S.E.H. Conservation Committee Blog

Dear Colleagues,

The General Directorate Environment of the regional Government of Valencia

is setting up a one-day workshop with a focus on control projects of
invasive species in rivers and wetlands. The meeting will take place in
Valencia (Spain) on the 31st of january 2012. We are interested mainly in
experiences or projects whose results have been evaluated but also in those
that are making an start. The final goal of this initiative is to examine
the progresses that have been achieved in control of invasive organisms of
continental waters and also to evaluate the difficulties encountered so as
to explore new possibilities of action. In this workshop Dr Richard Shaw
from CABI (UK) will be making a presentation on the potential of biological
control to fight invasive species. We expect that this gathering will be
useful to establish consortiums, - groups of managers with a shared
interest- with a view to future projects. If you have results from a project
which has already ended and that you consider can be of general interest
please send us an e-mail as we are now setting up the list of participants.
If you are merely interested to attend please send us also an email as we
need an estimation of attendants. In both cases the deadline is november 30
2011. Attendance is free of charge.

Once the list of participants and the final contents of the workshop have
been set up we will mail it to you.

We look forward to seeing you in Valencia

Sincerely

vicente deltoro

PS. We kindly ask you to disseminate this information to those you may
think might be of interest.