Preface

Abstract

It is a great honor for us, Faculty of Forestry of Hasanuddin University, to host the 3rd Biennial Conference of Tropical Biodiversity (3rd-BCTB) on August 8 - 9th, 2023, in Makassar City of South Sulawesi Province, Indonesia. The Biennial Conference of Tropical Biodiversity is a scientific forum to enhance science and technology, together with researchers, scientists, practitioners, and scholars to anticipate the impacts of climate change in biodiversity. This is also conducted to promote Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).The 3rd Biennial Conference of Tropical Biodiversity has performed a hybrid with a live meeting at Aston Hotel and Convention, Makassar, Indonesia, and a virtual conference instead of a live meeting. The 3rd Biennial Conference of Tropical Biodiversity theme was Biodiversity and Governance for Environment Valorization to Mitigate Climate Change. This international conference involves around 88 participants from 5 countries from: Germany, Australia, Japan, Malaysia, and Indonesia. The keynote speaker was Prof. Ts. Mohd. Nazip Suratman, Ph.D. from Universiti Teknologi MARA-Malaysia. The Invited Speakers were Prof. Dr. Martin Zimmer (Leibniz-Zentrum für Marine Tropenforschng-Germany), Prof. Dr. Takahiro Fujiwara (Kyushu University-Japan), Dr. Peter Christiaan Speldewinde (University of Western Australia), Dr. Christina Griffin (The University of Melbourne-Australia) and Dr. Ir. Roland Alexander Barkey (Hasanuddin University-Indonesia). Oral presenters and participants, and has five sub-themes, namely 1) mangrove ecosystem as carbon sink to achieve Indonesia’s FOLU net sink 2030, 2) community partnership for biodiversity conservation: social and policy, 3) ecological risk and natural disaster, 4) global biodiversity assessment: climate change impacts for biodiversity, and 5) biodiversity and ecotourism.Participant presentations were held in 3 sessions, and each session was divided into 3 rooms. The number of participants per room was 5-7 participants with an allocation of presentations for 7 minutes/participant conducted in parallel as many as three parallel sessions. Discussions sessions were held in parallel in each parallel session with an allocation of 3 minutes per participant. The Virtual BCTB conference implementation applied the zoom meeting application provided by the Faculty of Forestry, Universitas Hasanuddin. We received 95 abstracts in total, but after the review process, the committee accepted 52 manuscripts and rejected five manuscripts because they did not fit the sub themes.On behalf of the committee of this conference, we wish to convey our appreciation to the Minister of Environment and Forestry, the Rector of Hasanuddin University, and the Dean of Forestry Faculty for their support in ensuring the conference’s success. We want to thank the PT. Vale Indonesia, Kalla Group, AAS Foundation, PT. Inhutani 1 and the Ministry of Environment and Forestry unit in South Sulawesi for their valuable sponsorship of this international conference.Finally, we sincerely thank all committee members and a volunteer team of the Forestry Faculty at Hasanuddin University, who are committed and work hard for this international conference. We also sincerely thank all parties, including session chairs, Publication Management Center (PMC) of Universitas Hasanuddin, speakers, authors, and participants who made this conference meaningful and happening. We sincerely thank you for your generous support and look forward to working with you in the future.List of Conference Committee is available in this Pdf.