Society for Conservation Biology
| Founded | May 8, 1985 |
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| Type | Scientific society |
| 33-0147824 (U.S.A.) | |
| Focus | conservation biology, education, policy |
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Members
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10,000 |
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Revenue
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US$2,786,389 (2008) |
| Endowment | US$923,751 (2008) |
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Employees
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14 |
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Volunteers
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~200 |
| Slogan | A Global Community of Conservation Professionals |
| Mission | To advance the science and practice of conserving the Earth's biological diversity. |
| Website | www.conbio.org |
The Society for Conservation Biology (SCB) is an 501(c)3 non-profit international professional organization devoted to scientific study of the "maintenance, loss, and restoration of biological diversity." There are 10,000 members worldwide, including students and those in related non-academic sectors. There are 31 chapters in the United States, and 13 throughout the world elsewhere.
The origin of the Society resulted from the emergence of the field as a distinct subject in the 1970s. The phrase conservation biology originated from a conference of ecologists and population biologists at the University of Michigan,that published the book "Conservation Biology" An Evolutionary-Ecological Perspective was highly influential internationally, eventually selling tens of thousands of copies including a Russian translation. By the mid-1980s there was sufficient interest and participation to establish a formal society and publish a peer reviewed journal Conservation Biology, started in 1987 and published by Blackwell Scientific Publishers. This has been supplemented since 2007 by the rapid publication journal Conservation Letters ISSN 1755-263X. It also has published jointly with the University of Washington since 1997 the non-technical Conservation (also known as Conservation Magazine), ISSN 1936-2145.
In 2000 the SCB Board of Governors approved the creation of seven Regional Sections that were formed over the following two years. The seven sections are Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America & Caribbean, North America, Marine and Oceania. The Europe Section was established at the annual SCB meeting in Canterbury 2002. The Oceania section was established in 2005.
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