magazines, and charted the progress of shows, membership, and conservation projects. In May several PS members visited Brazil to see three of these conservation projects first hand. The whole Brazilian adventure has been detailed in the commemorative book ‘Brazil 2016 – Conservation in Action’, now available at all our shows and on-line via our website. All profits from the sale of this book will go back to the PSUK Conservation Fund. Throughout the year, the specially designed 50th anniversary logo has marked this milestone, and celebrations culminated with our highly successful and well- received anniversary seminar at Chester Zoo in September.


The quality of speakers and the range of subjects covered were such that all PSUK members should have the opportunity to benefit from the event. Unfortunately the video recording of the meeting was not of sufficient quality to be able to offer copies on disk for sale, but short clips may be posted on our website, and meanwhile a series of articles summarising the content of the talks, with some pictures illustrating the event, will appear in our magazine. The over-all theme of the seminar was


Worldwide Conservation Projects in Birds. It would have been very easy simply to present a catalogue of projects involving different species, but our excellent speakers gave a variety of approaches to


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