GNF - Documentation of Post Tsunami LL Conference
 

Documentation of the Post Tsunami Living Lakes Conference

 

23rd to 26th April 2007 in Bentota, Sri Lanka

 
 

Conference Day I (25 April 2007)

 

Topic: Mangrove Restoration

 

Udo Gattenlöhner, Exekutive Director, Global Nature Fund, Germany

 
 
 

Session 1: Rehabilitation of Livelihoods after the Tsunami

 

Nissanka Wadurawa, National Programme Officer - Livelihoods Reconstruction and Development Agency (RADA), Sri Lanka

 
 

E. Abeyrathne and Harshini De Silva, EMACE, Sri Lanka

 
 

Nusrath Ghazzali, Project Manager Operations, Delegation of the European Commission to Sri Lanka & the Maldive Islands

 
 
 

Session 2: Mangrove Rehabilitation

 
Prof. Dr. Micheal Succow, Alternative Nobel Price Winner, Germany
 
 
Nyoman Suryadiputra, Wetlands International Indonesia
 
 
Dr. Channa Baberadeniya, IUCN, Sri Lanka
 
 
 
Session 2 continued: Mangrove Restoration
 
Jim Enright, Mangrove Action Project, Southeast Asian Coordinator, Thailand
 
 

Priyan Tha Shandre-siri, Nursery Manager, Sri Lanka

 
 

Dr. Onno Gross, Chairman Deepwave, Germany and

V. Balaji, Chairman OMCAR, India

 
 
 
 
 

Conference Day II (26 April 2007)

 

Session 3: Sustainable Fisheries in Mangroves

 

Dr. Kamal Balasuriya, Ministry of Fisheries and Oceanic Resources, Sri Lanka

 
 

Sajeewa Emanuel, Nagenahiru Foundation, Sri Lanka

 
 

B. C. L.  Atapattu, Nagenahiru Foundation, Sri Lanka 

 
 
Joyantha Samarakoon
 
 
 
Session 4: Environmental Education and Sustainable Tourism
 

T. Sooriyagoda, Director - Planning & Development, Sri Lanka Tourist Board

 
 

Eduardo de Miguel, Fundación Global Nature, Spain

 
 

Chandra de Silva, Ecotoursim Expert, Sri Lanka