Symposium number: 12

Title: AVIAN CONSERVATION IN THE TROPICS: A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE

Principal organizer: Kimberly Smith
University of Arkansas, Department of Biological Sciences, Fayetteville, AR 72701, USA
email: kgsmith@uark.edu

Second organizer: Navjot Sodhi
University of Singapore, Department of Biological Sciences, Singapore, Singapore

First keynote speaker: Navjot Sodhi
University of Singapore, Department of Biological Sciences, Singapore, Singapore
Title of first keynote paper: Conservation of tropical birds: mission possible?

Second keynote speaker: Stephen Garnett
Charles Darwin University, Institute of Advanced Studies, Darwin NT, 0909, Australia
Title of second keynote paper: Extinction risks for tropical forest birds

Contributed talks

Symposium description: There is a pressing need to address conservation issues in the tropics of the world. In some regions, such as the Atlantic forest of eastern Brazil, the situation is dire and immediate action is necessary due to habitat destruction and urbanization; in others, the situation is less critical but may still need quick action; and in yet other areas, such as Africa, bird conservation is simply low on the agenda. Our symposium will offer 5 presentations that compare and contrast conservation issues in 5 tropical areas: north Australia, southeast Asia, central Africa, and equatorial America. Based on our experiences in southeast Asia (Sodhi), Latin America (Smith) and Australia (Brook), we anticipate that such a synthesis will reveal some similarities among regions in terms of conservation issues but, more importantly, also striking differences that heretofore have not been addressed on a global scale. Discovering the regional differences will be vital in constructing a global plan for avian conservation in the tropics.

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