MDPI World Wildlife Day Webinar 2024
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In order to commemorate World Wildlife Day 2024 (https://www.un.org/en/observances/world-wildlife-day), MDPI is launching a special webinar to encourage researchers to join together, take action, and raise awareness as to how the exchange of findings facilitates efforts for wildlife conservation.
Billions of people benefit daily from the use of wild species for food, energy, materials, medicine, recreation, inspiration and many other vital contributions to human well-being. The accelerating global biodiversity crisis, with a million species of plants and animals facing extinction, threatens these contributions to people.
This webinar aims to encourage connection and collaboration among wildlife researchers and the international open access community to help fight against wildlife crime and human-induced reduction of species. We are very much looking forward to seeing you at the MDPI World Wildlife Day Webinar 2024.
Webinar Secretariat
journal.webinar@mdpi.com
Meet the Event Chair
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Meet Our Speakers
Dr. Todd Fredericksen
Ferrum College, USA;
Todd Fredericksen teaches courses in environmental science and biology at Ferrum College. Research interests include the effects of forest management on biodiversity, natural history and conservation of wildlife species in the Blue Ridge Mountains, and tropical and temperate forest ecology.
He is the editor of Banisteria, the journal of the Virginia Natural History Society and Editor of the journal Trees, Forests, and People. He is a wildland firefighter with the Virginia Department of Forestry and a member of the Virginia Natural History Society, Virginia Society for Ornithology, and the Virginia Herpetological Society.
Dr. Luísa Rodrigues
Portuguese Institute for the Conservation of Nature and Forests, Portugal;
Luísa works at the Portuguese Institute for the Conservation of Nature and Forests since 1987 as a biologist. She coordinates the National monitoring programme of cave-dwelling bats which started in 1987, promotes the management of bat roosts and contributes to the conservation of bats. She was one of the Editors of the recent Portuguese Mammals Red Data Book. and is one of the National coordinators of the European Atlas of Mammals. She is also in charge of the preparation of the Article 17 Habitats Directive´s reports regarding bats. Currently she is a Senior Advisor for EUROBATS, she participates in several Intersessional Working Groups and she co-coordinates the Intersessional Working Group on Wind Turbines and Bat Populations.
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Recording:
Animals
Surviving in the Dark: The Complexities of Nocturnal Animal Behavior and Adaptation
Guest Editor: Dr. Luísa Rodrigues and Prof. Dr. Anna Nekaris
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2024
Conservation Strategies for Small Wild Cats
Guest Editor: Dr. Daniel G. Scognamillo and Prof. Dr. Clayton D. Hilton
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 March 2024
Conservation Ecology, Management and Health Protection of European and American Bison
Guest Editor: Prof. Dr. Krzysztof Anusz, Dr. Anna Didkowska and Dr. Blanka Orłowska
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 4 August 2024
Evolution, Ecology and Management of Wild Boar and Deer
Guest Editor: Dr. Javier Pérez-González
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2024
Surveillance of Microbial and Parasitic Agents in Wildlife
Guest Editor: Dr. Matheus Nunes Weber and Dr. Mariana Soares Da Silva
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 August 2024
Forests
Wildlife Ecology and Conservation in Forest Habitats
Guest Editor: Dr. Alexey Andreychev and Dr. Todd Fredericksen
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2024