The Kerala University of Fisheries and Ocean Studies (Kufos) will host a three-day international conference on wetlands at its Panangad campus from November 19.
B. Meenakumari, former chairman of the National Biodiversity Authority, will inaugurate the ‘Tropical BioSummit 2025’ conference at 10:30 a.m. with the theme ‘Reviving Wetlands, Restoring the Balance’.
The conference is being organized in collaboration with the Center for Tropical Biodiversity Conservation, A. Biju Kumar, vice-chancellor of the university, told reporters here on Tuesday.
Conservationists and environmental policy makers, including Jörg Freyhof of the Natural History Museum in Berlin; Steve Lockett, Managing Director, Mahseer Trust, UK; KHML Amaralal, Deputy Director General, National Water Resources Research and Development Agency, Sri Lanka; MV Ramana Murthy, Mission Director of India’s Deep Ocean Mission; and Ritesh Kumar, director of Wetlands International (South Asia), will attend.
The university will also host an Indo-European workshop on “One-Health Monitoring of Wetlands” on December 8 and a Blue and Green Climate LitFest on December 17. The International Seaweed Symposium will be held in March next year, said Dr. Biju Kumar.
K. Dinesh, Secretary, Kufos; VP Limna Mol, organizing secretary of the conference, and Anoop Vijayakumar of the Center for Tropical Biodiversity Conservation.
Published – 18 Nov 2025 23:29 IST
