An invitation to:
Members, Sponsors, Exhibitors, Advertises
The Chinese Academy of Sciences, State Forestry Adminstration P.R.China and the Society for Conservation Biology (SCB) invite you to Beijing, China 11-16 July 2009 for the International Congress for Conservation Biology (23rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Conservation Biology), it is recognized as the most important global meeting for conservation professionals and students.
Registration dates:
Registration is open! Early Registration Deadline:extended to 10 May 2009 Regular Registration Deadline: 31 May 2009 Late dates & Online registration ends: June 25 2009 Cancellation policy: no refund of any kind after June 25 2009 (June 20 for fieldtrips)
Some administration fees apply as follow:
For meeting registration, cancellations received on or before 25 June 2009 will be refunded in full, minus a $50 processing fee, for attendees from high income countries and $25 for attendees from low income countries and students.
For FT, a 10% charge will apply after 30 April. And no refund after June 20.
No refunds of any kind will be given for cancellation occurring after 25 June 2009.
- Registration Fee
Countries defined as high income
Non-Members registration fees
Already a member? Get 30% off registration!
Not a
member yet? Save! become a member! An SCB membership can be as low as
$20, but you could also receive our peer reviewed journal:
Conservation Biology and our award winning magazine: Conservation
and register for the meeting for the same amount of money as a non
member high registration.
For more information: www.conbio.org/join
Without carbon fee
With Carbon Fee*
Without carbon fee
With Carbon Fee*
Early
$450
$470
$315
$335
Regular
$500
$520
$350
$370
Late
$550
$570
$385
$405
One day fee**
$300
$305
$200
$205
Students and countries not defined as high income
Non-Members get 50% off registration
Already a member? Get 70% off!
Not a member yet? Save! become a member! An SCB membership can be as low as $10, and you will receive free online access to our peer reviewed journal: Conservation Biology and our award winning magazine: Conservation.
For more information: www.conbio.org/join
Without carbon fee
With Carbon Fee*
Without carbon fee
With Carbon Fee*
Early
$225
$230
$135
$140
Regular
$250
$255
$150
$155
Late
$275
$280
$165
$170
One day fee**
$150
$155
$100
$105
* During registration the registration price will include the carbon fee. If you wish not to pay for the carbon fee program, you can opt out by entering the following discount codes:
For:
Discount code:
High income residents
$20-high
Low Income residents
$5-low
students
$5-student
One day registration
$5-Oneday
** One day registration available for late registration only: when the meeting schedule is published.
- Cancellation policy
For meeting registration, cancellations received on or before 25 June 2009 will be refunded in full, minus a $50 processing fee, for attendees from high income countries and $25 for attendees from low income countries and students.
For FT, a 10% charge will apply after 30 April. And no refund after June 20.
No refunds of any kind will be given for cancellation occurring after 25 June 2009.
- Volunteer opportunity
SCB appreciates the help and energy of its volunteers each year. Volunteers help at meetings by staffing registration, providing meeting room support, and working on various other meeting tasks.
Volunteers working for one day during the conference will have half of their registration fees waived. These fees will be reimbursed onsite. Please indicate if you would like to volunteer by selecting the appropriate option on the online registration form. The volunteer coordinator will contact you if your help is needed.
- Authors registration deadline
All accepted proposal organizers, symposium, workshops, discussion group and short courses speakers, as well as invited participants must register by the early deadline of 30 April.
- Carbon Fee
Climate scientists unanimously agree that human activities, especially emission of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, are altering the earth's climate in ways that will profoundly affect our lives. Over 95% of SCB's contribution to global warming derives from jet fuel burned to take people to our annual meeting. Each passenger on a fully-booked London-New York flight, for instance, is responsible for about 1.2 tons of carbon.
At the 2006 Board of Governors meeting in San Jose, California, USA, the decision was made to take responsibility for the carbon impacts of travel to our Annual Meetings. By becoming 'carbon neutral,' we will neutralize the effect of our greenhouse gas emissions, so that our activities no longer contribute to global warming.
The first Annual Meeting to be offset was the 2007 Meeting in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. A small voluntary fee could be added to each attendee's registration fee to offset the carbon of the overall travel to the meeting. 98% of attendees voluntarily paid an extra $20 on their registration to offset their carbon emissions. The money will be used at the Baviaanskloof Megareserve, where invasive and degraded vegetation will be replaced with Elephant Bush (Portulacaria afra), a plant known to sequester large amounts of carbon. SCB is the first professional organization to take responsibility for the carbon footprint of its meetings. Further information will soon be available about the success of this effort and future plans for offsetting the carbon output of SCB.
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