«CURRENT EVENTS»

EXTRACTS THE RESOLUTION
OF THE 6^th STUDENT NATURE GUARDS INTERNATIONAL FORUM

KIEV, NOVEMBER 27-29, 2002

On November 27-29, 2002, the 6^th Student Nature Guards (SNG) International Forum under the aegis of the Fauna Program was held at Kiev National University in Kiev. This event was organized by the SNG Movement, the Board of the Ukrainian Student Ecological Union, the Russian Bird Conservation Union and the Kiev Ecological and Cultural Center with the support of the Biodiversity Conservation Center (Moscow) on the 25^th anniversary of the Fauna Program.

The forum was attended by 43 people, including members of 23 Ukrainian and Russian SNGs, representatives of non-governmental environmental organizations, high schools and nature reserves, and former SNG members who worked for the Fauna Program in its early days. The forum's main goal was to resume SNG activities under the aegis of the Fauna Movement and to revive the SNG Movement in Ukraine. More than 20 papers and reports on managing work in the sphere of animal protection and conservation were presented at the forum. Other activities included three round-table discussions, presentations and dissemination of conservation literature, various workshops and the picketing of the Ministry of Transport in support of the Danube Nature Reserve.

During the workshop, participants discussed and approved a new draft project of the Fauna Program, which was recommended for publication and dissemination among member organizations of the SNG Movement pending certain amendments.

V. Zubakin (Moscow) was elected Consultant to the SNG and the Fauna Program; V. Grischenko (Kanevsky Reserve) was made Coordinator in Kiev; and E. Osmelkin (Cheboksary) was elected Coordinator for the European part of Russia.

The SNG's 7^th International Forum under the aegis of the Fauna Program will be held in Kiev in November 2003 when SNG members will be taught how to create and manage fauna-profile Protected Natural Areas.

The forum approved a letter to Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma protesting the construction of a navigable canal in the Danube Reserve and sending birthday greetings to B. E. Paton, President of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences and many thanks for his active position in the matter of protecting the Danube Reserve.

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