8th World Wilderness Congress
Global Wilderness Seminar for Government Agencies, a pre-8th World Wilderness Congress session, took place September 28 and 29, 2005, in Anchorage, Alaska.About the Government Seminar
Many people work to preserve wildlands across the globe. NGOs keep a vigilant eye on compliance with governmental regulations and environmentally-aware corporations operate in ways that benefit both people and business. But government agencies are usually responsible for establishing and managing the wildlands of their respective countries and play a unique role in wildland protection. The Government Seminar brought together many of these governmental wilderness stewards to share some of their wildland challenges and solutions that might be applied more broadly to similar challenges in other countries. They forged bonds with sister agencies that will help them to continue to share information and learn from each other in both formal and informal ways. By preceding the WWC, the Seminar primed them to see how information presented throughout the rest of the WWC applied to their own problems, and to common international issues. This can only work to the benefit of wilderness preservation, as we more fully comprehend every year how, indeed, everything is tied to everything else.| Resulting Documents | |
| Participant Contact List - If you participated in the Seminar, and are interested in obtaining a copy of this list, please contact the Wilderness.net Webmaster. | |
| Results from Breakout Sessions |
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| Volunteer List from Breakout Sessions |
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Steve Carver, University of Leeds, United Kingdom
Wild Land on a Crowded Island: Protecting What's Left and Making Room for More |
 
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Liisa Kajala, Metsähallitus (Forest and Park Service), Finland
Challenges to Wildlands in Finland |
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Teresa Cristina Magro, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Brazil: An Undeveloped Country or a Place with Many Natural Resources |
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Vicki Sahanatien, Parks Canada, Canada
Into the Canadian Wilderness...North of 60 |
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Freek Venter, South African National Parks, South Africa
Wilderness Issues in South Africa and the Kruger National Park |
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| Images | |
| Gallery of Seminar Images - If you are interested in submitting images you took at the Seminar, please contact the Wilderness.net Webmaster. | |
