While we will be catering for the full suite of focal areas listed below, given national priorities and initiatives, for 2018 we encourage submission of presentations and proposals for special sessions in the themes of protected area management effectiveness, implementation of biodiversity-related multilateral environmental agreements, and conservation genetics.
Each Symposium will focus on specific contemporary issues, but the broad focal areas are:
- Protected area management effectiveness
- Management of protected areas and buffer zones
- Transboundary conservation
- Conserving in the face of global change
- Understanding and managing ecological and evolutionary processes
- Threatened species conservation
- Conservation genetics
- Advances in monitoring and surveillance
- Mitigating threats to biodiversity - wildlife crime and invasive alien species
- Biodiversity economy, ecosystem goods and services, and resource economics
- Land-use and conservation planning
- Securing critical biodiversity areas
- Co-management of protected areas and biodiversity
- Integration of cultural heritage and biodiversity management
- Effective communication
- Legal, policy and ethical issues
- Implementation of biodiversity-related multilateral environmental agreements
