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Europe Region

SCB Europe Region focuses on the conservation of biodiversity in Europe and the EU.

Our Mission:

The SCB Europe Region is a network of professionals working for the conservation of biodiversity with a special interest in European issues.

The Europe Region was formed to promote conservation biology and its application to conserve biological diversity in Europe. The principal goals of the Region are:

  • To increase awareness and understanding of European conservation issues.
  • To strengthen conservation biology research and its application in Europe .
  • To advocate for biological diversity and willingly offer and promote the role of scientific review in assessment of conservation strategies.
  • To develop, promote and facilitate networks of communication and collaboration among Society members, and other researchers, managers, government agencies and non-governmental organizations in Europe and throughout the world.

SCB Europe has: 

  • an international Board of 10 members;
  • five standing committees:  CommunicationEducation, Membership and Policy; a Mediterranean Ad Hoc Committee and an increasing number of new Chapters.
  • There are over 500 European Region members (February 2016), representing 28 countries from all over Europe.