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Improving Health and Well-Being

Protected areas can conserve healthy ecosystems and improve the health and well-being of all societies. Participants from WCS will explore the diverse health benefits provided by protected areas, including medicines, disease regulation, livelihood support, mental and spiritual well-being, and settings for physical activity.

WCS in Action

The following sessions have been completed.

Friday - November 14, 2014

What	When	Who	Where
Valuing diverse knowledge paradigms – science, traditional knowledge and people – parks connections	13:30 - 15:00	Chris Golden	Charley Room
Contribution of protected areas to the achievement of health related Sustainable development goals	13:30 - 15:00	Chris Golden (Co-sponsor, cannot attend this presentation as he is presenting in another session at the same time)	Hordern Room
Global launch of new flagship publications - our state of knowledge on the links between biodiversity and human health	18:00 - 20:00	Chris Golden and CBD/WHO joint task force	Hall 3B1

Monday - November 17, 2014

What	When	Who	Where
One Health: Linking human, animal and ecosystem health (Part 2)	10:30 - 12:00	Chris Golden (Chair), Shirley Atkinson, Stacy Jupiter	Charley Room

Select Publications

	A Manual for Human-Elephant Conflict Monitoring
	Adaptive Comanagement of a Marine Protected Area Network in Fiji
	Applying Domestic Animal Health and Husbandry for Conservation Purposes
	Are Central Africa's Protected Areas Displacing Hundreds of Thousands of Rural Poor?
	Averting biodiversity collapse in tropical forest protected areas
	Benefits of wildlife consumption to child nutrition in a biodiversity hotspot
	Changes in a coral reef fishery along a gradient of fishing pressure in an Indonesian marine protected area
	Community-managed forests and wildlife-friendly agriculture play a subsidiary but not substitutive role to protected areas for the endangered Asian elephant
	Conserving large populations of lions – the argument for fences has hole
	Critical thresholds and tangible targets for ecosystem-based management of coral reef fisheries.
	Efficiently targeting resources to deter illegal activities in protected areas
	Forest resources use, attitude, and perception of local residents towards community based forest management: Case of the Makira Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) Project, Madagascar
	Global conservation outcomes depend on marine protected areas with five key features
	Having your wildlife and eating it too: an analysis of hunting sustainability across tropical ecosystems
	Human Health as a Judicious Conservation Opportunity
	Human Responses to Climate Change will Seriously Impact Biodiversity Conservation: It's Time We Start Planning for Them
	Human-carnivore conflict in China: a review of current approaches with recommendations for improved management
	Hunting for a living: Wildlife trade, rural livelihoods and declining wildlife in the Hkakaborazi National Park, north Myanmar
	Hunting patterns in tropical forests adjoining the Hkakaborazi National Park, north Myanmar
	Improving poverty reduction and conservation outcomes in the grassland ecosystem of Mongolia
	Improving social acceptability of marine protected area networks: A method for estimating opportunity costs to multiple gear types in both fished and currently unfished areas
	In defense of fences - Response
	Incorporating effectiveness of community-based management in a national marine gap analysis for Fiji
	Lack of conservation effort rapidly increases African great ape extinction risk
	Local people value environmental services provided by forested parks
	Mapping recent deforestation and forest disturbance in northeastern Madagascar.
	One Health: Interdependence of People, Other Species, and the Planet. (Book Chapter)
	Parks, people, and pipelines
	Priority Forests for Conservation in Fiji: landscapes, hotspots and ecological processes
	Public-private partnerships as a management option for protected areas
	Recovery trajectories of coral reef fish assemblages within Kenyan marine protected areas
	Reducing human-elephant conflict - do chillies help deter elephants from entering crop fields
	Response to 'Is the Displacement of People from Parks only 'Purported' or is it Real?' (Schmidt-Soltau 2009)
	Roadless Wilderness Area Determines Forest Elephant Movements in the Congo Basin
	The importance of conflict-induced mortality for conservation planning in areas of human–elephant co-occurrence
	The Perceived Impact of Customary Marine Resource Management on Household and Community Welfare in Northern Sumatra, Indonesia
	To Fence or Not to Fence
	What Does It Mean to Successfully Conserve a (Vertebrate) Species?
	Wildlife decline and social conflict
	Wildlife Health in Africa: Implications for Conservation in the Decades Ahead (Book Chapter)

Key Staff

	Saw Htun Country Program Director
	Madhu Rao Senior Advisor and Representative of WCS in Singapore
	Deo Kujirakwinja Director Eastern DRC Projects, DR Congo
	Stacy Jupiter Director Melanesia Program
	Elizabeth Bennett Vice President, Species Conservation, Species
	James Watson Director, Science and Research Initiative
	Simon Hedges Asian Elephant Coordinator & Ivory Trade Policy Analyst
	Susan Lieberman Vice-President, International Policy