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Table of Contents Editorial 4 Acknowledgements 5 Foreword 6 Foreword 7 Foreword 8 Introduction 9 Introduction 10 Conference in Fischbach/Dahn (12.11.2004–14.11.2004) 13 Keynotes 13 Keynote (M. Jardin/UNESCO-MAB Paris) 13 Keynote (G. Sahler/Chairwoman of the German National MAB Committee) 16 Keynote (C. Cibien/Secretary of the French National MAB Committee) 20 Keynote (M. Conrad/Minister of Environment and Forestry, Rhineland-Palatinate) 22 Presentations of the six officially recognized TBRs 26 The first trilateral UNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserve ‘East Carpathians’ (Poland/Slovakia/Ukraine) 26 Management Objectives for the Danube Delta Transborder Biosphere Reserve (Romania/Ukraine) 36 The Tatra TBR (Poland/Slovakia) 38 The ‘Région W’ Transfrontier MAB–Reserve (Benin/Burkina Faso/Niger): A transnational initiative to save a unique ecosystem 40 The ‘Krkonoše/Karkonosze’ TBR (Czech Republic/Poland) 42 The ‘Pfälzerwald/Vosges du Nord’ TBR (Germany/France): The first of its kind in the European Union 45 Presentations of the TBR-initiatives 51 The Binational Biosphere Reserve Project in the Argentinian-Bolivian Altiplano: ‘Lagos del Cielo de America’ 51 The West Polesie TBR–initiative (Belarus/Poland/Ukraine), as an important activity for sustainable development in the Polesie region 53 The proposed Transboundary Park ‘Elba-Nubia’ (Egypt/Sudan) 55 Transboundary Biosphere Reserves in the South-Eastern European (SEE) region: The challenge of the territorial development 56 The ‘Fleuve du Sénégal’ TBR (Mauritania/Sénégal) 60 The ‘Biosphere Reserve of Noroeste’ (Peru/Ecuador) 61 The ‘Demilitarized Zone Biosphere Reserve’ (Korea) 63 The ‘Niumi National Park’ and ‘Delta Saloum’ Biosphere Reserve (Sénégal/Gambia) 64 The nomination of ‘Mt. Elgon National Park’ as a TBR (Uganda/Kenia) 66 TBRs as a mechanism for conservation and development: Initiative on the potential TBR between Vietnam and Cambodia 67 Expert Workshop in Edesheim (14.11.2004-18.11.2004) 69 Introduction 69 Results of the ‘Open Space’ - Workshop in Edesheim 70 Sunday, 14.11.2004 70 Monday, 15.11.2004 77 Wednesday, 17.11.2004 82 Field Trip 84 Message from Edesheim 85 Recommendations to UNESCO-MAB 86 Annex 89 List of participants/Contact details 89 Further Reading 91 Acronyms 93 Gallery 94 3
Editorial Editorial Transboundary Biosphere Reserves (TBRs) are inhabited large-scale protected areas, serving as future-oriented model regions for multi-sustainable development, based on selected, globally representative, bio-geographical areas, adjoining across international borders and aiming at the definition and implementation of joint policies in terms of the ecosystem-approach. In order to achieve long-term sustainability it is imperative to jointly work on solutions with the capacity to convince stakeholders at all levels of transboundary cooperation. Consequently a network has to be developed involving as many committed members as possible. In this context the international exchange between experts, encouraging mutual inspiration, the sharing of knowledge and the joint assessment of existing expertise, can be of particular importance to the building of motivation and multiple partnership. The 2004 ‘International Conference and Expert Workshop of Transboundary Biosphere Reserves: Following-up on Seville+5’, provided a perfect framework for multilateral exchange. At this venue, for the first time various representatives of TBRs and TBR-initiatives from 24 countries of four continents came together, thus representing the vast majority of TBR-activities worldwide. “Make people meet, make them feel comfortable and respected and give them sufficient time and space for perception, communication, interaction and learning”, was the motto of the organizers. The primary objective of the meeting was to focus on reviewing the implementation of the recommendations of the ad hoc Task Force on TBRs, which were elaborated at the 2000 ‘Meeting of Experts’ in Pamplona/Spain, thus constituting the first official preliminary framework for the creation and functioning of transboundary biosphere reserves. Secondly, potential strategies for the future development of transboundary biosphere reserves and their support were examined. During the conference, the field-trips and especially in the course of the workshop which was carried out at Edesheim castle, individual contacts could be intensified, confidence- and capacitybuilding were promoted and specific core elements for the future cooperation in an emerging TBRnetwork and with UNESCO-MAB were elaborated, like for instance the Message to the UNESCO MAB Programme. Finally, by means of the ‘Message of Edesheim’, a joint vision which had been formulated and endorsed during the workshop, all participants affirmed their determination and willingness to bring forward the joint promotion of TBRs, in the framework of the MAB-programme and on site, in the respective protected areas. The very recent creation of a partnership between the ‘Pfälzerwald/Vosges du Nord’ TBR (Germany/France) and the ‘Krkonoše/Karkonosze’ TBR (Czech Republic/Poland) is one of the many direct and very encouraging results of the conference. After all, it must be stressed again that the people living in biosphere reserves need to get the real possibility to actively and constructively participate in preserving and developing the landscapes and life-supporting systems which constitute their daily environments. It is, therefore, especially important to gain the local communities’ and stakeholders’ confidence in and support for the MAB-concept, hence to encourage and promote their initiatives to utilize natural and cultural resources in a wise and farsighted way. We hope that this review of current developments in the field of transboundary biosphere reserves will contribute to an increasing public awareness of the importance of cross-border cooperation in nature conservation and sustainable development. TBRs are a relatively new and additional dimension in the World Network of UNESCO MAB’s Biosphere Reserves. To let local people and biodiversity benefit from the various added values, is a real challenge and a fascinating opportunity. We should go for it. The Editors 4
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