IUBS News 2016

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IUBS' board members (from left): executive board member Peter Kevan, secretary general L.S. Shashidhara, president Hiroyuki Takeda, executive director Nathalie Fomproix, and executive board member Lily Rodriguez. Photo: IUBS

In Cancun, Mexico, several board members met during the 3^rd Science for Biodiversity Forum, which was a side event of the conference of the parties COP13 organized by IUBS.

Many posters were presented at the joint meeting of zoologists in Okinawa. Photo: IUBS

More than 1,100 participants met at the joint 22^nd International Congress of Zoology and the 87^th meeting of Zoological Society of Japan. IUBS has sponsored one of the sessions and supported the participation of young scientists. IUBS's president, Hiroyuki Takeda, was one of the two presidents of the meeting in Okinawa, Japan from 15^th to 19^th November 2016. The International Society of Zoological Sciences, is one of IUBS's scientific members.

IUBS has also sponsored past symposia of its member International Society of Zoological Sciences (ISZS):

IUBS' board members (from left): Chunxu Han, president Hiroyuki Takeda, executive director Nathalie Fomproix, general secretary L.S. Shashidhara, former president Nils Chr. Stenseth, Motonori Hoshi, former vice president Yury Dgebuadze, and former vice president Zhibin Zhang. Photo: IUBS

IUBS's board met in Okinawa at the joint International Congress of Zoology and the Meeting of the Zoological Society, in which our society was involved, to hand over presidency.