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The Eleventh International Meeting of the East Atlantic Biosphere Reserve Network (REDBIOS) is curently taking place at the Biosphere Reserve of the Island of Príncipe, Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe. The meeting, organised by UNESCO, the Government of Spain via its Autonomous Organism for National Parks (OAPN), and the Regional Government of Principe Island, aims to discuss how biosphere reserves can be used as models of sustainable development in islands and coastal areas of Africa. REDBIOS is part of the Man and the Biosphere Programme and comprises the Canary Islands (Spain), Cape Verde, Mauritania, Madeira and Azores (Portugal), Morocco and Senegal. The network fulfils an interregional mandate to enable countries from the Macaronesian Region, which encloses several groups of islands in the North Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Europe and Africa, to cooperate and exchange their experiences. Agenda of the meeting (in Portuguese)

The Eleventh International Meeting of the East Atlantic Biosphere Reserve Network (REDBIOS) is curently taking place at the Biosphere Reserve of the Island of Príncipe, Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe. The meeting, organised by UNESCO, the Government of Spain via its Autonomous Organism for National Parks (OAPN), and the Regional Government of Principe Island, aims to discuss how biosphere reserves can be used as models of sustainable development in islands and coastal areas of Africa.

REDBIOS is part of the Man and the Biosphere Programme and comprises the Canary Islands (Spain), Cape Verde, Mauritania, Madeira and Azores (Portugal), Morocco and Senegal. The network fulfils an interregional mandate to enable countries from the Macaronesian Region, which encloses several groups of islands in the North Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Europe and Africa, to cooperate and exchange their experiences.

• (in Portuguese)