THE LINNAEAN SOCIETY OF NEW YORK SPEAKERS PROGRAM
Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009, 7:30 p.m.
The American Museum of Natural History, Linder Theater
Speaker: David S. Wilcove, Professor of Ecology, Evolutionary Biology & Public
Affairs, Princeton University
Subject: The Case of the Killer Potato Chip: Oil Palm Agriculture,
Deforestation, and Species Endangerment in Borneo
Southeast Asia is widely recognized as one of the hottest of the
world's biodiversity hotspots, due in large part to the rapid rate at which the
region's forests are being logged or converted to agricultural land. The most
rapidly expanding crop in the region--indeed throughout the tropics--is oil
palm. Wilcove will discuss the impacts of oil palm agriculture on birds and
butterflies in Borneo and mainland Malaysia. He will then compare the impacts
of oil palm to the impacts of logging. He will close with some recommendations
for addressing the threat that oil palm poses to biodiversity in Southeast Asia.
David Wilcove received his Ph.D. in 1985 from Yale University. He is
the author of The Condor's Shadow: The Loss and Recovery of Wildlife in America
(1999) and numerous scientific publications, book chapters, and popular
articles dealing with conservation biology, endangered species, biogeography,
and ornithology. He is also the author of No Way Home: The Decline of the
World's Great Animal Migrations published in 2008.
The meeting is open to the public, without charge. Please join us for
what promises to be a very exciting talk. Enter the Museum at West 77th Street.
If you would like to meet Dr. Wilcove prior to the talk, join us at
Pappardella's Restaurant, 75th Street and Columbus Avenue at 6 p.m. The
reservation will be in the name of Alice.
Alice Deutsch, Vice President
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