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Forging a new spirit of bamboo in Damyang. Going to Korea this past November was more than going to a country with only the goal of preparing the next World Bamboo Congress. It was more than to visit the site and test the ability of the persons in charge to give right answers to the m

It is official!   WBO President Michel Abadie, WBO CEO Susanne Lucas and Damyang-gun Governor Choi Hyung-sik met this past week in Damyang, South Korea to commit to a full working partnership to organize the 10th World Bamboo Congress, 2015.    Governor Choi has made a tremendous impa

  Bittersweet is our feeling upon the announcement that the second part of the 9th World Bamboo Congress – originally planned to be held in Toulouse, France in September 2012 – must be re-located to Antwerp, Belgium.  Unfortunately, WBO President Michel Abadie was for

Press release February, 1, 2011 from World Bamboo Organization (WBO) End of the bamboo debate in India. The World Bamboo Organization (WBO), NGO based in Boston (USA), supports the position of Indian Union Environment Minister, Jairam Ramesh, to put an end to « the false Indian bamboo

Dear bamboo friends, As the new President of the World Bamboo Organization, I would like to share with you my best wishes for this New Year. I will take this opportunity to say that I measure the great honor for me to be elected to this position. I accept it with a great sense of humi

Guwahati, 17 December 2010 Dear friends and colleagues throughout the global bamboo community, Within two weeks, my term as president of WBO will end and I would like to thank you all for your support during the last 3 years.   I would also like to take this opportunity to welcome my

Mr. Michel Abadie of Paris, France, is the current WBO President, serving the term as of 1 January 2011 – 31 December 2013. A long-time supporter of international bamboo alliances, Mr. Abadie first participated in the INBAR workshop in Chiang Mai in 1991, the III IBC in Japan, a