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Workshops

Summary of the Conservation and Sustainable Management of Trees project regional workshops

Three regional workshops were convened by the UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC) as part of the joint UNEP-WCMC and IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC) project entitled the Conservation and sustainable management of trees, funded by the Government of the Netherlands.The three workshops were held at the following venues:

The Jameson Hotel, Harare, Zimbabwe. 9-11 July, 1996

Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza (CATIE), Turrialba, Costa Rica. 18-20 November, 1996

The Army Hotel, Hanoi, Viet Nam. 18-21 August, 1997

The general objectives of the workshops were:

to review existing information on the conservation of tree species and to collect additional information on species of conservation concern;

to advise on the development of a Tree Conservation Information Service appropriate for national, regional and international needs;

to plan for the establishment, or to discuss the activities of, regional SSC tree specialist groups

Introductions to the Conservation and sustainable management of trees project, the Tree Conservation Information Service, and The IUCN Red List categories and guidelines were made by project staff.

Many presentations were made by participants which gave detailed accounts of the conservation programmes and projects for threatened tree species within each region and the experiences of participants in applying species threat categories.

Working groups were convened to discuss the conservation status of widespread tree species of resource importance on a regional basis and the application of the new IUCN categories and criteria.

The workshops were very productive with many positive ideas emerging towards the conservation of tree species. Participants were thanked for their contributions to the workshops and the support received for the Conservation and sustainable management of trees project

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Document URL: http://www.unep-wcmc.org /trees/Background/workshops.htm Revision date: 05 September 2007 \| Current date: 16 May 2008

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