Time Table For Today's Media Briefings Unveiled As IUCN Congress Enters Day 4Third barge Chains of Media

3 September 2016

IUCN World Conservation Congress daily media brief 

 

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Media availabilities

08:30-09:00	John Scanlon, Secretary-General of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES)	Media Centre (323B)
14:45-15:15	Caleen Sisk, Spiritual Leader and Chief of the Winnemem Wintu Tribe from California accompanied by Patricia Gualinga, international community representative of the Sarayaku  from Ecuador and Chief Appolinaire Oussoulio from Benin	Media Centre (323B)
15:30-16:00	Jane Goodall, Founder, Jane Goodall Institute, UK	Media Centre (323B)
19:00-19:30	James Balog, Photographer following the screening of his movie “Chasing Ice”	Press Conference Room (320)

 

Press conferences

All press conferences take place in room 320

09:15-09:45	Empowering women and girls through reproductive health: a necessary strategy for the conservation of natural resources	FUNDAECO
10:00-10:30	Media Briefing: Key Biodiversity Areas Partnership announcement	IUCN/Birdlife/UNEP/GEF
10:45-11:15	Balancing whale conservation with oil & gas development: New report looks at successes and challenges	IUCN
12:15 - 12:45	New Bonn Challenge Pledges – Passing the million hectares milestone	IUCN
13:00 - 13:30	Ocean Clean Wash partners with Parley for the Oceans!	Plastic Soup Foundation
13:45-14:15	Reef-safe sunscreen initiative	Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources
16:45 - 17:15	Life on Land: benefiting from land degradation neutrality	IUCN

 

Congress highlights

 

08:30-10:30	The SDGs Journey: Achieving the conservation imperative for sustainable development	313A
11:00 - 13:00	High-level Session: Conservation 2.0: Empowering Next Generations	Ballroom B
13:00-14:30	Dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: Conservation Activities and the Fulfillment of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples	314 – UNDP Kauhale
17:00-18:00	SOS - Save Our Species: Good news from small grants	Species Conservation Pavilion
17:00 – 19:00	High-level Session: Everybody’s Business: Ending Wildlife Trafficking	Ballroom B
18:00-19:00	IUCN SSC best practice guidelines for assessing species vulnerability to climate change	Species Conservation Pavilion
19:30-21:30	Partners in knowledge: celebrating the launch of the Key Biodiversity Areas Partnership and the Red List Partnership	Species Conservation Pavilion

Recommendations

08:30-10:30	Bonn Challenge High-level Dialogue 1: Restoration leadership in action	301B
08:30-10:30	Disasters and Biodiversity: Integrating environment into disaster recovery and reconstruction for resilient solutions	316A
08:30-10:30	Listen to Young Voices: Engaging Pacific Youth as Future Environmental and Cultural Leaders and Communicators through Creative Expression	310
08:30-10:30	World Heritage and astronomy: modern and traditional interpretations illustrated through the case of Hawaiian observatories	311-3
08:30-13:00	Making Ecosystem based Adaptation Effective: Evidence from the field to improve policy and practice	305B
08:30-19:00	Make it a Priority and Make it Stick! How to Effectively Institutionalize Invasive Alien Species Programmes	308B
11:00-13:00	WCPA – SSC – What factors determine protected area success in conserving biodiversity on land and sea? What are implications of the new research?	316A
11:00-13:00	Innovative Pathways: The Nexus of Food, Agriculture, and Biodiversity	313A
11:00-13:00	Closing the gap: Enhancing data, analysis and awareness for gender equality and environmental sustainability	319B
11:00-13:00	Bio-cultural Creativity and Traditional Knowledge Documentation in the Pacific	Hawai‘i-Pacific Pavilion B
13:00-14:30	Beyond protected areas borders: lessons learned from conservation in the Amazon	Protected Planet Pavilion
14:30-16:30	Mountain Communities of Colombia, Ecuador and Peru: Conservation, Climate Change and Social Equity	314 – UNDP Kauhale
14:30-16:30	European BEST Initiative Event: Fostering biodiversity action in 7 key regions of the world	320
14:30-16:30	Towards Multifaceted Solutions to Wildlife Trafficking	313A
15:00-14:00	Stamping Out Alien Mosquitoes in Hawaii: Can new technology stop avian malaria from driving Hawaii's native birds to extinction?	Species Conservation Pavilion
15:30-16:30	Incorporating Climate Adaptation into Agency-Level Planning in the Pacific Islands Region	Hawai‘i-Pacific Pavilion A
16:00-16:30	Saving the world's most illegally traded wild mammal: how the IUCN SSC Pangolin Specialist Group is Scaling Up Pangolin Conservation	Species Conservation Pavilion
17:00-19:00	Global Commons - Solutions for a Crowded Planet	313A
17:00-19:00	Achieving Economic Growth while Supporting Environmental Stewardship in Hawai'i	319B
18:00-19:00	Heritage Heroes Award	Protected Planet Pavilion
19:00-21:30	Celebrating the winners of the Kenton Miller, Fred Packard and Heritage Heroes awards	Protected Planet Pavilion
19:30-21:00	Small grant projects to conserve biodiversity in Africa : 10 years of the SSIP (PPI)	316C
19:30-21:30	Bonn Challenge Pau Hana: Celebrating the 100 million hectares milestone	Foreset Pavilion