Prizes were awarded at the 2009 Conference for the best three student talks and best three student posters. The prizes consisted of journal subscriptions kindly donated by the Society for Conservation Biology and Elsevier and books donated by Conservation International, Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press and Wiley-Blackwell.
First Prize: Divya Karnad
Lighting the way to reducing disorientation of turtle hatchlings in India
Post Graduate Program in Wildlife Biology and Conservation,Wildlife Conservation Society-India Program & Centre for Wildlife Studies, National Centre for Biological Sciences, Hebbal, Bangalore 560 065 India
Email: ecodivs@gmail.com
Second Prize: Murray Collins
The implementation of REDD:lessons from Nantu
Imperial College London, Silwood Park Campus, Buckhurst Road, Ascot, Berkshire SL5 7PY UK
Email: murray_collins@hotmail.com
Third Prize: Baruani Mshale
Lessons from local people: community-based conservation in Tanzania
School of Natural Resources & Environment, University of Michigan, 440 Church Street, Ann Arbor MI 48103, USA
Email: bimshale@umich.edu
First Prize: Sarah Foster
Is tropical shrimp trawling a big problem for small fishes?
Project Seahorse, Fisheries Centre, The University of British Columbia, 2202 Main Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6T 1Z4, Canada
Email: s.foster@fisheries.ubc.ca
Second Prize: Maria Checa
Devastation and poverty in the west Ecquador hot spot of biodiversity:how can butterflies help?
University of Florida, FLMNH (McGuireCenter), PO Box 112710. Gainesville, USA and Catholic University of Ecuador, QCAZ Museum of Invertebrates,
PO Box 17-01-2184, Quito-Ecuador
Email: mfcheca@ufl.edu
Third Prize: Ana Nuno
Who's afraid of the big bad wolf?- Attitudes of Portuguese high school students towards carnivores.
Faculty of Biological Sciences Graduate School, University of Leeds, UK
Email: a.m.nuno@gmail.com
