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UNESCO, People Biodiversity and Ecology
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UNESCO, People Biodiversity and Ecology
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UNESCO, People Biodiversity and Ecology
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Great apes survival in focus at Convention on Biological
Diversity - seventh Meeting. UNESCO and the United Nations
Environment Programme (UNEP) advocated the cause of great apes survival
and conservation before key international actors on 17 February 2004,
at the 7th Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention
on Biological Diversity (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia).
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Advocating great apes survival issues within
the international agenda
UNESCO and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) participated
actively to the meeting, notably as leading organizations of the
Great Apes Survival Project (GRASP).
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They organized presentations, videos, talks, and
discussions, focusing on:
- species and populations of great apes
- threats to great apes: from bushmeat, to mining, to Ebola
- GRASP: an innovative partnership
- GRASP activities at the local, national and intergovernmental
level
- raising funds and awareness Partners, such as the Orangutan
Foundation, also provided information on their activities within
GRASP
Participating in a binding agreement for action
The Convention on Biological Diversity is the 1st global agreement
on the conservation and sustainable use of biological diversity.
Now ratified by more than 175 countries, it was launched in 1992
after the "earth summit". The Conference of the Parties (COP), gathered
in Kuala Lumpur, is its highest decision-making body.
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08/08/2008
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