Britain to join environmental meet

Britain to join environmental meet

JAKARTA: British experts will take part in a three-day
conference, titled Science and Technology for the Assessment of
Global Environmental Change, to open today.

Antara reported that conservationist and botanist David
Bellamy, with Peter Raines of the British Coral Cay Conservation
Agency, is to present a paper on the environmental impact on
nearshore marine resources in Indonesia.

The Banggai Islands in Central Sulawesi will be the focus of
the speakers' attention.

Duncan Ferns of Logica, one of Britain's leading computer
software companies, is to present a paper -- researched in
conjunction with Britain's Meteorological Office -- on integrated
data systems for operational weather forecasting.

Representatives from Britain's Natural Resources Institute
(NRI), the British Embassy, the British Council as well as the
World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) will attend the conference.
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