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ARE YOU LOOKING FOR GRADUATE TRAINING IN REAL-WORLD CONSERVATION BIOLOGY?

Do you want a conservation biology graduate program with the best experiential learning opportunities in the world?

Our students, for their classes and seminars:

• Wrote the management plan for endangered golden-headed lion tamarins (monkeys) for all North American zoos.
• Reviewed four species of plants for the Office of Scientific Authority (US Fish and Wildlife Service) and decided which to recommend for inclusion in the international CITES treaty.
• Worked for Monitor International to reconcile differences between an international treaty (CITES) and a regional treaty (SPAW) protecting endangered Caribbean species.
• Consulted to the Maryland Department of Natural Resources concerning the problems caused by a growing population of bears and made recommendations on how to solve them.
• Advised the World Wildlife Fund on the potential for using a business stewardship council to promote sustainable development in the Russian Far East Ecoregion.

Do you want a graduate program located in the world's largest concentration of federal and state agencies, multinational banks, and non-government organizations that dominate national and international conservation efforts?

We're located just outside Washington, D.C. (8 miles from the White House), and we have established professional relationships with many of these organizations where you'll find abundant internship and job opportunities. In fact, most of our students find jobs here before graduating. For information about job placement, see the alumni directory on our program's home page.

Do you want a small graduate program with an outstanding cohort of peers?

• Our program has 40 students from 10 countries, all with outstanding academic credentials. 80% of our students have two or more years of work experience before joining our program.

Do you want a graduate program with a strong yet flexible set of course requirements?

• Our students take core courses in ecology, policy, resource economics, and problem-solving, seminar courses, and electives in several colleges across the campus. The University of Maryland has 35,000 students and offers all the advantages of academic, cultural and intellectual diversity to be found on a large campus, and the museums and cultural resources of the nation's capital.

Do you want a graduate program with opportunities for financial support?

• Each year about 1/4 of our new students are awarded Graduate School fellowships, and most students who seek teaching assistantships are awarded them.

If these are the criteria you're looking for in a graduate program in conservation biology, consider applying to the graduate program in Sustainable Development and Conservation Biology at the University of Maryland, College Park. For more information, see the program's home page at www.umd.edu/CONS or contact:

CONS program

Department of Biology

University of Maryland

College Park, MD 20742-4415 USA

Tel phone: 301-405-7409

FAX: 301-314-9358

e-mail: consoffc@umail.umd.edu

Directors: David W. Inouye and James M. Dietz

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