The Minnesota Zoo is pleased to offer the 2012 Our World Speaker Series. This free series introduces you to experts in local and global wildlife conservation and environmental issues. Registration will open one month prior to each event. Space is limited so pre-registration is required.
Cultivating the Wonder of Nature in Childhood
Speaker: David Sobel
Date: Sunday, March 18
Time: 7:00 – 9:00 p.m.
Mr. Sobel, a professor at Antioch University New England is a national leader in the place-based education movement. In his lecture, Mr. Sobel will discuss how the parent/child/nature relationship changes from early childhood to middle childhood to adolescence to early adulthood. He will challenge parents and educators to take advantage of the openness to nature found in childhood and provide frequent opportunities for children to adventurously be at-one in nature.
Dinosaurs Among Us: Saving the Last Sea Turtles
Speaker: Dr. Karen Eckert
Date: Wednesday, April 18
Time: 7:00 – 9:00 p.m.
Registration will open one month prior to this event.
Dr. Eckert, director of the United Nations' affiliated Wider Caribbean Sea Turtle Conservation Network (WIDECAST), will share her passion for sea turtle research and conservation. Her presentation will feature six species of Caribbean sea turtle, their ecology and conservation status, and the creative ways in which Caribbean communities are coming to their rescue.
Trumpeter Swans, Common Loons and the
Minnesota Zoo
Speaker: Jimmy Pichner
Date: Wednesday, May 9
Time: 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.
Registration will open one month prior to this event.
Mr. Pichner is the lead bird supervisor at the Minnesota Zoo where he has worked for over 30 years. Mr. Pichner will chronicle the Zoo’s involvement with the Minnesota trumpeter swan restoration program which has gone from near extinction to over 4000 birds in the wild. He will also chronicle the first successful hatching and successful rearing of a common loon in captivity and his work with loon mortality in the wild.
If you have registered and need to change or cancel your registration or if you have any questions, please feel free to email us at educate@mnzoo.org.
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