Subject: CBD's web site. Other new information available 

includes information on:

Expert Consultation on Coral Bleaching (Manila, 11 to 13 October 1999)
Drylands Liaison Group (Montreal, 27 to 29 September 1999)
Access and Benefit Sharing Experts Meeting (San Jose, 4-08 October 99)
SBSTTA5 documents available
COP5 documents available
Final Report of the Intersessional Meeting (Montreal, 28-30 June 99)
Final Report of SBSTTA4 (Montreal, 21-25 June 1999)
On-Line Database of COP Decisions (allow downloading time)
New National Reports 
Independent Review of the Clearing-House Mechanism's Pilot Phase
Biodiversity Keywords List

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SCBD biodiversity information services have been developed or maintained
by SCBD-CHM to facilitate an effective information flow on biodiversity
related matters. In particular I would like to draw your attention to the
following main information services:

http://www.biodiv.org/chm/COMMTOOL/emailondem.htm to get required CBD
documents by Email-on-demand

http://207.107.99.12:8080/phantom.acgi to search with the BIOSEEK search
engine our website and the Internet

http://www.biodiv.org:8080/relinks/search.htm to search in our on-line
database on Scientific and Technical Cooperation in Biodiversity

http://www.biodiv.org/chm/techno/funding1.html to search for funding
sources on the Internet

http://www.biodiv.org/rioconv/WEBSITES.HTML to search in the Synergies
with the biodiversity related Conventions

http://www.dainet.de/FIZ-AGRAR/CHMDOC/eng.htm to search all COP
decisions

http://www.biodiv.org/conv/cbd_documents.html to download all official
CBD documents

http://www.biodiv.org/conv/meetings.html to find out about current and
upcoming UNEP-CBD meetings

http://www.biodiv.org/conv/bio-calendar.html to search the Global
Calendar of Events

http://www.biodiv.org/chm/keywords.html to search Biodiversity keywords

http://www.biodiv.org/chm/index-f.html or
http://www.biodiv.org/chm/index-s.html to search the CHM in French or
Spanish

http://www.biodiv.org/chm/conv/default.htm to search the CBD full text
versions or by Articles

http://www.biodiv.org/chm/biolist1.html to search biodiversity links on
the Internet

http://www.biodiv.org/press/press.html to explore UNEP/CBD press
releases

http://www.biodiv.org/natrep/index.html to explore National Reports

http://www.biodiv.org/biosafe/index.html to explore BIOSAFETY

http://www.biodiv.org/jm.html to explore the Jakarta Mandate

http://www.biodiv.org/ISSUES.HTML to explore the gateway to other CBD
thematic issues

http://www.biodiv.org/chm/bioland/index.html to visit the virtual
country BIOLAND

http://www.biodiv.org/chm/commtool.html to see our Communication Tools

http://www.biodiv.org/index.html to start an excursion on our Convention
Homepage

http://www.biodiv.org/chm/techno/list.html to explore the gateway to
scientific ant technical cooperation in biodiversity

ftp://ftp.biodiv.org/ to download documents from our FTP site.


Best regards, 
Marc Auer
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  Marc Auer
Programme Officer 
Clearing-House Mechanism (CHM) 
Convention on Biological Diversity 
Secretariat 
393 Rue St. Jacques, Office 300 
Montreal, H2Y 1N9 
Quebec, Canada 
Phone:  (+1) 514 288 2220 
Fax:      (+1) 514 288 2495  
Email:   marc.auer@biodiv.org 
Direct line:   (+1) 514 287 7024
Direct eFax: (+1) 815 361 3075
Our Reference: <31-00> 
CHM SERVER: http://www.biodiv.org/chm 
CHM DATABASE: http://www.biodiv.org/chm/url-db.htm 
CHM BIOSEEK: http://www.biodiv.org/chm/bioseek.htm 
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