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Accomplishments of the 4th
World Wilderness Congress
In addition to working sessions which determined the 4th WWC action agenda, the cultural programme was rich and varied, including classical Indian dance, the International Youth Choir, art shows, cowboy poets, concerts...all inspired by wilderness.
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4th
WORLD WILDERNESS CONGRESS - Held in September, 1987 in Denver and Estes Park,
Colorado, United States, with 2,000 delegates from 64 countries. Proceedings: For the
Conservation of Earth, edited by Vance G. Martin, published by Fulcrum, Inc., 1988.
Proposed the establishment of a World
Conservation Bank, or Fund, the first call for new conservation finance mechanisms, which
eventually led to the $1.1 billion Global Environment Facility of the World Bank.
U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, James Baker, was
the first finance minister to open a major conservation conference, calling for
integration of economics and environment.
The first World Wilderness Inventory, prepared
for the WWC by the Sierra Club.
The 4th WWC involved 1600 delegates from 62 nations, among them (above) Ms Gro Harlem Brundtland (Prime Minister of Norway) and Maurice Strong, numerous Ministers of State, African Game Guards such as Magqubu Ntombela, and others.
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Continued to advocate inclusion of wilderness as
a separate and specific classification under the World Conservation Union
(IUCN)
Categories of Protected Areas, which was accepted by the IUCN in 1990.
Resubmitted to the British government the
resolution to consider the Cairngorm Plateau for listing as a World Heritage Site (to
preserve its valuable wilderness characteristics), a process which was then begun by the
British government in 1990.
First proposal for a World Conservation Corps, or
Service, as an avenue for effective, public environmental action.
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