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Defending Russian Nature Today

Event time: 
Monday, April 2, 2018 - 4:00pm to 6:00pm
Location: 
Henry R. Luce Hall (LUCE ), 203 See map
34 Hillhouse Avenue
New Haven, CT 06511
Speaker/Performer: 
Fred Strebeigh, senior lecturer, Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies and Department of English, Yale
Event description: 

Defending Russian Nature Today: Russian conservationists continue to protect and expand the world’s largest system of strict nature reserves (the globe’s highest level of protection as defined by the International Union for Conservation of Nature), the zapovednik system begun in January 1917.

Bio: Fred Strebeigh , senior lecturer in the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies and Department of English, has written about Russia’s nature reserves for the British Broadcasting Corporation, the New York Times, Russian Life, Sierra, and Smithsonian (see ). He will discuss continent-wide activity, including among young people, of conservationists today in Russia.