Santo Domingo.– Global Foundation for Democracy and Development (GFDD), together with its sister institution in the Dominican Republic, Fundación Global Democracia y Desarrollo (FUNGLODE), will partner with the Pan American Development Foundation (PADF) and World Wide Views to convene the Dominican chapter of the Citizen Dialogue on Biodiversity.

The event will be celebrated on Saturday, September 15, 2012, during the initiative “World Wide Views on Biodiversity,” organized by the Technology Council of Denmark, with support from the United Nations Convention on Biodiversity.

Citizens around the world will attend meetings to discuss current challenges impacting biodiversity. Meetings of “World Wide Views on Biodiversity” will take place simultaneously in 34 locations, in 25 countries, in five continents.

In each location, upwards of 100 persons will have the opportunity to become informed and debate topics pertaining to biodiversity, including terrestrial and marine biodiversity, as well as responsibility of and share in benefits resulting from the management of genetic information.