Next Monday, March 12, will be the next monthly meeting of the Cayuga Bird Club. Our speakers will be Alizé Carrère, National Geographic Explorer & Cultural Ecologist and Shawn Billerman, NSF Postdoctoral Fellow at the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology. Alizé's presentation is titled: Adapt and Thrive: Creatively Living in a Climate- Changed WorldIn 2012, Alizé received support from National Geographic to conduct research in Madagascar, where she spent several months uncovering an unlikely agricultural adaptation in response to severe deforestation. Learning of farmers who were turning erosional gullies into fertile pockets of farmland, her work evolved into a greater story of creativity and resourcefulness among the oft-repeated narrative of climate doom. Shawn will begin the program with an introduction to the birds of Madagascar and the habitats they depend on.This will set the stage for Alizé , who will talk about the environmental degradation she has seen and the human responses to climate change she has studied. With the persistence of climate change, people across the world are experimenting daily with different adaptive methods on the ground. At a time when doomsday narratives dominate the current climate conversation, adaptation plays an increasingly vital role for both its practical application and as a hopeful reminder of our resilience as a species. The meeting will be held at the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology. Doors open at 7:00 pm and there will be cookies and conversation starting at 7:15. Bird club business begins at 7:30 pm followed by the presentation. All are welcome, but seating is limited and if room capacity is reached, the building will be locked, so come early! Members are invited to join Alizé for dinner at Aladdin's in Collegetown just before the meeting at 5:30 p.m. Please RSVP to Colleen Richards at cl...@juno.com by noon Monday so reservations can be made.Colleen RichardsCorresponding SecretaryCayuga Bird Club ____________________________________________________________ Royal Family Tragedy Unfolds risingstarnewspaper.com http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/5aa169561f1a069557ac8st02duc --
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