The Valuing Nature team traveled to Belgium in Dec 2017 to attend the Ecology Across Borders (#EAB2017) conference where 1,200 of the world’s leading ecologists representing academia, business, NGOs and professional bodies converged on the International Convention Centre in the historic city of Ghent.
The conference was organised by the British Ecological Society (BES) in partnership with: Gesellschaft für Ökologie (GfÖ) the ecological society of Germany, Switzerland and Austria, NecoV the ecological society of the Netherlands and Flanders and in association with the European Ecological Federation.
The opportunity was used to showcase the Valuing Nature Programme through presentations and discussions on delegates' research in relation to the Programme. A Call for applications for Natural Capital Synthesis Reports was launched at the confernce.
