The 2023 IALE World Congress will take place in Nairobi, Kenya, from 10th – 15th, July 2023. The IALE World Congress occurs every four years and is the premier event for landscape ecologists worldwide to address topics in landscape ecology that range from local to global in scale. During the World Congress, landscape ecologists from public, private, and non-profit sectors will address a broad spectrum of environmental challenges and their potential solutions. The 2023 World Congress will be a hybrid (online/in person) event and it is for the first time being hosted in the Global South.

Amongst this year's participants will be the BESTMAP partner Dr Tomás Václavík of the Palacký University Olomouc (UPOL), Czech Republic, where he will present on "The impact of agri-environment-climate measures on farmland biodiversity." The abstract for the conference, which Dr. Václavík will present can be found here.