GNF and UNEP/CMS agreed to organise an international seminar on Avian Influenza at the forthcoming 11th international Living Lakes Conference. The conference with a focus on balancing agriculture and lake protection will take place from 29 October to 3 November 2006 at Lake Poyang in China. Robert Hepworth, Executive Secretary of UNEP/CMS and members of the Scientific Task Force on Avian Influenza will be among the speakers at this event. Around 200 lake and wetland experts from 30 countries are expected at the conference.


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