This document provides an agenda for a conference on protected areas. The conference will discuss the importance and value of protected areas globally and in the UK. It will examine challenges and pressures facing protected areas, including those in national parks and landscapes. The conference will also discuss best practices, innovations, and opportunities regarding protected area management. It will feature perspectives on protected areas from UK nature conservation agencies. The document schedules sessions on these topics with multiple speakers as well as questions, breaks, and an annual general meeting for the IUCN National Committee UK.

1. Protected Areas - Natural Solutions
IUCN UK National Committee
Conference and AGM
26th and 27th April 2012

2. Welcome to the conference
Stuart Brooks
Conference Chair

3. Session 1:Protected Areas Overview –
International and UK Contexts
Prof Martin Price
Session Chair

4. Global and European Context – the
importance and value of protected areas
Trevor Sandwith
and
Kathy MacKinnon

5. UK and Overseas Territories context –
protected areas policy
Marcus Yeo

6. Speakers Panel and Questions
Session Chair
Prof Martin Price

7. Coffee break

8. Session 2: Challenges and Pressures on
our Protected Areas
Session Chair
Anne Selby

9. Pressure and approaches in
National Parks
Andy Wilson

10. Protecting Wild Land in the UK –
challenges and solutions
Helen McDade

11. Landscape-scale conservation and the
role of protected areas
Stuart Housden

12. The Future for Marine Protected Areas
Jean-Luc Solandt

13. Speakers Panel and Questions
Session Chair
Anne Selby

14. Lunch break

15. Session 3: Best
Practice, Innovations, Opportunities and
Solutions
Session Chair
Prof. Roger Crofts

16. Putting Nature On The Map
– assigning IUCN Protected Area
Categories in the UK
Prof Adrian Phillips

17. ‘The Categories’ – what do they mean
for us and the work of protected area
managers?
Howard Davies

18. ‘The Categories’ – what do they mean
for us and the work of protected area
managers?
Simon Pryor

19. ‘The Categories’ – what do they mean
for us and the work of protected area
managers?
Prof. Martin Price

20. Questions and comfort break

21. New Opportunities for Protected Area
Conservation – biodiversity offsetting
Tom Tew

22. Protected Area perspectives from the
UK’s nature conservation agencies
Andrew Bachell

23. Protected Area perspectives from the
UK’s nature conservation agencies
Roger Thomas

24. Protected Area perspectives from the
UK’s nature conservation agencies
Graham Seymour

25. Protected Area perspectives from the
UK’s nature conservation agencies
David Henshilwood

26. Speakers Panel and Questions
Session Chair
Prof. Roger Crofts

27. Conference Summary
Conference Chair
Stuart Brooks

28. Coffee break

29. IUCN National Committee UK
Annual General Meeting
Stuart Brooks
Acting Chair IUCN NCUK

30. IUCN National Committee AGM Agenda
1. Chair’s welcome
2. IUCN National Committee UK Annual Review
3. Minutes of the 2011 AGM and Matters Arising
4. Election of Executive Committee and Chair
5. Financial Report
6. Preparations for the World Conservation Congress in
Jeju, South Korea
7. Open Forum
8. Closing remarks