'Biodiversity Review' will be the focus in the tenth edition of the Atlantic Conference on the Environment

The Environmental Council of the City Council will hold a forum on 29 and 30 April, again at the Centro Insular de Arte Juan Ismael

The Ministry of Environment, Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries organized the Cabildo of Fuerteventura '10 Atlantic Conference on the Environment ', to be held this year on 29 and 30 April at the Centro Insular de Arte Juan Ismael, Puerto del Rosario, under the theme "Biodiversity Review."

The main theme of the Science and Environmental Forum, which is ten-year celebration at the instigation of Insular Corporation, is thus in line with the international program being promoted by the UN General Assembly with the declaration of 2010 as' the Year of Biodiversity. "

The advisor of the council area, Natalia Evora, stressed that "the Atlantic Conference this year will have a special flavor, both on the anniversary of an event that has become the oldest of the Canary Islands within its scope, and for the relevance of it, after the declaration of Fuerteventura as Biosphere Reserve. "

In the same vein, the Minister of Environment, Agriculture and Fisheries council announced that the program of speeches, which became final in the coming days, "will therefore focus on combining the Biosphere Reserve with the slogan United Nations held in 2010 the year of biological diversity, so that for a few days Fuerteventura again become the hub of discussion and debate of the environment of the hands of the most prominent scientists and researchers. "

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