BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//ChamberMaster//Event Calendar 2.0//EN METHOD:PUBLISH X-PUBLISHED-TTL:P3D REFRESH-INTERVAL:P3D CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20170112T230000Z DTEND:20170113T010000Z X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:FALSE SUMMARY:How Conservation Science Saves Species - Conservation Lecture at Palm Beach zoo DESCRIPTION:HOW CONSERVATION SCIENCE SAVES SPECIES: \n\nPalm Beach Zoo Conservation Leadership Lecture\n\nBy: Dr. Stuart Pimm\n\n Join us for an evening with a leader on present day extinctions and learn how conservation societies and communities are working to prevent them. January 12\, 2017\, 6-8pm.\n\nStuart Pimm is the Doris Duke Chair of Conservation Ecology at the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University. He studies present day extinctions and what can be done to prevent them. Pimm received his BSc degree from Oxford University in 1971 and his Ph.D. from New Mexico State University in 1974.\n\nPimm wrote the acclaimed assessment of the human impact to the planet: The World According to Pimm: a Scientist Audits the Earth in 2001. His commitment to the interface between science and policy has led to his testimony to both House and Senate Committees on the re-authorization of the Endangered Species Act. Pimm directs Saving Species\, a 501c3 non-profit that uses funds for carbon emissions offsets to fund local conservation groups to restore degraded lands in areas of exceptional tropical biodiversity.\n\nDoors open at 6 pm for this event\, please enter through our admission gate.\n\nCocktails & passed hors d'oeuvres included. Animal experiences will take place throughout the cocktail hour. Please purchase tickets in advance online.\n\nThank you to Bank of America for their generous sponsorship of this event. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:HOW CONSERVATION SCIENCE SAVES SPECIES:
\nPalm Beach Zoo Conservation Leadership Lecture
\nBy: Dr. Stuart Pimm
\n \;Join us for an evening with a leader on present day extinctions and learn how conservation societies and communities are working to prevent them. January 12\, 2017\, 6-8pm.
\nStuart Pimm is the Doris Duke Chair of Conservation Ecology at the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University. He studies present day extinctions and what can be done to prevent them. Pimm received his BSc degree from Oxford University in 1971 and his Ph.D. from New Mexico State University in 1974.
\nPimm wrote the acclaimed assessment of the human impact to the planet: The World According to Pimm: a Scientist Audits the Earth in 2001. His commitment to the interface between science and policy has led to his testimony to both House and Senate Committees on the re-authorization of the Endangered Species Act. Pimm directs Saving Species\, a 501c3 non-profit that uses funds for carbon emissions offsets to fund local conservation groups to restore degraded lands in areas of exceptional tropical biodiversity.
\nDoors open at 6 pm for this event\, please enter through our admission gate.
\nCocktails &\; passed hors d'\;oeuvres included. Animal experiences will take place throughout the cocktail hour. \; Please purchase tickets in advance \;online.
\nThank you to \;Bank of America \;for their generous sponsorship of this event.
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