A SCB - Europe Section meeting coming up

Northern Primeval Forests:
Ecology, Conservation and Management,

August 9-13, 2010 at Mid Sweden Univ. Sundsvall, Sweden

Despite long land-use history of forest harvesting and agricultural use in many part of the Northern hemisphere, sizeable areas of forest remain unmanaged and largely undisturbed by man’s activities. These remaining primeval forests not only harbor unique conservation and recreational values of global significance, but also represent important reference areas, critical to our understanding of current forest structure, composition, and processes. The year 2010 stands out critical since it is the year when the global loss of biodiversity should have been significantly reduced. This represent a major challenge also in forested regions and the conference aims to provide a review of the current status and trends in relation to the loss of forest biodiversity. By gathering researchers, administrators and conservation managers from a wide spectrum of regions and disciplines the conference may also provide a starting point for dedicated and scientifically well founded strategies to deal with the threats to forest biodiversity.
Please join us for this unique opportunity to meet and discuss forests and forest biodiversity!

Registration and abstract submission due April 1, Late registration until June 15. http://www.prifor2010.org/

ECCB 2012 to be held in Glasgow

The Board of Directors of the Society for Conservation Biology - Europe made a decision on the upcoming 3rd European Congress of Conservation Biology. There were four excellent bids and the decision was not easy. However, after two days of discussions, the BoD unanimously voted for Glasgow.
So please mark already in your calendar:
3rd ECCB, Glasgow, 28 August - 01 September 2012.

The BoD meets in Freiburg (Germany) 19-21 February 2010

The BoD of the European Section of the Society for Conservation Biology will meet at Freiburg/Breisgau. The Baden-Württemberg State Ministry has offered for us to hold our next Board meeting at the wine research Institute in Freiburg/Breisgau. This will include a field trip to a project "Nature conservation in Vineyards" and a talk on the implementation of Natura 2000 in Baden-Württemberg by the head of the regional conservation administration. In principle the State Minister for Agriculture, Forestry and Nature Conservation has expressed his interest to welcome the BoD.

Freiburg is a beautiful city in the upper Rhine valley and famous for its eco-approaches (Ecological Capital of Germany). Its university is quite famous. I have close links to the on site regional conservation administration. Foto: Aerial Picture Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, 16 August 2004, Thomas Maier (CC)