ATBC Resolution in Support of Stronger Laws for Climate-change Mitigation and Environmental Protection in Australia
Australia has many trees, amphibians, and reptiles that are unique, being found nowhere else on Earth. Northern Australia contains a disproportionate amount of this biodiversity which occurs in little developed areas, parks and reserves, indigenous titled lands, and community-managed lands. Whilst Australia’s achievements in protecting some of its remaining native forests, wildlife and wilderness are […]
ATBC Resolution on World Cup conservation goals
Brazilian scientists receive international backing for the FIFA World Cup to deliver on promised conservation goals The Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation (ATBC), the world´s largest scientific society working on conservation issues in the tropics calls upon both FIFA and Brazil to seize the unique opportunity presented by the 2014 World Cup to raise […]
Introducing the new Chair of ATBC’s Conservation Committee – Dr Pia Parolin
Pia Parolin is a scientist and lecturer at the University of Hamburg, Germany, and at INRA / University of Nice, France, in the group Theoretical and Applied Ecology in Protected Environments and Agrosystems (TEAPEA). She achieved her Ph.D. degree from the Max-Planck-Institute for Limnology in Plön, Germany and worked for many years at the National […]
Introducing ATBC Councilor 2014-2016: Nobby Cordeiro
NOBBY CORDEIRO is an Associate Professor of Biology/Ecology at Roosevelt University and a Research Associate of The Field Museum, Chicago, USA. Born and raised at the base of Mt Kilimanjaro allowed him to explore a number of ecosystems which was important in helping to build his foundation in biodiversity in modified landscapes. He has deep […]