Fifth Global Biodiversity Forum Sends Message to COP-3 on Needs and Rights of Indigenous Peoples

摘要

A dynamic coalition of NGOs attributed the commercialization of natural resources and the resulting demands of indigenous peoples to halt collection of these biological assets to "the failure by Parties to the Conventional on Biological Diversity (CBD) to ensure the equitable and sustainable use of biological diversity," The conclusion was but one of the findings of some 145 representatives from 35 countries attending the 5th Global Biodiversity Forum (GBF) held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1-3 November 1996. GBF, initiated by the World Resources Institute, IUCN-The World Conservation Union, and the U.N. Environment Programme and first convened in 1993, was established to foster dialogue, debate, and analysis regarding options for conservation and sustainable and equitable use by both the providers and the recipients of biological resources to assist in the evolution and implementation of the CBD (see DIVERSITY, vol.9,no.4/vol.10, no.1, pp.17-18).