S. Asian conservationists meeting in Nepal

South Asian conservationists and park experts have been meeting in the Nepalese capital, Kathmandu, to discuss how to protect the region's threatened biodiversity in the new millennium.

More than a-hundred park wardens, wildlife experts, ecologists and representatives from government and non-government organisations in South Asia are taking part in the four-day meeting organized by the World Commission on Protected Areas WCPA. The delegates will review the current status of the management of protected areas and the natural world heritage sites in the region.

South Asia consists of three of the world's twenty-two biodiversity hot spots.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service