{"id":144919,"date":"2010-01-06T09:10:11","date_gmt":"2010-01-06T14:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.countdown2010.net\/?p=5779"},"modified":"2010-01-06T09:10:11","modified_gmt":"2010-01-06T14:10:11","slug":"biodiversity-carnival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/144919","title":{"rendered":"Biodiversity Carnival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During the International Year of Biodiversity a special Biodiversity Carnival dedicated to fauna and flora will be organized in South Africa following in the footsteps of the world renowned Rio de Janeiro Carnival. The Biodiversity Carnival will take place on World Environment Day (5 June) 2010, just a few days before the beginning of the <span class=\"caps\">FIFA<\/span> World Cup (11 June) which will be hosted by South Africa. The Biodiversity Carnival will enliven the streets of Soweto, Johannesburg, which is the hub for the <span class=\"caps\">FIFA<\/span> World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Articles 5 and 13 of the Convention on Biological Diversity provide a clear mandate for governments to support events which promote the International Year of Biodiversity. The Biodiversity Carnival will be a great opportunity to bring the International Year of Biodiversity closer to a wider audience.<\/p>\n<p>The Carnival will be an unprecedented event in South-African and Brazilian cooperation and the idea will hopefully be applied in other countries to foster international cooperation.<\/p>\n<p>Local communities will be involved in the production of costumes in Soweto helping to create jobs in this disadvantaged area. The Brazilian cities of Rio de Janeiro and Salvador are also interested in participating in the setting up of the Biodiversity Carnival. The combination of Brazilian expertise and South African culture and nature will guarantee high-quality products and also give a unique opportunity for cooperation and experience sharing between the two countries.<\/p>\n<p>For more information contact William Widsen at <a href=\"mailto:%77%69%6C%6C%69%61%6D%77%69%73%64%65%6E%40%67%6D%61%69%6C%2E%63%6F%6D\">williamwisden@gmail.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.countdown2010.net\/year-biodiversity\/what-can-you-do\/browse_share_vote\">Back<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Note: There is a rating embedded within this post, please visit this post to rate it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the International Year of Biodiversity a special Biodiversity Carnival dedicated to fauna and flora will be organized in South Africa following in the footsteps of the world renowned Rio de Janeiro Carnival. The Biodiversity Carnival will take place on World Environment Day (5 June) 2010, just a few days before the beginning of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1945,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1945"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}