This Training Manual is becoming available at an appropriate time when the global interest in
biodiversity has been heightened by the coming into force of the Global Biodiversity Convention
on 29th December, 1993. It is a matter for great satisfaction that many of the participants who
attended the Course are now in the forefront of arresting genetic erosion in their respective countries.
Encouraged by the success of the Trainers' Training Programme, the Steering Committee of
the Project urged that a second training programme should be held soon as a part of a capacity
building exercise for conserving mangrove genetic resources