Sustainable Harvest

Nicole and I are starting a working group to learn more about the issues surrounding sustainable harvest of wildlife, specifically reptiles and amphibians. We invite others to join us...

Linking Land Conservation & Rural Communities

Pris Weeks and Jane Packard will lead this dialogue about communities bounding the eastern and western edges of the southeastern forests of North America: Big Thicket and the Eastern Shore of Chesapeake Bay.

Resourceful Communities

Mikki Sager will lead this dialogue about her experiences working with communities in North Carolina and beyond.

COMM CONS

Nuhu. Daniel will share perspectives on Tanzania National Parks here.

BEE

Mark Otieno will share his experiences related to conservation of pollinators.

RHINO

Murali Pai will share with us his experiences about the one-horned rhino project, centered on the communities surrounding Manas National Park in India. Some NGO's working in the area include Natures Foster, and Aranyak. Here is a link to the sustainable livelihoods program of WWF-India. To learn more about the rhino issues from the biological perspective, type "rhino" in their search tool. Save the Rhino also describes threats and reasons to save rhinos.

Welcome!

The idea for this forum emerged from a workshop titled "Protected areas and biodiversity conservation: linking with surrounding communities" at the 2008 meeting of the Society for Conservation Biology in Chattanooga, Tennessee. We wanted to continue our dialogue beyond the constraints of the workshop, to learn more about case studies and support each other in our work.