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MEMBERSHIP NEWS AND UPDATES

From 2006 to 2008, SCB sponsored more than 2400 memberships to individuals in developing countries. These members receive at least one year of free online access to Conservation Biology, Conservation magazine, and Biological Conservation. We were able to offer these sponsorships thanks to a generous grant from The Nature Conservancy.

SCB will launch a new membership system in March. We expect the transition to be smooth. However, for several weeks beginning in mid-February, some functions will not be available on our Web site. If you expect to renew your membership and subscriptions in February or early March, please renew online as soon as possible. Renewing early will prevent any potential interruptions in your member benefits and delivery of publications. If you are renewing by paper, please send your renewal after 1 March.

Green Your Membership in 2009

Please consider choosing Online Only as your method for receiving publications and renewal notices. This method conserves paper. It also reduces carbon outputs required to print and ship publications and renewal notices globally. Remember that content from previous issues of all SCB publications is available online.

You also can contribute to our carbon offset project. Visit www.conbio.org/projects/carbonoffset/ for more information on the project and ways to donate. If you file a federal tax return in the United States, your donations are tax deductible in the year that the donation is made.

Trademark

The name "Society for Conservation Biology" and SCB's logo are pending trademark with the United States Patent and Trademark Office. We expect to receive official notification from the trademark Examining Attorney by April. If no issues are raised in the application process and if our name and logo pass the opposition period following publication, we can expect to receive Certificates of Registration by late 2009. In the meantime, SCB owns rights in these trademarks based on common-law use of the marks in commerce. Accordingly, we could challenge use of identical or similar marks by third parties even without federal registrations.

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