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6th Living Lakes Conference, Lake Baikal, Russia, August 2001 WaterWater QualityQuality andand TraditionsTraditions inin LakeLake AreasAreas 6th Living Lakes Conference Lake Baikal, Russia 1 October 1999 3rd Living Lakes Conference, 30 JuneJuly 2000 - 3 August 2001December 2000 Mono Lake, California 4th Living Lakes Conference, Pantanal August 2001 EXPO 2000, Germany World Heritage Site 6th Living Lakes Conference, December 1999 November 2000 Lake Baikal, Russia Lake St Lucia Documentation5th Living Lakes Conference, World Heritage Site Lake Biwa, Japan 6th Living Lakes Conference, The Living LakeLake PartnersBaikal, Russia, August 2001 Partners: 1. Columbia River Wetlands; Canada 12. Lake St. Lucia; South Africa 2. Mono Lake; California 13. Lake Uluabat; Turkey 3. Laguna Fuquene; Columbia 14. Dead Sea; Israel,Jordan, Palestine 4. Pantanal Wetlands; 15. Lake Tengiz; Kazakhstan Brasil, Bolivia, Paraguay 16. Lake Baikal; Russia 5. Mar Chiquita; Argentina 17. Lake Biwa; Japan 6. Norfolk & Suffolk Broads; 18. Laguna de Bay; Philippines Great Britain 19. Mahakam Lakes; Indonesia 7. La Nava Wetland; Spain 8. Lake Constance; Germany 9. Milicz Ponds; Poland 10. Nestos Lakes; Greece Candidates 11. Lake Larache; Marocco 2 May 1999 nd June 1998 2 Living Lakes Conference, Living Lakes Network Lake Constance, Germany April 1998 November 1998 March 1999 July 1999 st Global Nature Fund 1 Living Lakes Conference, Regional Meeting Regional Meeting, founded Lake St Lucia, South Africa La Nava, Spain Nestos, Greece 6th Living Lakes Conference, Lake Baikal, Russia, August 2001 Preface ..................................................................................................................... 3 Living Lakes History............................................................................................. 4 Summary of the 6th Living Lakes Conference ................................................ 5 Welcome Statements Michael Semyonov, Chairman of the People’s Parliament of the Republic of Buryatia, Russia ............................................................................ 6 Gila Altmann, Deputy Minister for the Environment, Germany .................................. 7 Prof. Dr. Gerhard Thielcke, President of Global Nature Fund..................................... 9 Contents Erich-Helmut Buxbaum, Director of Unilever Austria ................................................. 9 Sieglinde Jocham, DaimlerChrysler AG, Germany .................................................. 12 Dr. Klaus Rick, T-Mobil, Germany............................................................................. 13 Water Quality - Challenge for the Future Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Engelhardt, Honorary President of Deutscher Naturschutzring, Germany.................................................................. 16 Dr. Tobias Salathé, Regional Coordinator for Europe - Convention on Wetlands, Switzerland ...................................................................... 19 Dr. Valery S. Molotov, President of the Baikal Committee for the Environment and Nature Conservation, Republic of Buryatia, Russia.......... 19 Hüner Gülay, Unilever, Rotterdam, The Netherlands ............................................... 24 Prof. Dr. Shinji Ide, International Lake Environment Committee (ILEC ), Japan ...... 27 Traditions and Environment Prof. Dr. Michael Succow, University of Greifswald, Germany ................................. 29 Dr.Dr. Jürgen Nauber, Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN), Germany ... 30 Traditions and Sustainable Use of Resources in Lake Regions Prof. Dr. Arnold K. Tulochonov, Director of Baikal Institute for Nature Management, Ulan-Ude, Russia ................... 30 Burghard Rauschelbach, Program Manager GTZ - German Agency for Technical Co-operation .................... 35 Nyoman Suryadiputra, Project Director of Wetlands International, Indonesia .............................................. 37 Dr. Alexander G. Lubsanov, Head of the Committee of Parliament for Economical Policy, Nature Use and Protection of the Environment, Russia........................................... 38 Dr. Valerii Gulgonov, Director of GEF Project (Global Environmental Facility),Ulan-Ude, Russia ............. 39 3 October 1999 3rd Living Lakes Conference, June 2000 December 2000 Mono Lake, California 4th Living Lakes Conference, Pantanal August 2001 EXPO 2000, Germany World Heritage Site 6th Living Lakes Conference, December 1999 November 2000 Lake Baikal, Russia Lake St Lucia 5th Living Lakes Conference, World Heritage Site Lake Biwa, Japan 6th Living Lakes Conference, Lake Baikal, Russia, August 2001 Integration of Traditions in Nature Conservation Concepts Prof. Dr. T. Dorzhiev, Vice-Director of the Buryatian State University, Ulan-Ude, Russia .......................... 44 Germán I. Andrade, Fundación Humedales, Bogotá, Colombia .............................. 45 Adalberto Eberhard, Director of Ecotropica Brazil, Cuiaba, Brazil ........................... 47 Olga Myznikowa, CEO of "Bereg" (Russian NGO), Ulan-Ude, Russia .................... 50 Dr. Nina Dagbaeva GRAN, Ulan-Ude, Russia.......................................................... 52 Anne Levesque, East Kootenay Environmental Society (EKES), Contents Kimberley, Canada ................................................................................................... 54 Poster Presentation Dugar Sanzhitsybikov, Executive Director of the Baikal Information Centre GRAN. "Prevention of DDT pollution in the Selenga River". ................................................. 56 Prof. Dr. Bimba Namzalov, Director of the Ecological Institute, Buryat State University. "Nature Protection Zone in the Selenga River Delta"............................................... 56 Minoru Shirai, Chief Officer of the Secretariat of the 3rd World Water Forum. Announcement of the 3rd World Water Forum in Japan in the year 2003. ................ 57 Excursions Ulan-Ude Sewage Treatment Facilities .................................................................... 57 Selenga River ........................................................................................................... 58 Textile Manufacturer ................................................................................................. 58 Addresses and Contacts ................................................................................... 60 4 May 1999 nd June 1998 2 Living Lakes Conference, Living Lakes Network Lake Constance, Germany April 1998 November 1998 March 1999 July 1999 st Global Nature Fund 1 Living Lakes Conference, Regional Meeting Regional Meeting, founded Lake St Lucia, South Africa La Nava, Spain Nestos, Greece 6th Living Lakes Conference, Lake Baikal, Russia, August 2001 The participants discussed appropriate measures and projects to protect the water quality of Lake Baikal and shared experiences between the different Living Lakes partners. The main topics of the conference were also shown by several excursions into affected areas of Lake Baikal. For many years the protection of lake Baikal has been the subject of studies, planning and scientific exchange. Now Prof. Dr. Gerhard Thielcke conclusions are being put into practice to President of the Global protect lake Baikal. The Living Lakes-partner Nature Fund organisations from all over the world are supporting the Russian environmental Preface organisations in their activities and their From July 30th to August 3rd 2001, the 6th demands. International Living Lakes Conference took place at Lake Baikal in the Republic of Buryatia. I would like to thank our local partners GRAN Hardly any of our previous world lakes and FIRN as well as the Baikal Institute for conferences had ever attracted such an Nature Management for their hospitality and attention in the preliminary stages of a meeting the perfect organisation of this conference. They as this one. More than 160 participants from play a vital role in this regard, as they work 19 nations, numerous journalists as well as closely with local people and scientific high-ranking decision makers and experts from institutions. A special thank goes to our policy, science, economy and non- sponsors, that made this meeting possible: governmental organisations took part in this Unilever, the Global Partner of Living Lakes, conference with the topic „Tradition and Water our economic partners DaimlerChrysler, Luft- Quality in Lake Regions“. The Vice-President hansa, T-Mobil, Kärcher, the German Ministry of the Federal Republic of Buryatia, together for Environment and the German Federal with Ms Gila Altmann, German Deputy Mini- Agency for Nature Protection. ster of the Environment, inaugurated the conference. Conference participants in Enchaluk at Lake Baikal. 5 October 1999 3rd Living Lakes Conference, June 2000 December 2000 Mono Lake, California 4th Living Lakes Conference, Pantanal August 2001 EXPO 2000, Germany World Heritage Site 6th Living Lakes Conference, December 1999 November 2000 Lake Baikal, Russia Lake St Lucia 5th Living Lakes Conference, World Heritage Site Lake Biwa, Japan 6th Living Lakes Conference, Lake Baikal, Russia, August 2001 The Living Lakes Network ments, co-ordinate single activities and agree on further steps for common activities. Two internet websites and intensive PR work are Living Lakes History Living Lakes is an inter- crucial instruments to present the activities and national lake partnership created and co- results of the international co-operation to a ordinated by the Global Nature Fund (GNF), wide public. The