Каспинфо
октябрь 1999

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Название: Новости Каспийской программы ИСАР (на английском языке)
Главные Пункты:
* Информационное письмо ИСАР- МСОП о ежегодном проведении дня Каспия
* Рекомендации Специальной комиссии МСОП по проблемам Каспийского моря (Голицыно, Россия, 19-20 февраля, 1998 г.)
(11.10.1999)

Полный Текст
Новости Каспийской программы ИСАР (на английском языке)
Day of the Caspian

The idea of conducting a yearly "Day of the Caspian" was born in April, 1999 at
the conference "Building for a Sustainable Future: Cooperation and Partnership
among NGOs in the Transcaspian Basin". Day of the Caspian is intended to
attract attention to the ecological and socio-economic problems of the Caspian,
to develop and support environmental protection initiatives and environmental
traditions among the people of the Caspian states, and to expand cooperation and
exchange of experience among environmental organizations in the region.

An organizing committee has been established in order to develop the Day of the
Caspian idea, with ISAR and IUCN taking the lead. The committee will facilitate
a broad discussion of the idea among governmental and nongovernmental
environmental protection and education organizations in the countries of the
Caspian basin. The committe will also develop a general plan for conducting the
holiday and securing the necessary organizational, informational and financial
means for the event.

The yearly Day of the Caspian, in our opinion, could be a celebration and
summation of the environmental protection activities of the year: public
actions, holidays, competitions, environmental camps, environmental education
programs--all the work that is constantly carried out by concerned people living
on the banks of the Sea.


The organizing committee suggests establishing the second Sunday of September as
Day of the Caspian, in order to have a single day that will unite all those who
live around the Sea.
Support and participation from all the countries of the Caspian--Azerbaijan,
Iran, Kazakhstan, Russia and Turkmenistan--is very important.


We call upon you to join this initiative. We believe that preparing and
celebrating a yearly Day of the Caspian will lead to more attention being
dedicated to the nature of this unique body of water and a deeper awareness of
the environmental, esthetic and spiritual value of the Caspian.

IUCN-ISAR,
October, 1999

Contact Aleksey Knijnikov, ISAR-Moscow


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IUCN TASK FORCE ON THE CASPIAN SEA PROBLEMS
(Golitsyno, Russia, 19-20 February 1998)
RECOMMENDATIONS


IUCN Task Force on the Caspian Sea problems, established in compliance with
Resolution 1.12 of the First World Conservation Congress (15-22 October 1996, Montreal, Canada
and Resolution of the Meeting of IUCN members from Central Asia and Russia
(14-15 November 1997, Almaty, Kazakhstan),
at its first meeting on 19-20 February 1998 (Golitsyno, Moscow Region, Russia),
having discussed the current state and the problems of the international environmental
cooperation in the Caspian Sea region, and for the purposes of the promotion of
environmental problem solution in the Caspian Sea region, recommends:

1. To apply to the international non-governmental organizations of individual states and
to the donor countries with the proposal on the coordination and consolidation of efforts
to ensure the implementation of the programmes on the conservation of the
Caspian Sea ecosystem.

2. To consider as important active participation of the developers of national action plans
strategies for the conservation of biological and landscape diversity, as well as action plans
on environmental conventions and preparation of the integrated "Action Plan for
the conservation and sustainable use of biological diversity in the Caspian Sea".

3. To intensify the process of the establishment of the system of biosphere and other
reserves in the Caspian Sea and its shores, including wetland nature reserves, connecting
them with ecological corridors (ECONET) and to ensure coordination of
their activity by establishing the Joint Scientific Council of the Caspian reserves and Ramsar sites.

4. To ensure more wide involvement of the international NGOs (IUCN) in the organizational,
research and, on agreement with the governments of the Caspian states, environmental control
activity.

5. To request the Russian and Kazakhstan governments to undertake additional measures for
the observation of a reserved zones regime in the Northern Caspian according to national
procedures, ensuring conservation of the biological diversity in
this part of the water body.

6. Creation / consolidation of the information network of environmental NGOs in the Caspian
Sea region, including the system of environmentally important information exchange,
thematic distributions, and in the future-open data bases on the ecology of the Caspian and
the system of public expert evaluation and monitoring of changes in the environment.

7. Calls IUCN members, European Programme and its office for the CIS, in close cooperation
with the Director General, IUCN Commissions and experts, to assist in the development, taking
into account the programmes, prepared by the Caspian states earlier, and implementation of
the "Action Plan for the conservation and sustainable use of biological diversity of the Caspian
Sea", which:
a) will define the special role of IUCN in the Caspian Sea problem solution and the
directions of cooperation with other international and national governmental and
non-governmental organizations and financial institutions (World Bank, GEF, etc.);
b) will consider the present state and potential threats to biodiversity, including, inter alia:
- impact of the development of offshore fields and transportation of hydrocarbon raw materials;
- impact of pollution from the land-based sources;
- sea level fluctuations and climate change impact.
c) will establish priorities for the conservation of biological and
landscape diversity and sustainable use of biological resources
of the Caspian Sea, including:
- conservation and restoration of ecosystems, including establishment of protected natural
territories and water bodies (terrestrial and marine protected areas, wetlands,
etc.);
- conservation and restoration of the species diversity;
- provision of information for state authorities and the pub-lic, environmental education;
- improvement of national environmental legislation;
- sustainable use of biological resources;
- promotion of the development and coordination of the in-ternational environmental cooperation:

i) international conventions and agreements;
ii) international organizations;

- assistance in the extension of information exchange be-tween the countries of the region and
assistance in the cre-ation of networks and specialized information centre for non-governmental
organizations;
- development and implementation of pilot projects, inclu-ding assistance in establishing contacts
with potential do-nors and the search for financial means.

8. To consider the list of pilot projects, proposed by the Meeting participants, to include them in
the Action Plan in compliance with its priorities (Annex I).

9. To request the Regional IUCN Councillor for the East Europe and North Asia
A. M. Anurkhanov, in collaboration with the IUCN Office for the CIS, to send information
on the activity of the IUCN Task Force on the Caspian sea problems and other corresponding
activities of IUCN - The World Conservation Union to Environmental Ministers of the Caspian
states.