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Dear zooarchers,

An announcement on behalf of Amy Pittsenbarger:

The Society of Ethnobiology invites you to our 2012 conference, "Conservation and Communities." to be held April 11–14, 2012 at the Denver Botanic Gardens in Colorado. This year's conference theme explores the importance and power of linking conservation efforts to communities.

The conference poster can be found here:
http://alexandriaarchive.org/bonecommons/items/show/1828
More information about the conference here: http://ethnobiology.org/conference

Attendees will explore the following themes:

•Engagement and collaboration with indigenous peoples

•The importance of working with children and elders

•Innovations in environmental education

•Conservation (or lack thereof) in the paleoecological and archaeological records

•Diverse kinds of knowledge

•The importance of traditional knowledge in conservation and restoration

•The application of archaeobiological data to conservation


•Different perspectives on land and natural resource management





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Sarah Whitcher Kansa
Executive Director, AAI
Editor, Open Context
www.alexandriaarchive.org
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