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#980COP 8
2006-03-31
la Octava Reunión de la Conferencia de las Partes
De conformidad con las reglas 6 y 7 del Reglamento de las Reuniones de la Conferencia de las Partes, las reuniones están abiertas a la participación de cualquier entidad u organismo, sea gubernamental o no-gubernamental, calificado en campos concernientes a la conservación y al uso sostenible de ...
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#995COP 8
2006-03-31
Medicinal Plants Traditional Knowledge
The guests are: Brasil, Venezuela, Peru, Mexico and Guatemala.Experiences interchange about the use and working up of National Data base about Medicinal Plants Traditional Knowledge, in view of the proposal of Ministry of Health on building a Data Base in this context.
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#867COP 8
2006-03-31
Human resource formation for biodiversity conservation.
Education should be directed by human actions and the path to a more just society. Actions that suggest biodiversity conservation inevitably pass through educational and moral channels at all levels. An informed society values its natural riches and works as an important force in the preserv ...
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#919COP 8
2006-03-31
Business and the 2010 Biodiversity Challenge
Summary of outcomes of side events and way forward at the end of COP
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#926COP 8
2006-03-30
Lançamento do Plano de Prevenção e Controle do Desmatamento da Mata Atlântica
Lançamento do Plano Estratégico de Monitoramento e Controle Ambiental para áreas Prioritárias da Mata Atlântica (Plano Mata Atlântica) a ser feita pela Ministra do Meio Ambiente do Brasil e com a presença da Direção do Instituto Brasileiro do Meio Ambiente e dos Recursos Naturais Renováveis e ou ...
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#929COP 8
2006-03-30
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS: THE TRANSFORMATION OF BIODIVERSITY, TRADITIONAL SEEDS AND COLLECTIVE KNOWLEDGE INTO CORPORATE PRIVATE MONOPOLY
Discuss how GAT/WTO created TRIPS and the interests involved; why developed countries impose patent laws in biodiverse countries and how monopolies on seed, plants and medicin are being created, denying life to small farmers, traditional communities and disease victims.
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#1008COP 8
2006-03-30
Potential Impacts of GURTs on Farmers' Rights to Seeds
Presentation on the lives and practices of farmers on seed saving, exchange and storage, and how this will be affected by GURTs. Panel discussion with slide/visual presentation
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#1011COP 8
2006-03-30
Terminator Technology: what impact will it have on the African farmer?
Presentations on the impact of Terminator (GURTS) technology on African culture and agriculture.
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#1012COP 8
2006-03-30
Art & Nature
Comprehension about nature can be get also trhough art language. By using images and symbols, histories and clay, is possible think and speak about value and responsability needed to work with nature. The activity includes working with pieces of clay, creating biodiversity, and the result wil ...
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#1017COP 8
2006-03-30
Experiencias de la Cooperación Española en la Protección de la Biodiversidad: Programa Indígena y Programa Araucaria
Experiencias de la Cooperación Española en la Protección de la Biodiversidad: Programa Indígena y Programa Araucaria
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#1018COP 8
2006-03-30
An overview of the threatened plant species diversity of Tropical Forests, with emphasis on Araucanian Forest from South America
List of threatened plant species of Atlantic Forest. Biological contamination by invasive and alien species that threaten ecosystems on forest fragments. Successful experience with conservation of Araucaria araucana in Argentina.
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#1019COP 8
2006-03-30
Brazilian Initiatives for the Achievement of the Millenium Goals Concerning the Conservation of Endangered Species (Launch of the National Action Plans for the Conservation of Albatrossess and Petrels and for the Brazilian Merganser)
Brazil is the most megadiverse country in the world, and one of the major concerning endemic species. Otherwise, like much of the other nations, it has many species included in Red Lists of animals and plants (~600 animals and xxx plants). Much effort has been made in the last few decades, eithe ...
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#1022COP 8
2006-03-30
THE VOICES OF THE MARSHARAB PEOPLES OF SOUTHERN IRAQ- THE CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES OF RESTORATION
Since 1991, AMAR has been supporting the marsharab peoples who have been persecuted, murdered and forced to move their home sometimes as many as 15 times over the past 25 years. Saddam Hussein deliberately drained the marshlands which was the largest and most biodiverse wetlands in the Middle Ea ...
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#939COP 8
2006-03-30
CONOCIMIENTO TRADICIONAL “EVALUACIÓN DE ECOSISTEMAS INDIGENA DE BAJO CHIRRIPO”.___Millenium Ecosystem Assessment.
Vamos a presentar los resulatados de evaluacion de Ecosistemas Local Indigena de la cuenca Media y Baja del Chirripo, situado en Costa Rica. Esta evalaucion forma parte de las evaluaciones locales impulsadas por Millenium Ecosystem Assessment. LA evaluación fue realizada bajo conocimiento tra ...
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#959COP 8
2006-03-30
"Local Registers and Traditional Resource Rights: The Case of the Khipu Local Register in Peru"
Learn how indigenous communities in the Potato Park in Peru are using customary law and local registers in innovative ways to manage and protect traditional resources.
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#964COP 8
2006-03-30
Strategical Alliance between the Convention on Biological Diversity and the Convention to Combat Desertification: Advances and Challenges
This side event has for objective to promote the synergy between the conventions of Biological Diversity (CDB) and of to the Combat Desertification (UNCCD). It will boarded still the activities foreseen for the International Year of Deserts and Desertification. The main objective of the year is ...
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#984COP 8
2006-03-30
Protecting the Sacred & Honoring the Ancestors: Indigenous Peoples' Perspectives on Access and Benefit Sharing
Indigenous people will voice their concerns regarding protection of their human rights in relation to the proposed international regime on ABS, including clips from the documentary film, "The Leech and the Earthworm." Panel participants will share their views about use of genetic material from ...
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#993COP 8
2006-03-30
Wild Brazil, the last natural refuges
The event squedulle is: *7 minutes of video projection to show the Atlantic forest, the Native forest, the Pantanal, the Caves of South Pantanal, flora and fauna and the water quality. *Short explanation of the Project, research and academic levels of the information, and final objetives. *Util ...
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#994COP 8
2006-03-30
PACIFIC PEOPLES' SHOWCASE ON ISLAND BIODIVERSITY
Indigenous Pacific Peoples will share their stories of self-determination and strategies in relation to island biodiversity, access to genetic resources, indigenous knowledge, sustainable use, recognition of customary law and human rights.
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#998COP 8
2006-03-30
GRASP: the UNEP/UNESCO Great Ape Survival Project Can the UN Save the Great Apes (and their Biodiverse Habitats)
The great apes are heading for extinction, unless loss of habitat and hunting are stopped. The Kinshasa Declaration on the Great Apes was signed last September by 22 countries and most of the NGOs involved in their conservation. It affirms commitment to a global strategy and sets a timetable for ...
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#1006COP 8
2006-03-30
DISSEMINATION OF TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE AND GRASSROOTS INNOVATIONS/TECHNOLOGIES
The event will show the experience of Honey Bee Network in India in documenting, dissemination and value addition of traditional knowledge and grassroots technologies in different language regions across the country over the last 15 years.
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#1007COP 8
2006-03-30
Presentation of the new postgraduate education programme "Management of Protected Areas"
Planning and managing protected areas are complex tasks. A new international Master of Science Programme, launched by the University of Klagenfurt (Austria) in cooperation with international organisations (such as CBD, IUCN, RAMSAR, WWF, EuroParks and MAB) and the Austrian Ministry of Environmen ...
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#756COP 8
2006-03-30
Protected Areas & Island Biodiversity
Presentation of case studies prepared by Indigenous Peoples commissioned byt the International Indigenous Forum on Biodiversity (IIFB)
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#805COP 8
2006-03-30
Traditional Knowledge, the CBD and UNU
Awareness of the value of traditional knowledge (TK), particularly its potential contribution to sustainable development and poverty alleviation, is growing at a time when such knowledge is being threatened as never before. The causes of this loss are complex and profound. The CBD has proven ...
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#819COP 8
2006-03-30
Grupo de trabalho sobre um Encontro Internacional de Educação Ambiental em Unidades de Conservação (Working group about an International Meeting of Environmental Education in Conservation Reserves)
Realização de um grupo de discussão sobre a organização de um Encontro Internacional de Educação Ambiental em unidades de Conservação, com indicativo de temas a serem abordados. (Working group about the organization of an International Meeting of Environmental Education in Conservation Reserves ...
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#885COP 8
2006-03-30
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#892COP 8
2006-03-30
Recognition of indigenous identity and ancestral knowledge as a means of defending Amazonia and the environment
Presentation of results of an on-going project working with sabedores-sabedoras of indigenous groups in Colombian/Brazilian/Peruvian/Ecuadorian Amazon. Conservation and sustainable Management of the Amazon forest and Varzea. Partially funded by DEFRA (Darwin Initiative).
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#896COP 8
2006-03-30
UNEP Issue-Based Modules, a pragmatic approach to facilitate coherent biodiversity implementation
Presentation of the UNEP Issue-Based Modules to the CBD COP8 Delegates and invite them to participate in the project.
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#902COP 8
2006-03-30
Assessments on Biodiversity Policies - Examples from Finland
Three recent strategies and assessments-Finland's National Adaptation Strategy, Management Effectiveness Evaluation of Finland Protected Areas, and the Evaluation of the Finnish National Biodiversity Action Plan 1997-2005-will be presented and discussed.
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#917COP 8
2006-03-30
PROGRESS ON THE PROGRAM OF WORK ON PROTECTED AREAS (POW) AND BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION IN THE ANDES REGION
We will present important progress to date related to achievement of PoW goals of financial sustainability, gap analyses of biodiversity conservation and connectivity (Conservation Corridors) in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia.
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#991COP 8
2006-03-29
Finance Mechanisms and Funding for Biodiversity Conservation in Indigenous Lands: the Case of the Amazon Basin.
This side event has the objective of evaluating international funding mechanisms for biodiversity conservation in indigenous lands. As such, it will discuss the current strategies of the GEF (Global Environment Facility) and other multilateral and bilateral institutions for biodiversity conserva ...
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#992COP 8
2006-03-29
Bioenergy: challenges for sustainability in the global South x environmental adequation to the global markets
Presentation of a position paper by the brazilian organizations about sustainability of bioenergy, followed by international discussion about how to how to move from "environmental adequation" vision to the debate on how the production and use of bioenergy could impulse sustainable development i ...
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#996COP 8
2006-03-29
EXPERIENCES OF RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN PROTECTED AREAS AND INDIGENOUS LANDS IN PAN AMAZONIAN
Meeting of the cases and experiences of relationships between protected areas and indigenous lands in Pan Amazonian. Cases of Brazil, French Guiana and Bolivia.
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#997COP 8
2006-03-29
PRELIMINARY RESULTS FROM THE INTERNATIONAL EXPERT WORKSHOP ON CRITERIA FOR IDENTIFYING ECOLOGICALLY OR BIOLOGICALLY SIGNIFICANT AREAS BEYOND NATIONAL JURISDICTIONS (DECEMBER 2005, OTTAWA, CANADA)
Preliminary results of a scientific experts workshop Canada hosted in December 2005 to review and assess existing ecological criteria and biogeographical classification systems and to initiate work on the development of a set of scientifically rigorous ecological criteria that could be used to i ...
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#1004COP 8
2006-03-29
Outcomes and experiences of DarwinNet: The Peru - Ecuador Dry Forest Clearing-house Mecanism.
DarwinNet is a bi-national, transboundary initiative that aims to gather, repatriate, analyze and disseminate information on the dry forests of the Northwest Peru and Southwest Ecuador. This zone, also known as the Tumbesian Region, is recognized worldwide for its high biological value, especial ...
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#1016COP 8
2006-03-29
The Hoodia case: the San experiences with benefit-sharing agreements
At this side-event representatives of the San are going to inform about their benefit-sharing agreements regarding the use of Hoodia. Representatives of European NGOs inform about (non)compliance with these agreements in user countries. - Working Group for Indigenous Minorities in Southern Afri ...
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#1026COP 8
2006-03-29
Globallast Water: Health perspectives
To incite the discussion about the theme. Leading to ponder about the importance of Sanitary Watch fulness for the maintenance of port waters and the impact caused by the environment. Round table with the participation of Globallast Program and Brazilian Government.
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#1034COP 8
2006-03-29
MEDICINAL HERBS AND FITOMEDICAL PLANTS: THE PAN-AMERICAN EXPERIENCE
It will promote the experience interchange, regionally, regarding to medicinal herbs and fitomedical plants national politics and trace united targets for the strengthening of the theme on Americas. Round table with :MERCOSUR, NAFTA, CARICOM and Andean Community and WHO/PAHO
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#820COP 8
2006-03-29
Strategy for the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Biological Diversity for MERCOSUR/ Estrategia para la Conservación y Uso Sostenible de la Biodiversidad para el MERCOSUR
The Ministers of Environment from Mercosur will sign the Project of Additional Protocol to the Environment of Conservation and Sustainable Use of Biological Diversity Framework Agreement for Mercosur. This side event will show the background which led to Mercosur Environmental Area to rely on an ...
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#831COP 8
2006-03-29
Economic sustainability for implementation of protected areas national systems
At its first meeting, in Montecatini, Italy, June 2005, the ad hoc open-ended working group on protected areas adopted through its subgroup on “Options for mobilizing financial resources for the implementation of the programme of work by developing countries, in particular the least developed an ...
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#879COP 8
2006-03-29
The Biodiversity Loss of Deforestation to Large Plantations
It will discuss the quick large deforestarions of the Cerrado, Chaco and Amazon Forest biomes to turn lands into grains monocultives in huge plantations and to produce coal for steel production. This phenomena is happening mainly in Brazil, Paraguay and Bolivia but also in Argentina in smaller s ...
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#882COP 8
2006-03-29
Panel Discussion: The Value of Engaging Civil Society in Biodiversity Conservation
Civil society can significantly advance governmental agendas to help preserve the diversity of life and healthy ecosystems as essential components of stable and thriving economies. In this event, donor, governmental and NGO representatives will participate in a moderated, interactive discussion, ...
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#897COP 8
2006-03-29
Agenda 21 and the Convention on Biological Diversity
Seminar. Participation of panelist from Canada, France and Brazil, from government and civil society sectors.
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#898COP 8
2006-03-29
Earth Charter and the Convention on Biological Diversity
Seminar. Participation of panelist from Canada, France and Brazil, from government and civil society sectors.
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#942COP 8
2006-03-29
Guidelines for IUCN Engagement with the Private Sector
IUCN drafted guidelines for the implementation of its private sector engagement strategy. These draft guidelines are currently up for public comments. When completed, these would be one of the first few written guidelines on the subject available in public domain. IUCN wishes to share the info ...
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#947COP 8
2006-03-29
Biodiversity and Human Health
Experts will discuss the links between biodiversity and human health, based on the work done for the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, and a current report on the links between health and the Rio Conventions
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#1015COP 8
2006-03-29
Reducing emissions from deforestation: opportunities to UNFCCC and Biodiversity
The 11th meeting of the COP to the UNFCCC opened an opportunity to Parties identify actions to promote reduction of emissions from deforestation. We would like to discuss the interlinkages between biodiversity and these possible actions. The event will be organized by the Ministry of Environment ...
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#1027COP 8
2006-03-29
Sanitary control in fluvial harbours at Amazon region: the present situation and challenges
To discuss the present situation, challenges and perspectives for a better performance of sanitary and environmental watchfulness in fluvial harbours at Amazon region. Round table – with the participation of: organization for cooperation on the Amazon treaty, amazon region countries (Colombia, ...
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#679COP 8
2006-03-29
Darwin Initiative Participatory Conservation in South America
Presentations on Darwin projects in South America focused on community participation and indigenous knowledge
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#714COP 8
2006-03-29
Toward an International Mechanism of Scientific Expertise on Biodiversity (IMOSEB) -
This event will showcase the progress made in the consultative process to evaluate the need of an International Mechanism of Scientific Expertise for Biodiversity (IMOSEB). The setting up of this consultative process was decided at the International Conference “Biodiversity: Science and Governan ...