Extended Symposium (June 4)
A symposium on “Evaluating the Impacts of Conservation on Biodiversity and Human Wellbeing in Asia” brought together six outstanding speakers. The quality of presentations from Alex Caruana, Tanya O’Garra, Benjamin Chipperfield, Paul Hasan Thung, Avantika Thapa, and Aditya Malgaonkar was impressive, spanning challenges of evaluating conservation programme and policies, community management fisheries in the Philippines, forests in Borneo, conservation zones in Laos, the Darjeeling Himalaya, and leopard conservation in India.
