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Biodiversity is about ordinary people.
It's about issues that deeply affect all of our lives. The UNDP head was speaking during the opening of the first of three consultation workshops on the draft National Biodiversity Action Plan held at the Ocean View Hotel Convention Centre yesterday. The aim of the workshops is to give interested persons and organisations an opportunity to examine the Draft Action Plan and give their comments and suggestions towards developing the final plan by June 30, 1999. The UNDP official said the essential task for those concerned with biodiversity is to help people to understand what is at stake and how it affects their physical environment and the future of their children. Olver referred to what he called an environmental global crisis of population and potential environmental extinction, noting that the pressure on the land and flora and fauna populations around the world is enormous and growing.