[PCA] CONFERENCE: Biodiversity without Boundaries Apr 26-28 (Austin, TX)

[Olivia Kwong]

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..