In addition, the ISCE is collecting funds to establish a Fellowship Program whose aim is to support young investigators in their pursuit of field and laboratory research in chemical ecology. During its first two decades, the ISCE has received generous financial support from over 30 pharmaceutical and chemical companies. Industrial awareness of and concern for ecological problems, environmental maintenance, and the need to conserve biological diversity is now growing rapidly. The ISCE is the only scientific society devoted to the discipline of chemical ecology. The continued and expanded support of the ISCE by the world's industrial leaders will play an essential role in studying, preserving and using the earth's immense biological resources for sustainable human benefit.
Natural products constitute a treasury of immense value to humankind.
The current alarming rate of species extinction is rapidly depleting this treasury with potentially disastrous consequences. The International Society of Chemical Ecology urges that conservation measures be mounted worldwide to stem the tide of species extinction, and that vastly increased biorational studies be undertaken aimed at discovering new chemicals of use to medicine, agriculture and industry. These exploratory efforts should be pursued by a partnership of developing and developed nations in such fashion that the financial benefits flow in fair measure to all participants. Officers and Councilors . . Membership List . .