Natural Networks will provide 32 year-long placements in green network skills such as species identification, biological recording and habitat conservation techniques.
They seek to reconcile conservation of biological and cultural diversity, and economic and social development through partnerships between people and nature.
It represents a dramatic step forward in the conservation of biological diversity, the sustainable use of its components, and the fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising from the use of genetic resources.
This Inter-Ministerial Meeting will embrace a workshop for experts from the English-speaking Caribbean region in order enable participants exchange their views and acquire skills to identify projects to relevant sectors, products and services by promoting the conservation of biological diversity and natural resources.
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Kitts-Nevis National MAB Committee has a key role and functions including, Advocacy and support of sustainable development, promotion and monitoring of scientific research, planning and management of Biosphere reserves, approval of Biosphere Reserve Proposals, capacity development of the local communities in resource management and environmental protection, the conservation of biological diversity.
Because the link between people and plants is so fundamental to the conservation of both biological and cultural diversity, it concentrates on the core of our capacity building: training in applied ethnobotany, providing people with inter-disciplinary skills highly relevant to conservation action.
This is because the current legal and policy regimes under relevant international legal instruments, and especially the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) and the Convention on Biological Diversity, do not specifically deal with the conservation and sustainable and equitable use of the biodiversity of the deep seabed.
Dr Carles Vila, from the Conservation and Evolutionary Genetics Group at the Donana Biological Station in Seville, Spain, said the debate was wide open.
"Large carnivores elicit strong emotions and their management is more socio-political than biological, " said Alistair Bath, a specialist on the human dimensions in wildlife management and a consultant to the conservation organization.
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