Asia Parks Congress Information

The Asia Parks Congress held to address increasing pressures on the region’s protected areas. The Congress will address the challenges facing this dynamic region through learning, sharing of experience and close collaboration.

The 1st Asia Parks Congress was held on November 13-17, 2013 at Sendai International Center (Sendai city, Miyagi, Japan).

The upcoming 2nd Asia Parks Congress (2nd APC) will be held in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia. Tentatively the proposed topics which will be discussed during the Congress are as following;

• WG1: Ensuring a more Resilient Future: Nature-based Solutions for Health and Wellbeing
• WG2: Engaging Partners: Governance of Protected and Conserved Areas
• WG3: Ecological Networks: Connectivity and Transboundary Conservation
• WG4: Quality Counts: Effective Protected and Conserved Areas
• WG5: Sustainable Conservation: Economic and Financial Sustainability of Protected and Conserved Areas
• WG6: Urban Futures: Urban Conservation and a New Generation

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