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AFRUC African Union of Conservationists

Who We Are

AUC is still a Uganda-registered regional Non-government Organization (NGO) whose most of its staff regionally are non-paid staff. However, the voluntary, competent and enthusiastic activities of our members allow AUC to be a true regional player in conservation and scientific innovation. Not only are our members well distributed in over all countries, but their uniqueness relates to the fact that we together speak the language of conservation and development and that we represent different society levels and cultures. Identifying, linking and synergizing among our members and partners is our core focus.

Vision

To be a strong union independent non-government organization of excellence with empowered members to conserve Africa.

Mission

To undertake high quality conservation communication, promote technological innovation, and share information and relevant resource data on a sustainable way.

Aim

To encourage wider understanding of conservation and development through conservation scientistsâ€ź partnerships between members, researchers, professionals and volunteers.

Agenda

To bring and unit conservationists ranging from environment, culture, among other to respond to the common causes and be able to address local faults through;

Conducting evidence-based research, advocacy to understand public issues,
Broadening and deepening dialogue among members, stakeholders & partners,
Providing the community with appropriate tools for conservation,
Bringing people together to find conservation solutions,
Ensure that we have an impact through making change to happen in the near future,
Bringing people together to find solutions,
Ensuring that we have sufficient impact to develop a sustainable future,
Rapid ecological surveys that lead to proper environmental management plans,
Natural Resource Assessment and Management, Biodiversity Impact Assessment (BIA) to produce comprehensive species action plans, and
Apply contemporary approaches and pedagogies that help to predict scenarios and empower the public with adpative capacity to resonate towards unexpected extreme changes within their environments.

OUR STAFF

Ms. Florence Uwamahoro
Front office manager
Administrator and Front Office Manager. Florence holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from Makerere University. Florence joined AUC in 2012 and since then she has transformed the administrative management.

Ms. Phionah Kansiime
Environment Conservation Education Program Officer
Ms. Kansiime has recently the Union to work community education. She heads the ECE in all aspects of awareness raising, engagement, community policy development and advocacy, triggering pragmatic areas of their needs in line with preservation, sustainable use of environmental resources at parc de Beauval, among others.

Mr. Raymond Katebaka
General Secretary
Raymond co-ordinates the international collaborations and partnerships. He is currently fostering the practical implementation of Open Science in Africa, a project that builds on work by IUBS the "Trans-disciplinary Research Oriented Pedagogy for Improving Climate Studies and Understanding (TROP-ICSU)” and led to collaboration with CODATA/ICSU. His research focus on best practices in Environment Offsets; holds a M.Sc. Natural Resource Assessment and Management (NARAM) from the University of Dar es Salaam Tanzania.

Mr. Godfrey Tumuhairwe
Head of Environment & Development
Mr Tumuhairwe Godfrey (Head of Environment and Development) holds M.A Land Use and Regional Development, from Makerere and Bachelor of Development Studies from Makerere University.

Ms. Marceline Kabanzira
Communicatio’s Officer
Marceline is responsible for coordinating the information and knowledge dissemination under the ILC programme, compilation of technical reports. She holds a Bachelors Degree in Environmental Management.

Our Programs

CLIMATE CHANGE

What Causes Climate Change

Increased carbondioxide leads to increased temperatures

Climate change is now clear that it is happening and there is no doubt about that. The earth is facing a crisis that follows on from the one that Rachel Carson foresaw “environmental change” (in this case, by humans, and to the detriment of the biosphere). AUC is concerned that many in our collective “scientific” communities have concluded that the root of all evil is carbon dioxide. In reality there is much more that drives climate change than CO2. e.g. a range of gases, including water, methane etc. particulate matter, and more importantly perhaps the great cycles, such as the Milankovitch Cycle(s).

The greatest concern of AUC is that many CSOs, researchers, among others naively believe that “we” can stop climate change. Yet this is not. Although this is not to say that humans do not contribute to emissions, as that would be patently wrong. Nonetheless interestingly CO2 levels have been much higher in the past, and have led to positive environmental change, such as the formation of vast forests. However, by talking “climate change” in the way many do, we are giving the public the impression that humans are in control of the Earth’s climate. In truth we are not.

It has been concerned that in the rush to embrace CO2 control, “we” have forgotten about all the other very nasty things that we are doing, polluting with organo-halide compounds, and organophosphates. AUC accepted the environmental stewardship, and prepared to design the unthinkable and that has been to value the natural environment above the need for human expansion (more subdivision).

AUC has recently proposed innovations and interventions of climate change. As part AUC focuses on mitigating the main drivers of climate change by limiting emission. This approach would help protect productive Africa region using a global partnership. AUC cannot single-handedly the flow of carbon emissions that are main drivers of global warming. Africa region is vulnerable to shocks and stresses which have increasingly become common not only in rural poor areas but also to fragile ecologically sensitive areas. Some of these can be short-lived while others can be long term based and they precisely compromise the welfare. Considering the workforce, research information, capacity, dissemination; AUC is currently working with Club of Ossiach that is planning to support building of strong consortiums and strong teams supporting improving agriculture, biodiversity, forestry and environmental knowledge management and sustainable production.

AUC is also working with the individuals from the Ministry of Information Communication and Technology (ICT) in Uganda to design early warning indicators and systems to be used in most risk areas, disasters for Africa. The program aims at safeguarding lives and increasing emergency responses, management plans to arrest the situations. The design is considering both indicators from a wide range such as (boundary partner), social, economic, environmental, ecological, biodiversity and cultural as well. Priorities will be addressed from different issues regarding social groups but related with environment conservation in general. AUC is also implementing a project.

Trans-disciplinary Research Oriented Pedagogy for Improving Climate Studies and Understanding (TROP-ICSU) project

AUC along with other global unions and institutions of innovations are currently implementing a project “Trans-disciplinary Research Oriented Pedagogy for Improving Climate Studies and Understanding”. The project is supported by the International Council for Science (ICSU) through International Union of Biological Sciences (IUBS) the lead organisation in implimenting the project code-named as TROP-ICSU. The project to-date is focusing on developing:

Pedagogical intervention, that bring Climate Change Science to students and to the general public (henceforth named together as learners). What we communicate should be how climate change is studied and the science behind it and not just mere statements. Learners should be able to derive for themselves the kind of human activities cause global warming and the impact of the same on our day-to-day life. As much as possible they should use local data in their analysis.
Tools that are easy to use in any parts of the world. Both in Urban and rural settings. The tools that we develop should be feasible to use in the class room as well as for project-based learning.
Targeting audience that include Senior School and undergraduate college/University teachers/practitioners of science (henceforth named together as educators). We train them to use new pedagogical method to teach Science of Climate Change. Nonetheless it is understood that this is a stand-alone topic, progress integrated to the core of the curriculum that teaches basic science and mathematics.
This work builds on complementariness that strengthens the efforts worldwide in the promotion of sustainable and equitable development. It does so by confronting two fundamental challenges that the complex dynamics of our natural world present for science educators. Firstly, how can the science community promote the interdisciplinary thinking essential for confronting the increasing anthropogenic nature of contemporary global environmental changes? Secondly, given the technical complexity of coupled climate-biosphere systems, how can we meaningfully engage with lay citizens to convey scientific concerns about the changing health and well-being of our planet? This proposal addresses both these critical issues through the development of novel pedagogical tools and practices to educate future citizens and train future researchers. It also aims developing outreach and citizen science programmes to educate at-risk communities about human-driven climate change and its societal consequences and involve them in identifying suitable solutions for the same. The global unions include:

Union for Quaternary Science (INQUA)

International Union of Soil Sciences (IUSS)

International Mathematical Union (IMU)

International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS)

International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG)

International Union for History and Philosophy of Science and Technology (IUHPST)

International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO)

IMAGINARY

Committee on Data for Science and Technology of ICSU (CODATA)

ICSU Regional Office for Africa (ICSUROA)

Indian National Science Academy (INSA)

Mongolian Academy of Sciences (MAS)

National Research Foundation- South Africa

Universidad Tecnica Particular de Loja

Australian Academy of Science (AAS)

UNESCO

National Committee of Egypt

Quantitative approaches to paleontology, conservation, and climate change biology in Africa

Since 2015, AUC has benefited from the Integrative Climate Change Biology (iCCB), a programme of IUBS to build capacity among African scientists. Recently a SYMPOSIUM AND WORKSHOP was organised between MARCH 6TH -8TH , 2017 at NATIONAL MUSEUMS OF KENYA, NAIROBI. The workshop focused on the “TRAITS PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE”.

The workshop consisted academia, curators, heads of departments of museums, researchers, NGO/CSOs, both from north and south countries representatives. This is the first workshop to be organized in the region. The workshop was organized by the following iCCB team;

Dr. Jason J. Head (PhD)
University Lecturer and Curator of Vertebrate Palaeontology
Department of Zoology & University Museum of Zoology
Downing St. University of Cambridge

Prof. Dr. Johannes Müller

Museum für Naturkunde
Leibniz-Institut für Evolutions- und

Biodiversitätsforschung
Invalidenstraße 43, 10115 Berlin
Deutschland

Dr. Fredrick Kyalo Manthi

Dept. of Earth Sciences,

National Museum of Kenya,

Raymond Katebaka

A conservation biologist in Africa

African Union of Conservationists (AUC)

Main themes in this projects include:

JOINING THE PAST, PRESENT, & FUTURE THROUGH FUNCTIONAL TRAITS.
BUILDING AN ECOMETRIC WITH MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION.
EVOLUTIONARY DYNAMICS OF ECOMORPHOLOGICAL TRAITS.
USING NICHE DYNAMICS & PALEONTOLOGICAL MOVEMENT PATTERNS TO INTERPRET THE FAILINGS OF SPECIES DISTRIBUTION MODELS (AND IMPROVE THEM).

LARGE MAMMALS IN SPACE & TIME: DIVERSITY DYNAMICS & BODY SIZE EVOLUTION OVER 20 MILLION YEARS.

DIET AND DENTAL MORPHOLOGY TRAITS AS PROXIES FOR PALEOECOLOGY & MACROEVOLUTION.
RUNNING HOT: WHAT CARNIVORE MORPHOLOGY CAN TELL US ABOUT CLIMATE.

Integrative Climate Change Biology

iCCB workshop participants

This event brought together paleontologists, ecologists, and quantitative biologists. They discussed how data from paleontology, modern ecology, and conservation biology can be integrated to provide a comprehensive framework for monitoring and measuring ecosystem structure and function through space and time to determine how climate has changed over time.

Dr. Jason J. Head (PhD)
University Lecturer and Curator of Vertebrate Palaeontology
Department of Zoology & University Museum of Zoology
Downing St. University of Cambridge

Prof. Dr. Johannes Müller

Museum für Naturkunde
Leibniz-Institut für Evolutions- und

Biodiversitätsforschung
Invalidenstraße 43, 10115 Berlin
Deutschland

Dr. Fredrick Kyalo Manthi

Dept. of Earth Sciences,

National Museum of Kenya,

Raymond Katebaka

A conservation biologist in Africa

African Union of Conservationists (AUC)

Main themes in this projects include:

LARGE MAMMALS IN SPACE & TIME: DIVERSITY DYNAMICS & BODY SIZE EVOLUTION OVER 20 MILLION YEARS.

DIET AND DENTAL MORPHOLOGY TRAITS AS PROXIES FOR PALEOECOLOGY & MACROEVOLUTION.
RUNNING HOT: WHAT CARNIVORE MORPHOLOGY CAN TELL US ABOUT CLIMATE.

Trans-disciplinary Research Oriented Pedagogy for Improving Climate Studies and Understanding (TROP-ICSU) project

The first TROP-ICSU Meeting in Paris France

Union for Quaternary Science (INQUA)

International Union of Soil Sciences (IUSS)

International Mathematical Union (IMU)

International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS)

International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG)

International Union for History and Philosophy of Science and Technology (IUHPST)

International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO)

IMAGINARY

Committee on Data for Science and Technology of ICSU (CODATA)

ICSU Regional Office for Africa (ICSUROA)

Indian National Science Academy (INSA)

Mongolian Academy of Sciences (MAS)

National Research Foundation- South Africa

Universidad Tecnica Particular de Loja

Australian Academy of Science (AAS)

UNESCO

National Committee of Egypt

RESEARCH & TECHNOLOGY

Protecting Nature for Future Development

Conservation is a profoundly scientific process. A most elegant description is that conservation is about innovation under constraint. Conservation scientists’ innovation is a successful design, in the sense that it leads directly or indirectly to an improvement in our quality of life, must work within the constraints provided by technical, economic, business, political, social, and ethical issues. Technology is the outcome of conservation knowledge; it is rare that conservation translates directly to technology, just as it is not clear how conservation can be applied science. Historically, has been technologically advancing.

Technological innovations occur when a need arises or an opportunity presents itself. It has been observed that technology originates from traditional integration with modern practices. There are numerous actions that are eventual changes in technology some from private initiative or government interventions. Most important for this plan is that they are occurring at an astonishing pace, especially those in information sharing and communications technology, which are most apparent to the public, and this has important implications for conservation practice and conservation education in the future. Totally unexpected scientific findings can suggest new technologies as well, and hence any discussion of the Future Conservation must ponder scientific breakthroughs that might occur along the way to safeguard Africa and entire planet.

INFORMATION LINK TEAM

Researching

The best change is now clear that it is happening and there is no doubt about that. The earth is facing a crisis that follows on from the one that Rachel Carson foresaw - “environmental change” (in this case, by humans, and to the detriment of the biosphere). AUC is concerned that many in our collective “scientific” communities have concluded that the root of all evil is carbon dioxide. In reality there is much more that drives climate change than CO2. e.g. a range of gases, including water, methane etc. particulate matter, and more importantly perhaps the great cycles, such as the Milankovitch Cycle(s).

Latest Information on Science and Community
Why the local food trend won’t cut it in a climate change future
UNWTO International Conference on Tourism Statistics: Measuring Sustainable Tourism
AUC is a mmber of 10YFP Sustainable Tourism Programme (10FYP/STP/UNEP) a World Tourism Organization (WTO) on Sustainable Development of Tourism that is Advancing sustainable consumption and production in the tourism sector. In a bid to progress with SDG12, with potential to advance other SDGs as well (among them SDG8 focusing on decent work and economic growth, SDG13 addressing climate change or SDGs14 and SDG15, the 6th UNWTO International Conference on Tourism Statistics will be held in Manila (Philippines), on 21-24 June in the context of the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development 2017. The Manila Conference will focus on Measuring Sustainable Tourism and will be a landmark opportunity to discuss methodological advances, explore emerging issues and learn from pioneering country experiences in this area of measurement. The conference information can be accessed at www.mstconference.org

National Consultant to undertake Rapid Assessment of Uganda’s Protected Areas (PAs) Consultancy
Efforts to conserve Uganda’s natural resources, drive responsible, high-earning tourism into the country and make it a destination for high-end paying clients have been constrained by the absence of secure and long-term sources of funding. There is a call for consultancy work in Uganda. The objective of the consultancy is to generate information regarding the feasibility of promoting investments in Protected Areas. The information will be used alongside a study on investment platform commissioned by the NGO Space for Giants to inform the preparation of investment profiles and prospectuses that will be presented by the Government of Uganda to potential investors during the Conservation Investment Forum planned for September or October 2017.

Important Events
Being a member of FutureEarth networks, communities, forum, there are a list of opportunities, events have been listed there. Please the link below:

http://network.futureearth.org/events/calendar

Global Research Forum on Sustainable Production and Consumption - Sustainable Lifestyles, Livelihoods and the Circular Economy

GRF’s third international meeting will convene researchers, development practitioners, policy makers and representatives from business, government and civil society to explore critical links between the circular economy, sustainable lifestyles and livelihoods and the Sustainable Development Goals. We will examine the potential for, pathways to, and politics of advancing a global transition from the current linear “throw-away” model to sustainable production and consumption systems and practices in “circular economies.” Keeping with GRF’s emphasis on global perspectives, we will explore these questions across different regions and communities, in both industrialized and developing countries.

Conference theme and objectives

The conference explores paths to sustainable production and consumption through the synergies and tensions among the circular economy, sustainable lifestyles and livelihoods, and their implications for the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The “circular economy” is proposed as a key business and policy strategy for sustainable development, gaining traction in both the industrialized and developing world. Premised on the recognition that linear economies are unsustainable on a finite planet, the concept of a circular economy proposes a restorative and regenerative economic system, using renewable resources, optimizing resource use and recovery

CAPACITY BUILDING

Global change impact on diseases and alien species expansion workshop

Participants at the workshop

AUC through strengthening partnership program in collaboration with International Union of Biological Sciences (IUBS) was engaged in modeling “Global change impact on diseases and alien species expansion” managed by African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS), and the International Mathematical Union (IMU), the International Union of Immunological Societies (IUIS), the International Union of Microbiological Societies (IUMS), the International Social Science Council (ISSC), the International Council of INdustrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM), supported by the International Council of Science (ICSU). This initiative is steered by ICSU Regional Office for Africa (ICSU ROA), ecoHEALTH from Future Earth, the International Society for Biometeorology (ISB), the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS), the South African Mathematical Society (SAMS), the DST-NRF Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology (CIB), UNESCO and Mathematics of Planet Earth (MPE).

Fellowships

CTPSR Fellows visiting Agro-ecological Best Practices in the UK

Under the AUC capacity building program, our senior staff was nominated for the Commonwealth Professional Fellowship that was hosted by Coventry University Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations (CTPSR). The CPF is offered by the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission (CSC) for citizens of developing Commonwealth countries. The Fellowship support mid-career professionals to spend a period of time with a UK host organization working in their field for a program of professional development. Under this arrangement the Fellowship purpose was to provide professionals with the opportunity to enhance knowledge and skills in their given sector, and to have catalytic effects on their workplaces.

The fellowship was focusing on “Improving Natural Resource Governance through Citizen Engagement”, and had three thematic areas; (1) governance challenges, societal transformation and the role of community engagement in improving natural resource governance; (2) sustainable use of resources, ecosystems services, land use and water management; and (3) sustainable development, conflict prevention and global perspectives. The program had two key objectives to be achieved at the end and these included;

First, it aimed at helping to improve the knowledge and skills of civil society fellows in engaging in natural resource management, thereby empowering them to contribute to poverty reduction and peace building in their home countries. Second, it aimed at dissemi… Read More

Second Chance Education Research Project

Dr Marion MacLellan Coventry University presenting at School of Education Makerere University

Through AUC partnership with Coventry University the Second Chance Education Research Project was undertaken in northern Uganda

Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) Trieste Italy

Raymond Katebaka interacting with an instructor during the summer school July 2017

Through a strong partnership with CODATA (ICSU), two AUC staff(s) have been suported to attend a summer school tarining on data management and application of contemprary information technological systems at ICTP. ICTP has a mandate by providing scientists from developing countries with the continuing education and skills that they need to enjoy long and productive careers. ICTP has been a major force in stemming the scientific brain drain from the developing world.

ADVOCACY AND ENGAGEMENT

Advocacy

For years AUC has been advocating for Best Management Practices (BMP) in Forest Conservation in Uganda. This has been promoted through Collaborarive Forest Management implimented under our MoU with National Forest Authority (NFA) an agency responsible for wise of forest resources in Uganda.

ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION

Forest Conservation Tool in central Uganda

The RSG ongoing CFM supported work at Mpanga CFR Mpigi District

Forests are a supporting sector economically, environmentally, socially and culturally. However, there has been illegal use of forests and their resources that has eventuated into forest degradation and deforestation hence affecting the forest management. In past decade, through an initiative “Conserving biodiversity in the modernising farmed landscapes of Uganda” it was identified that forest biodiversity was increasingly threatened by anthropogenic activities in central Uganda. This prompts worries among the local communities on the importance of biodiversity to a sustainable agricultural production and the future of practice. Subsequently through support from Rufford Small Grant Foundation (RSGF) programs that first aimed at “Understanding the impact of forest fragmentation on forest biodiversity”. This work designed forest loss biodiversity indicators as forest hornbills. However the forest challenges had inadequate consideration of communities in conservation and management. Since then, the following interventions from 2009 - to current have been implemented at smaller spatial scale:

• Strengthening Collaborative Forest Management (CFM)
• Promoting CFM in Degraded Forests
• Enhancing community participation to conserve fragmented forests.

These initiatives aim at conservation of the forests in central Uganda.

COLLABORATIVE FOREST MANAGEMENT

Interpretation of drivers of forest degradation by an Artpiece by Nsibe

Addressing community needs by strengthening COLLABORATIVE FOREST MANAGEMENT (CFM) practices

Since 2009, AUC has continuously received funding from Rufford Small Grant Foundation (RSG) (put a rufford link) a registered UK charity organization number 117270 to support forest biodiversity conservation in central Uganda.

AUC project on Collaborative Forest Management (CFM), builds on a compressive consortium research that was supported by Darwin Initiative through British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) in 2005 - 2009 at Makerere University Institute of Environment and Natural Resources (MUIENR). Among other projects implemented include:

Sustaining Community Participation in Collaborative Forest Management in central Uganda 1111-C (2017 – 2018)

Strengthening Collaborative Forest Management in Central Uganda 17648-D (2015 – 2016)

Promoting Collaborative Forest Management in Degraded Forests of Central Uganda 13983-B (2014 – 2015)

Enhancing community participation to conserve fragmented forests in Central Uganda 11431-2 (2012 -2013)

Understanding the impact of forest fragmentation on forest hornbills of Uganda. 01.08.08 (2009 -2010)

IMPACT EVALUATION

Global change impact on diseases and alien species expansion workshop

This is an international, interdisciplinary and educational and capacity building initiative has addressed two subjects of infectious diseases and invasive species and the context of climate change. This has allowed sharing the methods and building partnerships in climate change and proposal development. Work done so far has addressed the whole range of topics from field-work and collecting of data to the building and validating of models, to the adjustment of models to take into account the changing environment and the social characteristics, and to the design and implementation of strategies to fight infectious diseases and invasive species in the climatic changing regimes in Africa. Special emphasis is currently focused on African diseases and invasive species, as well as the characteristics of changing environment in Africa. This work is very beneficial for AUC’s interaction in Scientific Membership of IUBS. It also builds on the move that AUC is extending collaboration with ICSU through IUBS.

Main concerns

Global change impact on diseases and alien species expansion by J. Banasiak
Structured Dynamics of Invasive Species by (Lewis)
Introduction to Mathematical Epidemiology Simple methods of parameter estimation by Andrea Pugliese

AUC & BEYOND

AUC at Berlin meeting 2015
The GA Assembly 32nd in Berlin

The meeting’s theme Frontiers in a unified biology.

This meeting raised concerns that challenge modern biology and conservation in which issues were deliberated such as;

The 21st Century is the Century of Biology: from Darwin to the DNA helix and beyond
Does Conservation Work?
IPBES: Biodiversity Science for Decision Making
Enlivening Biological Sciences for Sustainable Development
Biological Consequences of Global Change: current challenges
Building an Informatics Agenda that will deliver a Unified Biology
Unified Biology Education for sustainable and equitable world
Integrative Climate Change Biology – Biodiversity, functional traits, and lessons from the past
BioNomenclature: Making nomenclatural codes, concepts and tools fit for modern research
Biology and the Societal Interfaces
From Urban Biology to sustainable BiodiverCities
AUC’s observations

African representation in IUBS events is still very low which causes us to be invisible in global fora

Africa’s life science is inadequately publicized

Most researchers have been demoralized due to bureaucratic processes in which the needed scientific data to uplift the life science information for publicity.

AUC – IUBS ongoing programmes of interest

The IUBS/ISZS’s program Biological Consequences of Global Change (BCGC) promised to be involved in the “Climatic changing dynamics in ecosystems of Rwenzori Mts and Mt. Elgon”. Thus this will be followed up in order for the project to be linked with UNESCO, WHO, UNEP, CBP, FAO

IUBS Executive Committee of Triennium 2016 - 2019

President: Hiroyuki Takeda (Japan)

Developmental genetics

Department of Biological Sciences

Graduate School of Science

University of Tokyo

Hongo 7-3-1, Bunkyo-ku,

Tokyo 113-0033 Japan

Vice President: Regine Jahn (Germany)

Botany/ Phycology

Botanisher Garten und Botanisches

Museum Berlin-Dahlem

Freie Universität Berlin

Secretary General: L.S. Shashidhara (India)

Genetics/ Developmental Biology

Indian Institute of Science Education and Reseach

Pashan Road PUNE 411008 India

Treasurer: Santiago Merino (Spain)

Evolutionary Ecology

Museo Nacional de Ciencas

Naturales José Gutiérrez

Abascal 2 28006

Madrid Spain

Executive Committee Member: Peter G. Kevan

(ICPBR) Biology/Ecology/Entomology/Botanys

The School of Environmental Sciences

University of Guelph Guelph,

ON N3C 2B7, Canada

Tel: 1-519-824-4120

ext 52479

Executive Committee Member: Alexey Kotov (Russia)

Zoology

A.N. Seversov Institute of Ecology and Evolution

Russian Academy of Sciences,

Leninsky Prt. 33, Moscow 119071,

Russia

Executive Committee Member: Lily Rodriguez (WCH)

Biodiversity/ Conservation biology/ Herpetology

ILR - Institut für Lebensmittel und Ressourcenökonomik

University of Bonn Nussallee,

21, 53115 Bonn

*Executive Committee Member: Yongbiao Xue (China Beijing)

Developmental Biology

Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology,

Chinese Academy of Sciences,

No.1 West Beichen Road,Chaoyang District, Beijing,

100101 China