Building conservation capacity across the global tropics
by Alice C. Hughes Tropical forests cover around 6 % of the world’s land surface, yet support 50 – 75 % of all terrestrial species. Yet in addition to hosting most global biodiversity, the global tropics have also seen the greatest loss of diversity in recent decades, and over 50 % of tropical forests have already […]
Changing tropical forest landscapes: A view from a small plane
BY JABOURY GHAZOUL We emerge from the thick tropical clouds that perpetually hang over Kota Kinabalu at this time of year. I crane my neck to get a good view through the plane window of the surreal profile of Mount Kinabalu, its multi-pronged rocky top standing well aloof of the surrounding clouds and forest. It seems […]
The untold environmental costs of the Brexit vote
ALERT member Pierre-Michel Forget is a leading tropical ecologist and former President of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation. Here he tells us about some surprising implications of Britain’s decision to leave the European Union. On 22 June 2016, hundreds of participants attended a photo slideshow during the Annual Meeting of the Association for Tropical […]
A Brief Report of the 2015 AIBS Council Meeting
As the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation (ATBC) liaison with the American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS), I had the pleasure of attending the 2015 AIBS Council Meeting on December 8, 2015, at the Pew Charitable Trusts Conference Center in Washington, DC.