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Wed, Apr 12 2023, 9:30am - 10:30am
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Conservation Panel - Lemurs and Langurs: Examining on the ground strategy implementation

Planet Madagascar will be joining us to talk all about lemurs and the important in situ work being done to protect Madagasar’s unique biodiversity. Travis Steffens, Planet Madagascar’s founder and director, will speak to the amazing biodiversity of Madagascar including lemurs, the most endangered group of animals in the world. He will be joined by Malagasy researchers, Mamy Razafitsalama, the in-country director of Planet Madagascar, and Dr. Bertrand Andriatsitohaina, a former Program Manager. Both will speak about the importance of incorporating community members into conservation, how they’re pivotal to the success of each project, as well as the role of fire and its impacts on lemurs and the people in Madagascar.

Date & Time: Wed, Apr 12 2023, 9:30am - 10:30am
Location: HL 303 ANT Lab
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Two different species of lemurs climbing on branches
Conservation Panel - Lemurs and Langurs: Examining on the ground strategy implementation
Date & Time: Wed, Apr 12 2023, 9:30am - 10:30am
Location: HL 303 ANT Lab

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Laura Beach is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Toronto. They are a broadly trained scholar with expertise in the areas of criminalization, incarceration, mental health/illness, regimes of care, humanitarianism, settler-colonialism, gender and sexuality, and queer theory.

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Michael Herzfeld is Ernest E. Monrad Research Professor of the Social Sciences, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University; IIAS Professor of Critical Heritage Studies Emeritus, Leiden University; Chang Jiang Scholar/Visiting Professor, Shanghai International Studies University; and Professorial Fellow, Faculty of Humanities, University of Melbourne

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