For information only - not an official document
UNIS/MA/104
VIENNA, 1 June 2015
MEDIA ADVISORY
Media representatives are invited to the opening of the Photo Exhibition
Speakers include:
Johannes
Refisch,
Project Manager, Great Apes Survival Partnership (GRASP), United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
Michel
Masozera
Rwanda Country Programme Director, Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS)
The event is moderated by
Martin Nesirky, Director, United Nations Information Service (UNIS) Vienna
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The exhibition marks World Environment Day, which is held on 5 June every year, and features unique wildlife pictures, some of which were taken in the early 1990s in rainforests of the former Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo) that have since been destroyed.
The photos were previously on display in Kenya, Burundi, France and Germany and are presented now in Vienna with the help of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and its Vienna Programme Office - Secretariat of the Carpathian Convention, and the Great Apes Survival Partnership (GRASP), in cooperation with the United Nations Information Service (UNIS) Vienna and GRID-Arendal.
Media representatives who wish to attend and who are not already accredited to the VIC should write to press@unvienna.org by 4 June, 12:00 noon.
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For further information please contact:
Matthias
Jurek,
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
Email: matthias.jurek[at]unvienna.org
Telephone: (+43-1) 26060-4326
or
Katharina
Goetze
Associate Public Information Officer, UNIS Vienna
Telephone: (+43-1) 26060-4949
Email: katharina.goetze[at]unvienna.org
