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IIED Attends 3rd IUCN World Conservation Congress in ThailandNovember 15, 2004 (London, UK) -- Twelve representatives from IIED will the attending the IUCN World Conservation Congress (WCC), which takes place November 17th to 27th in Bangkok, Thailand. The timetable of IIED Participation in the WCC events is available in PDF format: (View PDF 19k). The complete list of IIED participants at the Congress is also available: (View PDF 8k). This event provides the venue for the launching of IIED’s latest MDG publication, The Millennium Development Goals and Conservation - Managing Nature’s Wealth for Society’s Health. In this booklet, IIED has brought together a group of leading conservation and development organisations to share their insights and experiences on the links between the MDGs and conservation. It is the second in a series of three publications on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), available from the MDG section of the IIED website. View the flyer for the book launch: (PDF file 490k) The second is a new joint publication with IUCN/CEESP, entitled Sharing Power - Learning by Doing in Co-Management of Natural Resources Throughout the World. The book is the result of the authors’ efforts to bring together accounts and reflections on a variety of partnerships for the managing natural resources in different social and ecological contexts. View the book launch flyer: (PDF file 704k) The Congress will also host the launch of a new initiative, the International Poverty and Conservation Learning Group. This will be the first-ever forum for the sharing of information, analysis and mutual learning between key stakeholders, from a range of backgrounds, on conservation-poverty linkages. IIED staff will also participate in various Global Synthesis Workshops covering issues such as law enforcement and governance of natural resources, sustainable products, ensuring equity in ecosystem service markets and linking conservation and poverty. The Ring, a global alliance of research and policy organizations of which IIED is a member, will host an International Workshop entitled “Contribution of the Poor in Poverty Reduction and conservation: good policies from good practices.” This event will focus on the increasingly important topic of balancing biodiversity conservation with sustainable livelihoods and to share relevant experience from a variety of contexts. View the flyer for this event: (PDF file 555k). Copyright © 2005 International Institute for Environment and Development. |
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