The Annual Meeting of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation
Rhett Buttler and Jeremy Hance, writers for Mongabay.com, continue to publish papers following the ATBC Annual Meeting. There is thus a second life for ATBC Annual Meetings on the web. Listed below the last interviews and various informations about Suriname, and the Guiana Shield/Amazon overall. More at Mongabay.com
Interview with Andrew Mitchell from Global Canopy Program. He presented an evening plenary lecture "Global ecosystem services trading: a new market solution to stabilize climate and conserve biodiversity" at ATBC2008. See program.
Interview with Jim Sanderson, a scientist with the Small Cat Conservation Alliance and Conservation International. He presented a talk about his study at BHP Billiton's bauxite project in the Bakhuys mountains of Surinam. Photo Jaguars in Suriname by Steve Chin A Foeng and Jim Sanderson.