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Skripten 500 2018 Bärbel Vogel, Kyung Sik Woo, Ralf Grunewald, Roger Crofts and Gisela Stolpe (Eds.) Global Geoheritage – International Significance and Biodiversity Values Workshop Proceedings BfN-Skripten 500 2018 Global Geoheritage – International Significance and Biodiversity Values Proceedings of the Workshop of the IUCN-WCPA Geoheritage Specialist Group and the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN) at the International Academy for Nature Conservation on the Isle of Vilm, Germany, 4 - 7 April 2018 Edited by Bärbel Vogel Kyung Sik Woo Ralf Grunewald Roger Crofts Gisela Stolpe Cover picture: Unicorn Cave in the Harz, with workshop participants (R. Grunewald). Editors’s addresses: Bärbel Vogel German Speleological Federation E-Mail: [email protected] Kyung Sik Woo Chair, IUCN-WCPA Geoheritage Specialist Group E-Mail: [email protected] Ralf Grunewald Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN) E-Mail: [email protected] Roger Crofts Deputy Chair, IUCN-WCPA Geoheritage Specialist Group E-Mail: [email protected] Gisela Stolpe Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN) E-Mail: [email protected] This publication is included in the literature database “DNL-online” (www.dnl-online.de) BfN-Skripten are not available in book trade. A pdf version can be downloaded from the internet at: http://www.bfn.de/0502_skripten.html. Publisher: Bundesamt für Naturschutz (BfN) Federal Agency for Nature Conservation Konstantinstrasse 110 53179 Bonn, Germany URL: http://www.bfn.de The publisher takes no guarantee for correctness, details and completeness of statements and views in this report as well as no guarantee for respecting private rights of third parties. Views expressed in this publication are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of the publisher. This work with all its parts is protected by copyright. Any use beyond the strict limits of the copyright law without the con-sent of the publisher is inadmissible and punishable. Reprint, as well as in extracts, only with permission of Federal Agency for Nature Conservation. Printed by the printing office of the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety Printed on 100% recycled paper. ISBN 978-3-89624-237-2 DOI 10.19217/skr500 Bonn, Germany 2018 Contents Preface ................................................................................................................................5 Introduction ..........................................................................................................................7 Conclusions .........................................................................................................................9 A The Role of IUCN in Geoheritage ............................................................................. 13 Woo, Kyung Sik Current and future activities of IUCN WCPA Geoheritage Specialist Group and a proposal of the Key Geoheritage Sites in IUCN .................................................................. 13 Crofts, Roger IUCN WCPA Best Practice Guideline on Geoheritage Conservation and Management in Protected Areas.............................................................................................................. 15 Diaz-Martinez, Enrique The foreseeable role of GSG in IUCN/WCPA ..................................................................... 17 Badman, Tim Role of Geoconservation in IUCN WCPA ........................................................................... 19 B International Significance of Geoheritage ............................................................... 21 Brilha, José The assessment of the international significance of geoheritage ........................................ 21 Casadevall, Thomas J.; Tormay, Dan iel; Roberts, Jessica IUCN Volcano Thematic Study: Identifying the Strongest Remaining Candidates for Inscription on the World Heritage List ................................................................................. 25 Gordon, John E.; Crofts, Roger Linking geodiversity and biodiversity: an agenda for developing more integrated nature conservation and protected area management ....................................................... 33 Gray, Murray Natural Capital, Ecosystem Services and Geodiversity: complexity and confusion ............ 39 Gunn, John International Recognition of Cave and Karst Geoheritage .................................................. 45 Ju, Seonok Ok; Woo, Kyung Sik A proposal of the Key Geoheritage Site program in IUCN .................................................. 49 Migoń, Piotr Recognizing landforms of international significance ........................................................... 53 Trofimova, E.; Trofimov, A. World Cave Heritage .......................................................................................................... 57 C Case Studies of Geoheritage Conservation and Biodiversity Importance of Geoheritage ............................................................................................................... 67 Cerkvenik, Rosana Challenges in the management of the Škocjan Caves, Slovenia ........................................ 67 3 De Vivo, Antonio; Forti, Paolo Natuturingan cave (Puerto Princesa Underground River, Palawan, Philippine): how to preserve an astonishing ecosystem while improving tourism ............................................. 73 Ellger, Christof; Schneider, Simon The Ocean on Shore: Combining Marine Sciences with Earth History – Highlights of a Project in Geo-Education: MOBI ........................................................................................ 79 Forti Paolo The Evaporite karst and Caves of Emilia-Romagna Region is the first karst of this type officially inserted in the WH Tentative List of UNESCO .............................................. 85 Knolle, Friedhart; Vogel, Bärbel Pre-Excursion South Harz Zechstein Karst Belt ................................................................ 91 Komerički, Ana; Deharveng, Louis Assessment of extinction risk of species as a tool for cave and karst conservation ........... 95 Mohammad, Mohammad K.; Al-Zubaldy, Aqeel A.; Al-Barazengy, Ali N. The Importance of Geodiversity on Biodiversity near Al-Salman Depression, West Al- Samawa City, Southern Desert, Iraq ............................................................................... 101 Musser, Anne M. Faunal Biodiversity of the Jenolan Karst Conservation Reserve and the significance of endemic, relict and threatened species ........................................................................... 105 Perveen, Farzana Khan Cave and Karst Protection and Management in Pakistan ................................................ 109 Reboleira, Anna S. The dark side of human contamination: hidden impacts in subterranean ecosystems, legal framework and how to monitor subterranean biodiversity ........................................ 115 Zupan Hajna, Nadja Postojnska jama - a cave of exceptional geoheritage and biodiversity; 200 years of tourism ............................................................................................................................ 117 Annex ............................................................................................................................. 121 Vilm Declaration on Geodiversity and Geoheritage Conservation .................................... 121 Workshop Agenda ........................................................................................................... 123 List of Participants ........................................................................................................... 129 4 Preface When Graeme Worboys mentioned the necessity of new recognition of geoheritage sites of international significance a few years ago, I did not really follow his supportive enthusiasm for geoheritage recognition and conservation in the world. However, since then, I began to collect information on this topic with my graduate student (Miss Ju) and asked her to write a M.Sc. thesis on this topic. As we gained more information, I was very surprised that there are still quite a few countries that do not even have proper concepts for geoheritage con- servation. Thus, I strongly feel that it is our present responsibility to conserve many pre- cious geoheritage sites for future generations, and IUCN can certainly play a significant role to initiate this. The international expert workshop of the Geoheritage Specialist Group at the International Academy for Nature Conservation Isle of Vilm hence tried to make a strong case for demonstrating the wider benefits of geoheritage and to explore global mechanisms and instruments that can help to conserve our precious geoheritage. I seriously considered what would be the best way to make this workshop successful. I came up with three neces- sary topics to be discussed at the workshop; 1) Linking geodiversity with biodiversity within IUCN WCPA and step-up of the Geoheritage Specialist Group in IUCN WCPA, 2) Re- establishment of Caves and Karst Working Group in Geoheritage Specialist Group, and 3) Recognizing geoheritage sites of international significance for future conservation in the world, hopefully followed by a proposal to IUCN of a new programme, ‘Key Geoheritage Area’. The Vilm workshop nicely built upon the first international workshop in Huanjiang, China in 2015 and came up with very useful directions for the future work. It was a great pleasure to organize this workshop and I would like to express my sincere
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