Host: UCLA Institute of Environment and Sustainability (IoES), lecture presented by Yale Professor Thomas Near

Description: UCLA IoES invites you to join Yale University Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; Professor Thomas Near’s presentation to learn about the hidden tensions between principled motivations to protect biodiversity, scientific accuracy, and the practical demands of demands of conservation law. Focusing on the Snail Darter, one of the first and best-known examples of the “conservation species concept”, Professor Near’s talk will also trace how taxonomy, the naming and classification of species, is entangled with law, policy, and politics.

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