Buenos Aires, Argentina - IUCN

Report of the Symposium on Conservation and Sustainable
Resource Use in Argentina (106th Sitting)
After a minute's silence for the young people killed in
the Puerto Madryn fire, delegates watched a film on
nature in Argentina.
The symposium was then divided into three. The
first part consisted of the following speakers:
Dr Tomás Schlichter, Director of the Forestry
Investigation Programme of INT A, on desertification
in Argentina; and
Lic. Jorge Cajal, General Director for the Natural
Resource and Human Environment National Programme,
on the Argentine National Biodiversity
Programme.
Mr Francisco Erize, Advisor to the National Parks
Administration, also contributed.
The second part included papers by:
Dr Nestor Barbaro, Soil Investigator, on a critical
vision for Argentine development; and
Ing. Jose Luis Panigatti, on the work of INTA.
The third part started with a paper on the conclusions
of the First National Congress of Young Environmentalists,
presented by Cecilia Elizondo, from Fundación
DIEZ. The following then made presentations:
Lic. Juan Javier García Fernández, Argentina IUCN
National Committee, on the Argentine programme
for conservation and sustainable development;
and
Lic. Fernando Ardura, Argentina IUCN National
Committee Coordinator, who gave a summary of
the General Assembly.
On behalf of the IUCN President, Bing Lucas, Chair of
CNPPA, thanked all those who had organized and
contributed to the symposium. Ing. María Julia Alsogaray,
Secretary of State for Natural Resources and the
Human Environment, then spoke. The symposium
ended with a tango.
The symposium was coordinated by Juan Manuel
Velazco.
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