Capacity Building Program
Discussions during the 2014 Strategic Planning Workshop in Cairns, Australia involving the ATBC Council and Strategic Planning Committee focused on identifying major gaps in training, mentoring, communications, and advocacy that provide new and timely opportunities for engagement by ATBC leadership and members.
2014 Bacardi Award – Erin Kuprewicz
The Luis F. Bacardi Award is given to a young post-doctoral researcher (no more than five years after completing Ph.D.) for outstanding conservation-related presentation at each ATBC annual meeting. The 2014 winner is Dr Erin Kuprewicz from the Department of Botany and Paleobiology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution (erinkuprewicz@gmail.com), for her work on: Deciphering seed […]
Cairns Declaration in Support of Stronger Protection of the Great Barrier Reef (2014)
Australia’s Great Barrier Reef (GBR) is a globally recognized biological treasure. Inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1981 based on all four natural criteria, it supports over 1,500 species of fish, 4,000 species of molluscs, and the world’s largest collection of coral reefs. The GBR also contributes more than $5 billion to the […]
ATBC Resolution in Support of Biodiversity Education, Research and Conservation in Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea’s (PNG) forests support a disproportionate amount of species not found elsewhere on the planet. A major challenge to the conservation of Papua New Guinean biodiversity is that it remains largely unexplored and therefore under-studied. In July 2014, the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation (ATBC), the largest organization in the world […]