PAST EVENTS

• 11–16 July 2009, Beijing, China
  International Congress for Conservation Biology - 23rd annual meeting of the Society for Conservation Biology.
  Robert Nasi and Terry Sunderland, participants

• 18–25 October 2009, Buenos Aires, Argentina
  13th World Forestry Congress
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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

• 1–5 July 2007, Port Elizabeth, South Africa
  Society for Conservation Biology meeting
  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/ 

• 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/ 

• 2–6 April 2007, Accra, Ghana
  International Conference on Management of National and Natural Parks and Biodiversity Conservation in Africa
  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 

• 6–8 March 2007, Chennai, India
  Conference of the Asian Chapter of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation
  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