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President Calderón Attends Inaugural Ceremony of 9th World Wilderness Congress
 Suzanne Stephens Waller - Presidencia de la República
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November 07, 2009
Mérida, Yucatán - As part of federal government's commitment to contributing to the solution of the problem of climate change - one of the major threats to the process of development, human well-being and the integrity of natural capital - President Felipe Calderón is taking part in the Inauguration of the World Wilderness Congress (CMTS), Wild 9.
The CMTS, founded by The WILD Foundation in 1977, is currently the world’s oldest international environmental forum. With over 30 years of achievements in conservation work, the CMTS has become the leading platform for action in complex issues regarding nature and wilderness.
The CMTS include leading representatives of governments, the private sector, indigenous peoples, non-governmental organizations, academics and artists in a structure that has been carefully designed to involve a broad spectrum of points of view on wilderness. This broad participation, combined with the open, balanced, spirit of debate, creates a focused, objective and constructive environment that creates concrete conservation results.
The Congress meets every three or four years in various parts of the world. It has been held in South Africa (1977, 2001), Australia (1980), Scotland (1983), the USA (1987, 2005), Norway (1993) and India (1998).Since its inception, the World Congress of Wild Lands has been a results-oriented conservation project that begins long before the delegates meet.
The main thematic areas, issues of importance and other features of the WILD) program are organized so that the protection and support of wild lands are understood and used as a key element in all the plans for coping with global environmental change. Other specific results are being planned that may include new protected areas, new policies and laws on wild lands, new financing opportunities and better training for wild land managers and so on.
The main issues are as follows:
• Freshwater
• Climate Change
• Fire
• Transborder Conservation and Corridors
• Large Land and Sea Regions
• Human Communities in Transition |
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