Symposia

This symposium will encompass a series of talks that help decipher the mechanisms driving the diversity and distribution patterns of the biota of South Asia, as well as shed light on how to tackle the potential changes in these patterns resulting from the impending anthropogenic pressure.

Forest Genetic Resources Conservation and Utilisation through collaboration and policy development.

Verifiable, evidence-based conservation management is the core of science based conservation if it is to efficient and effective; whilst it´s importance has been widely documented and new programmes and methodologies are emerging, it remains rarely applied in practice

This symposium will focus on the current state of restoration and restoration efforts in India, the existing frameworks, and the way forward for effective and sustainable restoration outcomes and collaboration between multiple stakeholders.

A collaborative space featuring young voices from the Global South which is focussed on better understanding the multi-dimensional socio-environmental impacts in commodity production landscapes and which seeks to envision a future that delivers multiple goals of sustainable land use, effective climate action and human well-being.

This symposium will bring together experts from various fields to discuss the current understanding of plant-centric interactions in isolated tropical communities, the challenges they face, and conservation strategies that can be implemented to protect them.

The symposium concentrates on the novel One Health approach that aims to engage and mobilize multiple disciplines and sectors, for the betterment of the health of humans, livestock, wildlife and the larger ecosystems that all living things are dependent on.

This symposium will synthesize novel research on how stem anatomy influences plant functioning and how it shapes tropical forest dynamics.

We will discuss the potential to integrate technologies with diversified agricultural systems to protect biodiversity, enhance ecosystem services, and to improve farmers' livelihoods in sustainable food production systems in the tropics.

Explore some strategies used so far related to conservation of indigenous honeybees in South Gujarat, Nilgiris and Kerala, where the community has played a key role and share best practises.

Conservation bioacoustics and its applications across tropical ecosystems

This symposium will advance the integration of three key disciplines (empirical field ecology, remote sensing, and land surface modeling) with the goals of rapidly improving understanding of the structure, function and composition of tropical forests, and greatly improving predictions on the fate of these critical ecosystems.

Degradation is a key concept in the conservation and use of tropical forests, but is poorly defined or understood in terms of its impacts on ecological function. This symposium will attempt to forge a new and more holistic understanding of degradation and its role in changing tropical forests.

The symposium will discuss the opportunities and challenges of large-scale restoration through different topics, such as carbon, data, people, and forests, enabling the creation of disruptive solutions from and for restoration, people and the planet.

The symposium provides a full overview of the breadth of research on illegal wildlife trade, from the scale at which it takes place to innovative forensic tools helping to combat it.