Please join HCC in a discussion about the connections among conservation efforts in different parts of the globe. The discussion will highlight how conservation efforts happening all over the globe can affect each other. Don Church, Director of Wildlands Conservation for Global Wildlife Conservation, will focus on how projects in Guatemala and elsewhere in the Neotropics are interconnected with conserving migratory birds here in the Hill Country of Texas. Global Wildlife Conservation is a science-based organization working globally to protect the world’s species and their habitats.

Panelist:

Moderated by: George Cofer, HCC Executive Director

Don Church, Director of Wildlands Conservation, Global Wildlife Conservation

Thursday, February 16th

Green Pastures Restaurant

811 Live Oak Street
Austin, TX 78704

Registration/Lunch begins at 11:30am
Presentation 12:00pm -1:00pm

(Registration fees include gourmet vegetarian and meat buffet) 

Dr. Church is Global Wildlife Conservation's President and Director of Wildlands Conservation. He works to identify global conservation priorities and conducts fieldwork with local partners to develop projects aimed at conserving globally threatened species and their habitats. Prior to joining GWC in 2010, he served as Director of Biodiversity Research at Conservation International in Washington D.C. http://www.globalwildlife.org/