Biodiversity and Health Symposium Conclusions and Recommendations1

摘要

The final half-day of the Symposium was designed to focus the attention of participants on the implications for policy of information presented in previous sessions and to collectively identify those areas of research that are most critical to furtherance of policy objectives. An important part of this was the invitation to traditional healers and other representatives of indigenous peoples (seven of the Symposium participants) to express their needs and concerns before an international audience. Their collective response was an endorsement of the Symposium's aims and objectives and emphasized the need to include more healers in the future and to support opportunities for Healers' Associations to hold international conferences.