Tropical Conservation & Development Program
UF Center for Latin American Studies
Last Friday’s Fieldwork Festival was a success! Students from LAS, TCD, and MDP presented their research projects to judges, shared project advice with the 1st year cohort, and answered questions from the public during the poster exhibit. Congratulations to all! We are really proud that many of the awarded are TCD students that received support
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The TCD Student Group is organizing the 2022 Taste of the Tropics, a fundraiser cooking competition with great prizes that brings together family and friends to have a good time and share delicious food. The funds go directly to scholarships and other funding sources for TCD students. This year the Taste of the Tropics will
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Congratulations to UF TCD and SNRE alumna Cristina Nuñez Godoy for her new publication “Willingness of private landowners to participate in forest conservation in the Chaco region of Argentina” in Forest Policy and Economics. This research was part of her PhD dissertation work and is co-authored by Elizabeth Pienaar and Lyn Branch. Great example of
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On the 24th of February, the TCD Student Group organized its first retreat bringing together students and alumni to discuss the TCD Program and the role of students in shaping it. It was a rich dialogue that recognize the value of the TCD community in the experience of being a graduate student working in the
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UF WEC/TCD faculty and TCD alum Matt Hallett’s work with the Sustainable Wildlife Management Program of Guyana on finding solutions to human-wildlife conflict in the Rupununi region of Guyana was featured by the IUCN and Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) for World Wildlife Day. Part of this solution was engaging local
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Our TCD sg President and VP, Susana Ruiz Diaz and Vanessa Luna were invited as panelists in an event celebrating the Month of Women and Girls in Science. The discussion panel was hosted by UF SACNAS Chapter and was held virtually and in-person on February 28th, 2022. During the event, panelists and participants from different
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