Sat 10/2 @ 9AM – 3PM
We don’t need to tell you that tropical forests are far from home. Duh. (After all, there is nothing tropical about NEO.) But out of sight isn’t out of mind. The state of our planet’s tropical forests affects everyone — even us. Learn all about international conservation @ Tropical Forest Conservation: Problems and Progress symposium @ Cle Botanical Garden.
Info:
Intended for anyone with an interest in international conservation, the symposium will focus on threats to the forests of South America posed by industrial agriculture, extractive industries and large scale fumigation, in addition to the consequences of forest degradation for human populations in the region.
Featured speakers include:
o Dr. Liliana Davalos (SUNY Stony Brook) on illicit drug cultivation and deforestation in Colombia and the effects on biodiversity.
o Jess Hunter-Bowman (Witness for Peace) on fumigation of drug plants and human rights violations.
o Dr. Marilyn Loveless (College of Wooster) on the impact of timber extraction on neotrpical tree species.
o Jeremy St. John King and Susan Studer King (Denison University) on oil, logging, and colonization in the Ecuadorian Amazon.
Register now.
Presented by the Northeast Ohio Sierra Club Rainforest Committee and the InterReligious Task Force on Central America and Colombia.
Cleveland Botanical Garden – 11030 East Boulevard
http://CBGarden.org/Events/TropicalForestSymposium.html