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4th WORLD WILDERNESS CONGRESS - Held in September, 1987 in Denver and Estes Park, Colorado, United States, with 2,000 delegates from 64 countries. Proceedings: For the Conservation of Earth, edited by Vance G. Martin, published by Fulcrum, Inc., 1988. Proposed the establishment of a World Conservation Bank, or Fund, the first call for new conservation finance mechanisms, which eventually led to the $1.1 billion Global Environment Facility of the World Bank. U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, James Baker, was the first finance minister to open a major conservation conference, calling for integration of economics and environment. The first World Wilderness Inventory, prepared for the WWC by the Sierra Club. Continued to advocate inclusion of wilderness as a separate and specific classification under the World Conservation Union (IUCN) Categories of Protected Areas, which was accepted by the IUCN in 1990. Resubmitted to the British government the resolution to consider the Cairngorm Plateau for listing as a World Heritage Site (to preserve its valuable wilderness characteristics), a process which was then begun by the British government in 1990. First proposal for a World Conservation Corps, or Service, as an avenue for effective, public environmental action. | |
