provides a forum for the discussion of current, sometimes controversial issues. Feature articles and book reviews provide resources for tropical biologists with diverse interests. Tropinet also brings news of meetings, new publications, grants, and employment opportunities to tropical biologists. Launched with a grant from the World Wildlife Fund, Tropinet is published by the ATBC jointly with the Organization for Tropical Studies (OTS) and is distributed to members of ATBC and to other interested readers in electronic format, via a web link or by a download from the ATBC website. Current and back issues of Tropinet are also posted on the ATBC website. To view the Winter/Spring 2008 Tropinet online in PDF format, please visit Here. Read the paper by Paul E. Ouboter and David S. Hammond Biological and Environmental research in Suriname.