Posted on behalf of Savita Custead, Bristol Natural
History Consortium.
Hi all,
It is indeed International Year of
Biodiversity in 2010 – and there are plans in the work for some very exciting
and innovative projects here in the UK.
Last week the Bristol Natural
History Consortium hosted the annual Communicate conference for environmental
communicators here in Bristol. We were really
pleased to have an address from David Ainsworth, from the United Nations
Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity. He described
international plans for IYB, and we followed this with a discussion on
UK based plans
facilitated by Helen Featherstone from UWE.
There are a number of national
projects in the works (the Bristol Natural History Consortium will be running a
pilot in 2009 that will be scaled nationally in 2010) and it is a good time to
start building links. Bob Bloomfield from the Natural History Museum preceded
David Ainsworth’s talk and discussed how Darwin 200 projects would
flow into 2010 – I know a number of other organisations are also looking at
this.
If anyone else is planning events
or projects, and was unable to attend Communicate, please do get in touch
off-list, and please do join in the discussions and plans as we aim to work in a
coordinated way. I think it would be fantastic if the
UK were to make
a big splash in this international celebration – we also have a real opportunity
to lead this into the 2012 games – the first sustainable games, and the number
of related projects swelling around this.
Joanna, thanks for bringing this
up!!
Savita
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Savita
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Director
Bristol Natural History
Consortium
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