A workshop to develop practical tools and techniques for facilitating inclusive and participatory collaborations in conservation research and practice

Interested in canopy and epiphyte ecology, diversity and conservation? Come and meet the Epiphyte Inventory Group! Get inspired, learn about collaboration opportunities, and how to join this collaborative platform to better understand vascular epiphytes and how we use them to establish spatial conservation prioritisation in the Neotropics

Achieving a sustainable balance between conservation, restoration, and human development in Latin-America becomes even more crucial as inequality and climate change escalate. Discussions on this issue must consider current practices and involve all actors within the socio-ecological system, proposing bottom-up approaches that enable the generation of multi-level solutions.

This session examines the critical role of seed-enemy interactions in shaping plant community dynamics, forest regeneration, and ecosystem resilience in tropical environments, highlighting their implications for biodiversity and conservation in the face of global change. 

Strengthen the scientific basis for decision-making by conducting and supporting national, sub-national, and regional institutions in the Ibero-America in conducting integrated environmental assessments.

 This symposium explores the resilience and adaptability of mutualistic networks in the Anthropocene, emphasizing their roles in tropical ecosystem functions, biodiversity conservation, and sustainability. 

This session will ignite transformative discussions on the future of women's scientific contributions in Amazonia, while fostering powerful connections between pioneering women in the region and supportive researchers and practitioners worldwide.

This two-part session will open with short talks presenting technological advances in data collection and processing and/or showcasing applications to a variety of questions in different tropical ecosystems, followed by a panel discussion with audience participation on ongoing challenges and future directions for drone-enabled tropical forest research and conservation. 

This roundtable explores the implications and ways of knowing carbon offsetting programs in Indigenous Chatino and Campesino communities in Oaxaca, Mexico, through documentary filmmaking, bringing together community members and filmmakers/academics to reflect on the epistemic challenges, intricacies, and contradictions of how carbon works in communitarian forests.

This innovative session will illustrate the main results of the IPBES’ Transformative Change Assessment with ongoing processes of tropical biodiversity conservation based on transdisciplinary place-based research carried out by members of the Latin American Node of the Programme for Ecosystem Change and Society.