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The second \u201cYoung researchers\u201d conference on conservation sciences in the Mediterranean Region was held at the Tour du Valat (28 to 30 April). More than fifty people, mainly from North Africa and Aix-Marseille University, attended this event.<\/p>\n
\tThis bi-annual event aims to foster scientific exchange in the Mediterranean Basin around the theme of conservation sciences, in close collaboration with the Centre for Functional and Evolutive Ecology-CNRS in Montpellier and the IMBE (Mediterranean Institute of marine and terrestrial Biodiversity and Ecology) in Marseille. The third edition is scheduled for 2016.<\/p>\n
\tFour scientists were invited to give introductory talks for the second edition: Mar\u00eda Bego\u00f1a Garc\u00eda, from the Pyrenees ecological institute\u00a0 (Spain), Arnaud B\u00e9chet, senior researcher at the Tour du Valat, Fran\u00e7ois Sarrazin, professor at the Pierre and Marie Curie University (Paris 6), and Juan Jos\u00e9 Negro Balmaseda, Director of the Do\u00f1ana Biological Station (Spain).<\/p>\n
\tThe event was based on alternating presentations inside with field visits outside. This format led to many interesting exchanges between the \u201csenior\u201d participants and young researchers, in an informal and friendly atmosphere in the middle of the Camargue, a key wetland for conservation issues in the Mediterranean Basin<\/p>\n
\tThe 2014 conference was particularly important because the Tour du Valat, which was established in 1954, was celebrating its 60th birthday. Six decades during which it contributed actively to the training of hundreds of young researchers, from all over the world, studying wetlands conservation!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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