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CONSULTATION LAUNCHED ON THE FUTURE EUROPEAN PROGRAMME OF IUCN

IUCN – The World Conservation Union brings together the widest global representation of nature conservationists from both NGOs and Governments every four years for the World Conservation Congress (WCC). At the next WCC, in November 2004 in Bangkok, nearly 1000 institutional members of IUCN will decide on which key areas to focus the global nature conservation programme run by the IUCN Secretariat, with its almost 1,000 staff in over 60 Offices worldwide. To prepare for the European input to the WCC, and draft the outline of the work of IUCN in its European Programme, the IUCN Regional Office for Europe (ROfE) invited Pan-European representatives of the IUCN membership and constituency to its office in Brussels, to launch the consultation process for the IUCN Programme in Europe, which will be carried out over the coming 6 months.

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YURI VELLA’S WORLD RECEIVES FIRST IUCN AWARD FOR THE ENVIRONMENT

Liivo Niglas received the first ever IUCN Film Award for the Environment this weekend in Nyon, Switzerland. As part of the annual film festival Visions du Reel, a 5000CHF cash prize went to the Estonian-born filmmaker for Yuri Vella’s World (Juri Vella Maailm), a documentary focused on indigenous peoples and their struggle to maintain a healthy environment. “This will help Yuri Vella to protect his world and buy some more reindeer,” says Niglas, who intends to share his prize with those who made the film possible. His winning film is a stunning portrait of the poet, intellectual and reindeer breeder Yuri Vella, who is the moral community leader of the Forest Nenets, a semi-nomadic people in Western Siberia. Niglas follows Vella’s family life, recording Yuri’s thoughts as he explains his origins and the history of his people by walking his land and recounting stories. The filmmaker excels in portraying how an individual on the international scene stands in defense of the Nenets, and illustrates environmental and cultural degradation.

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The first Regional Session of the Global Biodiversity Forum for Eastern Europe

Chisinau, Republic of Moldova, 23-25 April 2003 –The first regional session of the Global Biodiversity Forum for Eastern Europe (GBF-Eastern Europe) was held on the initiative of the Representative IUCN office for CIS. The session was organized by the Representative IUCN office for CIS and Ecological society Biotica, Republic of Moldova. The forum was supported by the Ministry of Ecology, Construction and Territory Development of the Republic of Moldova, The Ramsar Convention Bureau, Regional Environmental Center of Moldova, European Center for Nature Conservation.

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Arctic Council SAO meeting

Reykjavik, Iceland, 9-10 April 2003 - was held the Arctic Council SAO meeting. Delegations from all Arctic countries, permanent participants and observers took part at the meeting. Ms.Ludmila Khorosheva, Arctic Programme coordinator represented IUCN-CIS office. In accordance with the agenda every Working Group made a presentation about their last activities. All Working Group reports are available at the Arctic Council website: www.arctic-council.org.

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Guideline for preparation of Management Plans for Protected Areas

Authors compilers: V.N. Tyrlyshkin, M.S. Stishov, N.I. Troitskaya Editor: O.N. Krever The issue was developed under the IUCN CIS project “Guideline for preparation of Management Plans for Protected Areas” financed by USAID in the framework of Agreement on cooperation with the Institute of Sustainable Communities. Guideline includes methodical aspects for preparing management plans for Protected Areas and standard structure of management plan. Methods for preparing management plans as well as recommendations for their form and content are considered in the Guideline. Guideline for preparation of management plans for Protected Areas is based on Zapovedniks and National Parks experience for their own work planning. Guideline is intended for managers and specialists of Protected Areas and regional (local) Protected Area Systems, as well as other specialists in the field of nature conservation.

April 2003 Nina Ladonina, Coordinator of Agriculture Programme IUCN-CIS Office for Russia and the CIS attend the European Seminar on ‘Good Farming Practice in CEECs’,

Hungary organized be IEEP(The Institute for European Environmental Policy), UNEP, and SAEFL (Swiss Agency for Environment, Forests and Landscape). This seminar aims to provide a forum for discussions and a chance to exchange information between future and current EU Member States on developing codes of Good Farming Practice, particularly in relation to baseline conditions for the agrienvironment and less favoured area measures in the EU’s Rural Development Regulation (the ‘RDR’, Reg 1257/1999). The session at the end of the seminar that aims to identify some longer term priorities for CEECs in relation to rural development after the current planning period (ie post 2006). Nina Ladonina made a presentation “The relevance of Good Farming Practices to the EECCA countries). All materials are available on

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IUCN – event organization for the 5th Ministerial Conference

17-21 March, 2003 – Director of the IUCN Regional Office for Europe Mr. Tamas Marghescu and Director of the IUCN Office for Central Europe Mr. Zenon Tederko visited Kiev. The organization of the Fifth Ministerial Conference "Environment for Europe" which will take place in May 2003 in Kiev was in focus of their interest.

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