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University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA.
Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, Port Elizabeth, South Africa
San Jose, California, USA
Universidade de Brasília, Brasília, Brazil
Columbia University, New York, New York, USA
University of Minnesota, Duluth, Minnesota, USA
University of Kent at Canterbury, United Kingdom
University of Hawaii, Hilo, Hawaii, USA
University of Montana, Missoula, Montana, USA
University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA
Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
Victoria University, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA
University of Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA
Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA
University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA
University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
University of California, Davis, Davis, California, USA
Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, USA
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Silent Auction
Help SCB's Oceania Branch Help The Banks Peninsula Conservation Trust
 The Oceania Branch of the Society for Conservation Biology is holding a silent auction to raise funds after the devastating earthquake in Christchurch for the conservation project outlined below:
The Banks Peninsula Conservation Trust is a charitable trust, formed in 2001 as a non-profit organisation. Its goals are to promote the conservation and enhancement of indigenous biodiversity and sustainable land management on Banks Peninsula, near Christchurch in the South Island of New Zealand. The Trust manages and supports a range of conservation projects on Banks Peninsula, including large-scale trapping of introduced mammalian predators and maintaining predator-proof fences to protect threatened species, as well as supporting and promoting conservation covenants on private land. Predator-proof fences and stock-exclusion fences that the Trust maintains were damaged in the recent Canterbury earthquakes, and funding for other conservation projects in Canterbury is becoming scarce as people's effort and energy turns instead to rebuilding Christchurch. As such, the proceeds from the SCB Silent Auction will represent a significant contribution to a Canterbury conservation project administered by the Trust.
How the silent auction works
We are requesting interested participants to bring an item (or items) to the conference that they are willing to donate to the auction. These items will be on display throughout the conference. Underneath each gift will be a bidding card where a person will place their name and the amount that they bid for the item. At the end of the conference the person with the highest bid (over the reserve price – in some instances) will win the item for which they have bid. The winners will be announced at the final poster session on 8 December, so people can collect their items then or the following day.
If you are coming from overseas, we suggest you bring something unique from your country, an item of clothing, e.g. a hat, coat, bag, etc, lightweight field equipment, or anything else you think that other conference participants would be willing to bid on. If you are from NZ, you could bring a book (maybe on NZ or about conservation), or something uniquely "New Zealand" that a visitor to our country could take back overseas to remind them of our unique corner of the world.
To promote the auction, we are listing auction items on this website. If you would like us to list your item, send an email describing the item, and a photograph if possible, to 2011@conbio.org. If you prefer, you can simply bring an item to the meeting and add it to the auction table.
Items for the Silent Auction will be on display in the Exhibition area and you can drop them off at the registration desk when you arrive. Alternatively, you can send them to this address by 21 November: Attn: Carolyn Lundquist; NIWA; PO Box 11-115;Gate 10, Silverdale Road; Hamilton;New Zealand.
Please email 2011@conbio.org when you send items so we can look out for it.
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