Greetings Wildlifers

Please join The Wildlife Society (TWS) in partnership with the Wildlife and Environmental Society of South Africa (WESSA), South African National Parks (SANParks), and EZEMVELO KZN Wildlife for the IV International Wildlife Management Congress (IWMC).
This prestigious Congress will be held at the Nkosi Albert Luthuli International Convention Center, Durban, South Africa, 9-12 July 2012.
This is the first time the Congress will be held in Africa. The first three Congresses were held in Costa Rica, Hungary, and New Zealand in 1993, 1999, and 2003, respectively.

The theme of the IV IWMC is Cooperative Wildlife Management across Borders: Learning in the Face of Change. Sub-themes will include:

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• Human dimensions of wildlife management and conservation (i.e.: conflict, urban, land use)
• Professional development and training
• Climate change
• Wildlife health and disease
• Wildlife population management
• Endangered species recovery
• Invasive species
• Trans-border cooperation and conservation
• Natural resource use and sustainability
• Habitat restoration, modification and stewardship

Africa has always taken a broad view of social, economic, and political dimensions that all affect, and become affected by, use and management of natural resources. Their survival, and indeed, the survival of the world depend on cooperative and effective management of our natural resources.
The TWS and its partners hope to attract over 1,000 delegates from around the globe to attend. South Africa is an ideal venue because of the numerous examples of exemplary practices in wildlife management and the human capacity for building innovations ranging from adaption of scientific developments to community-based natural resource management and empowerment programs to share in the global forum. Wildlife management worldwide faces complex challenges including depleted resources, competition for habitats used by wildlife, poaching, changing habitats, and an increasing human population. The goals of the IV IWMC are to provide increased capacity for participants to integrate global needs into their work, continue to develop and expand global networks, experience wildlife management in Southern Africa, raise awareness for wildlife management legacy programs, and raise the profile of wildlife management globally.
The IV IWMC 2012 in Durban, South Africa will be informative, exciting, and an ideal venue to establish new and lasting partnerships to benefit wildlife and their management. Please plan to attend. We hope to see you there.
 
Register online:  http://iwmc2012.org