Workshop on
Economic and Ecological Impacts of Invasive Alien Species
Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata
Asia Pacific Forest Invasive Species Network
Asia Pacific Forest Invasive Species Network (APFISN)
The Asia-Pacific Forest Invasive Species Network (APFISN) has been established as a response to the immense costs and threats posed by invasive alien species to the sustainable management of forests in the Asia-Pacific region. APFISN is a cooperative alliance of the 33 member countries in the Asia- Pacific Forestry Commission (APFC) - a statutory body of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). The network focuses on inter-country cooperation that helps to detect, prevent, monitor, eradicate and/or control forest invasive species in the region. The Secretariat of the APFISN is housed at the KFRI, India and NCIUBC in Beijing, China.
Organizers
Chief Patron
Prof Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay
Director
Indian Statistical Institute
Organizing committee
Prof Anjana Dewanji
Professor, Agricultural and Ecological Research Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata
Dr T. V. Sajeev
Senior Scientist and Research Coordinator, KFRI; Coordinator, APFISN
Dr K. V. Sankaran
Former Director, KFRI
​International Consultant of the FAO of the United Nations
A unique institution devoted to the research, teaching and application of statistics, natural sciences and social sciences. Founded by Professor P.C. Mahalanobis in Kolkata in 1931, the institute gained the status of an Institution of National Importance by an act of the Indian Parliament in 1959. Agricultural and Ecological Research Unit (AERU) of this institute, the host of this event, along with other activities is also actively engaged in plant invasion research.