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SCB MEETING TRANSITIONS TO BIENNIAL

In Beijing, SCB's Board of Governors voted to change the frequency of SCB's global meeting. Traditionally an annual event, the newly renamed global meeting (now the International Congress for Conservation Biology) will be held biennially beginning in 2011. Thus, the global meeting will be held in 2010, 2011, 2013, and every odd-numbered year thereafter. This decision was motivated by at least three factors: (1) the increasing cost of travel and increasing difficulty in securing funds to defray members' travel expenses, (2) the environmental impact of many long-distance airline flights, and (3) the increasing interest of SCB's sections in holding regional meetings that do not compete with the global meeting. A majority of sections already have convened well-attended regional meetings [Africa in 2009, Asia in 2005, Oceania (previously known as Australasia) in 2007, Europe in 2006 and 2009, Marine in 2009] and we expect many more.

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