[PCA] CONFERENCE: Biodiversity without Boundaries Apr 26-28 (Austin, TX)
Olivia Kwong
plant at plantconservation.org
Mon Mar 15 10:05:49 CDT 2010
http://www.natureserve.org/visitLocal/conferences/ConsConf2010.jsp
Biodiversity Without Boundaries - Celebrating the International Year of
Biodiversity - NatureServe Conservation Conference 2010 - April 26-28 -
Austin, Texas
Species and ecosystems live and move across physical and political
boundaries.
Changes affecting the environment are shifting, shrinking, or erasing
ecological boundaries.
Jurisdictional boundaries limit our thinking and present an urgent
challenge to biodiversity conservation.
The NatureServe Conservation Conference 2010: Biodiversity Without
Boundaries will explore the issues and solutions to these and related
conservation needs on several fronts: the science behind the pressing
problems, the information and expertise needed to direct decisions, the
tools and methods for setting priorities and tracking progress, and the
lessons learned from conservation success, collaboration, and leadership
approaches.
Offering approximately 40 sessions, the conference joins together national
and international partners and network members to explore conservation
issues and activities in depth. General session and workshop topics range
from renewable energy.s impact on wildlife to tools for predicting the
effects of climate change on biodiversity.
Symposia planned to date include:
Big Landscapes, Bold Solutions: Across the hemisphere, conservation
leaders are focusing on how to plan and act at landscape scales in order
to protect and restore large blocks of core wildlife habitat and the vital
corridors that connect them. This symposium, which brings together
innovators from the NGO, government, and academic sectors, will feature
presentation and discussion of innovative science-based methods for
planning to conserve big landscapes, and the bold solutions that are
emerging from multi-stakeholder partnerships.
Renewable Energy and Biodiversity: Explore the implications of wind,
water, biofuels, and biomass energy development, and associated impacts on
conservation and food needs across jurisdictions.
Plants, Pollinators, Phenology: Plant and their pollinators are
inextricably linked with factors affecting one player often resulting in
repercussions for the other. A number of threats, including climate
change, present challenges to this interplay. Presentations addressing
pollinator conservation and plant phenology will be included in this
symposium..
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