Doha, October 25 (QNA) - The Ministry of Environment and Climate Change, represented by the Department of Wildlife Development which is affiliated to the Protection and Natural Reserves Sector, organized today a workshop on the biodiversity database project in the State of Qatar, in cooperation with the United Nations Environment Program Regional Office for West Asia.
The workshop was attended by a number of partners and specialists in biodiversity in various parts of the country to discuss the best means to complete the work, leading to the launch of the biodiversity database in the country.
The workshop dealt with a number of presentations and lectures on what the work has reached and what has been achieved so far at the level of the biodiversity database in the State of Qatar, which constitutes the cornerstone of national strategies and plans, and is of great importance to many partners and stakeholders.
Dr. Ibrahim Abdul Latif Al-Maslamani, Assistant Undersecretary for Protection and Natural Reserves Affairs at the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change said the Ministry has attached utmost importance to preserving the elements of biodiversity by establishing its own sector, which is the Protection and Natural Reserves Sector, and its own department; the Department of Wildlife Development.
The ministry has also articulated its ambition and goals in the relevant strategies, in line with the ambitious goals of Qatar National Vision 2030, he added Al-Maslamani indicated that this project aims to issue a digital list of plant and animal species registered in the State of Qatar, to be an approved reference that supports stakeholders working in this field, and also supports decision-making officials in the field of environmental and nature protection, calling for support of the Ministry's efforts to complete the establishment of the mentioned base to reach the desired goal, which is to announce the launch of the national database on biodiversity in the country.
For his part, Mohammed Ahmed Al-Khanji, Director of the Department of Wildlife Development, reviewed the importance of the project, the goal behind it and the expected outputs, and stressed the role of partners from outside the ministry in enhancing and updating the existing data to reach the desired goal, which is the completion of the biodiversity database.
In turn, Maraq Al-Jubouri, Director of the Biodiversity Database Project from the United Nations Environment Program Regional Office for West Asia said the workshop is a new step that comes within the framework of effective and continuous partnership, which was and still represents the cornerstone of all efforts to support the State of Qatar in protecting and improving the environment at all levels. (QNA)