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Side Event
#980
COP 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 ...

Side Event
#995
COP 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.

Side Event
#867
COP 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 ...

Side Event
#919
COP 8
2006-03-31

Business and the 2010 Biodiversity Challenge

Summary of outcomes of side events and way forward at the end of COP

Side Event
#926
COP 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 ...

Side Event
#929
COP 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.

Side Event
#1008
COP 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

Side Event
#1011
COP 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.

Side Event
#1012
COP 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 ...

Side Event
#1017
COP 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

Side Event
#1018
COP 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.

Side Event
#1019
COP 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 ...

Side Event
#1022
COP 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 ...

Side Event
#939
COP 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 ...

Side Event
#959
COP 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.

Side Event
#964
COP 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 ...

Side Event
#984
COP 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 ...

Side Event
#993
COP 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 ...

Side Event
#994
COP 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.

Side Event
#998
COP 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 ...

Side Event
#1006
COP 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.

Side Event
#1007
COP 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 ...

Side Event
#756
COP 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)

Side Event
#805
COP 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 ...

Side Event
#819
COP 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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