TWO COMPONENTS Communicating the value and benefits of protected areas to the wider world: 1 hour

1. PROTECTED AREAS WORKSHOP: WHAT PROTECTED AREAS DO FOR YOU? Edinburgh 20th April 2010Workshop Leader Roger Crofts IUCN WCPA Emeritus

2. TWO COMPONENTS • Communicating the value and benefits of protected areas to the wider world: 1 hour • Promoting use in the UK of the IUCN Guidelines for Applying Protected Areas Management Categories: 45 minutes

3. Communicating the value and benefits of protected areas to the wider world • Values • Benefits • Challenges • Winning the argument • Your thoughts

4. VALUES • Iconic • Aesthetic • Moral & ethical • Spiritual • Nature & natural systems

5. BENEFITS • Poverty reduction: water supply, disease resistance • Water supply: soil & habitat management • New food sources: crop wild relatives • Hazard mitigation: landscape stability & absorption • Human health: exercise & refreshment, traditional medicines & medicinal plants • Climate change: mitigation sequestration & adaptation ecosystem function • Spiritual & sacred link with nature

6. CHALLENGES • Economic development main driver • Climate change agenda key motivator • Low on political & public agendas • Public resources are limited & shrinking • Continuing urbanisation

7. HOW TO WIN THE ARGUMENT? • Broader basis: aesthetic, moral, cultural etc? • Better arguments: financial angles etc? • Targeting different audiences? • New language? • Using trained communicators?

8. Communicating the value and benefits of protected areas to the wider world What is your action plan for IUCN and WCPA in the UK?

9. APPLYING THE IUCN MANAGEMENT CATEGORIES TO THE UK’S PROTECTED AREAS FOR INCLUSION IN THE WORLD DATA BASE ON PROTECTED AREAS Guidelines for Applying Protected Area Management Categories Edited by Nigel Dudley

10. THE CATEGORIES Ia Strict Nature Reserve Ib Wilderness Area II National Park III Natural Monument or Feature IV Habitat/species Management Area V Protected landscape or seascape VI Protected area with sustainable use of natural resources

11. WHY APPLY GUIDELINES? • WCPA Chair invites all countries to do so • WCPA Chair considers UK lags behind in quality of protected areas reporting • Only few UK protected areas types included: Category IV NNRs & MNRs, Category V NPs, AONBs, & NSAs • No Category Ia, II, III or VI in the UK • SSSIs/ASSSIs, Natura sites, WHSs, LNRs, NGO reserves etc not included

12. THE BENEFITS • More comprehensive data • Demonstrate the variety of types & governance systems • Improve reporting to CBD and EU • Reveal potential for connectivity • Raise profile of protected areas • Introduce IUCN & WCPA to new audiences

13. THE TASKS • Review potential protected areas against IUCN guidelines • Assign IUCN Category to those places recognised as protected areas • Report information to UNEP/WCMC & IUCN • Use the results to promote protected areas

14. REVIEW PROCESS • Task Force: volunteers wanted • Project Co-ordinator: offers of help needed • Twelve months duration • Funding need c£30,000: half raised to date

15. YOUR ROLE? Your personally and your organisation? • Provide data on protected areas • Undertaking pilot studies • Undertake assessments applying guidelines criteria • Provide staff time • Provide financial resources

16. INTERPRETING ‘NATURE’ IN A UK CONTEXT “A clearly defined geographical space, recognised, dedicated and managed, through legal or other effective means, to achieve the long-term conservation of nature with associated ecosystem services and cultural values”. Nature always refers to biodiversity, at genetic, species and ecosystem levels, and often also refers to geodiversity, landform and broader natural values.

17. HOW DO WE INTERPRET ‘NATURE’? Is it solely natural? Should it include human modified habitats? Should it include cultural landscapes and features?

18. What protected areas can do for you Effective protected areas systems, contributing benefits to wider natural and human worlds A perpetual activity to achieve recognition of role & benefits of protected areas