This theme was chosen to highlight and take advantage of the meeting's proximity to both state and federal capitals, as well as many of the major NGOS, multinational banks, and federal agencies that play a role in national and international conservation efforts. These are the source of most of the policy that now underlies conservation efforts. The meeting will begin with a reception and plenary session on Friday 17 June, continue with three days of symposia, contributed paper and poster sessions, and conclude with optional field trips beginning on 21 June. This meeting is co-hosted by the University's graduate program in Sustainable Development and Conservation Biology and the Smithsonian Institution's Institute for Conservation Biology. It is being sponsored in part by the American Zoo and Aquarium Association, and I am writing in part to offer your organization the opportunity to join the AZA as a sponsor.
Sponsorship provides all of the benefits described below for exhibitors.
Organizations that cannot participate as sponsors can still have a presence at the meeting as exhibitors. Commercial exhibitors at the meeting will be displaying books, journals, and research equipment from 18-20 June, probably in the Student Union. Depending on the availability of space we will either put NGO exhibitors in the same room, or an adjacent one. For organizations that cannot attend the meeting we 'II offer the o tion of sending material that we will display for you. Exhibitors can send us a 100wi word description of their company or publications that we will include in the program along with address information.