Conservation, Sustainable Use & Access and Benefit Sharing
Montreal, 25 October 2011 – A new United Nations report says resolving the crisis in the harvesting of bushmeat is possible if governments combine new management models, including community-based management, game-ranching and hunting tourism, with new mechanisms for monitoring and law enforcement.
In all three tropical continents, fire incidence from 2000 to 2008 was lower in protected areas than in unprotected ones. For instance, in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) fire had occurred on 7.4% of unprotected land. In strictly protected areas (IUCN categories I-IV), it was only 1.6%, four and a half times less. In multiple-use protected areas (IUCN categories V-VI), fire rates were 3%, and in indigenous protected areas 1.5%. Similar proportions were observed for Africa; in Asia fire rates in strictly protected areas were somewhat higher (4.5%).
Montreal, 11 October 2011 – A Master of Science (MSc) programme in Environmental Governance which includes a specialization in Biodiversity was launched in Tokyo by the Institute of Applied Studies of the United Nations University (UNU-IAS). The inauguration ceremony, held in Tokyo on 10 October 2011 with the participation of more than 200 participants, included senior officials of the Government of Japan and ambassadors accredited to Tokyo.
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.
