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FIFTH COMMUNICATION
XII International Congress of Wildlife Management in the Amazon and
Latin America
August 8 – 12, 2016. Quito – Ecuador
Organized by:
Ministry of Environment of Ecuador, Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Wildlife Conservation Society Ecuador, and the Community of Wildlife
Management in Latin America.
With the support of: The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, FundAmazonia, GEF, UNDP
Dear colleagues and friends, In this Fifth Announcement, we reiterate our invitation to participate in the XII International Congress for Wildlife Management in the Amazon and Latin America, which will be held in Quito - Ecuador, from August 8th to 12th 2016 at the campus of Universidad San Francisco de Quito (Cumbaya). This Congress is open to all students and professionals involved in the management of wildlife in the region, and aims to promote interaction and strengthening of linkages between researchers and exchange of knowledge related to the research and conservation of wildlife in the Neotropics. Objectives: • Promote the dissemination of research relating to the management of wildlife in the Amazon region and Latin America.
• Encourage the exchange of information, knowledge, and experiences. • Foster collaboration among researchers, officials, users, and students, for the generation of information relevant to the management of wildlife, and the development of inclusive and effective schemes that contribute to the conservation of wildlife in the Neotropical region. Registration and payment: In order to validate your participation in the Congress and carry out the registration payment, please take into account the following:
• Those who wish to register in the Congress will have to visit the web page: https://www.usfq.edu.ec/eventos/congreso_fauna_silvestre/Paginas/registro.aspx, or in person on August 8th in the registration tables that will be set up in the Congress’s center in the USFQ.
• If you already registered in the Congress and made your payment, on August 8th, please go the registration tables in USFQ with a copy of your registration form and proof of payment in order to verify the information and receive the Congress materials.
• If you have already registered in the Congress but have not yet made your payment, please go to the registration tables in USFQ on August 8th in order to make your payment by any of the following available options: a) Payment with VISA; or b) Payment in cash. Please take into account that, unfortunately, we cannot accept other credit cards. Therefore, if you do not have VISA, you will have to make your payment in cash. Once payment has been made, your registration will be validated and you will receive your Congress materials.
o If you are a student, please bring a valid student identification card or an official letter from your institution certifying your student status. Only with these documents you will be able to get the reduced student fee.
• Remember that if you pre-registered before June 1st, you have a
preferential rate and you may pay it on August 8th.
Registration costs (in US dollars):
Categories for Participants XII - Quito* XII - Quito**
Undergraduate foreign student 110 150
Graduate foreign student 150 200
Foreign professional 275 300
Local community members (foreigners) 40 60
Ecuadorian undergraduate student 50 75
Ecuadorian graduate student 75 100
Ecuadorian Professional 100 150
Local community member (Ecuadorian) 40 60
* Up to May 31 2016
** From June 1 2016
Keynote speakers: As in previous years, we have the pleasure to announce that we have confirmed the participation of an outstandig group of experts who will enrich the Congress with keynote speeches. This year, we have the participation of: Adriana Bravo, PhD. The Field Museum of Natural History. Emiliano Esterci Ramalho, PhD. Instituto de Desenvolvimento Sustentável Mamirauá. Rafael Reyna-Hurtado, Ph. Departamento de Conservación de la Biodiversidad, El Colegio de la Frontera Sur. John G. Robinson, PhD. Wildlife Conservation Society. Viviana Ruiz-Gutiérrez, PhD. Cornell Lab of Ornithology - Cornell University Marcela M. Uhart, DVM. One Health Institute, University of California Davis. Abi Tamin Vanak, PhD. Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment. Stella de la Torre, PhD. Universidad San Francisco de Quito. Information and Agenda for the XII CIMFAUNA: The agenda for the Congress will be published this week in our web page (http://cimfauna.usfq.edu.ec). In order to attend any of the mini courses, you should register early with the people in charge of each event. For more information, please visit our website: (http://cimfauna.usfq.edu.ec). Additionally, since this week, we have
been published information of the Congress through social networks, so we invite you to visit us on: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/XIICimfauna/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/XIICimfauna Presentations: For oral presentations, we suggest the use of Microsoft Power Point 2010, for which we will have available projectors and laptops installed in each one of the presentation rooms. Please plan to bring your presentation recorded on a “memory stick”, because you will not be permitted to use personal computers. The duration of the oral presentations will be 15 minutes, with a maximum of 12 minutes for the talk, and 3 minutes for questions from the audience. We will receive all the presentations on the day of registration, August 8th. Please, take into account the code assigned for each presentation. (Details in the Congress Agenda) Posters should have a maximum size of 84.1 x 118.9 cm (size A0). The official posters session will take place at the University´s Main Hall on August 10th from 15:30 to 18:00 pm, however, the posters will be exhibited since Tuesday August 9th. Publication of the Congress´s Articles: In order to publish the works presented in this Congress, we have reached an agreement with the science journal, specialized in biodiversity, “Neotropical
Biodiversity” (Taylor and Francis Online). The papers presented in the Congress may be considered for publication in a special edition of Neotropical Biodiversity, which will be edited and reviewed by the Congress´s Scientific Committee In this context, we invite all participants to submit their manuscripts to Neotropical Biodiversity until September 30th. The journal publishes papers in Spanish or in English; and they do have a peer-reviewed system. The papers will be available to the public in a free on-line edition. In the following link you can find more information about the journal and the instructions for the authors of Neotropical Biodiversity: (http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/tneo20/current)
Logistics Information: Food availability during the Congress During the Congress we will offer individual snacks to all the participants during mid-morning and mid-afternoon, throughout all the days of the conferences. During the coffee breaks, we will also offer water, coffee and
tea, and to reduce the production of plastic containers, each participant will receive a commemorative jar of the Congress that can be re-utilized. During lunch hours, the USFQ has a dining room where you can purchase a full meal (Soup, main dish, and desert) for approximately 5 dollars. Additionally, around the campus there are several options of diverse type of restaurants and a food patio with a very diverse offer. The Congress materials include a map with the location of the different restaurant options, inside and outside the University. All lunches are responsibility of each participant. We recommend you to bring your own water container so as to reduce the use of disposable plastic bottles. The University has various points for refilling water containers, and each conference room will have water dispensers where you can refill your containers. Transportation to Quito: The city of Quito counts with the International Airport Mariscal Sucre (UIO) in Tababela (http://www.aeropuertoquito.aero/). The airport is approximately 60 minutes from the city of Quito, and 30 minutes from Cumbaya. For more information about transportation costs to and from the airport, please visit: http://www.aeropuertoquito.aero/es/transporte.html Transportation towards the University during the Congress: The organization of the Congress will have buses available for the participants and they will provide transportation to those who need to go from Quito to the USFQ in the morning and back in the evening. The buses schedules and departure points are:
• Line 1: Leaves Quito at 8:00 AM, from the “Tribuna de los Shyris” Av. de los Shyris and Portugal.
• Line 2: Leaves Quito at 7:45 AM, from “la Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana”, Av. 12 de Octubre (see the following maps)
Fig. Line 1, bus stop at the “Tribuna de los Shyris”
Fig. Line 2, bus stop at “la Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana”
In the evening, both lines of buses will leave the campus at 20:00 hours to the same points of the morning departures. The buses will have the sign “XII CIMFAUNA 2016” in the front window, and the identifiers “Santitours Turismo” in the sides. There are also public buses from Quito that pass by the front of Universidad San Francisco. To get on these buses, you should reach the “Terminal de Buses a Tumbaco” located in Avenue Río Coca, and there you can take a bus that heads towards Cumbaya. The rate for the bus from Quito to Cumbaya is (25 cents of a dollar), and the buses circulate permanently from 06:00 up to 21:00 Hours. In case you need to take a taxi for transportation in the city of Quito, please use only the Yellow Taxis that are clearly identified with the name of a Cooperative, or Executive Taxis recommended by a hotel or someone you trust. The taxis in Quito are obligated to use a taximeter (during the day) and they should charge only the fee indicated in the meter. During the evening, the cost of transportation is a little bit more arbitrary, but no “standard” movement should cost over 10 dollars. If you need a taxi to reach the Campus of Universidad San Francisco from Quito, the drivers usually do not use the taximeter, and the typical rate is of 10 dollars during the day and from 10 to 15 in the evening. Places to visit: The offer for tourists in Quito and its surroundings is abundant and diverse. We recommend our visitors to at least go the Historic Center of Quito, which has been recognized as one of the best preserved historical centers of South America. For more information visit the web page: http://www.quito.com.ec/ Additionally, we also suggest the following places to visit during your stay in our country.
• Termas de Papallacta (http://www.termaspapallacta.com) • Hostería Sapos y Ranas – San Miguel de los Bancos, Pichincha
(www.saposyranas.com) • Cabañas San Isidro – Cosanga, Napo (www.cabanasanisidro.com) • Guango Lodge – Papallacta, Napo (www.guangolodge.com) • Bosque Nublado Santa Lucía – Nanegal, Pichincha
(www.santaluciaecuador.com) For further information about the National System for Protected Areas of Ecuador -which counts with 51 areas that conform 20% of Ecuadorian territory, you may download an application where you can obtain all the information necessary to discover and visit these diverse mega spaces in the country.
Once you download the application, you do not need to be connected to the internet to enjoy the benefits of this application. It is available for mobiles
Apple and Android. You may find the application in the following link: http://areasprotegidas.ambiente.gob.ec/
The following agencies provide information for trips to Galapagos: Ecuador Galapagos
Travels [email protected]
Ecuador Nature
Expeditions [email protected]
Ecuador Galapagos
Travels [email protected] Columbus Travel [email protected]
Travel Ecuador [email protected] Abercrombie & Kent
Ecuador S.A. [email protected]
Ecuador Unique [email protected] Quimbaya Tours [email protected]
Galapagos Travel Center [email protected] South American Tours [email protected]
Andean Travel Company [email protected] Gulliver Expeditions [email protected]
Tierra De Fuego [email protected] Galacruises
Expeditions Cia. Ldta [email protected]
Cometa Travel [email protected] Explorandes S.A. [email protected]
Enchanted Expeditions
Cia. Ltda. [email protected] Ecuador Verde Pais [email protected]
Positiv Turismo [email protected] Ecuador Nature
Expeditions [email protected]
Creter Tours [email protected] Columbus Travel [email protected]
Exploradiving S.A [email protected] Abercrombie & Kent
Ecuador S.A. [email protected]
Metropolitan Touring operations@metropolitan-
touring.com Quimbaya Tours [email protected]
SOUTH AMERICAN
TOURS [email protected]
SURTREK SOUTH
AMERICAN TRAVEL [email protected]
GULLIVER EXPEDITIONS [email protected] GALAPAGOS TRAVEL [email protected]
GALACRUISES
EXPEDITIONS CIA. LDTA [email protected] PALMAR VOYAGES [email protected]
EXPLORANDES S.A. [email protected] GALASAM [email protected]
ECUADOR VERDE PAIS [email protected] TIERRA DE FUEGO [email protected]
ANDANDO TOURS [email protected]
JOURNEY FLEET CIA
LTDA [email protected]
GALEXTUR [email protected]
ECUADOR
GALAPAGOS TRAVELS [email protected]
GALAPAGOS TRAVEL
CENTER [email protected]
GALAPAGOS TRAVEL
CENTER [email protected]
GALAPAGOS TRAVEL [email protected]
ECUADOR
GALAPAGOS TRAVELS [email protected]
GALAPAGOSNET [email protected]
ECUADOR
GALAPAGOS TRAVELS [email protected]
OCEAN ADVENTURES [email protected]
GALAPAGOS TRAVEL
CENTER [email protected]
OCEAN ADVENTURES [email protected] GALAPAGOS TRAVEL [email protected]
Accommodation in Quito: There are many lodging options in and within reach of any budget. Below we include several options to facilitate logistic planning of your participation. Inquiries and reservations have to be done directly with the hotels. Most hotels are approximately 30 minutes away from the campus of Universidad San Francisco of Quito in Cumbayá. The costs (in US dollars) included here are referential. The organizers of the XII CIMFAUNA neither intervene nor assume responsibility for lodging arrangements of participants:
Hotel Quito Av. Gonzales Suarez N27-142, Quito Telf: (593) 2 239 6490 Single bedroom: $120 VAT included Hotel Savoy Inn Pontevedra N24-25 entre Valladolid y Madrid, Quito Telf: (593) 2 246 0620 Single bedroom: $60 VAT Included, plus breakfast Double bedroom: $70 VAT Included, plus breakfast Hostal de la Mancha Valladolid N24-562 y Coruña, Quito Telf: (593) 2 322 6207 [email protected] Single Room: $50 VAT Included, plus breakfast Hostal Aleida’s Andalucía N24-359 y Salazar, Quito Telf: (593) 2 223 4570 Cost per person: $25 VAT Included, plus breakfast Hostal Casa Quito Pontevedra N24-25 entre Valladolid y Madrid, Quito Telf: (593) 2 255 3953, 2 255 9654, 2 223 7046 Cost per person: $ 25 VAT Included, plus breakfast For more information on hotels in Quito and Cumbayá, you can consult the following web pages: http://www.hotelesquito.com.ec/ http://hotels.in-quito.com/ http://www.hotelesecuador.com.ec/ Weather in Quito: August is considered a summer month, with a pleasant climate, sunny and windy. The average maximum temperature is 21°C, and the average minimum is 10°C. Furthermore, August is one of the driest months with a little over 50 mm of monthly average precipitation.
Best regards, The Organizing Committee
For more information, please e-mail us to: http://cimfauna.usfq.edu.ec or check the following web page: [email protected]