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Session three will lead off with the following topics:

• Recording of PPAs in the World Database of Protected Areas - Heather Bingham, UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre, UK
• The Role of PPA networks - Pedro Solano, Sociedad Peruana de Derecho Ambiental (retired), Peru
• PPAs in post-2020 conservation targets (30x30) - Brent A. Mitchell, QLF Atlantic Center for the Environment and Chair of the IUCN WCPA Specialist Group on Privately Protected Areas and Nature Stewardship

Session one dealt with Establishing a PPA, Managing a PPA, and Incentives for PPAs. Session two explored Ensuring PPA permanence, Issues related to specific subtypes, and Coordination with national protected area networks.

These three Vital Sites webinars are presented by IUCN in partnership with the WCPA Specialist Group on Privately Protected Areas and Nature Stewardship and Budesamt für Naturschutz (BfN) as part of a year long learning program. It will add to and be complemented by online curricula available free of charge on BfN’s training website.

Guidelines for Privately Protected Areas may be freely downloaded in English, Spanish and French.

Vital Sites - the journey to Marseilles Photo: IUCN

Building up to the Protected Planet Pavilion at the IUCN World Conservation Congress in Marseille, France (to be rescheduled in 2021 in light of the COVID-19 pandemic), by showcasing protected and conserved areas as effective and positive for the people and the planet.