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		Collaborations and Partnerships
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Through collaborations with universities, research centers, multilateral government and non-governmental organizations, CABS is addressing the urgent global-scale questions of conservation science.

CABS believes that conservation solutions will be most effective when they have been generated by both experts from a wide array of disciplines and local people. Therefore, CABS works to foster formal partnerships with a diverse set of organizations to advance the goal of biodiversity conservation.

CABS collaborates with international development agencies such as USAID and the World Bank Research Group to allocate resources for onsite research and capacity-building in Biodiversity Hotspots and Wilderness Areas.

CABS also maintains strong relations with universities and academic institutions around the world. In particular, CABS has created a promising partnership with the University of Virginia to further develop its understanding of the threats to global biodiversity.

Our scientific resources include resident experts in museums and research institutions around the world, including a variety of collaborators from the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. to the Zoological Museum at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark. CABS also works extensively with other leading non-governmental organizations in biodiversity research, monitoring, and priority-setting efforts.

The key to CABS' collaborative strategy is the Research Fellows program, which awards funding each year to investigators from a variety of disciplines. CABS' sponsorship allows these scientists to generate data, techniques and approaches in applied biodiversity science, and also supports the publication of their work's results.

Currently, CABS is supporting 19 Fellows, including Dr. Norman Myers, who developed the concept of biodiversity hotspots; Drs. Thomas Struhsaker and John Oates, who are investigating protected areas of forest across the African continent; and Dr. Carlos Peres, Professor of Ecology at the University of East Anglia in the UK, who is examining the effects of hunting in Amazonian habitats.


	New Presentations on Hydrological Services Available Online: Sampurno Bruijnzeel, tropical hydrology expert, talks about vegetation, reforestation, and hydrological services in two CI-sponsored presentations. Oct. 16 presentation at the World Bank (8 MB PDF) Oct. 17 presentation at CI (7.2 MB PDF) New CABS Brochure Now Available: Click here to view the latest CABS brochure. Contact us to order a hard copy. The Environmental Systems Research Institute Awards CABS’ GIS & Mapping Lab: The Institute honored the Lab for the fifth time in six years, awarding it First Place in the Best Cartographic Design - Single Map Product category for the Coppename River AquaRAP by Mark Denil. View the winning map Hotspots Revisited Available Online. Hotspots Revisited details the state of the earth's biodiversity hotspots. The book identifies 34 regions that cover only 2.3 percent of the Earth's surface but are home to 75 percent of the planet's most threatened species. View Hotspots Revisited



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