By Joan Hoffman Human predation is rooted in the financial gain to be made from selling various species and their parts. Four of our wildlife and environmental specialists from our prior brown bag lunch talks at John Jay College: Julie…
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Species loss and the need for environmental education are common themes discussed by SEJ experts
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Reporting back from the Galapagos
By Mary Ting During winter break, I had the opportunity to be part of a twelve-day tortoise conservation-focused tour to the Galapagos Islands organized by Russell Burke, biology professor at Hofstra University. The group included a number of noted turtle scientists,…
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Brown bag lunch talk: Reporting back from the Galapagos
Professor Mary Ting will discuss her 12-day trip to the Galapagos Islands with a special emphasis on giant Galapagos turtle-breeding, during a brown bag lunch on February 26, 2015, at 1:40 p.m. at John Jay College (Manhattan) in room 7.63.42, new building (English…
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Green criminology and illegal logging in Peru
The problem of illegal logging in Peru raises compelling questions about the ability of governments to effectively protect the Amazonian rain forest– and the communities that rely upon it– from criminal exploitation, explains a recent article in National Geographic. Agents from Peru’s…
Posted in In the News, Uncategorized Tagged with: Environmental Crime, Environmental Justice, Forests, Green Criminology, International, Logging, Peru, Rainforest, South America, Timber, Trees
