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Butterflies and their People: Rethinking Monarch Conservation


Butterflies and their People: Rethinking Monarch Conservation
Date/Time
Registration Begins
10/5/2016
Last Day To Register
10/16/2016
Location
5300 Otis Rd SE
Cedar Rapids, IA 52403, US
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Join Dr. Ellen Sharp,  director of the Butterflies and Their People Project at Cerro Pelon Butterfly Reserve in Mexico, for a fascinating exploration of conservation issues affecting the monarch butterfly’s overwintering grounds in Mexico’s Sierra Madres. Currently, local forest-dwelling peasants depend on illegal logging for income, despite financial incentives paid to them to prevent it. In this talk, Dr. Sharp proposes an alternative model of forest conservation: the employment of full-time rangers. She also discusses the widespread institutional resistance to replacing one-time payments with meaningful work.