Each Symposium will focus on specific contemporary issues, but the broad focal areas are:

Protected and Conserved Areas

• Protected Area Management Effectiveness
• Biodiversity Stewardship
• Delineation and Management of Buffer Zones/Zone of Influence
• Transboundary Conservation
• Land Restitution and Co-Management of Protected Areas
• Integration of Cultural Heritage and Biodiversity Management
• Tourism

Species Conservation

• Threatened Species Conservation
• Conservation Genetics
• Sustainable Resource Use
• Advances in Monitoring and Surveillance

Landscape Conservation

• Systematic Conservation Planning
• Land-Use Planning
• Securing Critical Biodiversity Areas
• Biodiversity Economy
• Ecosystem Goods and Services and Ecological Infrastructure
• Understanding and Managing Ecological and Evolutionary Processes

Conservation Tools

• Legal, Policy and Ethical issues
• Implementation of Biodiversity-Related Multilateral Environmental Agreements
• Sustainable Conservation Financing
• Resource Economics

Environmental Education and Awareness

• Effective Communication
• Interpretation
• Role of Social Media in Conserving Biodiversity
• Citizen Science

Global Change Conservation

• Conserving in the Face of Global Change
• Impacts of the COVID and other Pandemics on Conservation

Threats to Biodiversity

• Invasive Alien Species
• Wildlife Crime
• Mining