News in 2003
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PAN Parks potential in Turkey 08 December 2003 Pre-verification visit to Küre Mountains and Dilek Peninsula National Parks shows strong Turkish commitment to PAN Parks. Conservation Manager Vlado Vancura visited Turkey between 15-21 November with the goal to explore PAN Parks potential and kick off the PAN Parks verification process in the... more |
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Monitoring in Bieszczady 04 December 2003 In its first annual monitoring visit, Bieszczady shows that it is living up to the PAN Park title. Rachel Wieting, monitoring verifier visited the area in November 2003 with the main purpose to check progress on the requests and recommendations made by verifiers in 2002 when Bieszczady was... more |
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PAN Parks visits Europarc Federation 18 November 2003 PAN Parks representatives, Vladivoj Vancura and Zoltán Kun visited Europarc Federation in November to initiate discussion of cooperation between PAN Parks and the Federation. Both sides feel it is time to re-shape their common strategy and work together for conservation initiatives throughout... more |
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PAN Parks is growing! 22 September 2003 Europe's Wilderness Days: a celebration for a newly certified PAN Park The third annual PAN Parks conference will be held in Bulgaria in October. Entitled Europe's Wilderness Days, the goal of the conference is to build relationships between our partners, local business and potential PAN Parks... more |
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Vth World Parks Congress 09 September 2003 The World Parks Congress (WPC) is the major global forum for protected areas taking place between 8 and 17 September with 2500 participants in Durban South-Africa. Participants refine policies on protected area policy, share experience about protected areas, and plan future developments. The... more |
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Parks and participation 07 September 2003 Protected areas now cover more of the Earth's surface than the giant countries of India and China combined. Their numbers are still growing, as are those of the elite World Heritage sites designated for "outstanding natural value". But the challenge is not just to increase their area, it is also to... more |
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Improving management effectiveness in Slovakia 28 August 2003 RAPPAM, WWF's management effectiveness measurement method, will be applied in Slovakian national parks. This was decided at the meeting of representatives of the Slovak Ministry of Environment, the PAN Parks Foundation and the WWF Danube-Carpathian Programme held in Bratislava, Slovakia on 20... more |
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Verification: looking back and forward 20 July 2003 PAN Parks verifiers met in Petronell, Austria to evaluate and update the PAN Parks verification process. The workshop provided opportunity for reviewing lessons learnt during this year's verification in Bulgaria and preparing the verification against Principles 4-5 and the monitoring of already... more |
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Oulanka - a leading PAN Park 11 May 2003 "Oulanka, Finland is ready for completing PAN Parks verification," stated Matti Tapaninen of Oulanka at the meeting of local co-ordinators of certified PAN Parks in Bieszczady National Park, Poland. Local PAN Parks representatives met to share expertise and experience on the development of... more |
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Large Herbivore issues in Slovensky raj 16 April 2003 PAN Parks Candidate Slovensky raj National Park hosted the Large Herbivore Intiative (LHI) Core Group meeting between 12-16 April 2003.The expert group also participated in a field trip and lead discussions on chamois management in Slovensky raj. Since chamois have a negative impact on the core... more |
