Tropical Conservation & Development Program
UF Center for Latin American Studies
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Happy Holidays from TCD!
Wishing the TCD community, family and friends a joyful holiday season and a New Year of peace, health and prosperity. See you in 2023!
GIA2 Working Group on Biocultural Conservation: Envisioning academia’s role with NGO and community partners
The UF/TCD GIA project — a learning network of UF students and faculty with conservation practitioners from NGOs, community organizations and regional universities – concluded with a call for a biocultural approach that integrates conservation of tropical forests and rivers with the well-being of Indigenous and traditional communities. We invite interested students and faculty
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Check out the new interactive map of the TCD community
We are working on building an interactive map of the worldwide TCD community. We have started to populate it with info about our current TCD students and hope by the beginning of the new year to have both Faculty and Alumni information updated as well. This map will illustrate the geographic and thematic diversity of
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2022 TCD Working Group Grant deadline is October 10, 22
TCD Working Group Grants are designed to catalyze an interdisciplinary group of students and faculty to meet over the course of a semester or two semesters to address themes that involve the interface between conservation and development, or new connections between disciplines or approaches that have not been or have only been minimally explored. Competitive
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2022 TCD Conference and Practitioner Grants’ deadline is September 19, 22
The TCD Program announces a competition for conference funding for TCD students presenting a paper or poster at an academic conference or meeting. The semi-annual competition is held each Fall and Spring semester. Awards of $350 or less will be given each semester. The number of awards to be released depends on availability of funds.
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TCD Fall 2022 Annual Orientation & Gathering on September 9, 2022
Would you like to meet other graduate students and faculty working on issues related to Conservation and Sustainable Development? From all over the world and from diverse disciplines? To kick off the new academic year, the Tropical Conservation and Development Program (TCD) will hold its Annual Fall Orientation/Gathering for students and faculty. The purpose of
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