Great Ape Survival Project (GRASP) Partnership side event announcement - CBD CoP8, Curtiba, Brazil (event no.219)

Title:                  UNEP/UNESCO Great Apes Survival Project - Can the
UN Save the Great Apes (and their Biodiverse Habitats)?

When:             13:15 - 15:00, 30 March 2006

Where:                  Room B1-4 Level 0,  Expo Trade and Exhibition
Centre, Curtiba, Brazil

Brief description:
The great apes are heading for extinction, unless loss of habitat and hunting are stopped.  The Kinshasa Declaration on the Great Apes was signed last September by 22 countries and most of the NGOs involved in their
conservation.   It affirms commitment to a global strategy and sets a
timetable for reducing the rate of decline of great ape populations by
2010, and securing the future of 94 priority sites by 2015.   If
successful, this will ensure that all taxa of orangutans, gorillas, chimpanzees and bonobos should survive in their natural habitat.  Great apes are keystone species in those habitats, and so their survival affects
thousands of other species that are ecologically dependent on them.   Great
apes & their habitats are also important economically, and so conservation policies are being linked to poverty reduction strategies and sustainable development initiatives.

Organizer:        Ian Redmond, GRASP Chief Consultant

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