Resultados de los dos primeros años de participación de la SEDPGYM en la UICN (2016-2017). Nuevas contribuciones para promover la geoconservación IILas resoluciones de Hawaii

Resumen

Currently (January 2018), the only three members of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) promoting issues related to the conservation, use and management of geodiversity and geological heritage are the Geological Society of Spain (SGE, since 2008), the European Association for the Conservation of Geological Heritage (ProGEO, since 2011) and the Spanish Society for the Defense of Geological and Mining Heritage (SEDPGYM, since 2015). The importance of belonging to IUCN is that it is the largest environmental network in the world, with more than 1,300 organizations, including more than 200 governmental and more than 800 non-governmental organizations in 160 countries, as well as 11,000 scientists and experts structured in six commissions. In these two years as a member of IUCN (2016-2017), SEDPGYM has participated in the processing of the resolutions adopted at the 6th World Conservation Congress, held in Honolulu, Hawaii, in September 2016. This paper summarizes this participation, which has resulted in a greater awareness amongst IUCN members that geoheritage is also part of nature and must be preserved. We also describe the documents approved at this event, which explicitly mention the conservation of geological and mining heritage. Specifically, the 15 resolutions passed at Hawaii are useful new tools to promote initiatives for the protection, use and management of these types of heritage.