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| Njie BAJ Gambia Director of Programmes |
Mamadou
Edrisa Njie, the director of Programmes at Biodiversity Action
Journalists The Gambia (BAJ Gambia), a professional media advocacy and
research organisation on Monday left Banjul for France, at the
invitation of the organising committee of the 3rd International
Conference on Biodiversity and United Nations Millennium Development
Goals (MDGs).
This
conference is the third in a series, organised by the French CNRS
Institut Ecologie et Environment (InEE) and the German Leibniz
Association (WGL) and will take place from 29th to 31st October, 2014 in
Aix-en-Provence in France.
The conference will focus on the theme “Biodiversity and Food Security, from trade-offs synergies.”
The
conference will be officially opened with a keynote presentation, to be
delivered by Professor José Sarukhán, UNAM, México, while Professor
Jacqueline McGlade, UNEP, Nairobi, Kenya will officially close the
event.
