ULRMC Hosts Opening Workshop for the Project "Biodiversity Indicators for National Use"

January 27-29, 2003. In initiation of the UNEP/GEF Biodiversity Indicators for National Use Project, ULRMC will be hosting a three-day workshop that will bring together an expert team to discuss the project work plan and its objectives relevant to Ukraine, as well as tools for developing agro-biodiversity indicators and assessing agro-ecosystems.

Among workshop participants will be representatives of the UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Center in the UK and the National Institute of Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) in the Netherlands. The list of invitees also includes the World Bank/Kyiv, the United Nations Development Program (UNDP/Kyiv), representatives of the State Ecological Inspection and State Service of Protected Areas under the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources of Ukraine, the Environment and Resources Research Institute of Ukraine (Kyiv), the State Committee of Statistics, the State Land Management Committee, the Ukrainian Academy of Agrarian Science, and the Ministry of Agrarian Policy.

It is expected that outcomes of the project, financially supported under the UNEP/GEF program, will be used by experts of the Convention on Biological Diversity, as well as during the preparation of the next conference on the Conference to be held in 2004. A ULRMC representative has been invited to take part in the bio-indicators meeting in Montreal, Canada, February 9-11, 2003.

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