 My name is Catalina Santa Maria and I'm the Forest Program Officer at the CBD Secretariat. So you're joining us at the CBD COP 13 here in Cancun, Mexico. So today marks a very important day for the CBD given that this is the first time we have a gender day specifically focused in the Rio Convention's Pavilion. And the Pavilion has been a long time effort among several partners which include the Jeff, the CBD Secretariat, the UNFCCCC Secretariat and the UNCCD Secretariat. In an effort to bring to different audiences, different publics, some of the key issues that are happening around biodiversity conservation and sustainable use. And gender is one of the key issues that we'd like to emphasize today in this special day on gender. So gender is an important component in sustainable wildlife management and it's something that was manifested today in the launch of a new publication and a new fact sheet that the CPW, this is the Collaborative Partnership on Sustainable Wildlife Management, a partnership made up of 14 different international organizations, have collectively joined forces to bring to you the best knowledge, the best available science on the issues of wildlife management and how gender plays a role, why it's important and what are some of the responses that countries and organizations are using in their different initiatives to demonstrate gender in different applications on wildlife management. So we have heard a mixture of messages today. We had a very diverse panel that was composed of experts from the CPW and many countries that have been taking strong efforts to integrate gender into their practices, into policies, into natural resource management and also demonstrating that there are challenges ahead and that there are different ways to tackle the issues of gender. And among the key focus areas that were emphasized in the press brief and the fact sheet that was prepared were the issues of sustainable livelihoods, an issue that was also emphasized in an example on the all-female patrolling of the Black Mambas, which is an anti-patrolling unit in South Africa and how this example can provide a way for bridging wildlife conservation to local communities. There were other examples as well on the implications of gender to food security and to nutrition and to health, human health. And a lot of this science, a lot of this studies are coming from partners like C4 where these issues are resonating in the bushmeat sector and the need to look for new solutions which relate to governance and which relate to statistics that are important for us to understand which species have an emphasis and have a role in this type of issue. Other priorities that were emphasized today also include the issue of human wildlife conflicts and how different countries are tackling this issue through different gender responsive feedback and initiatives that have been carried out. And we heard a lot also of the gender dynamics in illegal wildlife trade where in some countries women play a strong role in the trafficking of illegal wildlife while in issues of poaching there has been a more male-dominant interface and experience. We have also seen a very important role in decision making and in the institutional building that many countries are trying to factor in a more diverse setting in management and in institutions where women are playing a stronger role are becoming more empowered and are finding new tools to take on more leadership roles. And I think all these issues including ownership, governance, land rights they resonate among various different countries that spoke today and are picked up in the policy brief that the CPW has prepared.