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Abusing our Cousins
- Sat. 3:30pm
Abuse
and trade of primates for food, research, and amusement
Presenters:
Bagnall, Bond, Budkie, Rossell
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(President of Protect R Wildlife and S.K.U.N.K.S.) will
discuss how her research work in Borneo helping to
rehabilitate baby orangutans back to the wild inspired
her wildlife work in her own backyard. She
studied primatology to get prepared for that work
for the Orangutan Foundation Int'l. She saw
what it's like to deal with illegal poaching by the
Taiwanese. Also her first job (in the 60's) was for
a company that handled government contracts where
they did research with primates, and how they dupe
employees into believing it is for the "good of
man".
She
will have hand-outs on orangutans from the Orangutan
Foundation and pictures from her trip to Borneo.