the million project with pan parks wilderness definition
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This is a presentation which I prepared for the Identification and Mapping of Wilderness workshop (Brasov, Romania, 23-24 February 2012). The event was organised by WWF Danube/Carpathian Programme as part of its attempt to map wilderness areas in the Carpathian.My main message was:we need to be strict with our wilderness definition and true wilderness areas should join the PAN Parks' The Million Project!TRANSCRIPT
Paanajärvi NP © Viktor
Gritsuk
Zoltan KUN, Executive DirectorPAN Parks Foundation
THE MILLION PROJECTPAN Parks WILDERNESS AND ACTIVITIES
Paanajärvi NP ©Viktor Gritsuk
What we do
• PAN Parks works to protect Europe’s wilderness, the continent’s most undisturbed areas of nature
• the first European-wide organisation focusing on the protection of wilderness areas
Fulufjallet NP © Vitantonio Dell’Orto
NO extractive use such as:•hunting•fishing•mining•logging•grazing•grass cutting•road and building constructionis allowed in wilderness
What is wilderness?
Fulufjället NP © Vitantonio Dell’Orto/exuviaphoto.com
Peneda-Geres NP © Marcos Veiga
Archipelago NP © Janne Görling
Archipelago NP © Janne Görling
Borjomi-Kharagauli NP © Konstantin Gabrichidze
Oulanka NP © Kimmo Salminen
Soomaa NP © Arne Ader
The Million Project
Majella NP ©MNP
Building partnerships with protected areas
• Making a commitment to resolve a major challenge
• Improving wilderness management in partner protected areas
Archipelago NP © Seppo Keränen
The Million Project
To ensure guaranteed protection of 1 million hectares of wilderness
in Europe by 2015
A conservation partnerships
Majella NP © Bruno D’Amicis
• Wilderness partners: areas with wilderness committed to wilderness protection (no size criteria)
• Certified PAN Parks: branded parks with min. 10,000 ha of wilderness(best of Europe’s wilderness)
Partners in The Million Project
©iStock/Graeme Purdy
340,000 ha of wilderness
Wilderness momentum
• European Parliament’s special report on wilderness
• European Commission- ‘Agenda for Wilderness’
• Wilderness in Biodiversity Strategy
What we have achieved so far
Paanajärvi NP ©Viktor Gritsuk
We can protect the last pieces of Europe’s wilderness together for future generations!
Join us in The Million Project!
Our plans in 2012 and beyondImplement The Million Project• 500,000 ha in 2012• 700,000 ha in 2013• 1 Million ha by end of 2015
Oulanka NP ©Hannu Hautala
Rila NP © Nicolas Cegalerba
Invest in generating public support• Social media campaign• One Million Tweets• 1 Million People• European Citizens’ Initiative?• European Year of Wilderness in 2015 (launch in during WILD10)
Our plans in 2012 and beyond
Archipelago NP © Heidi Arponen
Mobilising more funding• individual donations• corporate donations• tourism related incomes• 1 Million EUR / year -> at least 75% goes to conservation actions in the field
Our plans in 2012 and beyond
Borjomi-Kharagauli NP © Kote Gabrichidze
The Economics of Wilderness
Why dealing with the economics of wilderness?
• the EP report on wilderness Calls on the Commission and Member States to co-operate with local non-governmental organisations to promote the value of wilderness (point 6);
Wilderness is not a priceless heritage for future generations!• Europeans are not valuing wilderness as much as they should!
Oulanka NP ©Michael Hennemann
The Economics of Wilderness
Majella NP © Bruno D’Amicis
Research & Policy• European Wilderness research agenda• Mapping (wilderness register)• Wilderness guidance• WILD10• support restoration projects aiming protection• BE PART OF IT!
Our plans in 2012 and beyond
PAN Parks works to protect
Europe’s wilderness, the
continent’s most undisturbed
areas of nature
www.panparks.org