This year’s IUCN World Conservation Congress, held every 4 years and sometimes described as the “worlds largest and most important conservation event”, was held on Sept. 6-15 in Jeju, South Korea. Over 4,000 delegates came together and attended the event ranging from government bodies, NGOs, businesses and universities to discuss and debate the current pressing environmental and development issues and how they might be tackled. Members of the CATS team, representing Beijing Forestry University, WildCRU and Wildlife without Borders, attended the conference to present our current work on conservation in China. On September 9th the CATS team’s poster session: Building capacity for conservation of wild felids and their supporting ecosystems in China was well received and allowed us to meet and discuss in person our work with a range of other delegates.
Here is some feedback from the team:
- “A great experience allowing us to meet and discuss challenging topics with a wide range of different stakeholders.”
- “The IUCN congress was a good opportunity to enrich my knowledge on nature conservation and at the same time it provided me a great chance to meet many new friends and potential partners just in one place.”
- “To me, it was a valuable experience to be exposed to the many new ideas being developed in the conservation world and a great opportunity to build networking.”
Here is some feedback from the team:
- “A great experience allowing us to meet and discuss challenging topics with a wide range of different stakeholders.”
- “The IUCN congress was a good opportunity to enrich my knowledge on nature conservation and at the same time it provided me a great chance to meet many new friends and potential partners just in one place.”
- “To me, it was a valuable experience to be exposed to the many new ideas being developed in the conservation world and a great opportunity to build networking.”