7th World Ranger Congress Tanzânia 4-9 November 2012

    Tuesday, 6 November 2012

    7.00 - 8.00 Breakfast

HALL 1

8.00 - 8.30 Raffle

8.30 - 8.40 Housekeeping

8.40 - 9.20 Keynote presentation: Conservation of

Tanzania-Kenya borderlands elephant populations - Dr.

David Western

9.20 - 10.00 Keynote Presentation: Inspiring Tough Teams - Gretchen Mills

10.00 - 10.30 Tea

HALL 1   DEALING WITH HUNGRY PEOPLE:

Challenges facing protected areas

Session Chair: Keith Roberts 

10.30 - 10.50 Social Organization Maintains Bushmeat

Hunting in Western Serengeti, Tanzania. Asanterabi

Lowassa & Anke Fischer

10.50 - 11.10 Conservation Outside Protected Areas:

Community Attitudes towards Large Carnivores in

Northern Tanzania. Maurus Msuha. Katherine

Homewood, Chris Carbone & Sarah Durant

11.10 - 11.30 The Challenges of Private Sector

Engagement in Law Enforcement in Tanzania. Clarence

Msafiri

11.30 - 11.50 Cultural Harvest and Co-Management of

Natural Areas in Auckland, New Zealand. Ali Thompson

11.50 - 12.10 Parks on America’s Border with Mexico

face Challenges related to Illegal Border Crossers. Meg

Weesner

12.10 - 12.30 Analysing Conservation Practice with a

view to provide Guidelines for Site Managers. Peter Mills

HALL 2  WORKING TOWARD HEALTHY PARKS:

Capacity Building 

Session Chair: Marc Weitzel 

10.30 - 10.50 BIOPAMA, a Biodiversity and

Protected Areas Management Project focusing on

the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Regions. P.

Mayaux, G. Dubois & D. Gross

10.50 - 11.10 The 2012 Olympic legacy at Lee

Valley Regional Park. Derek Evans

11.10 - 11.30 Rangers in Denmark and the other

Nordic and Baltic Countries Promote Nature

Interpretation.  Arne Bondo-Andersen

11.30 - 11.50 Interpretation on the Urban Edge –

Partnerships for Community Involvement. Maysiha

Akbar, Fernando Gomez & Jamie Cabral

11.50 - 12.10 Peer to Peer Skills Exchange: a Tool

for Building Capacity in Marine Protected Area

Management in the Western Indian Ocean? Nirmal

Jivan Shah

12.10 - 12.30 The US National Park Service

International Volunteers in Parks Program: Training

International Conservationists and Exchanging Best

Practices on Park Management. Linda Bennet

2.30 - 13.30 Lunch

HALL 1   DEALING WITH HUNGRY PEOPLE:

Challenges facing protected areas

Session Chair: Duncan Scott-Lawson

13.30 - 13.50 Aboriginal Harvesting in Canada’s

National Parks. Birch Howard

13.50 - 14.10 Land Use Conflicts of African Protected

Areas as seen from Space. C. Gross, G. Dubois, J.

Pekel, M. Holmgren, H.H.T. Prins, C. Rondinini & L.

Boitani

14.10 - 14.30 Myeongpum Village, New Solution for

Conservation and Sustainable Use of National Park

Resources. J.K. Choi, U.Y. Kwon, J.B. Jeong & S.H. Lee

14.30 - 14.50 Disasters Don’t Stop at Boundaries. Chris

Artiemiew

14.50 - 15.00 Poster Introductions

15.00 Ngorongoro Field Trip Departures – Assemble in car park & board safari vehicles

HALL 2  WORKING TOWARD HEALTHY PARKS:

Capacity Building 

Session Chair: Andrew Nixon

13.10 - 15.00 Workshop 1: The IUCN Global

Partnership for Professionalizing Protected Area

Management – Moses Wafula Mapesa & Wayne

Lotter

15.00 Ngorongoro Field Trip Departures – Assemble in car park & board safari vehicles

15.20 - 15.50 Tea

HALL 1

18.00 - 19.00 Short movies

19.00 - 20.00 Dinner

20.00 - 20.20 Recognition of new IRF members

20.20 onwards - Rangers ‘Cultural night’