Biodiversity Asia 2012

Biodiversity Asia 2012 is an international conference that aims to highlight the urgency of biodiversity conservation in Asia and showcase the advances made in research and conservation of Asia’s rich biodiversity. It is being organised ahead of the 11th Conference of the Parties (CoP) of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) to be held in India in October 2012 and will bring together researchers, policy makers, students, teachers, practitioners, NGOs and others working towards the conservation of Asia's biodiversity. The conference focuses on four broad thematic areas: Conservation governance, Conservation biology, Conservation management, and Biodiversity and People. Thirteen symposia have already been confirmed. The conference is being co-organized by several institutions with inputs from a distinguished international advisory committee.

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