The association: Brin de forêt (Master BioGET)

Brin de Forêt isan association whose ambition is to organizescientificevents on current issues in ecologyandbiodiversity protection. The association creates a network for exchanges between researchersworking at national and international levels, studentsand people with a general interest in ecological issues. By bringing together the general public, researchers, professionals and students, we aim to promote the disseminationof knowledge relating toecology andman'splaceinthe ecosystem.

The association is made up of students from theBioGET(Plant Biodiversity and Management of Tropical Ecosystems) Master's program at the University of Montpellier. Each year, this Master's program organizes a conference on a topical issue intropical plant ecology.

Thus, the Brin de Forêt association was created in 2014 to organize the colloquium on"Payments for Environmental Services". In 2016, the conference focused on"Climate change and its impacts on tropical ecosystems". The following year, the theme was"Biodiversity erosion". Last year, it was"Ecological engineering in the tropics", and in 2019, it will focus on"Ethnobotany: plants and people, linked destinies in the tropics".

2019 Edition

True to its values, the Brin de Forêt association will be organizing a scientific symposium next January (2019), highlighting the biodiversity of tropical environments and the place of Man in these environments. An opportunity to discuss/discover the themeof Ethnobotany!

"Plants and people: linked destinies in the tropics".

From tropical biodiversity to the links between it and societies, this symposium is intended to be cross-disciplinary, covering a wide range of ecology and social science topics, such as conservation, plant biology and local knowledge.

🌎PROGRAMME🌎

1.45pm: Introduction to the symposium

2pm:Georges Metailié(Honorary Member of the Alexandre Koyré Center) will present the history of Ethnobotany: concepts, emergence of the term, definition and evolution.

3pm:Michel Chauvet(Researcher at CIRAD). He will present examples of ethnobotanical practices in Africa.

Gourmet snack 🙂

4pm:Doyle McKey(Professor and researcher at CEFE) will use various examples to illustrate biocultural interactions between humans and plants.

5pm:Sandrine Gallois(Post-doctoral researcher at Leiden University - Harvest Project) will give a concrete example of an ethnobotany project with her thesis, which focused on the study of environmental knowledge among the Baka, partly thanks to an innovative method of working with children.

6 p.m.: Round table, conclusion and buffet

🌵 PRACTICAL INFORMATION 🌵

The symposium will take place onMonday, January 21, 2019 at 1:30 pm at the Dumontet amphitheater,Triolet campus (Tram line 1- "Université des Sciences et des Lettres stop").