The MIDORI Prize

Winners Forum

the MIDORI Prize for Biodiversity 2018 Winners’ Forum was held.
Question-and-answer sessions with the winners were moderated by invitee Mr. Takejiro Sueyoshi, Trustee of the AEON Environmental Foundation and Chairperson of the World Wide Fund for Nature, Japan (WWF Japan).

Date: 31 October, 2018
Place: PALACE HOTEL TOKYO 2F AOI
Outline of the Lectures:
” Protected Areas: Conserving Biodiversity and Underpinning Human Welfare “
Kathy MacKinnon
Chair, IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA) (U.K.)
” HIMA A Way of Life; A Mission of Peace “
*HIMA:community-based traditional system for area-based conservation(” protected area ” in Arabic)
Assad Serhal
Director General Society for the Protection of Nature in Lebanon (SPNL) (Lebanon)
” The politics of biodiversity loss – why one should make a differenc “
Abdul Hamid Zakri
Former Science Advisor to the Prime Minister of Malaysia (Malay sia)