Throughout the world, the conservation of waterbirds is
essentially related to the management of human activities on an
increasingly overcrowded planet. A workshop on
conflict
resolution (6.1) reviewed a number of examples of conflicts
between waterbirds and human activities which had been resolved to
greater or lesser extent. A particular emphasis was given to
drawing wider lessons from these specific studies.
A fundamental issue for most conservation programmes, not
necessarily just those restricted to waterbirds is the need to
build adequate and sustain adequate
programmes
of finance (6.4). A specific workshop addressed this
theme, looking in particular at innovative possibilities that might
be available under other initiatives. Alongside financial
limitations, in many parts of the work there are limitations to
human capacity to build and sustain
waterbird conservation (6.5), a topic addressed in a specific
workshop.