Tropical Forest Conservation: Problems and Progress

Tropical Forest Conservation: Problems and Progress  
Saturday, October 2
9:00 am – 3:00 pm

In partnership with Northeast Ohio Sierra Club Rainforest Committee and the InterReligious Task Force on Central America and Colombia, Cleveland Botanical Garden held this important symposium.

Intended for anyone with an interest in international conservation, the symposium focused 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 included:

o Dr. Liliana Davalos (SUNY Stony Brook) on illicit drug cultivation and deforestation in Colombia and the effects on biodiversity.
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o Jess Hunter-Bowman (Witness for Peace) on fumigation of drug plants and human rights violations.
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o Dr. Marilyn Loveless (College of Wooster) on the impact of timber extraction on neotrpical tree species.
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o Jeremy St. John King  and Susan Studer King (Denison University) on oil, logging, and colonization in the Ecuadorian Amazon.
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