{"id":3061,"date":"2012-09-25T11:43:24","date_gmt":"2012-09-25T10:43:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bvblog.wpengine.com\/?p=3061"},"modified":"2014-04-25T13:48:17","modified_gmt":"2014-04-25T12:48:17","slug":"kayaks-and-kava-to-korea-an-insiders-perspective-at-the-iucns-world-conservation-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.blueventures.org\/en\/kayaks-and-kava-to-korea-an-insiders-perspective-at-the-iucns-world-conservation-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"Kayaks (and kava) to Korea: an insider\u2019s perspective at the IUCN\u2019s World Conservation Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Brian Jones, Conservation Coordinator, Madagascar<\/p>\n

We\u2019re seated on the floor in a circle at the Blue Planet Pavilion on the 3rd floor of the International Conference Centre in Jeju-Do, South Korea. Confused passers-by bump into each other and turn their attention from their smart phones to stare sidelong at two large Fijian men dressed in flowered shirts and giant man-skirts kneeling in the centre.<\/p>\n

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Alifereti in brown shirt and Paoulo next to him in white, dishing out the kava<\/p><\/div>\n

Paulo and Alifereti are engaged in a kava ceremony, merrily doling out big bowls of a strange looking liquid to those of us sitting cross-legged around them. I\u2019ve heard stories of drinking this stuff, which is derived from the kava plant of the western Pacific, leading to black outs and\/or euphoric hallucinations \u2014 neither of which are on my agenda at 11am on Day 2 of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature\u2019s quadrennial World Conservation Congress<\/a> (WCC).<\/p>\n

Alifereti is holding the dish out to me now\u2026 here goes: *clap*, two hands on the dish, muddy looking water down the hatch (tastes like boiled grass clippings), *clap* *clap* *clap*, and it\u2019s over. Round 2 and 3 go down even more smoothly. Maybe it\u2019s psychosomatic, but the repeated bouts of kava do seem to make myself and the other participants more relaxed, more ready to start a conversation, despite the hectic surroundings. A glance around the circle reveals an eclectic bunch, hailing from places such as Grenada, India, Vietnam, Kenya, Madagascar, Papua New Guinea and more, but all sharing the common goal of working to improve community-based marine resource management.<\/p>\n

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Enjoying one of the receptions at the congress<\/p><\/div>\n

The kava ceremony was just the start of a whirlwind of workshops, knowledge cafes and learning sessions devoted to local approaches to marine management. We\u2019ve affectionately coined this gathering of community representatives from around the world \u201cKayaks to Korea\u201d.<\/p>\n

Well, not really kayaks. More like aeroplanes. A whole handful of them. Thirty hours and three layovers tested even this well-travelled child of the western world, so I can\u2019t imagine what a harrowing experience it must have been for the 16 community leaders who we brought to the event. Many of the recipients of this travel scholarship, provided by the MacArthur Foundation<\/a>, had never previously left their home countries, let alone boarded an aeroplane.<\/p>\n

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The group in front of the International Conference Centre in Jeju<\/p><\/div>\n

We\u2019ve come to the picturesque Jeju-Do, a volcanic island located off the south coast of the Korean peninsula, to exchange ideas with the international conservation community. This is the self-described \u201cNature Olympics\u201d, though with decidedly more donut and coffee consumption by the participants. The WCC is the big shebang, where leading researchers and conservation practitioners come together to discuss the state of the world\u2019s environment (not great, in case you haven\u2019t heard), and what we should be doing about it (quite a bit more). The outcomes of this congress will largely shape conservation policy for the coming years.<\/p>\n

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Our Korean hosts put on quite a show for the congress participants, and we enjoyed the culture of Jeju-do.<\/p><\/div>\n

That\u2019s not to suggest that the conference was just a humdrum of lectures on carbon finance and habitat fragmentation. The organisers did an outstanding job of dazzling participants with an array of concerts, banquets and traditional dancing, while also ensuring that sessions focus on interactivity and prescience to the conservation challenges we face together. A handful of IUCN staff even found time to organise a \u201cflash mob\u201d, which you can catch on YouTube here<\/a> in case you missed it.<\/p>\n

Now, my opinion is hopelessly biased, and perhaps the kava\u2019s gone to my head, but I think the local marine management contingent has helped to bring a much needed \u201cboots-on-the-ground conservation\u201d point of view to the congress. They\u2019ve also helped open all of our eyes to the true scale at which local management of the marine environment is taking off. Whereas the expansion of locally managed marine areas (LMMAs) has been fairly well documented in areas like Oceania and east Africa, I personally had no idea of the management efforts going on in places like Thanh Hoa, Vietnam or Minicoy Island, India. Across languages, cultures, continents and generations, much can be learned and shared from amalgamating all of these experiences. The past decade has seen a flood of local management efforts and with it the development of a wealth of knowledge, ideas and best practices.<\/p>\n

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Selarn from Papua New Guinea talking about his community’s LMMA<\/p><\/div>\n

As the old saying goes, ‘a rising tide raises all boats’. That\u2019s why we\u2019ve been working to develop the \u201cLive With The Sea<\/a>\u201d website. The site takes its name from the literal translation of Madagascar\u2019s first LMMA, \u201cVelondriake<\/a>\u201d. Our aim is for the site to become a repository for information on local marine management as well as provide a forum for discussions between marine managers across the globe. While nothing can replace the type of person-to-person interaction between community leaders that we were able to facilitate at the 2012 WCC, we hope the website can prove effective at maintaining an ongoing dialogue and information exchange. However, it may prove difficult to organise an e-kava ceremony…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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