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Workshop on the national and regional implementation of the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation

MDGs and Biodiversity: The contribution of German Development Cooperation

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National Biodiversity Museum

<br>The Biodiversity Museum of Iran would present different species of taxidermy animals and fixed plants from all over the world. A broad range of beneficiaries have been targeted including scientists, students, teenagers, etc. to visit the museum and use expanded educational facilities.

Technology Transfer: The View from Civil Society

BROCHURE LAUNCH

Traditional Ecological Knowledge : Lessons from the French Experience

Natural World Heritage: a Key Tool for Biodiversity Conservation / Management Effectiveness: Saving what we've got

Natural World Heritage: a Key Tool for Biodiversity Conservation / Management Effectiveness: Saving what we've got

Ecoagriculture: Conserving Biodiversity in Working Landscapes

<br>Ecoagriculture refers to resource management systems and practices that integrate productivity goals (for crops, livestock, fish, trees and forests) with provision of ecosystem services (such as biodiversity and watershed services) at a landscape scale. <br><br> Ecoagriculture Partners is ...

Habitat Mare Natura 2000, Scientific Research for the Protection of the North Sea and Baltic Sea

<br>Presentation of a film on Natura 2000 Sites in the so-called Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) of the German North Sea and Baltic Sea.

Tourism, Islands and Biological Diversity: Presentation of the SCBD/INSULA/UN-SIDS Joint Publication and Preparatory Meeting of the Universal Forum of Cultures

<p><b>Principal Presenters:</b></p> <p>Tomas Azcarate, President of the Institute of Responsible Tourism, Cipriano Marin, Vice Secretary-general of Insula (International Scientific Council for Island Development), and Paola Deda Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity.</p> <p><b>M ...

Corals

Protected Areas

Protected areas 2

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"Practicing Synergies Initiative": Joining Heads & Hands in the Implementation of the Rio Conventions

<br>Synergy between the Rio Conventions is being addressed at various levels under the UNCCD, UNFCCC and CBD. The "Practicing Synergy Initiative" aims to reach out to the national and local level actions and activities that are being implemented especially by country parties. The sharing of prac ...

Kaska Dena Nation's Traditional Knowledge Network

<br>The Kaska Dena Nation, in partnership with the ICT Development Group, is developing an integrated web-based information network to manage and share traditional knowledge among various Kaska communities in northern British Columbia and the Yukon. Through this initiative, the Kaska will benefi ...

Poverty, Livelihoods and Biodiversity

Reflections on Diversity: A Tri-National Conservation Effort in the Sulu-Sulawesi Marine Ecoregion"

This side event is a Tri-National effort of the governments of Malaysia, Republic of Indonesia and Republic of the Philippines to promote biodiversity conservation in the two major sea basins, the Sulu and Sulawesi Seas. The event would highlight support and committment of the three countrie ...

Reconciling Indicators for the 2010 Target and MDG 7: A Brainstorming Session to Generate Guidance for CBD COP7 and the UN Millennium Project

Swiss Proposal: Disclosure of Source

The International Regime on Access and Benefit Sharing: Regional Perspectives and Negotiation Options

Partenariats pour la biodiversité

<br>France would like to highlight the very key importance of partnerships to reach 2010 objective. Thus France convened a side event on “Partnerships and biodiversity” which will present four perspectives on partnerships to preserve biodiversity. Firstly the regional nature park will be present ...

Millennium Ecosystem Assessment

<br>This side event will provide an update on the status and progress of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA) with an emphasis on how the MA process and findings will contribute to the work of the Parties to the CBD. <br><br>The event will be chaired by Dr. A.H. Zakri, Co-chair of the MA Bo ...

Sacred Sites

The role of Research, Training and Education in the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity and the safe application of biotechnology

Outcomes of the January 2004 IUBS Conference. Presented jointly by SCBD and UNESCO

Access & Benefit Sharing: Case Studies of Peru and Brazil

Access or Biopiracy?

<p>In the context of access and benefit sharing discussions, outstanding speakers from China, Philippines, Ecuador, Malaysia, and the US make vivid the many faces and forms of biopiracy. Presentations focus on how bioprospecting, genetic research, and even apparently well-meaning NGO initiat ...

Sulu Sulawesi Seas Marine Ecoregion

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United Kingdom Darwin Initiative

<br>The Darwin Initiative aims to assist those countries which are rich in biodiversity but poor in financial resources in implementing the Convention on Biological Diversity. The Initiative, funded by the UK Department of Food, Environment and Rural Affairs, supports collaborative projects whic ...

Production Landscapes and Protected Areas: Lessons from the Field

Protected Areas, Mining & Indigenous Peoples

Sustainable, Poverty and Livelihoods

People, Equity and Protected Areas: Forging the Link

International Biological Diversity Day and 10th anniversary Poster Competition

Winning entries for the 2004 IBD Poster Competition will be announced. This is one of the daily activities planned by I&O and should be scheduled on the 17th

UK Strategy for Implementing the Global Plant Conservation Strategy

Great Apes Survival Project (GRASP)

<br>UNESCO and UNEP will be presenting the Great Apes Survival Project (GRASP) GRASP is an innovative Partnership with the mission of lifting the threat of imminent extinction from the great apes and ensuring positive interactions between these species and people in shared habitats. Presentatio ...

The European Union and Protected Areas

<br>Is it feasible to set up regional networks of protected areas? <br>How does the EU support its developing country partners? <br><br> European countries have been working together since 1992 to safeguard Europe’s most valuable wildlife sites by setting up a network called NATURA 2000. In this ...

Call of the Earth - Llamado de la Tierra

Access and Benefit Sharing: Reflections on the First Decade

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CHM/CEPA

Protected Areas Categories: Speaking a Common Language

<br>The aim of this side event will be to inform governmental delegates at COP 7 of the relevance of the IUCN protected area management categories system to their needs, convey IUCN's message from the Vth World Parks Congress to the CBD re the categories, and to help dispel misconceptions about ...

Traditional Knowledge & Acces and Benefit- Sharing

Community Based Approaches for Understanding Ecosystems and Building Capacity among Participants

<br>The goal of this side-event is to give participants an understanding of resilience theory, panarchy, socio-ecological systems, adaptive ecosystem management and its application to ecosystem approaches to management of natural resources as developed by the Resilience Alliance (RA). These po ...

Blueprint for Saving Pacific Sea Turtles

<p><b>By Invitation Only</b></p><p>WorldFish and WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature) are hosting an event titled "Building integrated solutions for marine turtle conservation: A Blueprint for Saving Pacific Turtles" at lunchtime on Monday February 16th. The event will focus on integrated approaches ...

Biodiversity Nature Detectives - Launch of Pilot Platform

<br><b>BioDets: a pilot-website on nature observation</b> <br><b>BioDets:</b>Biodiversity Detectives <a href=http://www.BioDets.net>www.BioDets.net</a> is an Internet-based pilot-platform on nature observation, which is being officially launched at this COP-7 side event. <br> <br>The BioDets ...

National Biodiversity Communication & Education programmes

<br>How are governments working to meet the communication/education obligations under the Convention on Biological Diversity in the context of the forthcoming Decade on Education for Sustainable Development?