Bees/or Development Journal 87
ISSUE NO 87, JUNE 2008 Bees/orDevelopmnt
EDITORIAL THE DARWIN INITIATIVE Long ago in 1992, edition 24 of this Journal reported on The Rio Earth Summit, when the Convention on
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countries to implement the CBD. To date, the Darwin Initiative has invested 65 million (€85 million, US$124 million) in 601 projects in 146 countries.
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One of these projects focuses on bees and is featured in this edition: it is the Bees, Biodiversity and Forest Livelihoods in the Nilgiri Biosphere
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Reserve Project. \t is being implemented by the Keystone Foundation India, Bees for Development, University of East Anglia, and University of Reading Centre of Agri-Environmental Research, UK. The articles
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presented here (pages 5-13) have been edited by Ms Shiny Rehel, Keystone’s Botanist who worked here at the BfD offices in Wales in April, together with Keystone Director Ms Sneh Nath (picture
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