Conferences
"Sustaining Partnerships"
A Conference on Conservation and Sustainability in the UK Overseas Territories, Crown Dependencies
and other small island communities

Conference Report
Final Programme
Conclusions & Recommendations
Proceedings

Gibraltar hosted an international environmental conference "Sustaining Partnerships" from 11th to 15th July 2015, with a focus on UK Overseas Territories, Crown Dependencies and other small islands. This was organised by UK Overseas Territories Conservation Forum and HM Government of Gibraltar’s Department of the Environment and Climate Change, with the support of Gibraltar Ornithological & Natural History Society.

The conference provided a forum for government environmental bodies, NGOs and commercial organisations to discuss key conservation issues, to highlight success stories, exchange ideas, and to forge partnerships. It is hoped that  Overseas Territories, Crown Dependencies and other small island communities that share similar environmental problems will benefit from learning about one another’s history and experience of planning and conservation initiatives.

The overall aim was to draw on similarities and differences in experience across the territories, to provide insights into common challenges, leaving participants better equipped to address local needs.

A first report on the conference is available,

as is the final published conference programme.

Also available are the full set of Conclusions and recommendations from "Sustaining Partnerships" on Conservation and Sustainability in the UK Overseas Territories, Crown Dependencies and other small island communities, as well as extracts of the recommendations addressed to:
- UKOT/CD Governments
- UK Government
- NGOs
- Other funding bodies
- Private Sector & Utilities


The Proceedings of the conference are available for download.

If you have fast broadband, we recommend that you click here for the medium-resolution version (55.4 MB).

Otherwise, you may wish to click here for the low-resolution version (23.2 MB); this is complete but the illustrations will be less sharp, which may affect the legibility of any text embedded in the illustrations.

In case this file size is still too large, we have divided the low-resolution copy into blocks, below. (Please note that, on these versions, the links from the Contents will work only within the first file, which includes the Contents list.)

Re-live the Gibraltar 2015 conference!

Participants in the conference generated an almost instant thread on social media. You can re-live parts of the conference (at a less hectic pace than the original) or get a flavour if you were unable to attend) via video. Those currently available are:

Sat 11th July

Wed 15th July
 
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