The workshop will be by invitation only, and will be held at the Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens in Cape Town, South Africa from 22-24 February 2000. A welcoming function will be held on the evening of Monday 21 February 2000. The goals of the workshop are to understand better the threat of invasive species, and to discuss practicable steps that will be necessary if we are to minimize this threat.
Presentations are by invitation only.
Papers dealing with invasionscould fit into any of these sessions, and a separate session on invasions may be added. This meeting will present the products of the first phase of the Global Invasive Species Programme initiative which began in 1996. An international conference to be held in Wellington, New Zealand from 12 to 16 February 2001 . New and updated information will be posted to our web page as it comes to hand. Drs Christa Mulder, Don Drake, and Charles Daugherty, School of Biological Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, P.O. Box 600, Wellington, New Zealand.