i) RIO+5 Forum “From Agenda to Action”

On 13-19 March 1997 the RIO+5 Forum “From Agenda to Action” took place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The Chairman of MIO-ECSDE attended this Forum. More information on the event will be included in the forthcoming issue of MIO-ECSDE’s Newsletter.

ii) MIO-ECSDE Publications

Re-orienting Environmental Education for Sustainable Development (31 pages, summary report of the INTER-REGIONAL Workshop held in Athens, June 26-30, 1995)

Agreed Positions of the Mediterranean Environmental Organizations (32 pages, collection of major NGO Declarations on key issues of the Mediterranean Region). The publications are available from the MIO-ECSDE Secretariat.

iii) Conference Announcement

The Second European Seas At Risk Conference: “Implementing § 17” Strategies to Eliminate the Input of Hazardous Substances to the Marine Environment, City Hall, Bremen, 24-25 April 1997. Concerns the Esbjerg Declaration § 17 (to cease discharges, emissions and losses of hazardous substances to the North Sea by 2020). Assessment of what is being done (or planned) to implement this commitment. (Information: Mr J.Maggs, Seas At Risk, tel:+44 1736 332741, fax 332742, email: jmaggs@gn.apc.org)

iv) Call for e-mail addresses

More NGO Activity Profiles of MIO-ECSDE members:

A. WWF International Mediterranean Programme:

1. Across the Waters: WWF’s grant programme for Education and Capacity Building for the Mediterranean.

2. Support to the Society for the Protection of Prespa (in Greece)

3. Foca (Turkey): Monk Seal Pilot Project

4. Coastal Zone Management: Turkish Mediterranean Coast

5. MedWet: Korba Lagoon, Tunisia.

B. Nea Ecologia (Greece):

1. Greening the Treaty Campaign: Responsible for Greece’s input to the pan-European campaign trying to put some pressure on the parties taking part in the International Conference for the revision of the Maastricht Treaty.

2. Sustainable Europe Campaign: concerns the environmental space of the green territory i.e. the amount of natural resources we are allowed to consume without endangering the environment.

3. Tourism Schools Project: production of material on sustainable Tourism and organisation of training seminars aimed at tourism schools’ teachers around the Mediterranean.

C. Youth and Science Club of Hammam-Lif (Tunisia):

1. Environmental Education on the National Park of Bou Kornine (NPBK): Preparation of Environmental Education support material on the NPBK, organisation of seminars, conferences, promotion of Public Awareness about the NPBK, preparation of a computerised support on characteristic species.

2. Study of the Bou Kornine (PEB): Establishment of a database on the Flora of Bou Kornine, exploitation of the database to evidence relevant features of the Flora of the NPBK.