Lankan participates at biological diversity seminar in China
Participants from
* China
* Afghanistan
* Bangladesh
* Bhutan
* The Maldives
* Nepal
* Pakistan
* Sri Lanka |
Experts and environmental protection officials from China and several
South Asian countries including Sri Lanka started a five-day seminar
yesterday that aims to map out an action plan to protect biological
diversity.
The event will include lectures, reports and exhibitions during which
scholars and officials from China, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, the
Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka will exchange experiences on
protecting regional and global biological diversity.
The seminar, the first activity in the environmental field between
China's Ministry of Environmental Protection and the South Asian
Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC), is being held in the hope
of boosting the abilities of these countries to implement the UN
Convention on Biological Diversity and strengthen cooperation in
environmental protection.
China, one of the world's leading countries for biological diversity
resources, issued an action plan on biological diversity preservation
(2011-2030) in 2010 to raise public awareness and promote public
participation, and set up a national committee consisting of 25 State
departments to work on the issue. China.org.cn
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