UKOT/CD Music at the 2021 Conference Whilst we cannot have social gatherings in the usual sense at the conference, we are keen to include a cultural flavour of the territories insofar as we can. We are keen that the 5-minute breaks halfway through main sessions could help with this. We invite recordings with local flavours …
First Preliminary 2021 Conference Programme The preliminary conference programme is now available, including listings of the main topic sessions. It does not include posters which are only now being submitted (see /ukotcf-online-conference-2021-poster-presenters/). These will be added to the programme later. It does not yet include either the contents of the shorter sessions later in each …
Conference Sponsorship Opportunities Click here for information on how to take advantage of opportunities to sponsor the online conference Staying Connected for Conservation in a Changed World, UKOTCF’s 6th conference on conservation and sustainability in UK Overseas Territories, Crown Dependencies and other small island states, early March 2021. For informatin on other aspects of the …
Sir Richard & Lady Ground Lecture series to be initiated at March conference Sir Richard and Lady (Dace) Ground at the Haulover Field-Road (nature trail), set up by UK Overseas Territories Conservation Forum and Turks & Caicos National Trust. They are holding copies of the trail guides designed by Dace for UKOTCF and featuring Richard’s …
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8 UK organisations join UKOTCF calling for UK Government to give adequate support to UKOT terrestrial conservation Sombrero Black Lizard, a species unique to tiny Sombrero Island, Anguilla – and rating highly too in the new measures. A campaign some 20 years ago coordinated by UKOTCF, other conservation bodies and FCO, prevented total habitat destruction …
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Conference Poster Submission Offers of posters for UKOTCF’s online conference may now be made. Links to background and introductory notes (which carry links to the submission forms) are now available on the main conference page. Submissions need to be made by 8th January.
Forum News 53 published Forum News 53 has been published. (All published newsletters can be accessed here.) It includes the announcement, by popular demand across the territories, of UKOTCFs 6th conference and 1st online, and the welcome news of a new member organisation, the Manx Wildlife Trust. Several articles report major progress on conservation initiatives …
SOWG eBulletin 28 on Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease UKOTCF Wider Caribbean Working Group eBulletin 28 (October 2020) on Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease published.
UKOTCF Online Conference 2021 First Announcement UKOTCF announces its online conference “Staying Connected for Conservation in a Changed World” to be held on 2, 3, 9 & 10 March 2021 – the 6th in UKOTCF’s series of conferences for conservation practitioners and decision-makers held since 2000. Arrangements are based on our successful conference series and …
New UKOTCF Southern Oceans Working Group eNewsletter Another UKOTCF Southern Oceans Working Group e-Newsletter (15; September 2020) has been published. All newsletters of SOWG, the other UKOTCF newsletters (including Forum News) can be accessed here, and the direct link to the new SOWG newsletter is here.