OUR PARTNERS

We thank our partners for their generous support and involvement in our work. 

SCENIC WORLD

We thank and acknowledge Scenic World Blue Mountains for its flagship partnership with the Blue Mountains World Heritage Institute.

Blue Mountains World Heritage Institute Executive Director John Merson said the flagship Scenic World Shared partnership would extend the reach of the Institute’s work and translate to greater benefits for the community and environment.

“Scenic World Shared is a wonderful example of corporate philanthropy. Its generosity will make an enormous difference to our Institute’s ability to address the many environmental issues that confront both the Blue Mountains community and the World Heritage area in which we have the privilege to live and work,” Dr Merson said.

THE PROTECTED AREAS COLLABORATION

The BMWHI has entered into a joint venture partnership with the Protected Areas Collaboration for Learning & Research (PAC) and the Tasmanian Land Conservancy.

The Protected Areas collaboration brings together organisations, experts and practitioners dedicated to growing tertiary and vocational education, research and peer-to-peer learning for enhanced natural and cultural heritage protection, stewardship and effective conservation management and capacity development for protected areas in Australia, Asia and the Pacific.

Dr. Rosalie Chapple, the Institute’s Education program leader, facilitated the partnership agreement for BMWHI.

“The Protected Areas Collaboration advances the mission of the Blue Mountains World Heritage Institute to deliver strategic and responsive programs that build capacity and leadership in conservation. These programs will approach conservation challenges as problems to solve together, in respectful and inclusive ways, recognising the importance of different types of knowledge and learning approaches. Importantly, the Collaboration is based on partnerships that can broaden and deepen our collective understanding and help drive innovation in protected area conservation regionally.”

Rosalie will play a key role in the ongoing development of the joint venture, working with the Collaboration to develop new short courses relevant to protected area management, based on findings of her 2019 report on Protected Area Short Courses in Australia, Asia and the Pacific: training issues, needs and recommendations.

Courses being scoped include: an Australian leadership program that focuses on inclusive collaborative partnerships for whole-of-landscape management; building cross-cultural knowledge exchange that is based on ethical and equitable integration of Indigenous knowledge systems with western scientific approaches to conservation; and, supporting the establishment and management of protected areas in Melanesia, based on successful delivery of a program in 2020 in Papua New Guinea.

IUCN - WORLD HERITAGE OUTLOOK PARTNER

The IUCN World Heritage Outlook Partnerships initiative aims to bring together the key stakeholders who are committed to addressing conservation issues in World Heritage sites.

The objective of IUCN's Outlook Partnerships is to take Outlook findings, which are the most comprehensive global assessment of natural World Heritage properties, and use these to catalyse action for improved protection of World Heritage sites.

By establishing site-specific partnerships with the Outlook Partners, IUCN aims to raise the conservation prospects of natural World Heritage sites that need it most. The goal is to develop initiatives and projects, collaboratively with Outlook Partners, to help address the main challenges that these sites are facing and improve the effectiveness of their conservation.

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