University of Colorado-Boulder Education Abroad Program is offering a conservation biology field course in Brazil, 14-31 May 2018. The course is held in Brazil's Atlantic Forest, a highly threatened center of faunal and floral biodiversity. Because much of the forest is in human-dominated landscapes, successful conservation practice can only occur jointly with efforts to alleviate socioeconomic issues. In two and a half weeks, this 4-semester credit course offers students hands-on experience through on-going conservation programs that couple biological understanding with sociological realities. We will be based out of research facilities of one of Brazil's largest environmental non-governmental organizations (Instituto de Pesquisas Ecológicas) in western São Paulo state. In the last week of the course, we will travel to the iconic Iguaçu Falls in Brazil and Argentina and stay in the research facilities of Iguaçu National Park. Established in 1939, the Park is part of the proposed Trinational Biodiversity Corridor. Here, we will meet with park researchers and managers and experience firsthand conservation efforts in the Park. The course is designed for undergraduate and graduate students in disciplines relevant to conservation
Application deadline is 26 November 2017. The course is open to students from US colleges and universities. For more information, please see: http://abroad.colorado.edu/?go=BrazilGS, or email the Faculty Director, Dr. Timothy Kittel ([email protected]) or Program Manager, Scott Funk ([email protected]).
