Biodiversity Extinction Crisis

Abstract

?The Biodiversity Extinction Crisis, a Pacific and Australasian response? is the theme for the Australasian Section of the Society for Conservation Biology?s (SCB-A?s) inaugural regional conference. The idea of holding this conference has been a few years in the fermenting, mulling, and processing stages and the organizing committee is still in the initial stages of logistic planning, but in 2007 this meeting will be a reality. This will not be the first time that the Society has held a conference in the region, however. Many will remember the highly successful Society for Conservation Biology conference that was held at Macquarie University in 1998. That conference predated the formation of the international sections of SCB and attracted approximately 800 world-class conservation scientists and practitioners from around the globe, indicating not only the strength of the profession but also the strong need and desire for such a platform, particularly within Australia and the Australasian region.