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Cheers for Africa, jeers for Canada at biodiversity conference
Thursday October 18, 2012 05:35:04 PM,
Richa Sharma,
IANS
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Hyderabad: The African
Union got the thumbs up for their pro-active role in biodiversity
conservation at the ongoing UN biodiversity conference and was
selected for the "Busy Bee Award" 2012 while Canada was slammed
and given the "Dodo Award" for contributing to biodiversity loss.
The awards given by the Global Youth Biodiversity Network (GYBN),
a network of youth working for biodiversity conservation, and the
CBD (Convention on Biodiversity) Alliance is a way to recognise
good work and slam poor work by governments participating in the
negotiations at the eleventh conference of biodiversity.
The network has started the two awards -- the Dodo for countries
hampering work towards biodiversity conservation and Busy Bee for
countries taking progressive action. Group members, dressed up as
a dodo and a bee gave the awards - a citation - to a volunteer
from the winner country among the audience.
Canada was also the winner of the Dodo award at the 2010
conference in Japan.
Helena Paul of EcoNexus said Canada was chosen for its strong
stance on biofuels and carrying ocean fertilization experiment.
"Canada insisted that the CBD is not a place to discuss food
security, and so the impact of biofuel expansion on food should
not be considered," she said.
The dodo bird, which once lived on the island of Mauritius, was
hunted to extinction in the late 1600s, and the CBD Alliance
worries that countries preventing a strong agreement from being
reached at COP11 will result in driving many species to
extinction.
Britain was the other winner of the Dodo Award, chosen by
consensus within the CBD Alliance members. Runners up included
China, Brazil and Paraguay.
"The UK is busy behind the scenes blocking attempts in the
European Union and the CBD to adopt a precautionary approach to
synthetic biology," Paul said.
The CBD Alliance is a network of activists and representatives
from NGOs, community-based organizations (CBOs), social movements
and Indigenous Peoples' Organizations (IPOs) advocating improved
and informed participation in CBD processes.
With the "Busy Bee" award, the alliance wants to acknowledge the
players that are showing progressive action within the CBD
negotiations.
"We want to motivate the winners to continue their supportive
behaviour and inspire other parties to contribute constructively
as well. The award goes to African Group for their contribution in
the negotiations of resource mobilization," said Melina Sakiyama,
member of GYBN.
The GYBN, representing 500 youths from over 40 countries, aims to
represent the voice of global youth in CBD processes, raise
awareness among young people of the values of biodiversity and
connect individuals and youth organisations in order to build a
global coalition to halt the loss of biodiversity.
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