Re: [cayugabirds-l] Monday Night Seminar - Amanda Rodewald: Coffee, Communities, and Conservation

[Peter]

Cool.

Nice to be there remotely. Marc can I access this after the fact?

Hope you are well.

Pete Sar


On 9/29/2016 3:18 PM, Marc Devokaitis wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>
> The Fall 2016 series of Monday Night Seminars at the Cornell Lab of 
> Ornithology kicks off this coming Monday, October 3, at 7:30 pm, and 
> features the Cornell Lab’s Director of Conservation Science, Dr. 
> Amanda Rodewald . 
>  As always, the seminars are held in the auditorium, and free and open 
> to the public. The doors open at 7:00.
>
> We will be streaming this seminar live. Bookmark 
> http://dl.allaboutbirds.org/cornelllab-monday-night-seminars for quick 
> access on Monday evening.Thanks for helping spread the word!
>
> */Monday, October 3^rd , 7:30pm/*
>
> *Coffee, Communities, and Conservation: How your cup can make a 
> difference*
>
> Amanda Rodewald, Garvin Professor of Ornithology and Director of 
> Conservation Science
>
> Accelerating rates of land conversion for agriculture, development, 
> and resource extraction in much of Latin America have challenged us to 
> identify creative ways to sustain biodiversity, protect critical 
> ecosystem services, and support human health and well-being within 
> “working landscapes.”  Shade-grown coffee farms are especially 
> well-suited to simultaneously meet a variety of economic, social, and 
> ecological needs. When coffee is grown under trees, the system can 
> provide a variety of products (e.g., coffee, fruits, firewood, lumber, 
> and medicines), while at the same time maintain forest cover, support 
> biodiversity, and reduce erosion and chemical use compared to other 
> intensive agricultural systems. Perhaps no other group better 
> highlights the positive role that shade-coffee can play in 
> conservation than Neotropical Migratory birds, which heavily use 
> shade-coffee farms. Unfortunately, traditional shade management has 
> given way to more intensive uses like “sun coffee” monocultures that 
> promise higher productivity but at greater environmental cost and 
> potentially more economic risk.  This shift in practice has prompted 
> conservation organizations to develop incentives for sound 
> environmental stewardship that also support livelihoods.  In this 
> talk, I will discuss how shade-coffee and other agroforestry practices 
> can support bird conservation, healthy ecosystems, and ultimately 
> human communities in Latin America.
>
> _Upcoming MNS:_
>
> //
>
> /November 7 /
>
> *Screening: Sonic Sea, featuring a Q with Dr. Christopher Clark*
>
> *(@Cornell Cinema)*
>
> Come to the Cornell Cinema to watch “Sonic Sea” in this special free 
> screening hosted by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Oceans are a sonic 
> symphony. Sound is essential to the survival and prosperity of marine 
> life, but man-made ocean noise is threatening this fragile world. 
> Sonic Sea is about protecting life in our waters from the destructive 
> effects of oceanic noise pollution. After the screening, join a Q 
> discussion with Dr. Christopher Clark who is featured in the film.
>
> //
>
> /December 5 /
>
> *Cat Wars: The Devastating Consequences of a Cuddly Killer*
>
> Peter Marra, Head, Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center
>
>
> In 1894, lighthouse keepers arrived on Stephens Island off New Zealand 
> with a cat, supposedly named Tibbles. In just over a year, the 
> Stephens Island Wren, a rare bird endemic to the island, was rendered 
> extinct. Mounting scientific evidence confirms what many 
> conservationists have suspected for some time—that in the United 
> States alone, free-ranging cats are killing birds and other animals by 
> the billions. Equally alarming are the little-known but potentially 
> devastating public health consequences of rabies and parasitic 
> /Toxoplasma/ passing from cats to humans at rising rates. /Cat 
> Wars/ tells the story of the threats free-ranging cats pose to 
> biodiversity and public health throughout the world, and sheds new 
> light on the controversies surrounding the management of the explosion 
> of these cat populations.
>
> Marra will trace the historical and cultural ties between humans and 
> cats from early domestication to the current boom in pet ownership, 
> along the way accessibly explaining the science of extinction, 
> population modeling, and feline diseases. He will chart the 
> developments that have led to our present impasse—from Stan Temple’s 
> breakthrough studies on cat predation in Wisconsin to cat-eradication 
> programs underway in Australia today.  Marra will also describe how a 
> small but vocal minority of cat advocates has campaigned successfully 
> for no action in much the same way that special interest groups have 
> stymied attempts to curtail smoking and climate change. The outdoor 
> cat issue/ is a /complex global problem—*Cat Wars* proposes solutions 
> that foresee a time when wildlife and humans are no longer vulnerable 
> to the impacts of 

[cayugabirds-l] Monday Night Seminar - Amanda Rodewald: Coffee, Communities, and Conservation

[Marc Devokaitis]

Hello all,



The Fall 2016 series of Monday Night Seminars at the Cornell Lab of
Ornithology kicks off this coming Monday, October 3, at 7:30 pm, and
features the Cornell Lab’s Director of Conservation Science, Dr. Amanda
Rodewald .  As always,
the seminars are held in the auditorium, and free and open to the public.
The doors open at 7:00.

We will be streaming this seminar live. Bookmark
http://dl.allaboutbirds.org/cornelllab-monday-night-seminars for quick
access on Monday evening. Thanks for helping spread the word!



*Monday, October 3rd, 7:30pm*

*Coffee, Communities, and Conservation: How your cup can make a difference*

Amanda Rodewald, Garvin Professor of Ornithology and Director of
Conservation Science



Accelerating rates of land conversion for agriculture, development, and
resource extraction in much of Latin America have challenged us to identify
creative ways to sustain biodiversity, protect critical ecosystem services,
and support human health and well-being within “working landscapes.”
Shade-grown coffee farms are especially well-suited to simultaneously meet
a variety of economic, social, and ecological needs. When coffee is grown
under trees, the system can provide a variety of products (e.g., coffee,
fruits, firewood, lumber, and medicines), while at the same time maintain
forest cover, support biodiversity, and reduce erosion and chemical use
compared to other intensive agricultural systems. Perhaps no other group
better highlights the positive role that shade-coffee can play in
conservation than Neotropical Migratory birds, which heavily use
shade-coffee farms.  Unfortunately, traditional shade management has given
way to more intensive uses like “sun coffee” monocultures that promise
higher productivity but at greater environmental cost and potentially more
economic risk.  This shift in practice has prompted conservation
organizations to develop incentives for sound environmental stewardship
that also support livelihoods.  In this talk, I will discuss how
shade-coffee and other agroforestry practices can support bird
conservation, healthy ecosystems, and ultimately human communities in Latin
America.







*Upcoming MNS:*



*November 7 *

*Screening: Sonic Sea, featuring a Q with Dr. Christopher Clark*

*(@Cornell Cinema)*



Come to the Cornell Cinema to watch “Sonic Sea” in this special free
screening hosted by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Oceans are a sonic
symphony. Sound is essential to the survival and prosperity of marine life,
but man-made ocean noise is threatening this fragile world. Sonic Sea is
about protecting life in our waters from the destructive effects of oceanic
noise pollution. After the screening, join a Q discussion with Dr.
Christopher Clark who is featured in the film.





*December 5 *

*Cat Wars: The Devastating Consequences of a Cuddly Killer*

Peter Marra, Head, Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center


In 1894, lighthouse keepers arrived on Stephens Island off New Zealand with
a cat, supposedly named Tibbles. In just over a year, the Stephens Island
Wren, a rare bird endemic to the island, was rendered extinct. Mounting
scientific evidence confirms what many conservationists have suspected for
some time—that in the United States alone, free-ranging cats are killing
birds and other animals by the billions. Equally alarming are the
little-known but potentially devastating public health consequences of
rabies and parasitic *Toxoplasma* passing from cats to humans at rising
rates. *Cat Wars* tells the story of the threats free-ranging cats pose to
biodiversity and public health throughout the world, and sheds new light on
the controversies surrounding the management of the explosion of these cat
populations.

Marra will trace the historical and cultural ties between humans and cats
from early domestication to the current boom in pet ownership, along the
way accessibly explaining the science of extinction, population modeling,
and feline diseases. He will chart the developments that have led to our
present impasse—from Stan Temple’s breakthrough studies on cat predation in
Wisconsin to cat-eradication programs underway in Australia today.  Marra
will also describe how a small but vocal minority of cat advocates has
campaigned successfully for no action in much the same way that special
interest groups have stymied attempts to curtail smoking and climate
change. The outdoor cat issue* is a *complex global problem—*Cat Wars*
proposes solutions that foresee a time when wildlife and humans are no
longer vulnerable to the impacts of free-ranging cats.











Marc Devokaitis

Cornell Lab of Ornithology

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