{"id":6117,"date":"2021-05-11T09:24:43","date_gmt":"2021-05-11T09:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/?p=6117"},"modified":"2021-05-26T15:20:09","modified_gmt":"2021-05-26T15:20:09","slug":"dice-talk-2021-when-to-rescue-orangutans-and-other-conservation-dilemmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/2021\/05\/11\/dice-talk-2021-when-to-rescue-orangutans-and-other-conservation-dilemmas\/","title":{"rendered":"DICE talk 2021 \u201cWhen to rescue orangutans, and other conservation dilemmas\u201d."},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">Professor Erik Meijaard joins the Durrell Institute for Conservation and Ecology (DICE) for their prestigious annual lecture series.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/dice\/\">DICE<\/a> Lecture is an annual public event given each year by a distinguished scientist or practitioner on an important conservation topic.<\/p>\n<p>This year we are thrilled to hear <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/anthropology-conservation\/people\/2931\/meijaard-erik\">Professor Erik Meijaar<\/a> &#8216;s presentation \u201cWhen to rescue orangutans, and other conservation dilemmas\u201d taking place on Tuesday 18th May from 18:00, streamed via Facebook Live on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/DICE.Kent\">DICE Facebook page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Erik is a founder of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.borneofutures.org\/copy-of-the-initiative\">Borneo Futures<\/a> \u2013 Science for Change programme, founder and Chair of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iucn.org\/\">IUCN<\/a> Oil Palm Task Force and an Honorary Professor in our School.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/anthropology-conservation\/people\/557\/smith-bob\">Professor Bob Smith<\/a> explained &#8220;He is a highly accomplished conservation scientist and practitioner and I am sure he will give an excellent talk based on his years of experience.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We really hope you can join us.<\/p>\n<p>Full details on the annual DICE event<a href=\"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/dice\/news\/annual-dice-lecture\/\"> here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/181430239248\/videos\/1716341378553485\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Watch the full event here<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Erik Meijaard joins the Durrell Institute for Conservation and Ecology (DICE) for their prestigious annual lecture series. The DICE Lecture is an annual public &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/2021\/05\/11\/dice-talk-2021-when-to-rescue-orangutans-and-other-conservation-dilemmas\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66395,"featured_media":6118,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6599,124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6117"}],"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\/66395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6117"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6234,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6117\/revisions\/6234"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}