Migratory Species: Working Together towards a Vision for 2O2O Opportunities and Challenges for Conservation through Sustainable Use Kai Wollscheid Director General CIC

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Migratory Species Working Together towards a
Vision for 2O2OOpportunities and Challenges for
Conservation through Sustainable UseKai
WollscheidDirector GeneralCIC International
Council for Game and Wildlife Conservation
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Content

• A Magazine
• A Revolutionary
• Model
• 3. A Challenge

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• If you have built castles in the air,
• your work need not be lost
• that is where they should be.
• Now put foundations under them.
• Henry David Thoreau

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This gathering could offer an ideal opportunity
to further such foundations
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1. A Magazine
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1871...

• ...a new monthly newspaper appeared in the US
  The American Sportsman
• Amasing shift in social and civic conscience
  to rescue and support wildlife for generations to
  come

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2. A Revolutionary Model
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The North American Wildlife Conservation Model

• Cause and concern hunters voices echoed across
  the continent, demanding a codified approach to
  the taking of wildlife a prescription for both,
  human conduct and motivation

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The North American Wildlife Conservation Model (2)

• Launch of a social and intellectual revolution
• Wildlife became tied to identity, sense of
  nationhood and civic responsability
• This doctrine relied on the taking of nature, not
  on simply viewing it

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The North American Wildlife Conservation Model (3)

• Concept based on Seven Sisters
• 1. public trust,
• 2. prohibition of commerce,
• 3. democratic rule of law,
• 4. hunting opportunity for all,
• 5. non-frivolous use,
• 6. international resources,
• 7. scientific management

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The North American Wildlife Conservation Model (4)

• 6. International resources
• 1916 Great Britain (on behalf of
  Canada) and the US sign the Migratory
  Bird Convention
• 1918 Migratory Bird Treaty Act implements
  Convention in the US
• Similar agreements with other nations followed

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3. A Challenge
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• The United Nations Conference on Environment and
  Development in Rio de Janeiro (1992) applied the
  concept of sustainable development.
• During the last years, the sector of tourism for
  example has developed different concepts for
  environmentally friendly forms of tourism. A
  so-called environmental management can assure
  that negative impacts of tourism are reduced to a
  minimum.
• A number of regional and global initiatives do
  exist that have one aim in common to further
  sustainable use of all resources
  (http//www.cbd.int/default.shtml).

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Use of Resources
The concept of Sustainable Development
1992 2002 2004 2007
Sustainable Use
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IUCN Policy Statement Amman 2000Sustainable Use
of Wild Living Resources

• Use, if sustainable can serve human needs
• on an ongoing basis while contributing to the
  conservation of biological diversity
• Use of wild living resources, if sustainable,
  is an important conservation tool because the
  social and economic benefits derived from such
  use provide incentives for people to conserve
  them

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• CBD has developed two very significant
  Guidelines the Guidelines on Biodiversity and
  Tourism Development and the Addis Ababa
  Principles and Guidelines for the Sustainable Use
  of Biodiversity (AAPG).
• The Guidelines on Biodiversity and Tourism
  Development (http//www.cbd.int/programmes/socio-e
  co/tourism/guidelines.asp) CBD recognizes that
  sustainable tourism can provide significant
  benefits to biodiversity conservation. The
  guidelines cover all forms of tourism. Special
  focus lies on indigenous and local communities.
  Tourism can also play a crucial role in
  incorporating sustainable use and equity
  strategies within and around protected areas. The
  Convention furthermore asks for feedback on the
  effectiveness of these Guidelines.

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Use of Resources
The concept of Sustainable Development
1992 2002 2004 2007
ADDIS ABABA Principles and Guidelines for the
Sustainable Use of Biodiversity
Guidelines on Biodiversity and Tourism
Development
Tourism
Use of Biodiversity
Principles and Guidelines for Sustainable Hunting
Tourism
Hunting Tourism
Sustainable Use
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The Addis Ababa Principles and Guidelines for the
Sustainable Use of Biodiversity (AAPG)
(http//www.cbd.int/programmes/socio-eco/use/addis
.asp) were developed and finally adopted by the
Parties to the CBD in February 2004. The CIC,
like IUCN, was right from the beginning a partner
in this process and assisted in the development
of the AAPG. The AAPG in fact represent the
latest state of the art on sustainable use of
biodiversity, and provide a framework for
assisting stakeholders on all geographical
levels, as well as institutional levels such as
the UN System, Conventions, Governments,
development agencies, local and indigenous
communities, resource managers, the private
sector and NGOs, on how to ensure that their uses
of biodiversity will not lead to its long-term
decline.
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Important Notes

• The Principles
• apply to consumptive and
• non-consumptive use
• are intended to be of general relevance
• but not all apply equally to all situations
• or apply with equal rigour
• Full version
  www.biodiv.org
• www.cic-wildlife.org

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In a nutshell

• Sustainability of use of biodiversity
• will be enhanced if there is
• Supportive linked governance at all levels
• Empowerment accountability of local users
• Adaptive management using science,
• monitoring, local knowledge and
• timely feedbacks
• Equitable sharing of benefits for local people
• Transparency international co-operation
• Public awareness of the benefits Full
  version www.biodiv.org

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Sustainable developmentis a process...
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Sustainable tourism management
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Conservation needs data
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Harvest Data...

• ...in many regions and for many species not
  sufficient enough
• Even if data does exist sharing remains
  critical (provision of data regarded as threat
  for further use of species)
• Many organisations involved in monitoring of
  harvest (AEWA, WI, etc.)

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Conservation needs finance
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Sustainable Financing

• If wildlife and protected areas do not contribute
  to poverty reduction but instead limit availble
  resources which otherwise could be used to
  alleviate poverty, then their conservation has no
  political future.

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Sustainable Financing

• Sustainable use options for wildlife (including
  migratory species) are many and varied
• Photo tourism, hunting, meat production, use of
  by-products, etc.

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Sustainable Financing

• Empirical experience shows combination of
  different forms of utilisation usually renders
  highest income!
• In some instances environmentally friendly
  wildlife utilisation can brin equal/greater
  revenue per unit area then other land use options
  (e.g agriculture)

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Conclusions

• conservation concepts must be sustainable in all
  aspects politically, economically, ecologically
• Provision of harvest data must be seen as carrot,
  rather then a stick

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Conclusions (2)

• Increased education of resource users on
  biological impact of use during different life
  cycles
• Why not creating a Sustainable Use CHM to
  increase credibility of data management?

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Conclusions (3)

• More equaty in reporting success! Ciritical role
  of (conservation) media in presenting successes
  and failures in both, consumptive and
  non/consumptive use of migratory species
• Broad coalition required for developing tangible
  standards and criteria for SU

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Acknowledgements

• Special thanks to CIC Expert Prof. Shane Mahoney,
  Newfoundland, for his advise on the North
  American Wildlife Conservation Model. For further
  reading http//www.rmef.org/Hunting/HuntersConser
  vation
• Contributions to this presentation came also from
  Kolja Zimmermann, Coordinator CIC Sustainable
  Hunting Tourism Programme.

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• Thank you for your
• sustained attention!