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16 April

• The Director-General signs a Memorandum of Understanding with the Executive Director of UNEP
  On 4 April 2009, Mr Koïchiro Matsuura, Director-General of UNESCO, and Mr Achim Steiner, Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to provide a framework of cooperation and facilitate collaboration between UNESCO and UNEP.

15 April

• World Migratory Bird Day 2009
  On their long journeys, migratory birds have to navigate through a multitude of man-made barriers. Their flyways are hindered by wind farms, power lines, TV and mobile phone transmission masts, glass windows, tall buildings and other constructions. Huge numbers of birds are killed, injured or displaced each year. Apart from direct fatalities or injuries via collision, such structures can also lead to habitat loss, displacement and disturbance.

• Saving our nearest relatives
  Humanity’s closest relative, the gorilla, is in danger. Development, poaching and war have been decimating one of the only animal species which, like us, can use tools. Nevertheless, UNESCO’s gorilla preservation projects have begun to bear fruit on this International Year of the Gorilla, 2009. The main objective of the International Year of the Gorilla is to mobilize decision-makers and the public to save this great ape species, a species capable of intelligent thinking, 95% of whose DNA is identical to ours. This is of vital importance as populations have been declining in recent decades...

Son objectif principal était de contribuer à appréhender la naturalité en tant que paramètre intégrateur pour l'évaluation du fonctionnement des écosystèmes forestiers, la qualification des pratiques de gestion qui y sont développées et la définition des relations entre les sociétés humaines et ces derniers.