5th International Canopy Conference in Bangalore
The 5th International Canopy Conference has started in Bangalore.
The goals of the conference are to highlight the relevance of canopy research with respect to important global challenges, especially climate change, sustainability and conservation. Hence, the integration of canopy science with natural science, social science and information technology is critical. The conference provides an opportunity to build networks across continents, which will facilitate capacity building and foster collaboration using information from multiple sites, within countries and across continents.
On Friday, October 30th we will hold a symposium on Conservation, community development, rainforest experience: The environmental, social and economic values of forest canopy based ecotourism. The symposium is jointly organized by Siddhartha Krishnan of ATREE and me.
In the symposium we will move from general ecotourism observations to more concrete canopy tourism examples and likewise move from international examples into the Indian context. Therefore I have assembled the speaker list as follows: Read the whole article »