The Extinction of the Passenger Pigeon: Lessons from the Past for a Sustainable Future
Speaker:
Stanley Temple
06 Mar 2014
7:00 PM
Great Hall, Memorial Union
Stanley Temple is a Senior Fellow and Science Advisor with the Aldo Leopold Foundation. For more than thirty years he was the Beers-Bascom Professor in Conservation in the Department of Wildlife Ecology at University of Wisconsin-Madison, a position originally held by Aldo Leopold himself. His talk marks the centennial of the extinction of the passenger pigeon in 1914. Temple uses the case of the passenger pigeon to call attention to the world's ongoing extinction crisis and our relationship with other species.
Temple earned three degrees from Cornell University and work for several years for the World Wildlife Fund with endangered species on islands in the Indian Ocean. He then returned to Cornell to lead the peregrine falcon reintroduction program. In 1976 he joined the faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he spent his academic career.