Further to the celebrations and exhortations of day one of the CMS CoP in Manila, the days that follow are filled with the key work (during long hours) that needs to be done here.
The Earth Negotiations Bulletin is running its professional reporting system from here and so those that are keen to read the discussions in detail please go there. Here meanwhile are some images to show what has been happening:
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| John Scanlon, Executive Secretary of CITES gives an inspiring speech, including promising that elephants will not go extinct! |
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| Oceancare side event |
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| In another side event Giuseppe Notarbartolo di Sciara launches his new report on Red Sea cetaceans |
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| Rod Hay the Chair of the Committee of the Whole (the CoW) and Melanie Virtue (CMS Secretariat) |
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| That new Red Sea report |
Dinner on day 2 was accompanied by a carberet again - quite loud music and impassioned pleas from the winner of the Phillipines 'search for a star', who also sang for us.
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| Nicola Crockford of RSPB |
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| Professor Chris Wold of Lewis and Clark University - legal adviser to CMS. |
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| Sri Lanka signs onto an MoU on shark conservation |
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| Saras Sharma of Fiji |
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| The redoubtable Heidrun Frisch-Nwakanma of the secretariat reports from the stage |
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| Sarah Ferris of the IWC Secretariat |
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| Margi Prideaux of Oceancare/Wildmigration and Niki Entrup (right) and Joanna Toole |
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| The Argentine delegation |
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