I’m just back from a five-day trip to the possibly remotest island in Germany where I served as an external expert at a capacity building workshop for European government representatives working on biodiversity.
Awareness, Beware!
The new strategic plan of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity contains 20 well-meaning targets to “take effective and urgent action to halt the loss of biodiversity”. Amongst them:
By 2020, at the latest, people are aware of the values of biodiversity and the steps they can take to conserve and use it sustainably.