Tropical Conservation & Development Program
UF Center for Latin American Studies
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Give us your feedback! 2019 TCD Orientation & Gathering Survey
We want to thank all of you that attended the TCD Fall Orientation / Gathering last week. We would greatly appreciate your feedback on the activities of the day by completing this short survey by September 20, 2019.
International Workshop: Governance, Sustainability & Infrastructure in the Amazon
As part of the Amazon Dams Network and the Governance and Infrastructure in the Amazon project, the University of Florida in partnership Universidad Amazónica de Pando organized a 3-day workshop in Cobija, Bolivia. This workshop brought together participants from Colombia, Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, and the US to dialogue about infrastructure development in the region, and
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Winner of the UAP Poster Competition: Jose Alberto Noco Mopi
José Alberto Noco Mopi, born in Guayaramerin, Beni, is a biologist by profession, a lover of nature, and a graduate of the Universidad Amazónica de Pando (UAP). In 2018 he participated in a project which monitored the Brazil nut harvest in the Reserva Nacional de Vida Silvestre Amazónica Manuripi. As a student he also studied
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TCD student group weekly TropiCafe comes back in Fall 19
We want to invite you to join us for an afternoon Coffee after Tropilunch where we can connect and strengthen our TCD student community. The idea is to create a space where we can talk about whatever comes up, like continuing Tropilunch discussions, chat about life as a graduate student, plan future events and etc.
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TCD congratulates Dr. Paula Pinheiro on her selection as the 2018 recipient of the M. Schmink Outstanding Dissertation Award!
We are pleased to announce that Dr. Paula Soares Pinheiro is the 2018 winner of the Marianne Schmink Outstanding Dissertation Award from UF’s Tropical Conservation and Development Program. Dr. Pinheiro received her PhD in Interdisciplinary Ecology in 2018 from the School of Natural Resources and Environment (SNRE) program under the supervision of Dr. Stephen Perz.
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TCD members participate in an important Brazilian Grassroots Movement meeting
Includes information from Agência Acre A meeting to remember and reaffirm Chico Mendes’s legacy was organized by the Brazilian Grassroots Movement Conselho Nacional das Populações Extrativistas (CNS), in the hometown of the union leader, Xapuri, Acre State, during December, 15- 17, 2018. More than 500 people participated in the “Meeting Chico Mendes 30 Years: A
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