Slideshow | 11th Convention on Biological Diversity 10 Photos . Updated: 08 Oct 2012, 06:04 PM IST Livemint 193 nations will chalk out a plan to tackle the decline of biodiversity by 2020 1/10Braulio Ferreira de Souza Dias (left), executive secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, addressing the media. Photographs by Ananda Banerjee 2/10Members of the CBD Alliance addressing the media. CBD Alliance is a network of activists and representatives from NGOs along with social movements and indigenous people’s organizations. 3/10An activist dressed as a dodo, an extinct flightless bird that was endemic to the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean. 4/10Delegates walk past a poster of Aichi Targets. These call for a halving in the rate of loss of the planet’s biodiversity by 2020. 5/10Delegates gather at the main hall of the convention centre. Around 14,000 delegates have registered to participate in the CBD / CoP 11. 6/10A volunteer organizes country specific documents for delegates. 7/10Stacks of brochures and advocacy material for the delegates. 8/10A participant puts up his campaign posters. 9/10Kiran Kumar Reddy, chief minister of Andhra Pradesh. 10/10Jayanthi Natarajan, Union environment minister, at CoP 11.