(Source: UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) Irina Bokova held several bilateral meetings with Heads of State and Conservation leaders, where she highlighted the role of UNESCO to foster education for sustainable development, scientific cooperation for nature preservation and the protection of natural heritage. In his address to the opening of the World Conservation Congress, Governor of Hawaii, Mr David Ige mentioned the legacy of the Island in voicing the need for a new commitment for nature preservation 'Hawaii is blessed by thousands of species found nowhere else in the planet, but today these species and the ecosystem they depend on are in peril,'...
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