Framework
for biodiversity
Reconciliation
Action Plans
Conference
on
Management
of conflicts
between wildlife and human resource use
25
- 27 January 2006 in
Leipzig, Germany
The
conference team likes
to thank all participants for their contributions and the interesting
discussion during and in between the sessions. We hope that the
conference has supported further development of networks within the
field of human-wildlife conflict management.
Conference background
Human activities
endanger many species on national,
European and global levels. This is particularly true for large
vertebrates that require comparatively large tracts of semi-natural
ecosystems where they often compete with humans for biological
resources. If wildlife conservation is to be successful in the long
run, participatory conflict management based on natural and social
scientific knowledge is required.
The conference
brought together about 100 researchers and practitioners to discuss
novel approaches in biodiversity conflict management. Parallel sessions
covered contributions from all relevant disciplines such as
conservation biology, ecology, economics, law and other social
sciences. A special focus was on integrative approaches combining
knowledge from different disciplines for successful conflict management
as well as on bridging science and society through the inclusion of
stakeholders.
Motivation for the
conference is the
completion of the EU-funded project FRAP (www.frap-project.net).
FRAP
developed a Framework for biodiversity Reconciliation Action Plans
using conflicts between the conservation of large fish-eating
vertebrates (Eurasian otter, Great cormorant and Grey seal) and
fisheries as core
examples.
