Title:
Recreational And Educational Developments And The Leasing Of Trading
Rights And Concessions In And Adjacent To Wilderness Zones Within SA
National Parks
Proposed by: John Williams
Seconded by:
Bruce
Hamilton, Charles Watson
WHEREAS,
The National Parks Board of South Africa has the responsibility and
mandate to conserve biological diversity and the natural heritage in the
national parks for all South Africans and the world in perpetuity; and
Accepted international park planning, development and wilderness criteria
and standards are firmly established and accepted by members of the World
Conservation Union (IUCN), of which SANP is a member; and
SANP has entered into numerous recreational, educational, tourism and
other concessions that involve developments within National Parks.
THEREFORE,
the 7th World Wilderness Congress hereby
Congratulates the National Parks Board for seeking new and innovative
ways to raise funds to strengthen, manage and expand SA National Parks;
and hereby
RESOLVES, that
The long term biological, social and financial interests of SA national
parks is best served by SANP and other partners including My Acre of
Africa to adhere to IUCN park planning guidelines and independent EIA
procedures including processes of independent review and the submission of
full financial disclosure prospectus; and, further;
In respect of present and future leases, to implement a comprehensive
strategic environmental assessment (SEA) with its peer review component,
taking account of these present and future commercialization plans and
proposals in all SA National Parks.
Proposed by:
John Williams
Nature.limited@nix.co.za
Seconded by:
Bruce Hamilton
Sierra Club,
USA
Bruce.Hamilton@sierraclub.org
Charles Watson
NORA (USA)
Watson@edurus.com
