Side Event

Empowering people to identify, conserve and monitor areas of importance for biodiversity across the world

Organizer
BirdLife International, Fundacion Biodiversidad- Spain

Date and Time
25 October 2010 13:15 - 14:45

Meeting
Tenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP 10)

The BirdLife International Partnership will present, for the first time, a global inventory of over 10,000 terrestrial Important Bird Areas (IBAs) and their protection status. It will also highlight key aspects of its site conservation approach that involves working with local communities across the globe to identify, document, monitor and conserve this network of globally important sites for birds and other biodiversity.