The objective of the colloquium is in the line of the last UICN
Summit on Protected Marine Areas (Washington, 2007) and of the First
world congress on Protected Marine Areas (Geelong, Australia, November
2005). The French UICN Committee has wished to continue the works
on the elaboration of a national strategy "marine areas protected"
organizing the First national colloquium on the topic: "the
protected marine areas: What strategies for which objectives ?
The objective of this colloquium is to discuss among the different
sea professionals and to exchange opinions on the challenges of
protection of the French marine territory the existing experiences
in the field of protected marine areas (AMP) national as well as
regional and international, to propose criteria of designation for
marine sites that must be protected and to create AMP networks,
with the purpose of establishing the scientific bases for a true
French policy and a national strategy of protected marine areas.
The main objective of the colloquium is therefore to establish
the bases for a strategy for the protected marine areas that meet
the challenges of conservation of the marine biodiversity in France.
Therefore, recommendations will be made to the new Agency of protected
marine Areas, as well as to the Ministries of ecology, sustainable
development, overseas and Fisheries.
Organization/expected development :
• Plenary sessions
• Presentations and participation of specialists
• Thematic and regional workshops
• exhibition stands, presentation of projects, structures…..
Topics covered :
1. The role and the position of protected marine areas
in the protection strategies
The topic of the protected marine areas will be framed within the
national, European and international context, and the crucial challenges
will be extracted.
2. The protected marine areas in the French context
A state of the art revision will be carried out on the different
existing French tools of protection and in progress and some foreign
experiences will also be presented.
3. Proposals for a national strategy of protected marine
areas, workshops "regional marine ecosystems »
The different criteria of designation of the protected marine areas
will be defined;finally, after several works in the form of workshops
"regional marine Ecosystems" recommendations will be drafted
to establish the first bases of a national strategy for protected
marine areas.
Stakeholders and target audience :
Agency of the protected marine Areas, Ministries of ecology, sustainable
development and planning, overseas, and fisheries and managers of
protected areas, French and foreign experts and scientists, socioprofesionals
, groups and political leaders, associations and NGOs.
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