EXECUTIVE SUMMARY - UNESCO World Heritage

NOMINATION DOSSIER ANNEX 5.1
"ANCIENT BEECH FORESTS OF GERMANY"
1. At the environment ministry level:
Slovak Republic: tba
Ukraine: Dr Igor Ivanenko, Deputy Head of State Service for Protected Areas Affairs
Germany: Heike Britz, Federal Ministry for the Environment, Division on International Nature
Conservation
2. At the expert level:
Slovak Republic: Prof. Ivan Vološčuk, Matej Bel University, and Prof. Viliam Pichler,
University Zvolen
Ukraine: Prof. Fedir Hamor, Director of the Carpathian Biosphere Reserve
Germany: Mr Manfred Großmann, Director of the National Park Hainich/Thuringia
During the second bilateral meeting the three delegations drew up a proposal for a first draft
of the planned MoU. In particular, the following potential priorities were identified which are to
be laid down as Areas of Cooperation in the MoU:
- development and implementation of common principles and objectives based on
the defined OUV
- joint management approach (including legal issues)
- joint monitoring concept and implementation
- research concepts, programmes and projects (including inventories, research on
natural forest ecosystems, anthropogenic impact assessments, response to
climate change, etc.)
- training and capacity building (including training institutions; exchange of
specialists)
- securing adequate resources and funding
- communication, education and public awareness (CEPA)
- sustainable tourism
- sustainable development in the wider context
The delegations elaborated recommendations for the following activities which are suggested
as the work programme for 2009:
- Further elaboration and signing of the MoU during the first half of 2009 as a basis
for the trilateral cooperation (top priority) (Germany, Slovak Republic, Ukraine)
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