RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE CONFERENCE ON WILD
NATURE (“TRIBUNA—10”)
(Published with abridgements)
The first International Inter-Disciplinary Conference on Wild Nature (“Tribuna—10”) took place in Kiev on April 24-26, 2004. It was organized by the Kiev Ecological and Cultural Center, the Ukrainian Coalition for Wild Nature and the Coordination and Information Center of the International Social and Ecological Union (ISEU) assisted by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. The conference was held in commemoration of the 15th anniversary of the Kiev Ecological and Cultural Center.
The conference was attended by 45 participants representing NGOs, scientific organizations, universities, as well as Ukrainian, Belarus and Polish reserves and national parks.
To improve protection of conserved wildlife areas, the participants decided:
To take into account that further elaboration of conceptual, social, religious,
ecological, economic, cultural and other grounds and arguments for wildlife
conservation has the same significance as promotion of internal and non-material
values of nature.
To draw the attention of environmental community of the Commonwealth of
Independent States (CIS) to the urgency of making an inventory of wildlife
areas (practically intact forests, virgin steppes, bogs, wild rivers, mountain
regions, tundra, deserts, etc.) in order to put them under protection.
To request teachers to use in their environmental protection lessons the
notion of "nature's rights" and to make wider use of mythological and poetic
perceptions of nature based on lyrics, paintings, philosophy, religion, music,
folk tradition etc.
To consider that wildlife areas on the CIS territory are to be preserved
as protected areas or as territories with soft land use.
To encourage countries and regions deprived of wilderness but benefiting
from the fruits and values of other countries or regions' wildlife to compensate
them for their nature conservation activities.
To support the ecosystem principle of equivalence and equal rights of all
living things and with that in mind to make sure that wild nature is allotted
half of the Earth's territory and aquatic area as academician A. D. Sakharov
had proposed. To make a call for further elaboration of scientific criteria
for allotment of territory to the wildlife.
To support the initiative of the Kiev Ecological and Cultural Center and
the Ukrainian State Service on the elaboration of conservation philosophy
in the Ukraine and to ensure legislative recognition of new categories of
protected areas, such as "wild nature reserve" and "wild untamed rivers",
and to establish a State register of wildlife territories in the Ukraine.
To recommend to elaborate a similar conservation philosophy and to introduce
similar amendments into other CIS states' laws on protected areas.
To support the initiative on Belarus birds protection taken by a national
Belarus organization and to introduce an optional course on Belarus wildlife
in secondary schools' curriculum.
To support the ISEU Forest Campaign initiative to organize a worldwide
movement for forest recovery.
To support the initiative of the Kiev Ecological and Cultural Center and
the Ukraine Coalition "For the Wildlife" to hold regular international inter-disciplinary
conferences on wildlife within the CIS.
To support the activities of the Forest Club formed by Russian NGOs in making
an inventory of Russia's virtually intact forest tracts and to recommend this
practice to be used in other CIS states.
To address the leaders of international congresses on nature protection
with a request to establish ties with the CIS environmental organizations
that protect and make inventories of wildlife.
To request the CIS environmental organizations to consider convening an
international conference on nature and wildlife in the CIS states.
To propose interaction with the CIS mass media for elaborating the language
and technology for advocacy of radical environmental ideology.
To address the CIS leaders with an appeal to institutionalize biosphere
reserves and to introduce corresponding changes in their legislation.
To introduce as a matter of urgency educational requirements for protected
natural areas officials.
To develop as a matter of urgency international inter-disciplinary humanitarian
and ecological projects (publications, training workshops on specific topics
etc.) in ecological education and training.
To renounce the plans of the Ukrainian Ministry of Transport (Minister
H. Kirpa) to build a navigable channel through the Danube biosphere reserve.
To renounce the proposed adjustment of the borders of regional landscape
park “Granitno-Stepnoye Pobushye” designed to withdraw several acres
of its total area.
