Conservation and science meetups since 201X.
Get excited .::. The 1st Singapore Eco Film Fest #SGEFF is taking place this year and Biodiversity Connections is one of the community partners!
Asian Species Action Partnership (ASAP!) is an interagency coalition to address the extinction risk among the most threatened non-marine vertebrates of Southeast Asia. Organizations within the international conservation community are joining forces to minimise impending extinctions in this area of the world, where habitat loss, trade and hunting has contributed to a dramatic loss of its rich and incredible biodiversity.
From Sept 26 - 29, the 1st Asian Songbird Crisis Summit was held at the Jurong Bird Park in Singapore.
“If we wish our environment in Singapore to be a sustainable green environment, we have to start talking about insects,” said Mr [Carl] Baptista [of Pollen Nation]. “We have lots of tropical native flowering plants, native trees, but you can’t have that if you don’t have your pollinators present.”
Excellent article from the Straits Times on how academics need to step out and communicate their work with the rest of the world, not just publish in well-ranked journals. Part of the problem is that science communication with the public does not contribute much to tenureship guidelines at most universities: