Conservation and environmental news: Latin America

Santiago de Cali, Colombia. At the 2008 World Conservation Congress, in Barcelona, IUCN approved a motion for “Building a Conservation Vision for the Amazonian Biome.” This will guarantee greater support and participation from the administration, commissions and members of IUCN, as well as from donors and other organizations, for this process which is led by the Latin American Network for Technical Cooperation for National Parks, Other Protected Areas and Wild Flora and Fauna (REDPARQUES), with the participation of the nine Amazonian countries, along with regional and international NGOs. This process will be presented as a regional implementation initiative within the Work Plan for Protected Areas at the 2010 Convention on Biological Diversity Conference of the Parties (COP), in Japan.