The Arctic Ungulate Conference (AUC) is an international conference held every four years. The UNESCO world heritage site at Røros in Norway will be the host for the upcoming AUC in August 2015.
The arctic and northern areas are facing great social-ecological changes by ongoing industrial developments and global climate change. These rapid changes creates great concerns for conservation of biological resources and the important human cultures found alongside reindeer and caribou. The conference will focus on how we best can meet these challenges and improve the interface between science and policy making through state of the art examples from both management and science on arctic ungulates. The theme of the conference – “the past, the present and the future” – allows us to look back at the 2nd Reindeer and Caribou Symposium held in Røros in 1979, and to highlight the evolution of research and management as well as identify the most appropriate future research and management directions.
This conference will provide an excellent opportunity for biologists, managers, researchers, students and resource users to discuss northern ungulate research and management with their circumpolar peers.
The Norwegian Environment Agency and Norwegian Institute for Nature Research are organizing this conference together with several co-organizers.
