Developing Countries Contributing To Biodiversity

I'll try and do better posting information from around the globe that is interesting on its own and also relevant to us right here, like this Inter Press Service posting about diversity as the State of Wisconsin has amended the law to fill wetlands, grind down the Penokee Hills at Lake Superior and jeopardize the largest wild-rice estuaries in the Great Lakes watershed close to the Bad River reservation to facilitate open-pit mining:

We cannot isolate biological diversity by geographical boundaries, says Brazilian negotiator André Aranha Corrêa do Lago in this interview.

HYDERABAD, India, Oct 23 2012 (IPS) - Developing countries are investing enormously in preserving biological diversity, and it is unimaginable that the wealthy nations will not fulfill their obligations to provide funding for these efforts, Brazilian environmental negotiator André Aranha Corrêa do Lago told Tierramérica*.

Global awareness on biodiversity is still “much lower than it should be,” despite the fact that the Convention on Biological Diversity has provided “a large amount of scientific information to governments in all countries,” said Corrêa do Lago, director of the Department of Environment and Special Affairs at Brazil’s Ministry of External Relations and senior negotiator of the Brazilian delegation at the 11th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP 11) to this international treaty.

Hat tip, SM.