The session will lay bare the situation and call for tropical ecologists and conservation scientists to reflect on what is at stake, and debate how to move forward with feasible and rigorous solutions for cooking in Africa.

Learn about and provide feedback on a NASA funded effort to scope a 6- to 9-year multi-scale campaign in the tropics focused on improving understanding of the heterogeneous responses to climate change, with broad research focus on biodiversity, biogeochemical cycling, and food security.

This interactive workshop will bring together eDNA researchers and practitioners who work in the Global South or remote areas so that we can better understand how international standards for eDNA could support or hinder their conservation and biodiversity work.

Integrated approach to the development of biodiversity uplift metrics for investors and conservation project developers.

Please join us over lunch for an informal conversation with the Biotropica Editorial Board to help demystify the publication process.

An exciting interactive opportunity to learn more about, and participate in, a pioneering and inclusive movement aimed at attracting responsible investment towards incentivising and empowering IPs and LCs, to conserve and restore biodiversity, while at the same time delivering tangible positive benefits for people and climate.

This session explores the cascading effects of defaunation and habitat fragmentation on tropical ecosystems, particularly the plight of "orphan plants" dependent on animals for survival.

This panel explores how Africa's nature-positive initiatives and conservation solutions are creating a hopeful narrative for the continent and stand in stark opposition to the continent’s primarily negative portrayal in Western media.