Connecting local communities for glacier conservation: building a shared agenda for World Heritage Sites

This remote side-event is part of the official program for the celebration of the first World Day for Glacier and World Water Day on 20-21 March 2025.

For more information on this official remote side-event, please visit UNESCO's website.

The workshop aims to inspire the community in Los Glaciares National Park by highlighting their shared challenges with other Glacier World Heritage Sites. Through the exploration of potential connections and possible collaborations with other World Heritage Glacier communities, the workshop seeks to foster a stronger, unified voice to advocate for glacier conservation on a global scale.

Date: 20 March 2025
Time: 18:00 GMT-3
Location: El Chaltén Suites
Registration link: https://forms.gle/AtyGQA6ADUbruAs17
(Co-)organizers: Boana, AGMEC - El Chaltén Mountain Guides Association, the Tidelines Institue, The Nature Conservation Fund, and Huijbens Edwards
Target audience: El Chalten’s community and local institutions & live brodcast through Boana’s instagram
Agenda:
- The role of local communities in protecting World Heritage sites
  - Understanding the significance of World Heritage status and how local communities can play a leading role in the effective conservation and management of these landscapes.
  - Exploring how different communities near World Heritage glaciers have organized themselves for conservation, offering inspiration for local efforts.
- The power of shared knowledge and advocacy campaigns for glacier and post-glacial conservation in World Heritage Site
  - Exploring the potential for creating a network of glacier communities that exchange knowledge and work together on joint advocacy initiatives.
  - Imagining a future where interconnected communities come together to amplify their voices and drive glacier conservation on a global scale.
  - Projection of an online testimony of another World Heritage Glacier community
- Transforming cultural connections into collective action: a dialogue for future collaboration
  - Exploring how cultural connections to glaciers can serve as a powerful foundation for connecting with other World Heritage glacier sites, and envision how World Heritage Glacier communities could build
    collaborative initiatives.
  - Q&A with the online guest

For more information on the full program of the celebration of the first World Day for Glacier and World Water Day on 20-21 March 2025 please visit this page.

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