Side Event

Protected Areas and the Law

Organizer
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) (Environmental Law Centre, ELC)

Date and Time
26 October 2010 18:15 - 19:45

Meeting
Tenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP 10)

This side event will present IUCN work on 'Protected Areas and the Law' since COP 9, in particular the Guidelines on Protected Areas Legislation, developed to provide information and guidance on key elements of a modern and effective legal framework, attuned to the present roles and corresponding diversification of protected ares, as well as to the emergence of new scientific understanding about protected areas management and new governance aproaches. The Guidelines, illustrated by 15 case studies, are the result of cooperation between the IUCN Environmental Law Centre, the Protected Areas Programme, and experts from three IUCN Commissions: CEL, WCPA and CEESP.