An international conference that will focus on scientific expeditions that link biodiversity and human geography through fluvial and maritime routes. To be held June 25-28, in Havana, Cuba, the conference celebrates the 30th anniversary of the 1987 expedition of Antonio Nunez Jimenez that started in Ecuador’s Rio Napo, connected via the Amazon River to Brazil and Venezuela, and continued into the Caribbean by canoe through the Lesser Antilles and Haiti, before ending in Cuba.
Coordinated by the Fundación Antonio Nuñez Jiménez, IUCN’s only member in Cuba, the conference will take place in Havana’s Museum of Natural History and is modeled on IUCN’s World Conservation Congress in Hawaii focused on canoe routes throughout the region. The conference’s scientific committee is now seeking abstracts for proposals about research related to scientific expeditions through fluvial routes globally; human geography and geohistory; biocultural connectivity from the Amazon to the Caribbean; climate change in the Amazon basin, Orinoco, and the Caribbean; and indigenous populations.
Abstracts and requests for information can be sent to the conference organisers.
Deadline for abstracts is April 10, 2018.
