Symposium:
Perspectives on Trophic Rewilding – reflections on the consequences of large mammal restoration
Thursday, 12 December 2019, 13:00 – 16:00
Lecture room BJÖRKEN at SLU, Umeå
Video-Link: http://tcs.video.slu.se/tcs/?id=ba91d910-7094-474c-a607-b78f51bb40c8
The symposium is organized by the ECOS research school and aims to describe and stimulate discussion of trophic rewilding as part of large mammal restoration. In a series of four talks, researchers from different parts of the world will present examples and their views on the benefits and challenges associated with trophic rewilding. All welcome!
Program:
13.00-13.15 Opening by Associate Prof. Joris Cromsigt
13.15-13.45 Associate Prof. Robert Pringle, Dept of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University. Rebuilding a wilderness: Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique.
13.45-14.15 Dr. Marietjie Landman, Dept. of Zoology, Nelson Mandela University, South Africa. Consequences of restoring elephant populations in South Africa.
14.15-14.45 Fika
14.45-15.15 Dr. Liesbeth Bakker, Aquatic Ecology, Netherlands Institute of Ecology, the Netherlands. Trophic rewilding in an urbanised delta: incentives and outcomes of trophic rewilding in The Netherlands.
15.15-15.45 Dr. Janina Priebe, Department of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies, Umeå University. Tracing ideas of wilderness and rewilding from a historical perspective.
15.45-16.00 Final questions led by Associate Prof. Joris Cromsigt
16.00 Informal mingle with ECOS PhD students
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