{"id":3708,"date":"2019-05-07T16:37:46","date_gmt":"2019-05-07T16:37:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/?p=3708"},"modified":"2019-05-08T11:01:33","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T11:01:33","slug":"dice-talk-conservation-controversies-over-madagascars-lemurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/2019\/05\/07\/dice-talk-conservation-controversies-over-madagascars-lemurs\/","title":{"rendered":"DICE Talk: &#8216;Conservation controversies over Madagascar&#8217;s lemurs&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lemurs are one of the most threatened groups of animals on Earth and require urgent conservation attention. In this talk, Dr <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/anthropology-conservation\/people\/480\/gardner-charlie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Charlie Gardner<\/a> will discuss some of the key questions facing lemur conservationists, including how many species there are, how threatened they are, where we should focus our efforts, and what strategies we need to implement if we are to successfully conserve them.<\/p>\n<p>Entitled\u00a0<em>Conservation controversies over Madagascar\u2019s lemurs<\/em>, it\u00a0will reveal\u00a0insights from Dr Gardner&#8217;s many years spent working on conservation science\u00a0and practice in the country<em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It will take place in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/maps\/location\/campus\/building\/room\/DLT1\"><strong>Darwin Lecture Theatre 1<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a>from <strong>18.00 -19.00<\/strong> on <strong>Thursday 9 May<\/strong>. The talk is\u00a0<strong>free and open to all<\/strong> with free parking\u00a0on the Canterbury campus from 17.00.<\/p>\n<p>The monthly talks have focused on the work of the <a href=\"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/dice\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology (DICE)<\/a> with many of the\u00a0world\u2019s rarest and most endangered species. The last talk of the year takes place on 13 June and will be about snakes in India.<\/p>\n<p>For those who missed previous DICE Talks, many are now <a href=\"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/dice\/dice-talks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">available online<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lemurs are one of the most threatened groups of animals on Earth and require urgent conservation attention. In this talk, Dr Charlie Gardner will discuss &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/2019\/05\/07\/dice-talk-conservation-controversies-over-madagascars-lemurs\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40284,"featured_media":3709,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[159353,6599,6598,124,6600],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3708"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40284"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3708"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3712,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3708\/revisions\/3712"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}