The evaluation sheets for the gpi project carried out under the frame of gpi 2 are available online.
The GPI will present its activities during the 12th International Peat Congress in Tampere. Read more about the Global Peatland Initiative as a partnership.
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| The ambassador of Colombia, Mr. Guillermo Fernandez de Soto addressing the meeting. |
| On 4 May the Colombian Embassy and the IUCN Netherlands Committee (www.iucn.nl) presented the Spanish edition of the Atlas "Los Páramos del Mundo" edited by Dr. Robert Hofstede, co-ordinator of the international Páramo Group (www.paramo.org). Páramos cover significant parts of the alpine zone of the Northen Andes, East-Africa and SE-Asia and are diverse ecosystems, culturally as well as biologically. They are highly threathened by conversion. Páramos, are as peatlands, (www.globalpeatlands.net) water towers and therefore millions of people depends on them. The book was presented to the Embassadors of Colombia, Costa Rica, Bolivia, Peru and Ecuador in the Netherlands with the request to support initiatives in their countries for the sustainable management of these important and long neglected ecosystems. Read the speech by the ambassador of Colombia. |
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| Dr. Robert Hofstede presenting the book Los Päramos del Mundo to the 5 ambassadors from South America. |
last update: 04/09/10