Institute of Biodiversity Conservation

BERLIN, May 26 (Reuters) – A deal to market Ethiopia’s staple cereal, teff, to health-conscious Westerners may provide a model for ensuring the benefits of biodiversity are shared between local people and firms exploiting natural resources.

CBD Secretariat, Bonn, 28 May—Calling the present level of biodiversity loss “unprecedented”, parliamentarians attending the Bonn Biodiversity Conference issued a declaration yesterday expressing renewed resolve to ensure that they take the necessary legislative and administrative actions to implement programmes to achieve the objectives of the Convention on Biological Diversity. Biodiversity loss, the lawmakers said, would have “far-reaching” environmental, social and cultural impacts, and said they had a responsibility to build the political will necessary to slow the rate at which plant and animal species are becoming extinct.

Bonn, Germany: The Live exhibition of Ethiopian Coffee Ceremony at the COP 9 Meeting is attracting many more visitors every day. I have included more photos which best describe the event.

Bonn, Germany: A project entitled “the Conservation and use of wild populations of Coffea arabica in the montane rainforests of Ethiopia” presented the Ethiopian Traditional Coffee Ceremony during the COP 9 Meeting at Bonn, Germany.

Bonn, 22 May— On the occasion of the celebration of the International Day for Biological Diversity, Mr. Sigmar Gabriel, Minister of Environment of Germany and President of the ninth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, announced the measures taken to ensure that the meeting will have the smallest possible environmental impact.

Bonn, 22 May 2008 — Against a background of rising food prices, and with pressures from climate change affecting fields and orchards, celebrations of the International Day of Biological Diversity (IBD) will stress the need to properly protect and manage the world’s biodiversity in order to ensure a secure supply of food for a growing world population.