French food break

I am at ICCB-ECCB (27th Inter­na­tional Con­gress for Con­ser­va­tion Biol­ogy) in Mont­pel­lier (France) this whole week (I have blogged about this some weeks ago). That’s a tremen­dous gath­er­ing of more than 2000 con­ser­va­tion sci­en­tists and bio­di­ver­sity experts from all over the world and a fan­tas­tic oppor­tu­nity to exchange views. So far, I have met numer­ous peo­ple work­ing on or inter­ested in dis­cussing bio­di­ver­sity off­sets — both in my own sym­po­sium (Bio­di­ver­sity man­age­ment and devel­op­ment: chal­lenges, oppor­tu­ni­ties and new direc­tions) and spread all over the var­i­ous sessions.

I will cover some of my obser­va­tions (as well as my per­sonal insights or take home mes­sages) in a blog post, soon. This will also include a sum­mary as well as the pre­sen­ta­tions that were part of the sym­po­sium. For the moment I’ll leave it there and sim­ply share some visual impres­sions of the con­gress and surroundings.

Visit also the ICCB 2015 web­site for more infor­ma­tion on the sci­en­tific pro­gram and check out twit­ter for the lat­est news and numer­ous per­sonal observations…