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Gender Mainstreaming in Biodiversity Conservation: a training workshop conducted in IBC…

Friday, June 13th, 2008

Addis Ababa 11 May 2008 – A one day training workshop on Gender Mainstreaming in Biodiversity Conservation was conducted to Create awareness on gender and development concepts, highlight the conditions of women in Ethiopia, the Legal and affirmative actions taken by the government, show opportunities and future directions to address gender, insight the Importance of mainstreaming gender in development programs, particularly in Biodiversity.

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Biodiversity: a Missing Link for Mitigating Climate Change

Saturday, June 7th, 2008

Montreal: 6 June 2008 –World Environment Day was celebrated in Montreal yesterday by the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity and the Montreal diplomatic community by the hoisting for the first time of the United Nations flag at the entrance to the Montreal World Trade Centre, which has been host to the Convention Secretariat since January 1996. Also participating in the event was the President of the Group of 77 and China at the United Nations in New York. The theme of this year’s Day is “Climate change: kicking the CO2 habit”.

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The Mysterious Secrets of Danakil Depression in Ethiopia

Saturday, June 7th, 2008

There is nowhere else quite like it on Earth. More like hell say the very few who have made it there. It is a place where rivers die, boiling water spurts out of rocks and smoke curls up from holes in the ground. The landscape is dotted with bright yellow sulphur fields, green crystal pools and sparkling salt beds. This is the Danakil Depression, a basin in north-eastern Ethiopia, close to the Red Sea.

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