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Forum News 43 UK OVERSEAS TERRITORIES CONSERVATION FORUM FF OO RR UU MM NN EE WW SS 4343 MARCH 2015 • www.ukotcf.org Sustaining Partnerships: a conference on conservation and sustainability in UK Overseas Territories, Crown Dependencies and other small island communities, Gibraltar, 11th to 15th July 2015 The Rock of Gibraltar from the airport, on the isthmus. Photo: Dr Mike Pienkowski, UKOTCF Gibraltar will host an international environmental conference from 11th to 15th July 2015, with a focus on UK Overseas Territories, The core of this conference will be six half-day workshops. Crown Dependencies and other small islands. Each will address a topic (which will generally cover also several other cross-cutting themes, such as invasive species and Book in March to secure your place. Bookings may become climate change). In the course of discussions over several years, unavailable after this month. involving UKOTCF’s regional working groups and other fora, many suggestions for conference topics have been discussed with The conference is being organised by the UK Overseas Territories partners. The topics selected attempt to cover those most needed Conservation Forum and HM Government of Gibraltar, with the as priorities, bearing in mind also other opportunities to discuss support of the Gibraltar Ornithological & Natural History Society. various topics. The topics are: It will be the sixth such conference, following the first held in • Implementing Biodiversity Action Plans in the context of London in 1999, the second in Gibraltar in 2000, the third in Environment Charters, Aichi Targets etc, and including Bermuda in March 2003, the fourth in Jersey in October 2006 and environmental monitoring the fifth in the Cayman Islands in 2009. The proceedings of the • Conservation and Sustainable Use of Terrestrial Resources Gibraltar, Bermuda, Jersey and Cayman conferences can be seen • Conservation and Sustainable Use of Marine Resources at www.ukotcf.org • Renewable energy and waste-management • Using informed decision making to manage development The conference will provide a forum for government environmental sustainably (including physical planning, environmental bodies, NGOs and commercial organisations to discuss key impact assessments etc) conservation issues, to highlight success stories, exchange ideas, • Environmental education & awareness and to forge partnerships. It is hoped that Overseas Territories, Crown Dependencies and other small island communities that These six main sessions will be supported by a 2-hour session by share similar environmental problems will benefit from learning each of UKOTCF’s regional working groups (Wider Caribbean, about one another’s history and experience of planning and Southern Oceans, Europe Territories); on this occasion, attendance delivering conservation initiatives. at these will be open to all conference participants. These should give the opportunity to discuss topical issues as well as taking The overall aim is to draw on similarities and differences in regional perspectives on the main session topics and other matters. experience across the territories, to provide insights into common On the first morning of the conference, one session will be devoted challenges, leaving participants better equipped to address local to a field-visit (with a choice between a marine/coastal focus needs. 1 {given the likely seasonally viewable features} and a visit to the 13:00 Lunch Upper Rock); these visits have the triple purpose of: introducing some local issues to participants; giving the chance to recover 14:00 – 18:00 Using informed decision making to manage after long travel; and allowing participants to get to know each development sustainably (including physical other to make the later sessions highly effective. planning, environmental impact assessments etc) It is planned also that the final main session of the conference will 18:30 - 1930 Films from the Britain’s Treasure Islands include participants at decision-making level, including ministers. project (linked to following day’s session on It is envisaged that this will start off by presentations from each Environmental Education and Awareness), session of its conclusions and recommendations. followed by opportunity for informal meetings over dinners organised by participants Depending on the timing of participants’ departing flights, there themselves may also be an opportunity for an optional tour on the day of Wednesday 15th July departure. From 06:00 Breakfast available 07:00 – 08:45 Clinic on signing up to Multilateral These items have been organised into the following programme. Environmental Agreements This outline programme is provisional. It will be amplified and updated periodically on the web-site (www.ukotcf.org). Please 09:15 – 12:15 Environmental Education and Awareness note that the schedule may change up to the last minute. 13:00 Lunch 14:00 – 18:00 High-level session, including short summaries Saturday 11th July from other sessions, discussion, speeches and Afternoon Arrivals & Registration closing Evening Opening Reception, followed by opportunity 19:30 - late Departure (and later return) by coaches to for informal meetings over dinners organised the Conference Dinner in the spectacular St by participants themselves Michael’s Cave, inside the Upper Rock of Gibraltar Sunday 12th July Thursday 16th July From 06:00 Breakfast available For those leaving in the afternoon, there will 07:00 – 09:00 UKOTCF Wider Caribbean Working Group be the opportunity for optional tours in the (open to all on this occasion) morning. 09:30 – 12:30 Field visit, to marine and coastal ecosystems Others may be involved in the one-day workshop around Gibraltar or terrestrial ones on Environmental Impact Assessment. 13:00 Lunch Friday 17th July 14:00 – 18:00 Implementing biodiversity action plans in the For those leaving in the afternoon, there may context of Environment Charters, Aichi Targets be the opportunity for optional tours in the etc, and including environmental monitoring morning. 18:15 – 19:30 Poster session (Posters will be available throughout much of the conference, but this Participants should plan to arrive in Gibraltar on Saturday 11th will be an opportunity for poster authors to be July and leave on Thursday 16th July 2015 (apart from certain present at their posters to discuss them with individuals involved in related meetings before or after the other conference participants.) Followed by conference). It may be possible for those wishing to stay longer to opportunity for informal meetings over dinners book rooms via the conference at the conference rate. If you wish organised by participants themselves to do so, please contact UKOTCF. Monday 13th July From 06:00 Breakfast available A booking form is available on the UKOTCF web-site (www. ukotcf.org). It is recommended that this be completed and returned 07:00 – 09:00 UKOTCF Southern Oceans Working Group as early as possible, to secure places. Places for certain options (open to all on this occasion) may be filled by March. Accommodation needs to be booked 09:00 Conference photograph before the first week of April. (After this date, we will investigate 10:00 – 13:00 Conservation and Sustainable Use of Terrestrial late requests, but rooms may not be available; it is a busy time in Resources Gibraltar.) You will be advised as soon as possible whether a place 13:00 Lunch is available. In order to secure your booking, the full payment will be due in March. 14:00 – 18:00 Conservation and Sustainable Use of Marine Resources Acknowledgements Evening Possibly reception, followed by opportunity The organisers are grateful for contributions to the funding and for informal meetings over dinners organised other support of the conference from: by participants themselves HM Government of Gibraltar Tuesday 14th July UK Overseas Territories Conservation Forum From 06:00 Breakfast available Gibraltar Ornithological & Natural History Society 07:00 – 09:00 UKOTCF’s Europe Territories Working Group UK Department of Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (open to all on this occasion) UK Joint Nature Conservation Committee Treweek Environmental Consultants 10:00 – 13:00 Renewable Energy and Waste-management 2 Conference venue conference of this length. The topics have been selected on the The conference will take place mainly at a modern international basis of wide consultations over recent years via the regional hotel in Gibraltar. Accommodation, breakfast, lunch and meetings Working Groups and other means. Sessions devoted to main will be held at the hotel, although a few events and the conference topics will be approximately 3 hours long, allowing for these dinner will be held elsewhere. There are a range of options at priority topics to be addressed at reasonable length. Contributions the hotel and nearby for participants to buy dinner on those days should be concise to make best use of this. In order to develop where this does not form part of the programme. Some information an integrated programme, speakers will be invited. However, all on these will be supplied in the conference pack. It is envisaged participants will be invited to offer posters if they so wish. that informal groupings over dinner may be one way in which groups of conference participants can explore matters of common All talks and posters will be published in the Proceedings, and will interest. Please note that the rooms and public spaces of the hotel need to be re-written and submitted (in advance of the conference) are non-smoking environments. for this purpose. Conference format Booking The duration of this conference will be one day shorter than that A booking form is available on the Forum’s web-site (www. in 2009, i.e. 4 full working days, with travel on the days before ukotcf.org). and after. It is impossible to address all topics adequately in a UKOTCF Montserrat workshop on Environmental Impact Assessment In January 2015, UKOTCF organised a workshop in Montserrat He added that “The to help Montserratians steer their future development as they work Government of Montserrat to replace the capital, Plymouth, destroyed by volcanic eruptions and the Montserrat National in 1997.
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