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From Small Carnivore Conservation
Nov 2010 : Small Carnivore Conservation in Colombia: Colombian Zoological Congress.
Little information is available on the ecology and life history of small carnivores in Colombia (families Mephitidae, Mustelidae, and Procyonidae). As part of a new project about these species in Colombia, ProCAT Colombia and the Small Carnivore Specialist Group SCSG are gathering available information on these species and establishing research projects in several parts of the country. Also, this project is bringing together researchers from the entire country and is developing a web-based information system to update our knowledge of small carnivores. 
Also, as part of this initiative and to help address information needs, ProCAT Colombia, the Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas, and the Small Carnivore Specialist Group are cosponsoring a symposium at the III Colombian Zoological Congress in Medellin, Colombia, 21-26 November 2006. The symposium is titled ‘Small Carnivores of Colombia (Skunks, Raccoons, and Weasels)’. Objectives of this symposium are to summarize the state of knowledge and conservation of small carnivores in Colombia, prioritize information needs and possible conservation actions, and define a course of action to facilitate small carnivore conservation in Colombia. Presentations will include global priorities for small carnivore conservation, role of spatial scale in conserving small carnivores, current conservation measures being implemented, and the status of small carnivores in Colombia.
The project and symposium is been lead by SCSG members José F. González-Maya and Jerry Belant, with the support of Diego Zárrate, Sergio Balaguera, Amancay Cepeda and Abelardo Rodríguez among other national researchers, and the online platform is now under construction by Amancay Cepeda and Sandra Hernandez.
For more information about the congress and this symposium, please visit http://www.iiicongresocolombianozoologia.org/, and for any other aspect related with the initiative and project please contact info@procat-conservation.org.
Aug 2010 : 1st Borneo Carnivore Symposium
On behalf of the Sabah Wildlife Department, the IUCN/SSC Small Carnivore, Cat and Otter Specialist Groups and the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research, you are invited to attend the 1st Borneo Carnivore Symposium: Road Towards Conservation Action Plans. This symposium will be held in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia from 18-24 June 2011.
Borneo Carnivore Symposium website
July 2010 : ARKive requests small carnivore imagery
ARKive, the world’s centralised digital library of films and photographs of threatened animals, plants and fungi, is calling on members of the Small Carnivore Specialist Group to help in the search for imagery of threatened species.