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International Year of Biodiversity, is drawing to a close
Progress on biodiversity: how does NZ measure up?
ONLINE MEDIA BRIEFING: TUES 7 DEC
10:30 AM
2010, the
International Year of Biodiversity, is drawing to a
close.
This year's targets for global biodiversity conservation -- the culmination of UN efforts emerging from the Rio Earth Summit in 1992 -- have largely failed.
Follow-up negotiations this year in Nagoya, Japan led to a new accord and renewed strategic plan that awaits ratification by 193 countries.
Meanwhile, global biodiversity loss continues to accelerate.
2010 also marks the midpoint of New Zealand's own twenty-year National Biodiversity Strategy. How are we measuring up on the targets we've set ourselves?
As we round out the year of biodiversity, we bring together a panel of conservation experts to ask what's been accomplished, what's been overlooked, and what are the major challenges ahead?
SPEAKERS: Dr
Bill Lee - Ecologist, Landcare Research Dr Avi Holzapfel -
Senior Technical Support Officer, Department of
Conservation Dr John Craig - independent biodiversity &
sustainability consultant and Research Associate, University
of Auckland
ONLINE BRIEFING
DETAILS
DATE: TUES 7
DEC
START TIME: 10:30 am (dial
in five minutes beforehand)
DURATION: Approx 45
minutes
(For those unable to dial in at the
scheduled time, an audio recording will be posted to the SMC
website shortly after the briefing concludes. Registered
journalists will also be able to download presenters' slides
from the SMC Resource Library.)
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