Unesco addresses international cooperation for biodiversity defense
This event takes place a few days after the World Congress of the International Union for Conservation of Nature revealed that more than 8,500 species were in danger of extinction, shedding new light on the global biodiversity crisis.
The annual MAB Council meeting, which for the first time will be held in Africa, was inaugurated by the Director General of Unesco, Audrey Azoulay, the President of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari, and the country's Minister of the Environment, Sharon Ikeazor.
The meeting will also designate new biosphere reserves and approve their status reports, of which there are currently 714 in 129 countries around the world.
For more than 50 years, Unesco has been developing concrete solutions to environmental challenges through the MAB program and its network of protected sites covering nearly 6 percent of the planet.
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