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’
