WILD9 Program: Presentations, Podcasts and Slideshows by Day
Below is a summary WILD9 schedule with links to day-by-day directories. For each day you can access a full listing of plenary presentations with links to videos, slideshows and podcasts (coming soon). All presentations can also be accessed through WILD’s Media Section.
Friday, 6 November 2009
Topics: Opening day of WILD9, History of the World Wilderness Congress, Global Perspectives, Climate Change, Tierras Silvestres in Latin America, Stamp Cancellation Ceremony
Featured Speakers: President Felipe Calderon, Gob. Ivonne Ortega Pacheco, His Excellency Michael Pierre Jong Tijien Fa, Dr. Mario Molina, Dr. Amory Lovins, Taska Yawanawa, Dr. Jane Smart, Illarion Merculieff, Dr. Ian Player, Bittu Sahgal, Dr. Exequiel Excurra, Vance Martin and many others.
Saturday, 7 November 2009
Topics: Climate Change, Corporate Commitment to Wilderness, Global Wilderness Commitments, Memorandum of Understanding on Cooperation for Wilderness Conservation between US, Canada and Mexico
Featured Speakers: Representatives from land management agencies from the US, Canada and Mexico including Jim Prentice, Ernesto Enkerlin and Sally Collins, Dr. Thomas Lovejoy, Dr. Trista Patterson, representatives from CEMEX, Coca-Cola and Mt. Equipment Coop
Sunday, 8 November 2009
Topics: Jane Goodall and the Jane Goodall’s Institute Roots and Shoots program
Featured Speakers: Dr. Sylvia Earle, Dr. Jane Goodall
Monday, 9 November 2009
Topics: The Nahanni National Park, Canada, Wilderness and Water in Mexico, Communications and Wilderness
Featured Speakers: Admiral Conrad Lautenbacher, Alan Latourelle, Grand Chief Samuel Gargan, Omar Vidal, Timothy Kelly, Boyd Norton, Richard Hansen, David Torres, James Balog and many others.
Tuesday, 10 November 2009
Topics: Payments for ecosystem services, climate change, the Message from Merida, Marine Wilderness
Featured Speakers: Pavan Sukhdev, Sally Collins, Pati Ruiz Corzo, Nik Lopoukine, Peg Putt, Brendan Mackey, Carlos Manuel Rodriguez and many others.
Wednesday, 11 November 2009
Topics: Connectivity conservation in the US, Australia, Himalaya, Mexico and Meso-America; Conservation of the Gulf of California
Featured Speakers: Dr. Exequiel Ezcurra, Kenton Miller, Harvey Locke, Rick Ridgeway, Dr. Ghana Gurung, Dr. Graeme Worboys, Dr. Lisa Graumlich, Valer Austin, Oscar Moctezuma, Melanie Emerson, Pedro Alvarez Icaza and many others.
Thursday, 12 November 2009
Topics: Wilderness and people, social issues and conservation solutions, a new agriculture for wilderness and climate change, wilderness in Alaska.
Featured Speakers: Joel Holtrop, Pinky Khondlo, Jo Roberts, Duncan Alistair Little, Ian McCallum, Father Theodore Hesburgh, Chris Dowswell, Daniel Sherrard, Victor Urgiles, William Meadows
Friday, 13 November 2009
Topics: Protecting wilderness through private finance and philanthropy, youth and young professionals, resolutions and closing remarks
Featured Speakers: Christopher Promberger, Rick Ridgeway, Don Weeden, Dr. Fernando Robles Castellano, Dr. Guillermo de Anda, Ing. Carlo Alberto Clerico, Gabriel Holschneider Osuna, Harvey Locke and representatives from the youth and young professionals.
