ERO Diary aims to be a very brief digest of the activities of the IUCN Secretariat in Europe in our multi-cultural staff's own words. It should take you no longer than about 5 minutes to read. The NPF is a new foundation which has decided to invest in environmental projects. We also discussed other ideas for possible future co-operation.
Dams continue to be a very controversial issue.
Therefore, one could easily understand the disputes among the experts, researchers, officials, MPs, NGOs, business sector and media representatives who met on 23 November, in Moscow, for a briefing of the World Commission on Dams. All in all, the briefing had positive results. The event fostered discussion on the use of the ecological network concept in spatial planning, and in sectorial policies. Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania presented reports on their national ecological networks. As Damiano was so busy finalising the 2001 programme, I went to the Biodiversity Planning meeting at HQ, on 27-29 November, along with Julia Gorelova from the Moscow office.