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8:00pm EST - 9:00pm EST
About This Event
For more than two decades, wolves have bounced between being protected – and not – by the U. S. Endangered Species Act (ESA). That law is the United States’ primary policy instrument for combatting the biodiversity crisis. The erratic protection of wolves by the ESA is indicative of a deep problem that goes far beyond wolves. Wolves have long made a habit of exposing the most fraught facets of our relationship with nature – in general. In this presentation, Professor Vucetich explains how wolves expose the difficulty we have answering an especially basic question, what is an endangered species?
John Vucetich has been co-leading research on the wolves and moose of Isle Royale since 2000. He is also a distinguished professor at Michigan Technological University, where he teaches courses on population biology and environmental ethics. He is the author of more than 200 papers that have been cited by scholars around the world more than 10,000 times. He is the author two books, Restoring The Balance: What Wolves Tell Us About Our Relationship With Nature (2021) and The Biology And Conservation of Animal Populations (2024). He’s written for the New York Times, Natural History, and the Huffington Post. He’s testified before both houses of the U.S. Congress on wolf conservation and the U.S. Endangered Species Act. He is frequently sought by governments and NGOs around the world for insight on carnivore conservation.
Photo of wolves on snow, courtesy of Wolf-Moose Project.
Photo of John Vucetich courtesy of Ron Porritt.
About This Event
For more than two decades, wolves have bounced between being protected – and not – by the U. S. Endangered Species Act (ESA). That law is the United States’ primary policy instrument for combatting the biodiversity crisis. The erratic protection of wolves by the ESA is indicative of a deep problem that goes far beyond wolves. Wolves have long made a habit of exposing the most fraught facets of our relationship with nature – in general. In this presentation, Professor Vucetich explains how wolves expose the difficulty we have answering an especially basic question, what is an endangered species?
John Vucetich has been co-leading research on the wolves and moose of Isle Royale since 2000. He is also a distinguished professor at Michigan Technological University, where he teaches courses on population biology and environmental ethics. He is the author of more than 200 papers that have been cited by scholars around the world more than 10,000 times. He is the author two books, Restoring The Balance: What Wolves Tell Us About Our Relationship With Nature (2021) and The Biology And Conservation of Animal Populations (2024). He’s written for the New York Times, Natural History, and the Huffington Post. He’s testified before both houses of the U.S. Congress on wolf conservation and the U.S. Endangered Species Act. He is frequently sought by governments and NGOs around the world for insight on carnivore conservation.
Photo of wolves on snow, courtesy of Wolf-Moose Project.
Photo of John Vucetich courtesy of Ron Porritt.
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Date & Time
8:00pm EST - 9:00pm EST