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Powerpoint presentation on priorities emerging from the IUCN World Parks Congress 2014

Protected areas are areas of land and/or sea especially dedicated to the protection of biological diversity, natural and cultural resources, which are managed by government or nongovernmental agencies. Protected areas include, but are not limited to: National Parks, National Reserves, Game Reserves, Forest Reserves, Forest Parks, Marine Reserves, Marine Sanctuaries, and Nature Reserves.

Protected areas are areas of land and/or sea especially dedicated to the protection of biological diversity, natural and cultural resources, which are managed by government or nongovernmental agencies. Protected areas include, but are not limited to: National Parks, National Reserves, Game Reserves, Forest Reserves, Forest Parks, Marine Reserves, Marine Sanctuaries, and Nature Reserves.

Protected areas are areas of land and/or sea especially dedicated to the protection of biological diversity, natural and cultural resources, which are managed by government or nongovernmental agencies. Protected areas include, but are not limited to: National Parks, National Reserves, Game Reserves, Forest Reserves, Forest Parks, Marine Reserves, Marine Sanctuaries, and Nature Reserves.

Protected areas are areas of land and/or sea especially dedicated to the protection of biological diversity, natural and cultural resources, which are managed by government or nongovernmental agencies. Protected areas include, but are not limited to: National Parks, National Reserves, Game Reserves, Forest Reserves, Forest Parks, Marine Reserves, Marine Sanctuaries, and Nature Reserves.

As environmental problems continue to increase at an ever more rapid rate, exacerbated by the major threat of global climate change, the need for widespread remedial action is becoming ever more pressing. Scientific consensus on both the root causes of these problems and the measures required to tackle them is growing, while mass media and public interest has reached fever pitch. Of course, while this has put pressure on decisionmakers to take positive action, the realisation of the gravity and extent of the environmental problems has encouraged all those concerned about the state of our world to search for partners around it: one such significant partnership to e­merge in recent years is between those concerned with the conservation of nature –and of its biodiversity– and the custodians of sacred sites, representing both indigenous beliefs and mainstream faiths.

This publication was made possible through the generous support of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, the UK Darwin Initiative, European Commission, and the International Coral Reef Action Network (ICRAN). It represents a joint undertaking by the following organizational members of the Locally-Managed Marine Area (LMMA) Network: the World Resources Institute (WRI), the Applied Science Institute of the University of the South Pacific (USP), the Foundation of the Peoples of the South Pacific International Secretariat (FSPI), and the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) South Pacific Programme. Various drafts of this document have been used in facilitating Community-Based Adaptive Management (CBAM) in several South Pacific countries over the past eight years and it is therefore a "living" document. The opinions expressed herein are those of the authors.

This publication was made possible through the generous support of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, the UK Darwin Initiative, European Commission, and the International Coral Reef Action Network (ICRAN). It represents a joint undertaking by the following organizational members of the Locally-Managed Marine Area (LMMA) Network: the World Resources Institute (WRI), the Applied Science Institute of the University of the South Pacific (USP), the Foundation of the Peoples of the South Pacific International Secretariat (FSPI), and the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) South Pacific Programme. Various drafts of this document have been used in facilitating Community-Based Adaptive Management (CBAM) in several South Pacific countries over the past eight years and it is therefore a "living" document. The opinions expressed herein are those of the authors.