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The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the World Organization for Animal Health (WOAH) are hosting a webinar focusing on the case for investment to improve environment competencies at the country and territory level through collaboration between veterinary services and the environment and wildlife sectors.

"Nature and wildlife health: Making the case for investment in Asia and the Pacific" will bring together veterinary, agriculture and environment sector stakeholders. It will focus on the human-animal-ecosystems interface. These are the agricultural and productive spaces where biodiversity loss is declining rapidly, which is destabilising the ecosystem services on which local people depend for food and livelihoods. This has consequences for all of society.

As such, the webinar will focus on the value of wild agro-biodiversity, and particularly fauna – the birds, bats, frogs, crabs, insects, rodents, snakes, that live in and around the rice fields, crop farms, wood plots, wild borders, grazing areas, riverbanks of populated areas in the Asia-Pacific region.

Date: 20 June 2023

Time: 12:00-13:30 Japan Standard Time

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20 Jun 2023

Time & Place
Event Details
12:00
Welcome remarks Lesa Thompson (WOAH RRAP)
12:05
Introductory remarks Hirofumi Kugita, WOAH Regional
Representative for Asia and the Pacific
(WOAH RRAP)
TBC, UNEP Asia and the Pacific (UNEP AP)
12:15
Nature and wildlife health in One Health Lesa Thompson (WOAH RRAP) & MarieYon Struecker (UNEP AP)
12:25
Investment in nature and wildlife health in Asia and the Pacific Chair: Makiko Yashiro, UNEP Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific
12:25
Wildlife Health Framework: the need for Veterinary Services in wildlife health Steve Unwin, WOAH Collaborating Centre on Wildlife Health for Risk Management (Wildlife Health Australia)
12:40
The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB) AgriFood: economic benefits of environmental health Rebeca Leonard, Consultant
TEEBAgriFood Initiative Thailand (UNEP)
12:55
National Ecosystem Assessment, including examples of communication efforts TBC, UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre (WCMC)
13:10
Discussion Co-chaired by WOAH RRAP and UNEP AP
13:25
Wrap-up and close webinar Makiko Yashiro (UNEP AP)