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At a dinner meeting held on December 7 at the Hibiya Green Salon in Tokyo, a young university student made a presentation on his 8-month experience as an OISCA intern at the Coastal Forest Restoration Project site in Natori City, Miyagi Prefecture.

On the 7^th of November, Mr. Sudaryono, the Pemalang Regional Assistant led the release of local birds to symbolize the official launching of the OISCA mangrove project site in Mojo Village, Pemalang Regency as an educational and ecotourism destination.

“There is a need to convince the political leaders to create bills or policies to further strengthen the awareness of the society” is the statement of Datuk Ibrahim Ahmad, Vice President of OISCA International Malaysian Chapter (OIMC) during the two-day 2012 OISCA International Annual Board of Directors` Meeting in Tokyo on the 23^rd of October.

More than 9,000 participants from the 172 member countries of the parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, including the government officials, representatives from the United Nations, NGO`s and other CSO`s, indigenous groups and business sector gathered at Hyderabad International Convention Center in India from October 16 to 19.