Notes from the conference: Diverse empirical from the first Biennial Conference of Tropical Biodiversity

Abstract

This is a brief report that capturing from the first Biennieal Conference of Tropical Biodiversity that took place from September 20 to 21, 2018 at the the Rinra Hotel in Makassar, Indonesia. The conference also was attended by biodiversity practitioners such as the governor, forest estate agency, non-government organization, and state conservation units in Sulawesi region. The involvement of practitioners aim to bring together researchers, scientists, practitioners and scholars in the argument of biodiversity through diverse-interdisciplinary approaches. Key note speakers provide fresh contextual biodiversity challenges in international debate and its contextual in Indonesia, especially in Sulawesi Region.