LGVN ARCHIVES OCTOBER 2000

OCTOBER 2000

• WORLD CONSERVATION CONFERENCE RAISES HOPES

WORLD CONSERVATION CONFERENCE RAISES HOPES FOR EXTINCTION REVERSAL

The World Conservation Union begins its eight-day congress this month in Jordan.

With 2,500 delegates from 140 countries attending it will be the largest gathering of it's kind since the 1992 Rio Earth Summit.

Environmentalists, politicians and scientists will discuss a global agenda to save endangered species and preserve the world's ecosystems. It will aim to set out a program, listing measurable, timed actions, designed to slow or reverse the extinction of 11,046 threatened mammals, birds and plants.

The program also includes proposals to preserve marine and coastal environments, combat global warming and to manage the world's precious water resources.

NOTE: An estimated four billion people will be affected by water shortages by 2050, This forecast is increasing tensions over the management and allocation of humanmankind's most basic need.

For VeggieGlobal GGL discussion on water and drought issues CLICK HERE

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