Environment ministers and forests ministers of about 194 countries attended the conference; international organizations like World Bank and the Asian Development Bank also participated.

[1] The COP11 logo consists of three major motifs, the Royal Bengal Tiger on the upper part, a woman with a bird and a leaf at the center and a dolphin on the lower part of the circle.

The Royal Bengal Tiger is an endangered species, and one of the main aims of CBD, is to reduce biodiversity loss.

The Woman represents The Mother Earth, who provides us with food, shelter and every basic necessity of human and other living creatures.

In Indian philosophy, a circle is a bindu, a metaphysical term, which is proposed to be the point of origin of all the creation.