{"id":32664,"date":"2013-03-06T23:12:26","date_gmt":"2013-03-07T04:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=32664"},"modified":"2013-03-06T23:12:26","modified_gmt":"2013-03-07T04:12:26","slug":"cob-hosts-first-natural-history-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2013\/03\/cob-hosts-first-natural-history-conference","title":{"rendered":"COB Hosts First Natural History Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-32665\" title=\"cob-bnt\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/cob-bnt.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/cob-bnt.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/cob-bnt-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/cob-bnt-250x187.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The first Bahamas National Natural History Conference began March 5 &#8211; and will continue until Friday at the College of the Bahamas.<\/p>\n<p>The conference, announced by deputy director of the Bahamas National Trust Lynn Gape and COB president Betsy Boze, is a collaboration between the college and the BNT.<\/p>\n<p>The mission of the conference is to create a forum for natural scientists to share their work with each other and the public, and to build relationships that encourage interdisciplinary research and conservation in the Bahamas.<\/p>\n<p>It is hoped that the event will also inspire new avenues of research and co-operation across disciplines.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Bahamas National Trust has been so pleased to work with the College of the Bahamas and we have been overwhelmed with the response from the scientific community, scientists from overseas and scientists from here in the Bahamas,\u201d said Lynn Gape.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Boze feels the conference will provide a great opportunity for co-operation amongst various parties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first Bahamas National Natural History Conference is a collaboration between The College of the Bahamas and the Bahamas National Trust to allow the sharing of research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[491],"tags":[21,76],"class_list":["post-32664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","tag-educational","tag-environment-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}