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Commonwealth NGOs
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 International Society for Tropical Ecology
HQ situated in India
Website: http://www.tropecol.com/
Type of NGO: NGO,
Interest in Forestry: peripheral
Contact method: email : iste@tropecol.com
Description:
The tropical regions - harbouring most of the developing countries - encompass varied environments,
and support high biological diversity but often fragile ecosystems. The need of a society
exclusively devoted to tropical ecology was widely felt during late 1950s. The idea was discussed among
leading ecologists (IV World Forestry, 1954; UNESCO symposium at Kandy, 1956; Bogor,
1958; and Pacific Science Congress, 1958). The International Society for Tropical Ecology (ISTE) was
formally inaugurated in 1960 at the 47th Session of the Indian Science Congress Association
at Bombay, with the aim of promoting and fostering Ecology in its widest sense in tropics and subtropics.
Initially located at 10, Chatham Lines, Allahabad, the ISTE headquarters was shifted to the
Department of Botany, Banaras Hindu University in 1962.
Major activities of the society include:
* publishing the Journal Tropical Ecology, Proceedings and such other publications
as found desirable,
* organizing meetings, excursions, symposia and seminars at national and international
level,
* organizing training courses in ecology,
* securing and managing funds and endowments for the promotion of ecology, and
* collecting and maintaining a library of ecological literature
An international Executive Committee elected every four year is responsible for the administration of
the Society.
The Society has been registered in India (Registration No. 372) by the Registrar of Societies, Uttar
Pradesh, Varanasi, India.
The Society has a constitution which was amended in February 1989.
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