The Goose Specialist Group of Wetlands International seeks to strengthen contacts between all researchers on migratory goose populations in the northern hemisphere.
Announcement of the 13th meeting of the Goose Specialist Group of the IUCN-SSC and Wetlands International on
WATERFOWL OF NORTHERN EURASIA:
GEOGRAPHY, POPULATION AND ENVIRONMENTAL DYNAMICS AND POPULATION MANAGEMENT
The 13th meeting of the Goose Specialist Group of the IUCN-SSC and Wetlands
International will be held jointly with the Goose, Swan and Duck Study Group (GSDSG) of northern Eurasia in Elista, Kalmykia (Russian Federation) from Thursday 24 March to Tuesday 29 March 2011
with a mid-conference excursion to the Manych Lake on Saturday 26 March 2011.
If sufficient numbers of people are interested, a 5-day post-conference excursion will be organized.
The scientific programme is in the capable hands of Aleksandr (Sascha) Kondratyev.
Konstantin Litvin is the central link between the GSG-board and the GSDSG, and Sonia
Rozenfeld and Petr Glazov are responsible for local organisation and all practical
arrangements.
More extensive information and the registration form can be found on http://onlinereg.ru/Elista2011 (Russian) or http://onlinereg.ru/site.php?go=153&lang=ENG (English).
The new Goose Bulletin (nr 10) appeared in May 2010 and can be downloaded from the Goose Bulletin page.
The Goose Specialist Group of Wetlands International and the IUCN Species Survival Committee seeks to strengthen contacts between all researchers on migratory goose populations in the northern hemisphere. A database with goose censuses from the western palearctic is supported by a network of national coordinators. Annual meetings are held since 1995. At present 400 people have joined the group.
The present global coordinator is Bart Ebbinge, based at the Alterra, Green World Research Institute in Wageningen, the Netherlands. Regional coordinators are Ray Alisauskas based at the Canadian Wildlife Service in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan (Canada) for North America and Masayuki Kurechi of the Japanese Association for Wild Geese Protection in Wakayanagi (Japan) for East Asia.
Membership
At present about 400 people are on the mailing list of the Goose Specialist Group. Ingunn Tombre has accepted the task to bring our membership list up-to-date. Our membership is for free and open to anyone, and if you would like to join, please register with Ingunn Tombre.
