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newsroom 15 Mar 05 Youth to the Front: Two new WCPA scholarships for young professionals in protected area management full report Junior Ranger Tshegofatso Monama challenged 3,000 participants at the Vth IUCN World Parks Congress when he said: "The problem I have about parks is that they do not offer opportunities. They should offer opportunities to the young because as I look out here I see only old people who are going to die!" Responding to the need to involve more young people in protected area management and conservation, IUCN's Programme on Protected Areas and the World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA) launched a youth training scholarship programme at the 3rd IUCN World Conservation Congress (WCC, Bangkok, Thailand, November 2004). The programme, developed and implemented in partnership with the Consortium for International Protected Area Management (CIPAM), will offer two scholarships for talented young professionals to attend a protected area management seminar and to develop an action plan implementing the new seminar skills and results. Graduates of the seminars will be offered professional mentoring subsequent to the course. The initiative is the first undertaking of a partnership focused on increasing protected area professional capacity amongst young protected area practitioners. The scholarships winners will be judged on the basis of a 4,000 word protected areas essay which aims to draw out fresh perspectives and original thoughts on the future for protected areas. |
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