The West African Science Service Centre on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use (WASCAL), the Ministry of the Environment, Water and Sanitation and the Permanent Secretariat of the National Council for Sustainable Development organised a national workshop in Ouagadougou on May 2 to validate the national landscape analysis report on existing science, policy and practice initiatives and mechanisms in Burkina Faso, in preparation for the establishment of the country’s national biodiversity platform.
“Combating threats to biodiversity cannot be the work of a single person. It is a combined effort, a synergy between different stakeholders. This platform aims to bring together the actors involved in biodiversity and ecosystem services, so that they can pool their efforts to better protect our biodiversity, which is quite rich, and so that our populations can benefit from it. That is why it is important to have this formal framework for exchanging and sharing experiences and data – to be able to formulate policies for better conservation of our biodiversity“, declared Dr Sylvestre Da, the national coordinator of the CABES project in Burkina Faso, in an interview published on Le Faso.
