PAST EVENTS
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18-22 September 2007, Cat Tien National Park, Vietnam
One of the great challenges facing many developing countries today is balancing the need of millions of rural poor to feed their families by harvesting forest animals and plants with the need to protect the forests from excessive damage. more
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1 - 5 July 2007, Port Elizabeth, South Africa.
Society for Conservation Biology meeting in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, 1-5 July 2007.
This meeting will give Africans and non-Africans (from developing countries and economies in transition) the chance to observe conservation in practice where there are trade-offs with the livelihoods of vast numbers of poor people in landscapes that support an impressive array of biodiversity.
http://www.nmmu.ac.za/scb/
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4 - 7 June 2007, Chicago, USA.
Society for Economic Botany 48th Annual Meeting, Chicago, USA, 4-7 June 2007
The primary goal of this symposium is to promote scientific multi-disciplinary exchange of ideas that will promote understanding and cooperation in the common effort in the search for new plant-based therapies
http://www.seb2007.com/
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2 - 6 April 2007, Accra, Ghana
International Conference on Management of National / Natural Parks and Biodiversity Conservation in Africa, Accra, Ghana, 2 - 6 April 2007.
The first guiding premise of the conference is that appropriate environmental and national park policies are crucial for improving the biodiversity of protected areas in Africa. The conference second premise is that effective environmental leadership and management will significantly contribute to the sustainability of national parks in Africa. The third hypothesis is that an active involvement and participation of all the major groups in the management of national parks would render the parks more sustainable.
http://www.vub.ac.be/MEKO/iced/activities.html
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6 - 8 March 2007, Chennai, India.
Conference of the Asian Chapter of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation, Chennai, India, 6-8 March 2007
The conference theme is “Averting biodiversity meltdown in the Asian tropics” and the human interactions in the tropics that are a key component of research in Asia will provide much of the content for the conference
http://www.atbio.org
