XIV-2 applies only to scientific and related logistic support 

 activities and is not binding on non-Consultative Parties 

 considering establishment of research stations in Antarctica.) 



The Antarctic Protected Area System — The Agreed Measures 

 for the Conservation of Antarctic Flora and Fauna and other 

 measures adopted by the Antarctic Treaty Consultative Parties 

 provide for the designation and protection of Sites of Special 

 Scientific Interest, Specially Protected Areas, and historic 

 sites and monuments. The Xlllth Antarctic Treaty Consultative 

 Meeting, held in Brussels in 1985, requested that the Scientific 

 Committee on Antarctic Research review and provide advice on the 

 possible need for an additional category of protected area. The 

 response of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research was 

 provided in a 1987 report entitled The Protected Area System in 

 the Antarctic . It recommended, among other things, that 

 management plans be developed for Specially Protected Areas, as 

 well as for Sites of Special Scientific Interest, and that an 

 additional multi-purpose category of protected area be added to 

 the existing protected area system. 



As noted in the Commission's report for Calendar Year 1987, 

 there was insufficient time at the XlVth Consultative Meeting to 

 fully consider and give effect to the Scientific Committee on 

 Antarctic Research recommendations. In addition, there was 

 insufficient time to fully consider a U.S. proposal to establish 

 a new category of single-purpose protected area, tentatively 

 called "Special Reserves," to provide unambiguous authority for 

 protecting areas of outstanding geological, recreational, scenic, 

 and wilderness value. It was agreed that these matters would be 

 considered further at the XVth Consultative Meeting and that, to 

 facilitate consideration of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic 

 Research recommendation concerning establishment of a new, 

 multiple-use category of protected area, Parties should provide 

 illustrative management plans for areas that might benefit from 

 such land-use planning. To assist in this regard, the Marine 

 Mammal Commission, as noted in its previous Annual Report, 

 organized and held a workshop in November 1988 to describe the 

 biological research program and the measures needed to protect 

 research sites in the vicinity of the U.S. Palmer Station on the 

 Antarctic Peninsula. 



At the XVth Consultative Meeting, the United States proposed 

 recommendations: (1) to establish a new, single-purpose category 

 of protected area to provide for the protection of areas of 

 outstanding geologic, scenic, and wilderness value; (2) to 

 require preparation of management plans for Specially Protected 

 Areas as recommended by the Scientific Committee on Antarctic 

 Research; and (3) to establish a new, multiple-use category of 

 Antarctic protected area also as recommended by the Scientific 

 Committee on Antarctic Research. All three proposals were 

 adopted by the XVth Consultative Meeting. In addition, the XVth 



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