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The
2nd Second National Congress on Philippine Lakes, held
with the theme "Building on Integrated Lake Basin Management",
was held on 27- 29 April 2011at SEARCA in Los Baños, Laguna. The
event was composed of lectures, technical sessions, research
presentations and workshop which was intended to create awareness on
ILBM as an option that can be applied at the national and local levels
to help us move forward strategically to a common framework for lake
management. Mr. Jose Carlo Quintos was there to represent the SCPW.
At the
Living Lakes and Shorebirds Conservation Events held on 17 - 20
February 2011 at Denmark, Western Australia, "Wetland Conservation in
the Philippines" was presented and discussed by Ms. Amy Lecciones. The
event, which was organized by Green Skills Inc., aimed to, among others,
increase networking of concerned individuals in the South
West and South Coast, exchanging information about wetland and estuary
management relevant to shorebird conservation.
The
3rd WLI (Wetlands Link International) Asia Conference was held in Malaysia from the 22 to 25 November 2010 at the Paya Indah Wetland, Selangor, Malaysia. Miss
Amy Lecciones and Ms. Che Prudente were among the 50 delegates from
across the region to attend the event. The Conference had themed
sessions on science, engaging people and wetlands centres.
Ms. Amy Lecciones,
the SCPW Executive Officer, was
invited by the Nagenahiru Foundation in Sri Lanka and the
Global Nature Fund to do a presentation about the CLEAR
Youth Ecological Camp as a strategy for education and
awareness-raising for Laguna de Bay and its environs. The
Sustainable Wetlands Management: A Workshop on the
Protection of Diverse Mangrove Forests, which was held on 13-17 June 2010 at Ambalangoda, Sri Lanka,
intended to facilitate the sharing of experiences among
wetland managers from India, Cambodia, Thailand, Australia,
United Kingdom, Germany and Sri Lanka, especially on environmental education
strategies that could help the Wetland Centre develop its
education outreach activities.
Ms. Amy Lecciones
attended the Ramsar CEPA National Focal Points (NFPs) Workshop in Bangkok,
Thailand on 29 April - 02 May 2010. The Workshop, which was
organized by the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands, brought together the
government and non-government organization CEPA NFPs
from contracting parties within east and southeast Asia. The
objectives of the workshop, among others, was to improve the planning
skills of the NFPs through hand-on activities.
The
CLEAR Partnership was represented at the 13th Living Lakes
Conference by Ms. Amy M. Lecciones,
Vice-President of the SCPW and Mr. Edgardo Manda, General
Manager of the LLDA.
Ms. Lecciones was the rapporteur for the Parallel Round Table
Discussion on Social Dimensions of Lake Management, specifically for
the session on Managing Health Issues (Sanitation, Drinking Water,
etc.). The Conference and the Living Lakes Network General
Assembly was held at Chapala, Mexico on 17-25
March 2010.
The
theme of the 12th Living Lakes
Conference, which was held on 22 to 27 September 2008 at Lake
Trasimeno in Italy, was "Linking Cultural Landscape Values to Lake
Protection". It highlighted the links between culture and the use
of natural resources in lake regions and searched for possibilities to
change human habits to a more eco-friendly way with full respect for the
ecosystem and the biodiversity. Ms. Amy Lecciones was there to
represent the SCPW/CLEAR.
A number
of SCPW members attended
the International Conference-Workshop on Biodiversity and Climate
Change in Southeast Asia: Adaptation and Mitigation held at Sofitel
Philippine Plaza, City of Manila on 19-20 February 2008. Organized
by SEAMEO SEARCA, the two-day conference-workshop aimed to
provide the venue for an international discussion of opportunities for
adapting to and mitigating climate change, while enhancing the
conservation of biodiversity in the region.
In the International Conference on Managing Wetlands for Sustainable
Development: Innovative Research and Lessons Learned, Effective
Partnerships, and the Need for Co-Management
held on 9 – 11 January 2008 at Thumrin Thana Hotel, Trang, Thailand, Ms.
Amy Lecciones presented the CLEAR Partnership as a strategy in
Engaging Multi-Stakeholder Participation in Lake Conservation.
Ms. Karen Discaya represented the
SCPW to
the validation workshop on National Action Plan on Peatlands organized by the
Protected Areas and Wildlife Bureau (PAWB) of the Department
of Environment and Natural Resources.
This was held in the Visitors' Center of PAWB on 28 January 2008
and 21 February 2008.
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