ABS Conservation Workshops
Every other year, the Animal Behavior Society Conservation Committee holds a one-day workshop the day before talks begin at the annual ABS conference. These workshops are aimed at applying behavioral theory and research to solving real-world conservation problems. For the 2013, 2015, and 2017 workshops, we invited 3-4 speakers who presented diverse conservation problems for which a behavioral approach was likely to facilitate solutions. These topics included conflict with bears and coyotes in urban areas, conflict with birds at airports, recreation effects on ungulates and insects, and human disturbance on walruses.
In 2019, we focused on one topic - Implications of Solar Power on Wildlife Conservation - and brought in several speakers to address this topic from varying perspectives. In preparation for the workshop we created videos covering the fundamentals of conservation behavior, which you can find below, in order to prepare participants and provide a resource for anyone interested in the topic. We published the results of our 2019 workshop in the article “Evaluating potential effects of solar power facilities on wildlife from an animal behavior perspective”.
In 2021 we hosted a virtual professional development workshop for students and professionals interested in applying animal behavior research to conservation problems. In 2022 at the ABS conference in San Jose, Costa Rica, we addressed ecotourism on wildlife behavior. We hosted a panel of experts from Central and South America who conduct research on or work directly in ecotourism, who then joined participants in small group discussions of research questions. A group of panelists and attendees is in the process of preparing a manuscript based on the workshop.
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Richard Buchholz What Is Conservation Behavior? |
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Bruce Schulte How Do You Do Conservation Behavior |
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Misty McPhee How To Make Connections With Conservation Practitioners Subtopic: Whooping Crane Case Study
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William Sutherland Conservation Evidence |
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Bradley Blackwell Behavioral Research To Migrate Avian Mortality At Solar Energy Facilities |
