April 25 Annual Members Meeting – All Welcome
Please join us on April 25 for our Annual Members Meeting. The evening begins with a social hour at 6:30. The program starts at 7:00 with the BBC’s annual business meeting and the election of new officers and board members. Once we have concluded with club business and announcements we will go the evening’s speaker.
This meeting is open to all and held at the Harvard Geological Lecture Hall at 24 Oxford Street in Cambridge. (This is next door to the Museum of Comparative Zoology.)
Concerned about parking? Don’t Be!! Starting at 5:00 PM there will be free parking for all attendees at the Harvard Oxford Street Garage entered off Oxford Street across from Everett Street. Just tell the attendant that you will be going to the BBC meeting. While we hope that you will be able to join us in person there will also be a Zoom link for those who cannot make it into Cambridge.
The evening’s lecture is South Asian Vultures: Crisis & Conservation by Meera Subramanian.
Not long ago, vultures in South Asia were so abundant that no one had bothered to count them in their millions, then during the 1990s the populations of three Gyps vulture species collapsed by more than 97 per cent. This was the fastest avian decline ever recorded. Conservationists scrambled to find the cause and start captive breeding programs. What happens when South Asia’s essential clean-up crew vanishes? Join us to learn more about this environmental lesson for all.
Presenter Bio: Meera Subramanian is an award-winning freelance journalist and National Geographic Explorer whose work has been published in Nature, The New York Times, The NewYorker.com, Audubon, and many others; she is a contributing editor of Orion. She is the author of A River Runs Again: India’s Natural World in Crisis, which was short-listed for the Orion Book Award. Based on a glacial moraine on the edge of the Atlantic, she’s a perpetual wanderer who can’t stop planting perennials. You can find her at www.meerasub.org.
The author will bring copies of her book for purchase.
When: April 25, social hour staring at 6:30 PM, program starting at 7:30 PM
Where: Harvard Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Parking: Harvard Oxford Street Garage entered opposite Everett Street at Oxford Street
Zoom Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_s3IWfA6YRl-mDdzSDORL4A
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