Ants of India
International Conference on Ants-7th ANeT
"A Red Listing Workshop would also be organized during Conference"
Red Listing the ants: what do we need to know? John Fellowes, Kadoorie Farm & Botanic Garden, Hong Kong and Carsten Brühl, Institute for Environmental Sciences, University, Landau, Germany The IUCN Red List Index – the trend in threatened status of species – is now an influential indicator of sustainable development as recognised in the Millennium Development Goals. But invertebrates are highly under-represented on the Red List. The IUCN is open to ants as a suitable indicator group but the decision is down to myrmecologists whether and how ants will be included in current research questions on biodiversity, conservation and climate change. Assessing a representative sample of ant species could help draw conservation attention to the world's most threatened insect communities, but there are many barriers. We would like to discuss some of these for Asia, including gaps in knowledge of for example taxonomy, ranges and habitat associations. We will also consider possible updates to Red List assessment methodology that strengthen its responsiveness to the emerging threat of climate change.The aim of the work shop is to provide a basic understanding of the IUCN Red Listing process and use some ant species as examples for specific categories and assessment criteria. After this introduction participants are invited to discuss the challenges, prospects and way forward for Red Listing, both in general and for their region or ant groups of interest.
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ANTS{ANeT Meeting -2009}
CIBODAS BOTANIC GARDEN
THE INDONESIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCES
CIANJUR-WEST JAVA, INDONESIASCHEDULE
DATE
TIME
PROGRAMME
VENUE
DAY 1
ARRIVAL
ARRIVAL OF PARTICIPANTS IN JAKARTA AND DEPARTURE TO CIBODAS
JAKARTA
ARRIVAL OF PARTICIPANTS AT CIBODAS AND REGISTRATION
CIBODAS
DAY2
(27th November,2009)
0800
INAUGURATION
CIBODAS
-do-
0900 - 1200
SESSION -1 (with tea)
CIBODAS
-do-
1230 - 1330
LUNCH
CIBODAS
-do-
1400 – 1700
SESSION -2 (with tea)
CIBODAS
-do-
2000 – 2200
WELCOME DINNER
CIBODAS
DAY 3
(28th November, 2009)
0800 - 1230
SESSION -3
CIBODAS
-do-
1230 - 1330
LUNCH
CIBODAS
-do-
1400 – 1700
SESSION -4
CIBODAS
-do-
2000 - 2200
COMMITTEE MEETING IN THE PRESENCE OF ALL ANeT MEMBERS
CIBODAS
DAY 4 and DAY 5 (29th and 30th November,2009) TRAINING COURSE ON VARIOUS COLLECTION TECHNIQUES FOR ANTS
CIBODAS
DAY 6
(Ist December,2009)
DEPARTURE OF PARTICIPANTS TO JAKARTA INTERNATIONAL AIR PORT
COMMITTEE
ANeT CORE COMMITTEE
President: Dr. Himender Bharti (India)
Vice-President: Dr. Suparoek Watansit (Thailand)
Committee: Dr. Rudy R. Kohout (Australia)
Dr. John R. Fellowes (U.K., Hong Kong)
Dr. Himender Bharti (India)
Mr. Omid Paknia (Iran)
Mr. Erwin Widodo (Indonesia)
Mr. Suputa M.P. (Indonesia)
Dr. Yoshiaki Hashimoto (Japan)
Dr. Kazuo Ogata (Japan)
Dr. Maryati Mohamed (Malaysia)
Dr. Kim Byung Jin (South Korea)
Dr. Dias R.K. Sriyani (Sri Lanka)
Dr. Decha Wiwatwitaya (Thailand)
Dr. Veit Bui Tuan (Vietnam)
Dr. K. Eguchi (Japan)
Secretary: Dr. Bakhtiar Effendi Yahya (Malaysia)
Ms. Petherine Jimbau (Malaysia)
INDONESIAN COMMITTEE
Dr. Rosichon Ubaidillah
ABOUT Cibodas Botanical Garden-The Venue for Conference(Click HERE)
Quite interestingly, Indonesia sports two different kinds of flora and fauna thereby making its vegetation a very distinctive one. Falling under the Melanesian region, Indonesia inherits this unique characteristic of having an impressive variety of 40, 000
species of plants. The flora family consists of around 6,000 species used for both traditional and medicinal purposes.Owing to the bountiful nature, a lot of Botanical gardens and Parks have emerged in and around the neighboring cities of Indonesia. Quite evidently, the capital city, Jakarta is the venue of one of Indonesia’s premier botanical gardens, Cibodas Botanical Garden. Also known as Cibodas National Garden and founded by J. E. Teysmann in 1862, this garden is well known as one of the first class tropical research stations in the world and has aided innumerable scientists in their research on tropical rain forests and is situated at the base of the Gunung Gede Pangrango National Park. The Garden is now a part of the Indonesian Institute of Sciences.
Cibodas Botanical garden is located at Rarahan village, Cimacan Cianjur. The distance is about 85 km from Jakarta or about 90 minutes tour through Bogor Puncak Cianjur main road.
Features of Cibodas Botanical Garden in Jakarta- The Garden is located at a high altitude of 1300-1425 meters on the slopes of Mount-Gede Pangrango. The Garden is spread over a huge area and has an uneven topography interspersed by rugged terrain, valleys and waterfalls.
- The Cibodas botanical Garden has an exotic species of plants but the natural formations (sub montane and moss) are the finest examples to be relished in the whole of Java. The current collection of the park counts 5831 living specimens from 1206 species.
- The exclusive collection consists of a rich fern collection, floral gardens, cacti and succulents, bamboo, palms and conifers collection. The local favorites include orchids, Indonesian Oak and chestnut and Javanese Rhododendron.
- The Garden houses a herbarium and a seed museum for the purpose of research, development and conservation. The 649 species of seeds present in the seed museum are used for seed identification whereas the 1503 species are the pride of the herbarium.
- The Garden is a landmark in history as it was the first site for Quinine cultivation in Indonesia. The first plant was imported from South America. Same goes for the Eucalyptus species from Australia and conifers from America that frequents the landscape now.
- Plants like Acacia, camellia and other temperate species also feature in the collection of the garden for decorative and commercial purpose.
- The Garden’s terrain offers good conditions for trekking and is dotted with beautiful waterfalls natural as well as manmade which make for good resting sites.
- The Cibodas Botanical Garden maintains a guest house, library and nursery which provide for accommodation and research facilities to the research workers and visiting students.
- Links for more information on indonesia:
TENTATIVE Cost/EXPENDITURE FOR ATTENDING CONFERENCE
a. Cibodas Guest house : Rp 125,000/day/person
b. Food three time meals+ 2 time snacks : Rp 100,000/day/person
c. Transportation (Jakarta-Cibodas return by bus) : Rp 100,000/person
d. Miscellaneous cost : Rp 100,000
e. Total cost: About USD 100
LIST OF PARTICIPANTS(Click for Abstracts)*
- Kharbani, H. Department of Zoology North Eastern Hill University, Shillong-22, Meghalaya, India.
- Hajong, S. R. Department of Zoology North Eastern Hill University, Shillong-22, Meghalaya, India.
- Mizue Ohashi, University of Hyogo,Japan.
- Yasuo Hagiwara, Showa University,Japan
- Sumie Toda, University of Hyogo, Japan
- Seiki Yamane, Kagoshima University,Japan.
- Dolly Kumar,Division of Entomology,Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, The Maharaja Sayajirao University ofBaroda,Vadodara, GujaratIndia.
- Archana Mishra,Division of Entomology,Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, The Maharaja Sayajirao University ofBaroda,Vadodara, Gujarat ,India. .
- Ahmad Taufiq ARMINUDIN, Faculty of Agriculture, Gadjah Mada University Bulaksumur, Yogyakarta 55281, Indonesia.
- Nugroho Susetya Putra, Faculty of Agriculture, Gadjah Mada University Bulaksumur, Yogyakarta 55281, Indonesia.
- SUPAROEK WATANASIT,Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Prince of Songkla University, Hat Yai,Thailand.
- Adullao Paoma,Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Prince of Songkla University, Hat yai, Songkhla, Thailand, 90112.
- Riho Nakai, Ikeda High School, Nishibeppu 1680, Kagoshima, 890-0033 Japan.
- Watasu Nishikubo, Ikeda High School, Nishibeppu 1680, Kagoshima, 890-0033 Japan.
- Yutaka HARADA, Ikeda High School, Nishibeppu 1680, Kagoshima, 890-0033 Japan.
- Sumie Toda, University of Hyogo, Japan.
- Shalva Barjadze, Lab of Entomology, Institute of Zoology of Ilia Chavchavadze State University, Chavchavadze av. 31, Tbilisia, Georgia.
- Nana Gratiashvili, Lab of Entomology, Institute of Zoology of Ilia Chavchavadze State University, Chavchavadze av. 31, Tbilisia, Georgia.
- Carsten Brühl, Institute for Environmental Sciences, University Landau, Germany.
- Martin PFEIFFER,Department ofExperimentalEcology,University of Ulm, Albert-Einstein-Allee 11, D-89069 Ulm Germany.
- Dirk Mezger, Department of ExperimentalEcology,University of Ulm, Albert-Einstein-Allee 11, D-89069 Ulm Germany.
- Nawee NOON-ANANT, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Prince of Songkla University, Hat Yai, Songkhla Province, THAILAND 90112.
- Omid Paknia, Department of ExperimentalEcology,University of Ulm, Albert-Einstein-Allee 11, D-89069 Ulm Germany.
- Henny HERWINA, Department of Biology Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Andalas University, Padang, West Sumatra, Indonesia, 25163.
- YAHERWANDI, Faculty of Agriculture, Andalas University, Padang, West Sumatra, Indonesia, 25163.
- Siti SALMAH, Department of Biology Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Andalas University, Padang, West Sumatra, Indonesia, 25163.
- John R. Fellowes, School of Social Sciences and Law, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford OX3 0BP, UK.
- Simon K.A. Robson, School of Marine & Tropical Biology, James Cook University, Townsville 4811, Australia
- Nur Aisya Petherine Jimbau, Institute for Tropical Biology and Conservation, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Locked Bag No. 2073, 88999, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia.
- Yasuo Hagiwara, Showa University, Japan.
- Katsuyuki Eguchi, Department of International Health, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University, 1-12-4 Sakamoto, Nagasaki City, 852-8523, Japan.
- A. Regupathy, Department of Agricultutal Entomology, Madurai Tamil Nadu Agricultural University Coimbatore-641 003, India.
- Abdulloh Samoh,Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Prince of Songkla University, Hat yai, Songkhla, Thailand, 90112.
- Yoshiaki Hashimoto (Hyogo University / Museum of Nature and Human Activities, Hyogo, Japan),Hyogo University / Museum of Nature and Human Activities, Hyogo 6chome Yayoigaoka Sanda Hyogo, Japan 669-1546.
- T. Endo, Kobe College,Hyogo University / Museum of Nature and Human Activities, Hyogo 6chome Yayoigaoka Sanda Hyogo, Japan 669-1546.
- T. Ichioka (Kyoto Univ.),Hyogo University / Museum of Nature and Human Activities, Hyogo 6chome Yayoigaoka Sanda Hyogo, Japan 669-1546.
- Malihe akbarzade, Student of biology, faculty of sciences, Gorgan university of Agricultural sciences and natural Resources, Iran
- Nassim Vakhide, Student of biology, faculty of sciences, Gorgan university of Agricultural sciences and natural Resources, Iran.
- Abdulloh Samoh, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Prince of Songkla University, Hat yai, Songkhla, Thailand, 90112.
- Balasubramanian C, Department of Zoology, Thiagarajar College, Madurai, TamilNadu.
- Murugan. R, Department of Zoology, Thiagarajar College, Madurai, TamilNadu.
- P.VinayagaMoorthi, Department of Zoology, Thiagarajar College, Madurai, TamilNadu.
- Seiki Yamane,Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Kagoshima University, Kagoshima, Japan.
- WeeyawatJaitrong,Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Kagoshima University, Kagoshima, Japan.
- Himender Bharti, Department of Zoology, Punjabi University Patiala, Punjab, India.
- Saini, M.S., Department of Zoology, Punjabi University Patiala, Punjab, India.
