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ANNOUNCEMENTS

Free Journal Access

Oryx, an international journal of conservation, is now available through AGORA (www.aginternetwork.org/en/index.php). AGORA provides free electronic access to 836 journals from major scientific publishers in the fields of food, agriculture, environmental science, and related social sciences. AGORA is available to students and researchers in qualifying not-for-profit institutions in eligible developing countries. Eligible countries are generally those with an annual GNI per capita per annum of USD 1000 or less at 31 December 2000. The full list of institutions and organizations with access in each country can be found at www.aginternetwork.org/en/checkinst.php. Users are required to register (www.aginternetwork.org/en/registration.php) and access is password controlled. Participating institutions need computers connected to the internet with a connection rate of 56K baud or higher.

Educational Opportunity

The workshop Transcending Boundaries: Facilitating and Managing Complex Systems Change will be held 22-23 March 2006 at the U.S. National Park Service's Capital Training Center in Washington, D.C.,USA. Cost is US$750 per participant. The purpose of the workshop is to increase the skill and ability of participants to work more effectively in situations of organizational and relationship complexity. The workshop is aimed at individuals who deal with collaborative management, partnerships, multi-stakeholder initiatives, and complex large systems change, including landscape planning and transboundary initiatives. For more information or to register contact John Griffin, 1 202 262-3146, JohnGGriffin@msn.com.

"Smart" Fishing Gear Competition

World Wildlife Fund's second WWF International Smart Gear Competition seeks innovative fishing gear that reduces marine bycatch, the accidental catch and related deaths of marine mammals, birds, sea turtles, and non-target fish species in fishing gear such as nets and longlines. The competition will award a $25,000 grand prize and two $5000 runner-up prizes to the designs judged to be the most practical, cost-effective methods for reducing bycatch of any species. The competition is open to entrants from any background including fishermen, professional gear manufacturers, teachers, students, engineers, scientists, and backyard inventors. Instructions for entry along with the competition rules are available at www.smartgear.org and completed entries must be submitted by 15 March 2006.

Meetings

TFI Learning and the journal Environmental Bioindicators will host the 14th international conference on environmental bioindicators and the annual meeting of the International Society of Environmental Bioindicators 24-26 April 2006 in Linthicum, Maryland, USA. The conference will include oral and poster presentations, group discussions, and workshops. For more information, visit www.tfilearning.com.

The symposium Conserving Birds in Human-Dominated Landscapes will be held 27-28 April 2006 at the American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York, USA. The conference will examine new approaches for managing bird diversity in urban, suburban, agricultural, and industrial areas, and explore possibilities for conservation in the face of an increasingly developed and industrialized world. Poster abstracts will be accepted until 1 March. For detailed information, please contact biodiversity@amnh.org or visit http://cbc.amnh.org.

The Federal Agency for Nature Conservation will hold the conference Marine Conservation in Europe 2006 at the German Oceanographic Museum in Stralsund from 8-12 May 2006. The conference will focus on marine conservation policies, conservation science, and the management of human activities in European and adjacent waters. It will be conducted in English. For further information, contact Stefan.Braeger@bfn-vilm.de or visit www.habitatmarenatura2000.de.

The 86th annual meeting of the American Society of Mammalogists will be held 17-21 June 2006 at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. In addition to contributed oral and poster presentations, this year's program will feature the symposia Large-Scale Marine Ecosystem Change and the Conservation of Marine Mammals and The Northern Flying Squirrel: A Biological Portrait of a Forest Specialist in Post-European North America. Non-members who are interested in attending or presenting papers should request materials from Virginia Hayssen (Vhayssen@science.smith.edu) and Betsy Dumont (bdumont@bio.umass.edu). For more information, please visit http://asm06.org/.

The 43rd annual meeting of the Animal Behavior Society will be held 12-16 August 2006 in Snowbird, Utah, USA. For more information see www.animalbehavior.org/ABS/Meetings/Snowbird06 or contact Jeff Galef, galef@mcmaster.ca.

The First International Biodiversity Congress will be held 22-25 May 2007 in Bangkok, Thailand. For information contact Ram Bhandari, ibc2007@yahoo.com.

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