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25th June 2012 |
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Digest 014: ‘The Future We Want’ and wildlife, UK and CMS Shark agreement, UNEP Focal Points and |
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In this Digest we bring you a swift analysis of ‘The Future We Want’ and what it delivers for our collective work to protect migratory wildlife.
Meanwhile, the UNEP Biodiversity MEA Focal Points strengthen ties to CMS, CITES and Ramsar, the United Kingdom signs the CMS Shark agreement and Mexico declares five new Ramsar Sites.
In the coming months important migratory wildlife related meetings include:
30th Session of the FAO Committee on Fisheries, Rome, Italy (9th - 13th July 2012)
North America Congress for Conservation Biology (NACCB 2012), Oakland, USA (15th - 18th July 2012)
62nd meeting of the CITES Standing Committee, Geneva, Switzerland (23rd - 27th July 2012)
3rd European Congress of Conservation Biology, Glasgow, Scotland, UK (28th August - 1st September 2012)
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‘The Future We Want’ delivers little for migratory wildlife23rd June 2012  The United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) conference (20th – 22nd June 2012) and hundreds of related events have now concluded in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Finally, the extensively negotiated ‘The Future We Want’ document has been adopted.
We have reviewed ‘The Future We Want’. While acknowledging that all activities taken my Governments at least indirectly impact the survival of wildlife around the world, of the document’s 283 paragraphs a mere 30 directly relate to our collective work to protect migratory wildlife.
read more UNEP Biodiversity MEA Focal Points strengthen ties to CMS, CITES and Ramsar21st June 2012  The four regional UNEP Biodiversity Multi-lateral Environment Agreements (MEA) Focal Points for Africa, Latin America & the Caribbean, West Asia, Asia & the Pacific have visited the Secretariats of CMS, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) and the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands, to build a deeper understanding of the work of these important conventions.
read more United Kingdom signs the CMS Shark agreement21st June 2012  The United Kingdom has taken a further and important step towards protecting endangered sharks becoming the 24th signature to the Memorandum of Understanding on the Conservation of Migratory Sharks on the 18th June 2012.
The shark agreement, the first of its kind to address the global conservation of sharks, was signed by Fisheries Minister Richard Benyon on behalf of the UK and a number of the UK's Overseas Territories.
read more Mexico declares five new Ramsar Sites20th June 2012  The Government of Mexico has declared five new Ramsar Sites bringing their total to an impressive 138 sites, covering a surface area of 8,826,429 hectares.
The newest five are the Anillo de Cenotes in Yucatán, Ecosistema Ajos-Bavispe, zona de influencia Cuenca Río San Pedro in Sonora, Humedales de Montaña María Eugenia in Chiapas, Laguna de Santiaguillo in Durango, and Río San Pedro-Meoqui in Chihuahua.
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