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7th World Wilderness Congress
2-8 November, 2001 Port Elizabeth, South Africa
Wilderness and Human Communities: The Spirit of the 21st Century
WORLD WILDERNESS SUMMIT
2-4 November
WILDERNESS WORKING SESSIONS
5-8 November
Part I
WORLD WILDERNESS SUMMIT
2 - 4 November
(Major, overview presentations and cultural programme)
THURSDAY, 1 NOVEMBER
O8:30 Registration
- Opens at Boardwalk facility - all day
1:00 Launch of Environmental Film
Festival - "Wilderness -The Gift & the
Challenge" (Thursday 1st - Saturday 3rd Nov, at the Boardwalk Conference Center)
2:30 First Screening, International Film Festival at the Boardwalk Tsitsikamma Conference Centre
5:30 - 6:30 Eastern Cape Crafters Expo -
Reception -- at the Boardwalk Craft Marquee
FRIDAY, 2 NOVEMBER
07:30 Registration opens - Feather Market Hall, town centre
09:00 - 10:30 Opening
Ceremonies
Mr Murphy Morobe, presiding (Chairman, 7th World Wilderness Congress; Chairman, SA National Parks Board)
Credo Mutwa (Zulu, Sanusi) - Blessing
Welcome by Dignitaries
Eastern Cape Cultural Show Case - Introduced by MEC, Mrs Nosimo Balindlela - (Eastern Cape, Department of Sport, Recreation, Arts and Culture)
Keynote -- Dr Ian Player (Founder, World Wilderness Congress)
Wilderness - The Spirit of the 21st Century
10:30 - 11:00 Refreshments
11:00 - 12:30 Wilderness Designation - A Political Process
Chair - Mr Mavuso Msimang, (Chief Executive, SA National Parks Board)
The Hon. Valli Moosa - (Minister of Environment, SA)
Wilderness in South Africa - Serving all Communities.
The Hon. Philemon Malima - (Minister of Environment and Tourism, Namibia) Wilderness in Namibian National Parks
The Hon. Ms Fatima Jardim - (Minister of Fisheries and Environment, Angola) Wilderness and National Parks -Transformation in Angola
The Hon. Jorge Valentim - (Minister of Tourism, Angola)
12:30 - 2:00 Lunch
2:00 - 3:30 Wilderness, Politics, Economics - A Global Issue
Chair - Mr Enoch Godongwana, (MEC - Eastern Cape)
The Hon. Clay Shaw - (U.S. Congress, House of Representatives)
U.S. Political Perspective - Africa
Ms Elizabeth Estill - (Deputy Chief, US Forest Service)
Wilderness and Human Communities - US Federal Agencies
Dr Mohamed El Ashry (Executive Director, Global Environmental Facility, The World Bank)
GEF's Commitment to Wildlands and Human Communities (delivered by Dr. Walter
Lusigi)
Dr Mohamed Bakarr - (Conservation International)
The African Protected Areas Initiative and the World Parks Congress 2003
3:30 - 4:15 Refreshments
4:15 - 5:30 Engaging the Private Sector
Chair - Ms Gwen Mahlangu (Member of Parliament; Chairperson, Environmental Portfolio Committee; SA)
Mr Cyril Ramaphosa (Chairman, Johnnic Holdings Ltd)
The Private Sector Role in Sustaining African Wildlands.
Mr Gareth Pyne-James (Founder and CEO, My Acre of Africa)
My Acre of Africa - New Funding Strategy for African Protected
Areas.
5:30 Adjournment
Mr Murphy Morobe (Chairman, 7th WWC)
Dinner on your own.
8:00 - 9:30 WILD Enough! An evening of upbeat music by
Claire Johnston, Ray Phiri and David Rothenberg -- At the Amphitheater, Boardwalk Conference Centre
SATURDAY, 3 NOVEMBER
07:30 Registration Open, Feather Market Hall, Town Centre
08:30 - 09:00 Organ Music
09:00 - 10:15 Wilderness and Human Communities
Chair - Mr John Seed (Rainforest Information Center, Australia)
Columbia - Dr Martin von Hildebrand (Founder, Fundacion Gaia
Amazonas)
India - Dr Vandana Shiva (Director, Research Centre for Science, Technology and Ecology)
Kenya - Prof. Wangari Maathai (Founder, Green Belt Movement)
Wilderness and Community
10:15 - 10:45 Refreshments
10:45 - 12:45 Strategies for Wilderness and Human Communities
Chair - Ms Nomkhita Mona (CEO, Eastern Cape Tourism Board)
Africa - Mr Khulani Mkhize, (CEO KwaZuluNatal Wildlife)
Wilderness and Human Communities in KwaZulu Natal
Australia - Mr Alec Marr - (The Wilderness Society)
Australian Wilderness - The Status, the Challenges, the Future.
Madagascar - Mr Serge Rajaobelina (Director, FANAMBY) Wilderness - A Future in Madagascar
USA - Mr Bruce Hamilton (Conservation Director, Sierra Club, USA)
A Century of Wilderness Activism
India - Mr Bittu Sahgal (Editor, Sanctuary Magazine) The Wilderness Trail: Wildlands and Tribal Communities in India
12:45 - 1:45 Lunch
1:45 - 3:00 Mega Wilderness: Part I
Chair - Dr John Hanks - (Conservation International,
Capetown)
Transfrontier Conservation Areas in Africa - Their Role in Conserving Wilderness Areas
Dr Michael Soulé (Science Director, The Wildlands Project)
The Role of Top Carnivores in the Regulation of Ecosystem Structure and Diversity
Mr David Johns (Director, The Wildlands Project)
The Necessity of Changing What's Possible - Implementing Large-Scale Wildlands Protection.
3:00 - 3:30 Refreshments
3:30 - 5:15 Wilderness - The Spirit of People and Place
Chair - Dr Ian McCallum (Psychologist)
Wilderness and a Sense of Self
Prof. David Rothenberg - (writer, philosopher, musician; New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA)
The World and the Wild: Can People and Wilderness Meet?
The Reverend Thomas Berry (Director, The Riverside Center)
Video Presentation
The Power of Story and The Capacity for Change
Credo Mutwa (Zulu sanusi)
Africa is Our Story
5:15 - 5:30 Closing of Wilderness Summit
Mr Vance Martin (President, The WILD Foundation; Co-Director,
7th WWC) Wilderness: Now, More Than Ever
Mr Murphy Morobe (Chairman) - Closing, World Wilderness Summit
7:30 "Celebrating
Wilderness" - An African evening of food, music and message - EC Steel Band, New Generation Dancers
SUNDAY, 4 NOVEMBER
12:00 - 8:00 Registration open at Boardwalk Tsitsikamma Conference Centre
All day ---- Into the Local Community -- Day tours for delegates - Local Townships, Game Reserves, Natural Areas
7:30 The Wilderness Campfire
- story telling, in the Amphitheater, Boardwalk Conference Center
Ian Player, Credo Mutwa
Part II
WILDERNESS WORKING SESSIONS
5 - 8 November
(Discussion format on major themes, models and issues, and cultural
programme) at the Boardwalk Conference Centre
MONDAY, 5 NOVEMBER
07:30 - Registration Opens, Boardwalk, Tsitsikamma Conference Centre
08:30 - 08:45 Opening: Wilderness Working Sessions
Chair - Mr Andrew Muir (Executive Director, 7th WWC; Director, Wilderness Foundation, SA)
Charge to Delegates
08:45 - 09:00 African Wilderness - audio visual by Mr Trevor Barrett
09:00 - 10:00 Private Sector Wilderness
Chair - Prof. Richard Cowling - (Terrestrial Ecology Research Unit,
UPE)
Expanding wilderness on private lands: the need for a systematic approach
Mr Adrian Gardiner, Dr Johan Joubert and
Mr Keith Loon - The Shamwari Model
10:00 - 10:30 Refreshments
10:30 - 11:30 Wilderness - Tribal and Communal
Chair: Dr Chris Brown (Director, Namibia Nature Foundation)
Khoadi Hoas-Communal Wilderness in Namibia
Mr Terry Tanner (Confederated Sailash and Kootenai Tribes)
Mission Mountains Wilderness- Spirit, Culture, Nature and
Management.
11:30 - 12:30 The African Public Sector - Wilderness models
Chair - Mr Gladman Buthelezi (KwaZulu-Natal Wildlife)
Prof. Graham Kerley (Terrestrial Ecology, University of Port Elizabeth)
The Baviaanskloof Conservation Area: Beyond Wilderness
Mr Andrew Zaloumis (Executive Director, Lubombo Spatial Development Authority, South Africa)
Lake St Lucia - A World Heritage Park, SA
Mr Trygve Cooper (Senior Warden, Ministry of Environment and Tourism, Namibia)
The Sperrgebiet - Desert Wilderness Park of Namibia
12:30 - 2:00 Lunch
1:30 - 4:45 Technical Sessions:
Science and Stewardship to Protect and Sustain Wilderness Values
(Dr Alan Watson, Aldo Leopold Wilderness Research Institute)
Wilderness of the Mind and Spirit (Mr Bill Petrie)
Earth Jurisprudence (The Gaia Foundation)
2:00 - 4:00 GLOBE Southern African Seminar:
The Role of Legislators in Protecting Wilderness Areas
(with the support of IFAW)
International Film Festival - screening of short-listed films
4:30 - 6:00 Indaba -
Open Council Dr John Hendee, Ms Marilyn Riley
Dinner on your own
8:00 - 10:00 "The Last Dance - a Hunter's
Story" - screening of award-winning environmental film by James
Hersov- depicts the San people's intimate knowledge and understanding of and oneness with their environment.
TUESDAY, 6 NOVEMBER
07:30 Registration opens at Boardwalk Tsitsikamma Conference Centre
08:30 -- 9:45 Wilderness and Wildlife
Chair - Dr Iain Douglas-Hamilton - Status of Elephants and their Wildland Range in Africa
Ms Laurie Marker and Mr Matti Ngikhembua - (Cheetah Conservation Fund, Namibia) -
Wildlife, Wilderness and People - Can We Share?
Prof. Wouter van Hoven - (Centre for Wildlife Management - University of Pretoria)
and Mr Augosto Gois - (Kissama Foundation, Angola)
Restoring a Wilderness in Partnership with the People of Angola
9:45 - 10:15
Dr Crispian Olver (Director-General, Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism, SA)
World Summit of Sustainable Development, Johannesburg, 2001
Dr Walter Lusigi (GEF, The World Bank)
The Vth World Parks Congress, Durban, 2003
10:00 - 10:15 Eastern Cape Provincial Show Case
10:15 - 10:45 Refreshments
10:45 - 12:30 Wilderness -- Working With Local Communities
Chair -
Mr José Alves and Miss Shannon Kordom (RARE Center -
Namaqualand) Local Empowerment through a Nature Guide Training Programme
Mr Howard Frederick and Ms Ivy Mwai - (Wildlife Awareness Foundation, Kenya)
Conservation Perspectives in East Africa
Dr Richard Jeo - (Round River Conservation Studies, USA, Canada)
The Taku River Tlingit - Wilderness and Community
Mr Maurice Mackenzie (MPL, KwaZulu-Natal) iNkosi
Mazibuko
Mzinyathi Community Conservation Area
12:30 - 2:00 Lunch
1:30 - 4:45 Technical Sessions:
Science and Stewardship to Protect and Sustain Wilderness Values
(Dr Alan Watson, Aldo Leopold Wilderness Research Institute)
Wilderness of the Mind and Spirit (Mr Bill Petrie)
Earth Jurisprudence (The Gaia Foundation)
2:00 - 4:00 Afternoon Workshop:
From Confrontation to Cooperation: Business Contributions to Nature Conservation and Wilderness Protection
(Global Nature Fund, Germany)
2:00 - 4:00 Film Festival -
screening of short-listed films
4:30 - 6:00 Indaba -
Open Council Dr John Hendee, Ms Marilyn Riley
7:30 Africa on the Beach - Food and entertainment, hosted by the Mayor of Port Elizabeth
WEDNESDAY, 7 NOVEMBER
07:30 Registration opens, Boardwalk Tsitsikamma Conference Centre
08:30 -- 10:30 Wilderness and the Issue of Sustainability
Chair - Mr Michael Sweatman (Chairman, The WILD Foundation)
08:30 - 09:45 Part 1:
Local Communities and Sustainable Tourism
Mr Malcolm McCulloch - (Ndumo and Rocktail Bay) Sustainable Tourism in Practice
Simon Metcalf and associate (African Wildlife Foundation)
The Four Corners Initiative
09:45 - 10:30 Part 2:
Sustainable Urban Centres:
Ms Kirstin Miller (EcoCities, USA)
Future Cities and the Fate of Wilderness: Balance by Design
Industry and Sustainability:
Global Sustainability - Unilever's Corporate Mission
10:30 - 10:45 Eastern Cape Cultural Show Case
10:45 - 11:15 Refreshments
11:15 - - 12:30 Megawilderness - Part II
Dr Michael Fay (Smithsonian Institution) and Mr Marcellin Agnagna (Congo)
The Mega-Transect and African Wilderness
12:30 - 2:00 Lunch
1:30 - 4:45 Technical Session:
Science and Stewardship to Protect and Sustain Wilderness Values
(Dr Alan Watson, Aldo Leopold Wilderness Research Institute)
Wilderness of the Mind and Spirit (Mr Bill Petrie)
Earth Jurisprudence (The Gaia Foundation)
2:00 - 4:00 Afternoon workshop
The Sierra Club Model Mr Bruce Hamilton
Sustainable Tourism- Africa - Mr Michael Sweatman
2:00 - 4:00 Film Festival - screening of short listed films
4:30 - 6:00 Indaba -
Open Council Dr John Hendee, Ms Marilyn Riley
Dinner on your own
7:30 - 9:00 International Environmental Film Festival
Screening of Winners - Best of Show
7:30 - 9:00 Wrap-Up Technical Session:
Science and Stewardship to Protect and Sustain Wilderness Values
(Dr Alan Watson, Aldo Leopold Wilderness Research Institute)
THURSDAY, 8 NOVEMBER
07:30 Registration Opens, Boardwalk Tsitsikamma Conference Centre
08:30 - 10:00 Communicating Wilderness - Informing, Inspiring, and Empowering
Chair - Mr Partha Sarathy (Trustee, World Wildlife Fund - India; Chairman, World Wilderness Trust)
Ms Brenda Lock - (Director, Embo Crafts, SA)
Using Stories and the Craftaid for Conservation and Community
Mr John Seed - (Rainforest Information Centre, Australia)
Reclaiming our Wild Nature - From Ecological Ideas to Ecological Identity
Mr Alan Watson Featherstone - (Director, Trees for Life, Scotland)
Restoring Wilderness, Transforming the Individual
10:00 - 10:15 Eastern Cape Cultural Show Case
10:15 - 10:45 Refreshments
10:45 - 12:00 Wildlands, Indigenous Knowledge, Modern Illness
Chair - Mr Gérard Bailly (African Development Agency, France)
Prof. Ben-Erik van Wyk (Director, Phyto Nova)
Wildland Plants -- An Approach to the Management of HIV/AIDS
Ms Ponsto Patience Koloko - (President, National Traditional Healers Association) -
Traditional Healing - Links to Wilderness and Human Communities
12:00 - 1:30 Closing Session
- The Way Forward
Brief reports back from technical sessions
Resolutions
Presentation of Awards
The Port Elizabeth Accord
1:30 - 2:00 Soweto String Quartet --
A Brief Goodbye
2:00 Lunch
7:30 Goodbye from Africa - A Concert
The Soweto String Quartet in the Boardwalk Amphitheater
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