Press Release

Biodiversity meeting seeks ways to preserve traditional knowledge

Montreal, 30 January 2002 – Hundreds of delegates from the Convention on Biological Diversity’s 182 Parties, other Governments, indigenous and local community organizations and various institutions are gathering in Montreal from 4 to 8 February to explore how indigenous and local communities knowledge and practices can help conserve the world’s highly threatened species and ecosystems as well as to discuss measures to preserve and maintain traditional knowledge and promote its wider application

Publication Date
2002-01-30