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TCD Alum Germain Mavah helping to improve wildlife conservation and food security in the Republic of the Congo
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TCD Alum Germain Mavah helping to improve wildlife conservation and food security in the Republic of the Congo
Germain Mavah has long been interested in the inter-relationships between wildlife, protected areas, rural people livelihoods, and natural resource governance in the Congo. Working with Dr. Brian Child from UF’s Geography Dept. and the Center for African Studies, Germain received his PhD degree in Interdisciplinary Ecology (SNRE) and a TCD graduate certificate in 2015. His dissertation examined
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Center for LAS 69th annual conference – Indigenous Rights, Environmental Change, and Development in South America’s Chaco
The two-day event brings frontline actors and academics to roundtable discussions and presentations on April 15-16, 2021 The UF Center for Latin American Studies will host the 69th Annual Conference, a virtual two-day program titled “Indigenous Rights, Environmental Change, and Development in South America’s Chaco,” on April 15-16, 2021. The conference will bring together frontline
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PhD student in TCD & FFGS awarded prestigious ITTO fellowship for the second time
Felipe Veluk Gutierrez, PhD student in School of Forest, Fisheries and Geomatic Sciences, and leader in TCD’s Governance and Infrastructure in the Amazon project awarded prestigious ITTO fellowship for the second time! Felipe talks about his journey from Brazil through Central America, the Caribbean, and then University of Florida and back to Brazil for his
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Thank you all for coming together and supporting the TCD program on #GatorNationGivingDay
We so greatly appreciate your kindness. Your support means the world to the TCD! It is so wonderful to be part of such a great community! #GatorNationGivingDay #AllForTheGators For more than 30 years TCD has been convening UF students, faculty, alumni and partners in the theoretical and practical advancement of tropical conservation and development through interdisciplinary
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Congratulations to Dr. Karen Kainer for receiving UF CALS Graduate Teacher/Advisor of the Year!
Karen, a professor in the School of Forest Resources and Conservation and TCD core faculty, was nominated by her graduate students [Stephanie Cadaval (SFRC) Ana Violato Espada (SFRC), Johanna Depenthal (SFRC), Mabel Baez Schon (SFRC), Yeyetsi Maldonado Caballero (MDP)] for CALS prestigious faculty award. For nearly two decades Karen has been advising graduate students and
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