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CMS COP9: WDCS calls on Parties to act!
From 1st to 5th December more than 100 Countries will meet in Rome for the 9th Conference of the Parties (CoP) of the Convention on Migratory Species (CMS). The WDCS team will be at the meeting fighting for urgent action to be taken to protect whales and dolphins from bycatch, noise pollution, chemical pollution, climate change and habitat loss and for new regional conservation agreements to be established, especially in the Indian Ocean and South East Asia, as well as establishing Marine Protected Areas in international waters. WDCS and CMS have been working closely together since 2002. A formal Partnership Agreement was signed between WDCS and CMS during the 8th CMS CoP in November 2005 and a three year Joint Programme of Work was agreed in January 2006.
Detailed information can be downloaded here:
WDCS and CMS Partnership
WDCS Vision for COP9
WDCS Press Release from 28th November 2008
WDCS’s opening speech at UN conference
Today, WDCS International CEO, Chris Butler-Stroud has given an opening speech at this UN meeting together with HRH Prince Albert from Monaco, Mr. Achim Steiner, head of the UN-Environmental Programme, and Mr. Rob Hepworth, Executive Secretary of CMS. His speech, presented on behalf of all NGO Partner to CMS, calls for commitment from Countries. He states that never before have the threats been so great; the impacts of human activities so strongly felt from climate change, bycatch, habitat loss, noise, pollution and teetering ecological balances. He challenges Government to work together with NGOs to repay the richness that we’ve received from our swimming, flying, walking or running friends by giving them our steadfast commitment that we will ensure their protection and the protection of our shared habitat on earth.
Read Chris Butler-Stroud's speech in full.
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