Category: Biodiversity News

The National Biodiversity Center (NBC) is pleased to invite interested audience to attend the upcoming talk on “Mollusk diversity of Bhutan” by a Mollusk Expert, Professor Edmund Gittenberger of Naturalis Biodiversity Centre, Netherlands.

The talk will touch upon the diversity, distribution, endemism and morphology of common snails of Bhutan. It is part of the ongoing project on documentation of selected taxa of invertebrates of Bhutan, funded by Bhutan Trust Fund for Environment Conservation (BTFEC) and implemented by NBC.

It is an open forum and a great opportunity to learn about the Mollusk (Snails) of Bhutan.

To facilitate logistical arrangement, please register your attendance at email info@nbc.gov.bt on or before 1^st April by 4:30 PM.

Following are details of the event:

Date: Monday 04^th April, 2016

Time: 09:30 AM -11 am

Venue: Department of Agriculture’s Conference Hall, Near RCSC, Thimphu

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