ – what do they mean for us and the work of protected area
managers?
Prof. Martin Price
Questions and comfort break
New Opportunities for Protected Area Conservation – biodiversity offsetting
Tom Tew
Protected Area perspectives from the UK’s nature conservation agencies
Andrew Bachell
Protected Area perspectives from the UK’s nature conservation agencies
Roger Thomas
Protected Area perspectives from the UK’s nature conservation agencies
Graham Seymour
Protected Area perspectives from the UK’s nature conservation agencies
David Henshilwood
Speakers Panel and Questions
Session ChairProf. Roger Crofts
Conference Summary
Conference ChairStuart Brooks
Coffee break
IUCN National Committee UKAnnual General Meeting
Stuart BrooksActing Chair IUCN NCUK
IUCN National Committee AGM Agenda
1. Chair’s welcome2. IUCN National Committee UK Annual Review3. Minutes of the 2011 AGM and Matters Arising4. Election of Executive Committee and Chair 5. Financial Report6. Preparations for the World Conservation Congress in Jeju, South Korea7. Open Forum8. Closing remarks