Earthwatch Lectures

Forests and Climate Change and Conserving Biodiversity in the Americas lectures coming up

Founded in 1971, Earthwatch is an international environmental charity which engages people worldwide in scientific field research and education to promote the understanding and action necessary for a sustainable environment.

Earthwatch Lecture – Forests and Climate Change

Thursday 26th March, 7.00pm-8.30pm at the Royal Geographical Society, 1 Kensington Gore, London SW7 2AR

Our forests, home to an extraordinary range of biodiversity, and arguably one of our greatest safeguards against climate change, continue to be depleted at an alarming rate.  How can we set about securing their future?

Chaired by explorer Paul Rose, the speakers are Dr. Mika Peck of the University of Sussex (Climate Change, Canopies, and Wildlife in Ecuador), and Dr. Dan Bebber, Head of Climate Change Research, Earthwatch (The Footprint in the Forest).  

Website:  http://www.earthwatch.org/europe/get_involved/events08/lecture09-forests/

Ticket only - free to students and current Earthwatch donors; otherwise a donation will be requested on the door.

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Earthwatch Lecture – Conserving Biodiversity in the Americas

Thursday 7th May, 7.00pm-8.30pm at the Royal Geographical Society, 1 Kensington Gore, London SW7 2AR
Speakers: Dr. Richard Bodmer (Durrell Institute of Conservation & Ecology, and the Wildlife Conservation Society) & Dr. Kathleen Sullivan Sealey (University of Miami).  Chaired by explorer, writer and TV presenter Dr. George McGavin.

The very fact that the Amazon and the Caribbean are such attractive locations renders them all the more vulnerable to over-exploitation.  Hear how Earthwatch scientists are addressing this issue in the Peruvian Amazon and on the coasts of the Bahamas.

Website: http://www.earthwatch.org/europe/get_involved/events08/lecture09-americas/

Ticket only - free to students and current Earthwatch donors; otherwise a donation will be requested on the door.

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