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The Third Conference on the Protected Areas of East Asia

"Community Involvement in-and-around the Protected Areas in East Asia"

Seoul, Korea, 7-11 September 1999

The Third Conference on the Protected Areas of East Asia (IUCN/WCPA-EA-3) will be held in the Pukan-san National Park, Seoul from the 7-11 September 1999. The conference has been organised by the IUCN/WCPA East Asia Steering Committee, led by Professor Bo-Myeong Woo and is co-sponsored by the Ministry of Environment, Korea and Yuhan-Kimberly. The official language for the conference will be English with translation into Korean.

Agenda themes include:

• Plenary Session: focusing on the main issues and solutions in each country/territory of the region;
• Session 1: general management issues, issues and conflict solutions, transboundary protected areas, and sustainable financing in protected areas
• Session 2: conservation of biodiversity & ecosystems, and wildlife conservation and trade
• Session 3: marine and wetlands, mountain protected areas, nature reserves, restoration of protected areas, and World Heritage.
• Session 4: networking, cooperation with NGOs, training and capacity building, and ecotourism

Prof Bo-Myeong Woo, Chair
Korean Organising Committee for IUCN/WCPA-EA-3
Tel: 82-331-294-0666
Fax: 82-331-296-7787
Email: bmwoo@plaza.snu.ac.kr or IUCN Programme on Protected Areas

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