RMBL’s Douglass Distinguished Science Lecture

Presented by the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory

Doors: 6:00pm | Show: 7:00pm

Over the past two decades, the United States has lost a quarter of butterflies. This includes loss of common species like monarchs and cabbage whites, and rare species on the verge of extinction. We know this from data accumulated by thousands of individuals, and not only scientists, who have done tens of thousands of surveys and recorded millions of butterflies. Solutions to reverse declines are in our grasp, but need to be acted on now.

Nick Haddad is an ecologist and conservation biologist at Michigan State University. He is a professor in the Department of Integrative Biology and a member of the Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior Program. Haddad is also the co-director of the Long Term Ecological Research site at the Kellogg Biological Station. He has published over 100 research articles in a diversity of the top science journals, including a recent book titled The Last Butterflies: A Scientist’s Quest to Save a Rare and Vanishing Creature.

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