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Presentation:
Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety for the
Convention of Biodiversity
Emphasizing on Iranian Main Marine Ecosystems
Saloomeh Ebrahimi
Young research Club, Islamic Azad University, North Branch,
Tehran, Iran.
E-mail:Saloomehebrahimi@yahoo.com
Destruction of Biodiversity results in weakening world's sustainable
development gradually and will destroy species and
ecosystems that are the most important resources for human
health. There are some challenges on determining basic
socio-economical factors and their impacts on diversity.
Strategic methods using biodiversity components must develop
in a way to increase crop production and society's'
development in addition to stabilization of present
biodiversity. Cartagena Protocol has precautionary
principles on biodiversity and the probable threatening
human health, also makes the importing countries consider
the social-economical matters. There are some matters
regarding threatens to culture or customs, and some matters
regarding in biodiversity value decrease of native
communities. Direct or indirect offload of material or
energy in sea water, results in adverse impacts, harmful to
aquatic live stocks. It also threatens human health. Sea
catch has an important role in facing hunger problems.
Destroying such resources threatens food security, and will
result in low quality of the sea water which is in
operation. Also will result in decrease of recreational
places. Indeed, the first principle of biosafety is
protection of marine and coastal ecosystems or aquatic
ecosystems. Biosafety outlines ballast water management,
control of marine shipment, labeling, control the use of
genetically-modified organisms and their transportation via
aquatic ways. However, the implementation of the protocol
has some specific complexes and needs public awareness and
participation on the issue of biosafety at all social levels.
Key words: Biosafety, Cartagena Protocol, Biodiversity,
Marine Ecosystems, Iran. |
