Annual Report 2017
IUCN CEC Annual Report 2017 Table of Contents Table
Table of Contents
3 Chair and Deputy Chair’s message
4 Commission on Education and Communication 4 #NatureForAll Achievements 6 CEC Members 6 CEC Social Media following 7 2016 – 2020 CEC Steering Committee 7 Youth Engagement and Intergenerational Partnership Representative
8 Regional Activities 8 Mexico, North America and the Caribbean 9 Mediterranean and West Asia 10 West Europe 11 Eastern Europe and Central Asia 12 West, Central, East and Southern Africa 14 East Asia 16 Southeast Asia 17 Latin America
19 Annex A: IUCN CEC Steering Committee 2016-2020
IUCN CEC Annual Report 2017 2 Chair and Deputy Chair’s Message
• We participated in the preparation and in the Chair and Deputy Chair’s Message Dear CEC Members jury of the Peace Pals International Art Exhibition and Awards Ceremony, where young people and friends, took centre stage to celebrate the links between peace and love of nature. 2017 has been a very active year for the IUCN Commission on Education and Communication • We’ve been taking steps to renew our (CEC). Our 2016-2020 Steering Committee and CEC communication system at the CEC, with members worked closely together to take forward the aim to establish a virtual service centre: our mandate of mobilising all people to support Communications Connect. Facilitated by CEC conservation action around the world. We are experts, we invite you to join the CEC and use delighted to share this report with you highlighting the this platform to share information, guidance, past year’s achievements and our current activities. tools, and to access experts in order to respond Highlights from the last year include: to education, communications, and behavior change capacity needs. • The growth of #NatureForAll, a global movement to inspire love of nature that was launched at We take this opportunity to thank CEC members for the 2016 IUCN World Conservation Congress sharing news from your region on the CEC Blog and in Hawaii. By the end of 2017, it has grown to the CEC Facebook group. Your activity contributes include more than 200 partner organizations to celebrate the diversity of our community. We and published a variety of educational and always encourage you to increase and improve our promotional material. #NatureForAll partners engagement with us by inviting your fellows to our come from all eight regions of IUCN with 36 network, and by updating your profile on the Union countries represented. 35 success stories Portal. Your Regional Vice Chairs are keen to know collected from partners offering insights and your vision and ideas for the CEC, and are ready lessons learned are available on the #NatureForAll to collaborate with you on regional Conservation website, as well as the #NatureForAll Playbook Education and Communication projects, so reach that provides global guidance on how to connect out to them! people with nature. The Imagine #NatureForAll video is now shared in 22 languages, with more Last, but not least, 2018 marks the 70th Anniversary to come soon. Anna’s forest, a visually stunning of IUCN, and we invite you to join the celebrations. As comic book was published to communicate always, we look forward to receiving inspiring news the #NatureForAll vision to new and different and initiatives from your region! audiences.
• June 5th 2017 marked UN World Environment Day. New product launches on #NatureforAll social media channels garnered over 3.5 million impressions, and cross-promotion with partner organization reached a collective potential social media audience of more than 205 million people. Sean Southey Katalin Czippán Going forward, we will continue to amplify IUCN CEC Chair IUCN CEC Deputy Chair #NatureforAll’s network and message to scale up impact and increase support and action across sectors for nature conservation.
IUCN CEC Annual Report 2017 3 Commission on Education and Communication
#NatureForAll was a big focus for the CEC in 2017.
#NatureForAll is now a growing coalition of active partners and collaborators Commission on Education and Communication working together to scale up the reach and impact of programming aimed at connecting people with nature and, by doing so, engendering increased support and action across sectors for nature conservation.
#NatureForAll Achievements for 2017
Convening stakeholders & networking • Developed a network of over 200 partner organizations from 36 countries, representing all IUCN regions, to collaborate in launching and supporting #NatureForAll within IUCN’s 2017-2020 programme. • Convened communication experts at the National Geographic Society in Washington, DC to discuss how to communicate “love of nature” in an effective and impactful way. • Convened Canadian partners at the Children and Nature Network International Conference in Vancouver to launch a Canadian national #NatureForAll network.
Education, communication and awareness-raising • Developed and shared with partners a framework and tools to replicate and scale up successful #NatureForAll programme areas, including: -- The #NatureForAll Playbook, an Action Guide for Inspiring Love of Nature -- 35+ success stories with partner insights and lessons learned -- Success Stories, some of which are also featured on PANORAMA -- IUCN Youth Voices Curriculum Sourcebook (with East-West Centre and IUCN Secretariat)
• Developed and shared communications tools to reach new audiences, including: -- The Imagine #NatureForAll video in 22 languages, and other videos that inspire a connection with nature -- Anna’s Forest, a visually stunning comic book to share the #NatureForAll vision with new audiences
IUCN CEC Annual Report 2017 4 Commission on Education and Communication
• Expanded the reach of the #NatureForAll campaign through: -- Celebrating UN Environment Day, under the theme of Connecting People to Nature, with UN Environment and other partners, generating 3.5 million #NatureForAll social media impressions -- Reaching 1.3 million social media users in celebration of IUCN Goodwill Ambassador Alison Sudol (November 2016) -- Activating the #NatureForAll coalition of partners to reach their collective social media audience of more than 205 million -- Partnering on the Peace Pals International Art Exhibition and Awards to celebrate peace and nature through children’s art -- Participating in the Salzburg seminar to represent #NatureForAll
IUCN CEC Annual Report 2017 5 CEC Members
The CEC is composed of change and management specialists, strategic communication and marketing experts, learning and capacity development practitioners, conservationists, behavioural and conservation psychologists, and educators from all sectors.
Members are provided access to a learning community with common goals and are invited to
initiate and participate in activities, exchange ideas, contribute their opinions and apply their Commission on Education and Communication expertise. Members enjoy opportunities to advise on policy and strategy in support of IUCN priorities. All members are encouraged to exchange ideas, contribute opinions, apply their expertise and share updates about projects and programmes on CEC platforms: Union portal, CEC news page, CEC blog, Facebook and Twitter.
The following graph shows the membership distribution among IUCN regions:
CEC Social Media following
By the end of 2017:
The Facebook group The CEC Twitter account had had 13,642 members 3,085 followers
IUCN CEC Annual Report 2017 6 Youth Engagement and Intergenerational Partnership Representative
In 2017, the CEC also focused on involving and attracting more young professionals to its community. A Call for a Youth Engagement and
Intergenerational Partnership Representative Commission on Education and Communication was launched by the end of the year. We encouraged motivated young educators and 2016 – 2020 CEC Steering communicators from among our members Committee and beyond to apply. The Representative will stand for the views of young people, invite CEC Steering Committee members met new and activate current young members in Washington DC in April 2017. Christian of the IUCN CEC, collaborate with and align Hofer, Steering Committee member offered IUCN CEC strategies with the IUCN Task his kind support in organising the two-day Force for Intergenerational Partnership for meeting at the Global Environment Facility Sustainability, and coordinate activities Secretariat. The Steering Committee defined through youth leadership in the other five its detailed objectives to be achieved in the IUCN Commissions. upcoming 3 years, and discussed roles, responsibilities and resources in order to work towards CEC goals.
The Steering Committee visited the Earth Optimism Summit organised for Earth Day, and Sean Southey, CEC Chair gave an uplifting and encouraging presentation. Earth Optimism aims at changing the conservation conversation from doom and gloom to optimism and opportunity. Earth Optimism is part of a growing, global movement building a global community of practice around what is working in conservation, why it’s working, and how to replicate and scale up best practices and good ideas. The session was well attended with over 100 people present.
IUCN CEC Annual Report 2017 7 Regional Activities Regional Activities Regional
Mexico, North America and the Caribbean
Canada Mexico Connecting Communities to Coastlines Puppet Theater The Vancouver Aquarium Marine Science Historias de nuestra comunidad, or “Stories Centre’s award-winning mobile education from Our Community” is a community- programmme visited schools and camps based puppet theater that serves both across the country this year to celebrate educational and entertainment roles for the 150th anniversary of the Confederation. local communities in the Bipsphere reserve AquaVan 150: Connecting Communities of El Triunfo in Chiapas, Mexico. to Coastlines will facilitate personal connections between youth and marine life, emphasizing that all of our waterways are connected.
Ozone Heroes Campaign As part of the celebrations for the 30th Anniversary of the Montreal Protocol, the Ozone Secretariat at UN Environment, PCI Media, the government of Canada and the global community launched a public #NatureForAll Day engagement campaign to celebrate the For the #NFA day, we encouraged all our international agreement’s success in friends and followers to do one activity to protecting Earth against ozone depletion connect with nature. We received more and mitigating climate change. The Ozone than 200 photographs from around the Heroes campaign and the Guardians of the world, from families doing picnics in their Galaxy – Ozone Heroes comic book, sought local park to groups who went hiking to to inspire the same collaborative energy that collect garbage on a mountain. We joined propelled the Montreal Protocol’s mission one of these groups in Chiapas and 30 years ago. The campaign was created went hiking and cleaning. We picked up in partnership with Marvel, the company garbage from the river and cleaned graffiti behind some of the world’s most beloved from the rock, and finished the day doing superheroes. It was launched September 15th, 2017 on the eve of World Ozone Day in Montreal, Canada.
IUCN CEC Annual Report 2017 8 some rock climbing. It was very inspiring to Mediterranean and West Asia
see the diversity of activities and people, all Activities Regional connecting with nature. Our efforts in 2017 were focused on strengthening membership and three main developing programmes: #NatureForAll, initiated by CEC in collaboration with WCPA, E-learning, and the CEPA (communication, education, and public awareness) toolkit developed by Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD).
#NatureForAll builds support and action for nature conservation by sharing experiences and connections with nature (school clubs, hospital centres, maternal daycares, USA orphanages, handicap centres, detention Earth Optimism Summit buildings, etc.) The more people get in contact On April 22nd, CEC Member Diogo with nature, the more they enjoy, love, and Veríssimo organized a session on care for it. Conservation Marketing at the Earth Optimism Summit in Washington, DC. By the end of 2017, Med-West Asia members There is an increasing realisation that were informed about #NatureForAll, conserving biodiversity is in essence about participated in e-learning and experienced the managing human behaviour and its impact CEPA programme of the CEC. Membership in on the natural world. One emerging field the region that covers 20 countries from the that works to influence human behaviour Atlantic Ocean to Golf Sea amounts to almost to the benefit of people and nature is 100. conservation marketing. This session explored how marketing principles can A Skype conference was organised between improve the way we engage conservation members from Morocco and Lebanon to stakeholders, and had three speakers in talk about e-learning, including climate addition to Diogo himself. Those were Sean Southey, CEC Chair and CEO of PCI Media, Kelley Dennings, President of the Social Marketing Association of North America, and Joe Starinchak, Outreach Coordinator for US Fish and Wildlife Service. The session was well attended with over 100 people present.
IUCN CEC Annual Report 2017 9 change and environment protection, and to to promote #NatureForAll, build new
share information on the CEPA programme. partnerships and support conservation by Activities Regional Different groups of CEC members from strategic communication, capacity building this region took part in many activities and behavioural change in 2017. The CEC (workshops, meetings and conferences) worked on: to promote #NatureForAll, e-learning, and CEPA programmes. They built new • Presenting on the Development & partnerships with university and park Environment Behavioural Insights managers or NGO leaders to promote Network (DEBIN) in Stockholm and in biodiversity conservation by strategic several educational events in Hungary. communication, capacity building, and field training. By the end of 2017, young • Running workshops about amplifying people’s behaviour toward nature was the voices of parks by #NatureForAll improved if not changed. on the Central and Eastern Europe Members Assembly of EUROPARC in In collaboration with IUCN Med and ROWA, Šlunakov. talks are underway to deliver a workshop on CEPA for Park managers, forest staff • CEC also provided storytelling training for and educators using CEC strategic conservation during the 2017 European Communications for Conservation. Zoo Educators Conference in Paris. During the training participants learned West Europe skills to use storytelling for conservation, education and behaviour change. In 2017, the CEC focused on strengthening its membership and the #NatureForAll • CEC is represented as a permanent movement, initiated by CEC in collaboration member of the Action Group on ecological with WCPA. #NatureForAll builds support connectivity in the whole EUSALP territory and action for nature conservation by (AG7). The representative supported the facilitating experiences and connections development of the declaration for Green with nature. The more people experience Infrastructure and the participative work nature, the more they appreciate, love, and and strategic communication of the care for it. By the end of 2017 European working group. members made up 16% of the global coalition of 200 partners of #NatureForAll CEC-EU also collaborated with IUCN and CEC counts about 230 members in the Asia, Mangroves for the Future (MFF) and region. the Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF) to deliver a workshop on Strategic European members of CEC took part in many Communications for Conservation. IUCN activities, workshops and conferences PACO, World Bank, OSS and CILSS also
IUCN CEC Annual Report 2017 10 … a week-long regional workshop to increase participants’ communications skills. teamed up with CEC for a week-long in collaboration with IUCN ECARO.
regional workshop to increase participants’ Interregional partnerships were fostered Activities Regional communications skills. through a working group for national committees development. By the end of 2017 regional membership, unfortunately, remains low comparing to other regions and counts 24 members.
Despite the numbers, regional members initiated many activities and organised or took part in a number of meetings, workshops and conferences that promoted environmental education and Eastern Europe and communication specifically related to youth Central Asia and Protected Areas. Special occasions were used in the Russian Federation, In 2017, the main focus of CEC in Eastern where 2017 was declared as the “Year Europe, North and Central Asia was to of Ecology” and marked 100 years of the communicate on CEC and IUCN activities protected areas system. in general, and engage members in environmental communication and The #NatureForAll movement was launched education through the #NatureForAll for Russia at the All-Russia Forum of movement. We also encouraged Protected Areas and IUCN CEC was collaboration between Western and Eastern presented at thematic sessions and round- Europe, and North and Central Asia IUCN tables of the Forum. members. Information about CEC and #NatureForAll was mainly delivered at An important outcome of the year was the major forums and meetings in the region establishment of seven new Protected Areas in Russia. Further activities were presented and communicated at the 18th International Environmental Forum “Baltic Sea Day”, and at the Arctic Forum, among many other occasions.
The history and the current state of territorial protection and species conservation was presented at the special exhibition “Protecting nature means protecting the native land” prepared in collaboration with
IUCN CEC Annual Report 2017 11 CEC and displayed at the Presidential Raising public awareness is key to
library in St. Petersburg. involving the community in conservation Activities Regional in areas that are habitats to endangered Regional members and partners got wildlife. In July 2017, close to 600 students involved in other related initiatives like the and communities whose homes are within “Let it grow” campaign. the Aberdares ecosystem were sensitised about the importance of protecting the elephants and the rhinos in the park. This was during the annual Aberdare fence run.
Kenyan members of the CEC were involved +Photos from activities in the in various activities to support conservation region can be downloaded here. by building the capacity of teachers in communicating conservation. CEC members conducted a teacher training • Two of the photos with landscapes workshop on October 12-14th, 2017. The are from the recently established teacher training workshop was held at protected areas: Khibiny (Hibiny) Syracuse Wildlife House and Research National Park and New Siberian Islands Federal Nature Reserve. Centre. The capacity building activity aimed to increase the number of people • All photos are provided by the IUCN involved and introduce the next generation member organization WWF Russia. to appreciating nature and taking action to Authors’ names are in the titles of each conserve the environment and biodiversity. photo file. If you use them, please indicate the author’s name and ‘WWF Russia–IUCN member’.
West, Central, East and Southern Africa
The main focus for the Region in the reporting period was creating awareness on CEC and #NatureForAll, and membership recruitment. The existing members and potential members were contacted and informed about the election of a new Vice Chair for their region.
IUCN CEC Annual Report 2017 12 Communicating conservation was a major the RIT and the West Africa Biodiversity
component of the training aimed at building and Climate Change Project (WABiCC). Activities Regional the teachers’ skills in imparting conservation Participants included representatives of knowledge to their students. A similar key donors and their executing agencies, training workshop was also conducted in private sector and civil society actors, the Rift Valley Region from September 29th currently supporting and/or implementing to October 1st, 2017 at the Lake Nakuru biodiversity conservation programmes in Conservation Education Centre in Lake the Guinean Forest Biodiversity Hotspot, Nakuru National Park. This year’s theme and the wider West and Central African was ‘’Enhanced Environmental Education sub-regions. Delivery through Integrated ESD’’. The main objective of the meeting was to provide an enabling platform for the various stakeholders to establish consensus with respect to the most significant threats to biodiversity in the sub-regions, especially in the GFWA Hotspot, and to determine the main challenges to grant making and other forms of support to civil society actors in efforts to address these threats. The Transforming Intentions into Action Key outcomes of the roundtable were Stakeholders’ Roundtable was organised in the field of Biodiversity Conservation in a conservation stakeholder map for the West and Central Africa. The roundtable Guinean Forests of West Africa Hotspot was an initiative of the BirdLife International and an action programme to enhance and Critical Ecosystem Partnership donor coordination in supporting capacity Fund’s Regional Implementation Team development of CSOs in the Hotspot. IUCN for the Guinean Forests of West Africa France and IUCN Netherlands were also Biodiversity Hotspot, hosted jointly by represented.
IUCN CEC Annual Report 2017 13 Biodiversity Conservation Stakeholder East Asia
Engagement Meeting was held at the Activities Regional Biodiversity and Renewable Energy The South and East Asia CEC regions Learning Centre (BRELC) in Freetown, conducted a variety of activities over the Sierra Leone on 23rd March 2017. year. The list includes:
The one-day seminar was co-hosted Conservation Education Experience by the Guinean Forests of West Africa with Local Stakeholders in Tibet area Regional Implementation Team (GFWA- CEC Steering Committee Member RIT) and the GEF Small Grants Programme Hanying Li shared Conservation Education (Sierra Leone). The event brought together Experience with Local Stakeholders in several actors working for biodiversity Tibet area, Qinghai Province, China. conservation and sustainable environmental Hanying was on a project mid-term review management in Sierra Leone. Its primary and implementation tasks, entrusted by objective was to create a platform for an environmental NGO, which carries out sharing and updating current information projects in the Three River Sources area. about the status of biodiversity and natural resource management in Sierra Leone, and more importantly, to introduce the GFWA- RIT and GEF SGP grant portfolios for the Biodiversity Hotspot. During the meeting, Tommy Garnett, CEC Regional Vice Chair introduced #NatureForAll, by showing the video ‘IMAGINE’ and informing the group Saving Endangered Bluefin Tuna from about the CEC with contact details to Extinction: The Efforts enquire about possible membership. In July 2017, there was a very popular Chinese television drama series that advertised the consumption of Bluefin Tuna. “Come and taste this very best Bluefin Tuna”, said one of the main characters of the series. Being the most populated country in the world, China has the largest market for uprising seafood trends. However, the Bluefin tuna is highly priced due to the scarcity of the species. If the trend of eating Bluefin Tuna is given life in the Chinese market, what will happen to this endangered species?
IUCN CEC Annual Report 2017 14 Knowledge exchange between Programme for 2017-2020 through creative,
members: China learns nature innovative, and effective communication Activities Regional education experiences from Africa and education. CEC members Maria Moate, Manager on Environmental Education, South Africa Hanying briefed the participants on National Parks and Margaret Otieno, CEO, communications strategy trainings that Wildlife Clubs of Kenya were invited to CEC has organized in Asia, especially the Beijing to share their experiences on nature one that she and Peter Paul van Kempen education, national parks management (another CEC Steering Committee member) and wildlife conservation. delivered in July 2017 for the IUCN Asia office. At that training, 40 project managers Hanying Li Spoke at a Community and communication officers from 13 IUCN Environmental Education Seminar in China Asian country offices learned how to tell Upon invitation of Oxfam, Hong Kong, project stories and how to communicate Hanying shared CEC experiences in with stakeholders. Training outcomes show promoting community participation in nature that some programme offices have applied reserve conservation through education. A what they learned from the training and total of 80 forest rangers, reserve managers, produced a few stories on positive change. and local minority leaders from Maolan area of Guizhou province, China joined the Hanying also had side discussions with Seminar in May 2017. representatives from IUCN Asia members, Asia country offices, and the other five CEC SC Member Hanying Li attended the committees on areas of common interests IUCN Asia Regional Members Committee and potential collaborations. Meeting (ARMC) on behalf of CEC Hanying joined the meeting in Zhejiang CEC provided Communications Capacity Building training to a Province, China in September 2017 and member’s organization in China presented a summary of CEC’s work in Upon request from a CEC member’s Asia, especially in China, around the topic organization, China Society of Forestry of nature education and the #NatureForAll (CSF - also a #NatureForAll partner), CEC campaign. SC member Hanying Li and Peter Paul van Kempen delivered a communications The main objective of the meeting was training course to over 40 forest managers to review the joint progress of IUCN and university students majoring in forest members, commissions and secretariat on management during a CSF annual meeting strengthening the programmatic presence in December 2017. of IUCN in Asia. Hanying took the opportunity to showcase CEC’s unique advantage in supporting the implementation of IUCN’s
IUCN CEC Annual Report 2017 15 Southeast Asia Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
more effectively. The results of the event Activities Regional With about 158 members of the Commission, were presented during the Steering the Southeast Asia region plays a key role Committee Meeting of IUCN CEC in Gland, in promoting the agenda of IUCN and Switzerland. the Commission. During the past several months, the following key activities were In collaboration with a number of scholars, undertaken. a set of posters was developed for World Environment Day 2018, under the theme of In order to reach out to current members and pollution, to be launched during the World enhance the network, the region established Environment Day celebrations in India in an email group that has now connected June 2018. all the members. Efforts are underway to create a mailing list and a calendar for Discussions were held with the Secretariat use by the members in the region to share of the Convention on Biological Diversity activity details, experiences and outcomes (CBD) to further the work under the Specialist of activities. Several members are now Group on Community Engagement and actively pursuing the recruitment of more Traditional Knowledge. A number of relevant members to the Commission in ideas ranging from publishing a special countries where representation has been compendium on biodiversity, people and limited. culture during the CBD COP 15 meeting to contributing to the Article 8 (j) discussions The IUCN country office in Nepal hosted a for post 2020 global biodiversity framework meeting of all IUCN CEC members under are currently being pursued. the leadership of the IUCN Councillor, with a clear message to enhance work and It is now planned to host a number of special reach as well as network with members of webinars on communicating biodiversity to other Commissions to better communicate contribute to furthering the implementation actions. of Aichi Biodiversity Target 1.
In partnership with the Forum for Activities that took place in the region Law, Environment, Development and include: Governance (FLEDGE), Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology, UNESCO and 13th Anniversary of Radio Paryabaran others, a month-long student event called Radio Paryabaran, the world’s first ‘Interlude’ was organized in November environmental radio created by Youth – December 2017. The aim of the event Awareness Environmental Forum (YAEF) was to engage students and scholars in in Nepal celebrated its 13th anniversary in field-based research to communicate the February. Started in 2004, and a member of
IUCN CEC Annual Report 2017 16 the World Association of Community Radio Latin America
Broadcaster (AMARC), Radio Paryabaran Activities Regional is available at 104.2Mhz (ECR FM). The 2017 work plan agreed upon with other CEC representatives in the region Communicating Marine Conservation included the first ever call for the election Education to School Teachers in of national focal points in 14 countries in Southeast coast of India Meso and South America. The results have A one-day training programme on Marine been satisfactory for Argentina, Colombia, Conservation Education was organized Bolivia, Uruguay, Brazil, Peru, Paraguay, El for school teachers at OMCAR Palk Salvador, Venezuela, Costa Rica, Ecuador Bay Environmental Education Centre and Panama. The degree of involvement of located in the Southeast coast of India. each country can be seen here, on the CEC The participating school teachers are the Meso and South America regional website. school level coordinators for environmental education activities. The event was organized to provide better orientation about how to communicate marine conservation messages to their students. The programme was funded by the Department of Environment, Government of Tamil Nadu.
These efforts have allowed for more than 70% of the region’s members to interact, agree upon and endorse their representatives. At the end of this process and together with the new chairs, a process for the election of national focal points and criteria for basic regional governance were endorsed.
This mobilization effort of the Commission’s membership can be consolidated through face-to-face meetings to improve cohesion among members of the Caribbean, Meso and South America, potentially on the margins of the III Latin American and Caribbean Congress of Protected Areas taking place in Lima, Peru in March 2019.
IUCN CEC Annual Report 2017 17 Going forward, regional objectives include
guaranteeing participation of all countires, Activities Regional strengthening the governance of the Commission, adapting global campaigns such as #NatureForAll to the region, and To find out more about the CEC, planning cohesive regional actions with follow these channels: corresponding local initiatives. IUCN CEC Website
111 Facebook Group
164 Twitter
CEC activities carried out in the countries by members and their organizations include: the Biodiversity Conference Series held in
Bolivia, the VII Environmental Education To keep up with the #NatureForAll Days at the Arturo Ragonese Botanical campaign, check out these channels: Garden (JBAER) of the INTA Argentina, or the Systematization of new experiences in #NatureForAll Website environmental education with integral focus of Latin America (March 2017), carried out by the Environmental Training Network for Facebook Latin America and the Caribbean together with UN Environment.
Twitter The work of the Spanish and Portuguese speaking community of CEC can be found on their website.
IUCN CEC Annual Report 2017 18 Annex A
Annex A
IUCN CEC Steering Committee 2016-2020
Sean Southey IUCN CEC Chair
CEO PCI Media New York, NY, USA
Katalin Czippán IUCN CEC Deputy Chair
International Coordinator Bavarian Academy for Nature Conservation and Landscape Management (ANL) Hungary/Germany
Tommy Garnett IUCN CEC Regional Vice Chair West and Central Africa
Executive Director Environmental Foundation for Africa Sierra Leone
Brahim Haddane IUCN CEC Regional Vice Chair Mediterranean
Director of Exotic Botanical Gardens of Salé-Rabat Fondation Mohamed VI pour la Protection de l’Environnement Rabat, Morocco
Hanying Li IUCN CEC Regional Vice Chair East Asia
CEO Beijing Dequan Management and Consulting Co. Ltd. Beijing, China
Ana Valerie Mandri Rohen IUCN CEC Regional Vice Chair Mexico, North America and the Caribbean
Executive Director El Triunfo Conservation Fund (FONCET) Chiapas, Mexico
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Ana Julia Gómez IUCN CEC Regional Vice Chair Meso and South America
Consultant Buenos Aires, Argentina
Margaret Otieno IUCN CEC Regional Vice Chair Eastern and Southern Africa
National Coordinator and CEO Wildlife Clubs of Kenya Nairobi, Kenya
Balakrishna Pisupati IUCN CEC Regional Vice Chair South and East Asia
Vice Chancellor TransDisciplinary University India
Firas T. Abd-Alhadi IUCN CEC Regional Vice-Chair West Asia
Program Coordinator Stakeholders for Human Development Training
Peter Paul van Kempen IUCN CEC Regional Vice Chair West Europe
van Kempen Consultancy; frogleaps Amsterdam, Netherlands
Aleksey A. Zavarzin IUCN CEC Regional Vice Chair Eastern Europe and Central Asia
Deputy Director, N.I.Vavilov All-Russia Institute of Plant Genetic Resources St. Petersburg, Russia
Florent Kaiser Youth Engagement and Intergenerational Partnership Representative
Independent Consultant Regenerative Actions in Forests, Landscapes, Business and Societies Lima, Perú
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David Ainsworth IUCN CEC Expert
Information Officer, Implementation and Outreach Division Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity Montreal, Canada
Nancy Colleton IUCN CEC Expert
President, Institute for Global Environmental Strategies Arlington, Virginia, USA
Daniel Cooney IUCN CEC Expert
Communication Deputy Director UN Environment Nairobi, Kenya
Christian Hofer IUCN CEC Expert
Senior Communications Officer Global Environment Facility Washington DC, USA
Karen Keenleyside IUCN CEC Expert on #NatureForAll
Senior Advisor, Protected Areas Establishment and Conservation Directorate Parks Canada Gatineau, QC
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