Conservation, Sustainable Use & Access and Benefit Sharing
BERLIN, May 26 (Reuters) – A deal to market Ethiopia’s staple cereal, teff, to health-conscious Westerners may provide a model for ensuring the benefits of biodiversity are shared between local people and firms exploiting natural resources.
CBD Secretariat, Bonn, 28 May—Calling the present level of biodiversity loss “unprecedented”, parliamentarians attending the Bonn Biodiversity Conference issued a declaration yesterday expressing renewed resolve to ensure that they take the necessary legislative and administrative actions to implement programmes to achieve the objectives of the Convention on Biological Diversity. Biodiversity loss, the lawmakers said, would have “far-reaching” environmental, social and cultural impacts, and said they had a responsibility to build the political will necessary to slow the rate at which plant and animal species are becoming extinct.
Bonn, Germany: The Live exhibition of Ethiopian Coffee Ceremony at the COP 9 Meeting is attracting many more visitors every day. I have included more photos which best describe the event.
Ethiopia has published the National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan (NBSAP). You can download the document below.
The list of Endemic plants of Ethiopia is produced and published here. You can download the document below.
