Mensaje De Merida from the Chairman and the Executive Committee of WILD9, the 9Th World Wilderness Congress 6-13 November 2009, Merida, Mexico PREAMBLE

Mensaje de Merida From the Chairman and the Executive Committee of WILD9, the 9th World Wilderness Congress 6-13 November 2009, Merida, Mexico PREAMBLE

The human race was born, and for millennia was raised in wild nature. Even as technology and economic development have increasingly removed us from natural environments over the last few hundred years, wilderness has nonetheless continued to sustain us, generating the essential services that make possible our economic and social prosperity, our physical health and our spiritual well-being.

However, we are rapidly degrading our home. Runaway carbon emissions are driving the climate towards irreversible tipping points, we are contaminating our planet with pervasive toxicity, we are destroying the diversity of life on our planet, we are exhausting freshwater supplies and causing acidification in our oceans, and we are over-exploiting our oceans, causing fisheries to collapse. As a result, we are deepening poverty, weakening social structures and threatening global security. This situation is in stark contrast to the world we can have if wilderness and its contribution to natural life support systems are properly valued. Our essential choice – indeed, the imperative – has never been clearer:

With a healthy foundation of wilderness, we can realize our full potential as humans. But when wilderness is degraded, the promise of human societies dims. Without wilderness, the legacy for future generations is a deeply impoverished planet: biologically, culturally, economically and spiritually. We must act immediately to keep Earth’s wilderness intact.

RATIONALE

The impacts of climate change are being felt around the world and we are already meeting or exceeding the worst case scenarios anticipated by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). To avert further dangerous climate change impacts, we must reduce greenhouse gas emissions to stabilize atmospheric carbon concentrations from current levels of about 385 parts per million (ppm) to 350 ppm as rapidly as possible.

About 70% of the greenhouse gases that humans have emitted into the atmosphere since 1750 come from burning fossil fuels. Drastically reducing fossil fuel use is therefore an immediate priority.

However, 30% of the greenhouse gases emitted by humans since 1750 are from deforestation and land-use change. Conversion and degradation of natural environments is a continuing problem: about 17% of annual global carbon emissions comes from deforestation, largely in the tropics. This number rises to between 20 and 25% when conversion of other ecosystems, such as peatlands, are included.

Wilderness conservation efforts are essential for stabilizing the global climate. We cannot make the substantial global emissions reductions required to reach 350 ppm quickly unless we halt carbon emissions from the degradation and transformation of natural environments.

There are around 2,400 billion tonnes of carbon stored in all ecosystem types (the equivalent of about 8-9 thousand billion tones of C02), of which about 45% is found in forests, in particular mature forests. Protecting mature forests in all biomes (tropical, temperate, and boreal) and preventing activities that deplete carbon stocks in mature forests is a central part of the climate change solution in developed and in developing countries. Intact wetlands, grasslands, and peatlands around the world also contain vast carbon stocks. In addition to storing large amounts of carbon, mature forests are not carbon neutral, but in fact absorb carbon out of the atmosphere.

The ocean’s vegetated habitats, including mangroves, salt marshes and sea grasses cover a very small proportion of the sea bed, yet account for at least 50% of all carbon storage in ocean sediments. These ecosystems amount to only 0.5% of the plant biomass found on land, yet store similar amounts of carbon. Preventing the destruction and degradation of these habitats, and restoring degraded areas is also urgent.

Wilderness is also critical for protecting biodiversity. Biodiversity provides ecosystems with resilience and adaptive capacity, which are essential for ensuring ecological integrity. Degraded systems are vulnerable to climate change, and cannot provide the vital ecosystem services that human communities rely on around the world. Intact ecosystems are therefore necessary for both climate change mitigation and adaptation.

Protecting natural systems over the long term so that that nature can persist and adapt to climate change requires that intact areas, no matter how large, are connected to each other and do not become isolated. This approach, known as connectivity conservation, identifies “biological corridors” covering bioregional to continental scales within which protected areas provide the foundation for a whole-of-landscape approach to conservation management.

Restoring degraded ecosystems can in some areas be important in connectivity conservation initiatives, providing climate change, biodiversity and societal benefits. In many landscapes, restoration efforts are a necessary complement to protecting intact habitats.

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) provide the international community with the mechanisms to address climate change, biodiversity and wilderness conservation. The UNFCCC and CBD emerged together from the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, yet have become separated in their implementation. It is time to take a holistic view of the purpose of the CBD and UNFCCC by ensuring that actions under the one help the other. Policies and measures taken under both conventions must serve to maintain the carbon already stored in primary forests, wetlands, peatlands, grasslands and other intact ecosystems, and must recognize and appropriately value the role of biodiversity in conferring resilience and adaptive capacity.

The UNFCC and the CBD must again be seen as two parts of an inseparable whole: an integrated and closely coordinated response to global environmental degradation. For the good of the planet, the time has come for a major initiative to reunite climate change mitigation and adaptation efforts with biodiversity conservation and wilderness protection.

THEREFORE, THE CHAIRMAN AND EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF WILD9: THE 9TH WORLD WILDERNESS CONGRESS:

• Call on the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) to recognize that large-scale nature conservation is a first-order climate change strategy for both mitigation and adaptation, and is necessary to address both the climate change and biodiversity extinction crises, and to protect and restore the ecosystem services, such as freshwater supply, on which all humans rely.

• Call on the Conference of the Parties to the CBD and UNFCCC, and their Secretariats, to integrate implementation of the conventions to:

o Ensure enhanced action on mitigation and adaptation that fully reflects the value of natural ecosystems, including ensuring policies and measures for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation in developing countries (REDD+) and Land use, Land-Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF) that recognize the roles of natural ecosystems and wilderness areas; and o Revise and implement the CBD Programme of Work on Protected areas (PoWPA) to maximize its contribution to addressing the climate change crisis.

• Call on all countries to act immediately to protect their own natural ecosystems, and in particular primary forest and other intact ecosystems and wilderness areas, including coastal and marine areas, in an interconnected manner to ensure that:

o Carbon stocks in natural systems are not depleted through land use activities; o Natural adaptation to climate change is optimized; o The Program of Work on Protected Areas under the CBD is implemented; and o Restoration of degraded forests is ecosystem-based and occurs in the context of connectivity conservation initiatives.

• Call on Parties to the UNFCCC to design a REDD+ mechanism that will assist tropical countries in protecting their naturally forested landscapes and intact wilderness in an interconnected manner. This REDD+ mechanism should:

o Maximize mitigation and biodiversity benefits by prioritizing wilderness conservation and avoided deforestation with the explicit primary objective of protecting intact natural forests. o Include restoration of existing protected areas and expansion of protected areas as eligible REDD+ projects. o Ensure that projects designed to reduce forest degradation do not support the introduction of degrading activities to primary forests. o Explicitly avoid perverse outcomes that lead to losses in biodiversity, including the conversion of natural forests or other sensitive ecosystems such as grasslands, to plantations. o Recognize and protect the rights of indigenous peoples and local communities by ensuring their free, prior and informed consent before approving projects, and ensuring their participation in project design, their role in project implementation, and their fair share of project benefits. o Include broad participation from all tropical countries, and in particular those countries with high forest cover and historically low rates of deforestation. o Only provide “offset” credits from REDD+ projects to developed countries if those countries commit to deep domestic emissions reductions.

• Call on Parties to the UNFCCC to ensure that LULUCF is designed to:

o Ensure that developed countries achieve substantial emissions reductions additional to deep reductions in other sectors and protect their wilderness in an interconnected manner; o Create accountability for actual changes in forest management emissions from real, historical levels (rather than projections); o Ensure that the effect of biomass harvesting for energy production on forest carbon stocks/sinks is fully accounted for; o Ensure that emissions from the degradation of peatlands is fully accounted for.

• Call on Parties to the UNFCCC to:

o Provide financial and other resources, additional to overseas development assistance, to support natural ecosystem based adapation efforts around the world. o Substantially increase support for adaptation efforts to developing countries, in particular those highly vulnerable countries such as small island states, countries prone to droughts, desertification, flooding, or extreme weather patterns. o Recognize that local and traditional knowledge can play an important role in formulating natural ecosystem based adaptation strategies. o Report on goals and verifiable measures to protect reservoirs of greenhouse gases in natural forests, wetlands and grasslands, for example through the creation of protected areas

• Call on Parties to the UNFCCC to recognize that the global community must adopt a target for atmospheric carbon concentrations of 350 parts per million to avoid the disappearance of key elements of life on Earth such as coral reefs.

• Call on Parties to the UNFCCC and CBD to recognize that it will take several years at a minimum for a Copenhagen climate agreement to be fully designed and implemented, that we cannot wait for this process to unfold before taking action to protect wilderness, and that concerted action and large-scale funding is necessary immediately to protect our planet’s remaining wilderness in the face of global climate change.

• Call on Parties to the CBD to develop:

o A comprehensive vision, based on connectivity conservation principles, combining conservation objectives for maintaining biodiversity and ecosystem services and mitigating and adapting to climate change in terrestrial, freshwater and marine biomes, with comprehensive ecosystem restoration objectives. o A 2020 goal focusing on the actions necessary to alleviate current threats to maintain current biodiversity and its associated ecosystem services, and to avoid crossing dangerous thresholds (tipping points), both for biodiversity and climate change. o An indicators framework including available information on biodiversity status, threats, and responses, and benefits to ecosystem services and human well-being, for use in developing protected areas and connectivity conservation strategies. o Revised and measurable post-2010 targets for biodiversity, protected areas, wilderness protection, and biological corridors, and their ecosystem services, in line with the indicators framework.

Without wilderness, the legacy for future generations is a deeply impoverished planet: biologically, culturally, economically and spiritually. We must act immediately to keep Earth’s wilderness intact.

We have the international mechanisms in place to achieve this global objective in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). However, the UNFCCC and CBD, two treaties that emerged together from the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, have become separated in their implementation.

Organizational Signers

North Shore Urban Bear Club

WILD9 Executive Committee

Exequiel Ezcurra Vance Martin Cyril Kormos Director, Institute for Mexico and the President, The WILD Foundation Vice President for Policy, The WILD United States, University of California Chairman, WILD9 Executive Committee Foundation Chairman, WILD9 WILD9 Executive Committee

Carlos M. Rodriguez Harvey Locke Oscar Moctezuma Conservation International Vice President for Conservation Naturalia WILD9 Executive Committee Strategy, The WILD Foundation WILD9 Executive Committee WILD9 Executive Committee

Jim Barborak Joanne Roberts Julie Anton-Dunn Conservation International CEO, The Wilderness Foundation (UK) Senior Director of Program WILD9 Executive Committee WILD9 Executive Committee Development, The WILD Foundation WILD9 Executive Committee

Andrew Muir Alan Watson Jaime Rojo CEO, The Wilderness Foundation US Forest Service Executive Director, WILD9 (Africa) WILD9 Executive Committee WILD9 Executive Committee WILD9 Executive Committee

Maria Andrade Pronatura Yucatan WILD9 Executive Committee

Individual Signatories

Ashok Khosla Julia Marton-Lefevre Nik Lopoukhine President Director General Chair IUCN IUCN IUCN-World Commission on Protected Areas

Simon Stuart Russell Mittermeier Bill McKibben Chair President Author/Founder IUCN- Species Survival Commission Conservation International 350.org

Christophe Schenk Tom Lovejoy Pavan Sukhdev Director Biodiversity Chair Green India States Trust Frankfurt Zoological Society Heinz Center

Randy Hayes Kenton Miller Don Rossi Founder Senior Advisor Chair Rainforest Action Network IUCN WCPA New Zealand Conservation Authority

Gary Tabor Zoltan Kun Eduard Muller Conservation Director Pan Parks Foundation Rector Freedom to Roam Universidad para la Cooperacion Internacional

Raplph Swain Thomas Brooks Sonja Kruger US Forest Service Vice-President Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife Conservation International

Tarun Chhabra Neil Hartling Olivier Chassot Founder President Director Edhkwehlynawd Botanical Refuge Canadian River Expeditions UCI-ELAP

Haus Kiener Linda Tucker Terry Tanner Head of Department CEO Confederated Salish and Kootenai Bavarian Forest National Park Global White Lion Protection Trust Tribes

John Berkenske James Nations Alfredo Medina Chemir Executive Director Vice President President Wildsight National Parks Conservation Amigos de Sian Ka'an Association

Ghana Garung George Wuerthner Bruce Jefferies Director Board Chair Deputy Vice-Chair WWF-Nepal Restore the North Woods IUCN-World Commission on Protected Areas

Sven Kreher Lawrence Hamilton Bob Baron The Bateleurs Senior Advisor President IUCN-World Commission on Protected Fulcrum Publishing Areas

Charlotte Baron Mark J Lukes Jennifer Miller Chair President Proram Officer The WILD Foundation Art for Conservation Wilburforce Foundation

JoAnn Andrews Howard McClintic Melanie Emerson Honorary President Executive Director Executive Director Pronatura Peninsula de Yucatan AC CTC Foundation Sky Island Alliance

Timothy Towell Janelle Eklund Kirk Johnson President (Ambassador, retired) President Lighthawk/Alaska Foreign Policy Group Wrangell Institute for Science and Environment

Ilan Lax Ernesto Herrera-Guerra Graeme Worboys Chairperson Director Vice Chair Wilderness Action Group Reforestamos Mexico Mountains Biomes, IUCN WCPA

Isai Domingues G. Glaudio Cholin Merove Heifetz Director General Director General COO Ecologia y Convacion DHARMA Bioasesores, A.C. Wildscreen USA

Graeme Kelleher Darrin Kelly Bas Verschurren Senior Advisor Owner/Guide EarthCollective/IUCN WCPA Ardea EcoExpeditions

James Ramsay Cecilia Chavana-Bryant Ndryd Martinez Member Student Director General IUCN WCPA University of Oxford Reusta Gud Style's

Elba Garcia Jose Novelo Baeza Jonathan Job Morales Garcia Director Habietante Director Fundacion Cultural Moeay A.C. Ningruns Terricoya Biofutura A.C

Rosalinda Jinich Domingo Luis Enrique Garcia Reyes Helga Geovannini Asesor Fotografo Independent Co'ox Mejaj Comunidad Educ WWF, Natura.org.mx

Amelia Alvarez Acosta Marco J. Sanchez Vanessa Francisco Independent Director de Communicacion y Cultura Estudieante Doctorado CONANP Cinvesta-Merida

Beatriz Padilla Leonor Solis Lilia Carrillo Painter Academia Biologa Wilderness Conservation Painting CIECO, UNAM, Morelis CICY Expedition

Miguel Angel Herrera Alamillo Miriau Caypos Zarate Celene Espadao H. Quimico lug. Aubieutal Biologa CICY Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana- CICY Azcapotzalco

Casandra Reyes Cristopher Gonzalo Gisselle Garcia Biologa Bio Abogada CICY Centro Mexicano de Derecho CONANP Ambientel CEMDA

George Wuerthner Monica Palacio-Rios Alfonzo Munguiz Gil Projects Director Pteridologist Inst. Tec. Merida Foundation for Deep Ecology Instituto de Ecologia

Alyundra Serron Deobora Robles Fil Valeria FRG CEMDA

Alma Faz Cantu Francisco Ursia Juan Bezaury Creel Director ANP Representative en Mexico CONANP The Nature conservancy

Slyvia Vivien J. Gustavo Hernandez Salazar Andrea Prida Bay Coordinador de contenidoz Gerente Coord. Desarrollo Institucional Revisto Grand Style's Consejo Tecnico de Aguas Jaral el Amigos de Sian Ka'an Barrios A.C.

Pragaly Blanco Paula Bueno Frank Biasi Prof. de Abog Director, Conservation Projects Parques Nacionales Naturales Nat Geo Colombia

Eric Horstman Beatriz Gutierrez Yourianne Plante Director Ejectivo Consejera Ciudadana Para el Desarrollo Communications Fundacion Pro-Bosque sustenable CPAWS

Coral Pacheco Figuerai Rosario Sosa Perra Jean Michel Nahas UJAT ADAY journalist Rue Frontenac

Atta Stevenson Jeanine Lovett Alfonso Aguilar Board of Directors, CAHTO Tribe photographer/artist Scientist Intertribal Sinkyone Wilderness Council UADY/TNC

Vicki Sahanatien Elisa Aguilar Christina Boston Grad. Student Lic wilderness & wild & scenic rivers University of Alberta Naturalia AC specialist

Fabiola Garcia David Hartley Paulina Toledo Consultant/Photographer

Roberto Diaz Gerardo Robles Gil Carlos Santacruz Peon Conservator Insights

Sunio Madero Laura Lopez Juan J Carso Oceanology INSO Director H Agunta Merida INSO

Minerva Rosette Shannon McBride Cindi Hobgood Ingeniero en Ecologia Life Member Photographer UMAFOR Center for Alaskan Coastal Studies

Antonio del Rosal Cindy Martinez Carlos Leon Coordinator de Medio Ambiente Est Rpresentative Proyecto 40 www.actiweb.es/MiraAfuera Fondo de Conservacion el Truinfo AC

Ana Josefa Lopez Sandoval Malescis Ordozey MacGregorio Calarina Biologa Biologa Deledada Kairos Consejo Para el Desarrollo CRIM-UNAH Pronature Territorial Susteable AC

Eliseo Mishari Rojas Michael McBride Veronica de Parres Fong Presidente President, Owner, Founder Oceanologa Reserva Comunal El Liva Exosistema Kachemak Bay Wilderness Lodge

Roberto Aguinda Hebel Sanchez Sandra Slater Jones Indigenia Ecuador Estudiante Environmental Consultant FSC Cicy

Amalia Lelo de Larrea Z. Gerardo Correon Arroyo Diana E. Pinelo Novelo Sociologa Director de Conservacion Ing. Enelectronica Dearrollo Catalitico Personal AC Naturalia, AC

Lilia Vela Valladares Gino Fabrizzio Noris Garcia Linda Helm Medico Vet Zootecanista Lic. En Inv Biomedia Vice President WWF, Natura.org.mx Bimodi Art for Conservation

Amelia Canovas Rebecca Belletto Marguerite Nice Education and Ecotourism projects Planeta Azul

Martin Yalec Emma Diaz Gtz. Israel Uribe Aviles Representante Supervisor Servicior Amientales de Mexico SUMA Gob Edo Michoacon

Glenys Jones Lourdes Botello Susan Canney Planner, Performance Evaluations and Wild/Univ Oxford Reporting Parks and Wildlife Services, Tasmania

Jorge Rojo Juan de Dias Valdez Leal David Emmanuel Chibras Guillermo HSE Engineer M.Sc. En Conservacion Etudiante Universidad Juarez Autonoma Tabasco Fundacion Vegas AC

Erika Gamboa B. Michael Olwyler Aurora Alvarez Estudiante USFS (Retired): protected area management consultant

Amara Pate Valente Souza Aline Kuhl Young Leader Director Scientific Advisor WILD Ingenieria Quimica e Hidraulica, SA de UNEP CMS CV

Roberto Rojo Rosalind Patterson Guillermina Navarro WILD Foundation & Independent

Rosrigo Navarro B Marco A. Lazcano Nicholos Feldman Communicar Para Conservar Director General Represente Reserva Biologica el Eden AC Valentin Gomez Forios

Nayla Altamrono Karen Taylor-Goodrich David Johns Abogada Ambiental Associate Director Board of Directors Rasonatura AC NPS Wildlands Network

Ing. Felipe Alfonso Hau Caamal Sam Barton Sabrina Lorenzi Evaluador Young Leader Young Leader IP Calegio Post Goodnades WILD WILD

Claudia Lechuga Juan Namarrez Andrew Reuter periodista/fotogrofo Biological Technician Mi Ambiente Student/Federal Employee

Sirleny Vega Teresa Martinez Elena Torrez Asesora Periodista/forografa Biologa SINFC Vertigo WILD9

Horacio de la Cure Isabelle Alvarez Whitney Hay Dr. Environmental Consultant Young Leader CILESE Independent Consultant WILD

Adi Davis Timea Marekdva Amy Daniels Young Leader BAC Presidential Management Fellow WILD Insitute of Geography, University of USFS Graz, Australia

Dana Howlett Casilda de Ovando Mariana Azaola Interpretive Specialist Lawyer Consultant WILD Proyecta Sustenable

Emily Sloane Eduardo Jr. Arenas Carla Santana Young Professional Climate Change Projects Coord. PhD Biomedial Research WILD9 Reforestamos Mexico

Carey Chenoweth Arclein Pranab

Jean-Pierre d'Huart Jane Roberts Kat Haber

Michelle Thomasson Scott Slocombe Marjeta Keršič - Svetel Professor and research chair Wilfrid Laurier University

Klaus Berkmüller Patrizia Rossi Aaron Nicholas Consultant for protected areas Director Takamanda-Mone landscape project Parco Alpi Marittime Wildlife Conservation Society

Roxanne Paul Michael Wood Colleen Campbell

Valarie Bernard Carolann Brady Ben Lenth Land Protection Specialist San Isabel Land Protection Trust

Bob Morgan Lynda Longfellow Eva Johansson

Jessica Eustace Natasha Lloyd Bill Woolverton Terrestrial Biologist Calgary Zoo Crvidae Environmental Consulting

Nancy Maller Eisenberg Jeanne Widmer-Carson Lorraine

Ryhor Fiodarau Thomas Cobb Cristobal Ernesto Yallico Madge EcoHome member Forestry Engineer Mountain Protected Area Network, WCPA

Mona & Max Francisco Visus Llorens Carlo Alerto Pinelli Asian Desk of Mountain Wilderness International

Patricia Hennessy Soleil Meghnagi Alhia Isabael

Jurgen Hoth Jorge Beniter Michael Davidson Coordinator Ecologia Aplicada de Sureste AC Preservation Trade Network WWF

Camila Silva Ruben Presuel Jose Miguel Alvarez Ibarguenguitia Estudiante Abisa UNAM FI-UNAM

James Brundige Paulina Cipres Hernandez Ryland Nelson President UNAM Program coordinator First Light Films Wildsight

Emilene Ostlind Sindy Hernandez Maria Teresa Castillo Grad Student Fundador Coordinacion Proupcts Researchers University of Wyoming DAS Mexico CINVESTAV - Mexcio

Rosemary Pomected Luis Narvaez Alexandra Dupuis USAID-UNAL President FEINCE

Jorge Trejot Leny Pineon Espinosa Vilma Bosoms

Fabiola Cardena Echulaz Arlett Rosado Torres Ivette Gaytan UACM

Hugo Currel Mildred Pastrana Candy Lopez Mtz UNAM UNAM Ing Ecologo Pemex

Maria Pia Me Manus Gomez Eduardo Mendoza Armando Ubeda Estudiante Photographer Biologo Marino UADY

Ramiro Velezquez Rincon Arlo Hemphill Jeff Brooks

Ingo Johannesson Audur Palsdottir Georgina Marin ENGO SUNN North East Iceland

Elsa M Munez Enrique Rojas Vertiz Morgonta Rosale Director General Tecnico Antropologa AMTRAD - Translation Services AMIC INAH

Paul Torrence Carolina Garcia Franciso Sierra Emeritus Professor Northern Arizona University

Norman Simmons Kosta Chykalow Svetlana Prokofieva

Susana Ringenbach Linda Stevens Rene Lordeora Employee Ventama Wildlife Society

Luis Norelo C. Paul Sanchez-Navarta Riordo Media Reportero Director Director Equilibrio.org Centro Ecologico Akumal EcoSocial Solutions

Maria Feduchi Rodrigo Leon Tersa Gutierrez Directora Fondo para la Communicacion y la Educacion ambiental A.C.

Angeles Sammet Nathan Velasco Denise Joines Sammy Solutions.com LTD Student Program Officer UABC Wilburforce Foundation

Tatijana Yashina Betty Hamues Roberto Pedraza Deputy Director Student Asistante Tecnico Katunsky Biosphere Reserve GESGIAP

Silvaea Matis Estebaa Vaugas Sofia Prado Student

Mary Edwards Guadalupe Garcia Carlos Alonzo-Blanqueto Editor/Reporter Professor UADY Univ. Autonoma de Baja Calf. Sur

Katharine Means Maria Sara Jacqueline Bolano Bryant Crane Foundation Pintora

Carlos Rodriquez Olivet Cristina Mittermeier Trevor Frost Director Executive Director RAVE Coordinator Conservation International International League of Conservation ILCP Photographers

Ian McAhl Alejandra Fregoso Dominguez Gabriel Rodriquez Director Sub-Directora Colaborador Pacific Wild Amigos de Sian Ka'an Amigoes de la Sierra

Eric Gamboa Blanco Thersa Spang Miguel Trigo Estudiante Northern Arizona University Estudiante UADY UNAM

Bruno Monteferri Gilberto Solis Garza Ruben Trevinto F. Lawyer Prof-Inv Ingeniero en Ecologia SPDA Universidad Sonora Cooperativa per un Ambiente Biodiverso y Gustentable, Cambios S.C. de R.L. Chanda Hunnie Fransisco Nauarrente Daniel Zamoa Coordinator Director Estudiante CPAWS Manitoba Crias, AC UABCS

Lovena Rosas Sinna Karl Friedrich Jesus Delgado Estudiante Director Professor UPAEP National Park Bayerisch Wald University Metodista de Piracicaba

Angeles Mendoza Sammet Enrique Fuentes Benito Bermudez Universidad de Calgary Coordinatdor de Taller Director, Regional UABC CONANP

Jordi von Oort Linda Hamilton Georgina Quintana student Nature Advocate Pintora WUR

Trevor Hare Robin Reilly Zdenka Krenova Landscape Restoration Program citzen Doctor of Biological Science Manager Sumava National Park Sky Island Alliance

Mariana Baez Ponce Almaraz Marisol Esther AnaCardina Aguilar Gutierrez CISCADER

Alejandra Bolio Rojas Sierra Schroeder Marcela Moutiel CISCADER Graduate Student University of Minnesota

Paul Boos Reyna Rodriquez Karina Munoz Cornejo UPACEP UPAEP

Rodolfo Patron Alvaro Miranda Karen Ross Unidos para la Conservacion Project Development Director Wilderness Foundation (Africa)

Cathy Hart Kari Gunderson Jaime Prieto Past President Coordinator Alaska Wilderness Recreation & Mission Mountains Wilderness Tourism Assoc Managers

Rodolfo Mendez John Charter Kenneth White Human Elephant Foundation

Patricia Ancona Xiu Gina Uribe Cesar Octavio Larranaga Directora Fotografo Fuenza Ambiental A. C.

Mariana Mata Lara Leona Graham Eric Castanares Maddox Estudiante Wild Special Projects UNAM

Susana Fredin Liliana Pulido Sergio Manual Ortiz Milan Museo del Desierto de Coanuila Gerente de Ecologicia Industria Salinera de Yucatan

Manuel Labastida Flor Hernandez Martin Carver Principal Aqua Environmental Associates

Drummond Densham Phyllis Gen Leticia Marin Alarcon Principal AMIC Wilderness Action Group

Robert Dvorak Juan Roldan Emily Loose Associate Professor Director Director of Communications Fomento Comercial Consultores SC The WILD Foundation

Barbara Morehouse James Tricker Joe Holmes Leeds University The Bateleurs

Michael Sweatman Nakul Chettri Victoria Allen Director Team Leader, Biodiversity Young Professional Delegate The WILD Foundation ICIMOD

Helen Gilks Adriana Nelly Correa Sandoval Cliff Mathies Nature Picture Libarary MsC Fuerza Ambiental A.C. Tecnologico de Monterrey

Ivan Samra Loria Shelly Diego Prieto Fundacion Emerge Bak'halal IAP Fundacion Emerge Bak'halal IAP

Jose Hamui Picciotto Ian McCallum Sharon McCallum Binah Photography Wilderness Foundation (Africa) Wilderness Foundation (Africa)

Frantisck Crejci Dr. Robert Young Carlos Robles Elias NP Sumava Owner Owner New World Images Rancho "El Aribabi"

Martha Felix Martin Avila Mtz Karin Mijangos Maganda Land Ownder Sub-Directora Rancho "El Aribabi" Bioasesoves, AC

Casimiro Con Kuyoc Joel Ortego Piminte Jorge Bolanos Jimenez Presidente del Comisariado ejidal Estudiante G. Progectos Sociales Ejido Felipe Carrilo Puerto Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Ceon Artefactos Comestibles

Froncisco McMonus Solo Maiker Roger Alvarez Ruiz Ferrer Alberto Presidente Fundacion Margarita Miembro Instituto para la Protecion de DAS Mexico MedioNatural AC

Gabriela Barza Zamora Patrick Nadeau Alida Madero Estudiante Director Conseracion Coodinadora UNAM CPAWS Quebec Papaloti

Erik Saracho Adan Rivera Magaly Rojo Blanco Director Estudiante Alianza Jaguar A.C. Universidad Autonoma de Yucatan