Imagine "bringing back" the American plains lion, the American camel or American cheetah by using proxies from the Old World to restart their evolution. When these animals became extinct 13,000 years ago, what happened to the local ecology, especially the plant life that evolved with them?
Connie Barlow, a renowned science author and conservation biologist, will share her unique insights and thought-provoking ideas about these issues and more at two special January presentations at the Pinellas County Preserves.
Join Connie Barlow at the Weedon Island Preserve Cultural and Natural History Center Friday Jan. 5, from 6:30 to 8 p.m. During her "Rewilding North America: A Deep-Time Perspective" presentation, Barlow will give an astonishing look at the radical idea of rewilding now going mainstream in conservation biology. Weedon Island Preserve is located at 1800 Weedon Drive NE in St. Petersburg.
Meet Connie Barlow at Brooker Creek Preserve Environmental Education Center, Sunday, Jan. 7 from 2 to 3:30 p.m. During her "The Ghosts of Evolution: Nonsensical Fruit, Missing Partners and Other Ecological Anachronisms" digital slide talk, Barlow will discuss the science of evolutionary ecology. Brooker Creek Preserve is located at 3940 Keystone Road in Tarpon Springs.
For more information, contact Weedon Island Preserve at (727) 453-6500 or Brooker Creek Preserve at (727) 453-6800.