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“Biocultural Conservation in Higher Education” Report just released!
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“Biocultural Conservation in Higher Education” Report just released!
We are thrilled to make public a report on “Biocultural Conservation in Higher Education: Organizational Review and Consultation” that was done by TCD consultant Dr. Francisca Saavedra. Over the years TCD has taken community-based conservation approaches that are characterized by partnerships with professionals, practitioners, and forest communities throughout the tropics. Emerging from these experiences have
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Tropilunch 10/24/23: Let’s talk story. Biocultural Conservation in Higher education
You can find the presentations lined up for this semester and check past semesters’ lists, on the Tropilunch page. Tropilunch presentations are recorded weekly when possible and posted to TCD’s YouTube Channel. Tropilunch is a weekly seminar run by graduate students from the Tropical Conservation and Development (TCD) Program. It provides a forum for a
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Center for LAS Colloquium with TCD Faculty and Academic Advisor Dr. Karen Kainer
Join the Center for Latin American Studies Center for its Colloquia series featuring our own TCD Academic Advisor and faculty, Dr. Karen Kainer. Karen is presenting the seminar “Research agendas and collaborative management of tropical forests in Latin America“. This will take place on Friday, 9/13/23 at 4 pm in Grinter Hall, Room 376.
Small TCD world …
You don’t really expect to meet UF students, let alone TCD alumni in the Rupununi region of Guyana, one of the most sparsely populated areas on earth, but this is just what happened today! Sarina Kawall (MDP/TCD) was in the Rupununi, returning research results to communities’ courtesy of a TCD Practitioner Grant, when she ran
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UFIC highlights TCD new transdisciplinary participatory research exchange in partnership with Universidad Amazónica de Pando in Bolivia
Thanks to UF’s International Center for their highlight of our new transdisciplinary participatory research exchange in partnership with Universidad Amazónica de Pando in Bolivia. The project builds on a transdisciplinary research and mentor program that began with the Governance and Infrastructure in the Amazon project ( see https://giamazon.org ). Working with professors from UF, UAP,
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Thanks to faculty that served on TCD selection committees!
As we begin the Fall 2023 semester, we want to shout out and give thanks to all of the incredible people that served on TCD Selection Committees in 2022-2023. Our TCD community cannot function without you and the reviews and guidance you provide to TCD students from across campus are invaluable. THANK YOU!! TCD Reviewers
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