Conference on rivers in Hindu Kush Himalaya

International Conference on Rivers in the Hindu Kush- Himalaya Ecology and Environmental Assessment is going to be held from 3-7 March 2008 at Kathmandu, Nepal.

The conference aims at:

• disseminating the project's results to students, water managers and scientists
• exchanging of knowledge about biological methods used in the Asian countries
• serving as a forum to discuss aspects of Himalayan river ecology, the taxonomic status of the HKH river fauna, water quality monitoring and the protection of aquatic biodiversity in the Hindu Kush-Himalayan region with local and international representatives of theoretic and applied river ecology.

For more information: http://ku.edu.np/aec/index.php?go=conference or

http://www.assess-hkh.at/mains/conference.php