Little forest

President: Charlotte Guichard
Secretary: Julia Hégédus
Treasurer: Germain Vital

The association's activities and objectives

Brin de Forêt is an association whose ambition is to organize scientific events on current issues in ecology and biodiversity protection. The association creates a network of exchanges between researchers, students and people interested in ecological issues. By bringing together the general public, researchers, professionals and students, we aim to promote the dissemination of knowledge relating to ecology and the place of humans in ecosystems through a symposium and cultural and educational projects.

The association is run by students in the BioGET (Plant Biology and Management of Tropical Ecosystems) course in the B2E Master's program at the University of Montpellier. Within this framework, a colloquium on a topical subject concerning tropical ecosystems is organized every year. Since 2014, the association has addressed the topics of "Payments for Environmental Services", "Climate change and its impacts on tropical ecosystems", "Biodiversity erosion", "Ecological engineering in the tropics", "Ethnobotany: plants and people, linked destinies in the tropics" and "Do women and men have the same relationship with tropical ecosystems?". This year's symposium will focus on the myth of the rainforest, with a reflection on the place of human societies in tropical ecosystems. Speakers from a wide range of disciplines will take turns to fuel debate on this topic.