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Chicago Regional Forum on Ethics and Sustainability on October 29th

Regional Cultures of Conservation, Chicago Regional Forum on Ethics and Sustainability

October 30th, 2010

The Center for Humans and Nature and the Chicago Botanic Garden co-sponsored the Chicago Regional Forum on Ethics and Sustainability, held on October 29 at the Chicago Botanic Garden.  Leaders from the Moral Ground Project and the Chicago Wilderness consortium gave voice to the ethical dimensions of four issues important to the Chicago region: (1) water, (2) place-based education, (3) the community values of ecological restoration, and (4) climate change.  The goal for this event was to create a vibrant, continuing forum on ethics and regional sustainability, addressing the conservation challenges and opportunities we face in the Midwest. For details on the event including speaker bios click here as well as the Chicago Botanic Garden Symposium website. Come back soon to see videos of speakers’ presentations!

See also an interview with Kathleen Dean Moore and Michael Nelson, editors of Moral Ground, on YouTube.

Moral Ground

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Curt Meine to Present at Water and People Conference in Milwaukee

Ideas of Humans and Nature, Advancing the Land Ethic

February 18th, 2010

On Friday, February 26th, CHN Director of Conservation Biology and History, Curt Meine, will present Ripples of a Water Ethic in Wisconsin at the Water and People conference at Marquette Law School in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.  To learn more about the event, click here.

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CHN Co-Hosts Meeting on the Ethics of Wolf Recovery in the Upper Great Lakes

Regional Cultures of Conservation,

December 11th, 2009

The recovery of the grey wolf population in the Upper Great Lakes over the last several decades has been an important conservation success story — one that, at the same time, raises new and challenging issues for conservationists, resource managers, policy-makers, scientists, landowners, and citizens.  To explore the emerging ethical issues involved in living with the recovered wolf population, CHN and the Aldo Leopold Foundation teamed up to organize a discussion among some of the region’s leading wolf biologists, environmental ethicists, and wildlife researchers, representing agencies, conservation organizations, universities, and Native American tribes from throughtout the region.  The meeting, developed in partnership with The Conservation Ethics Group, was held on Dec. 5-6, 2009, at the Aldo Leopold Legacy Center, headquarters of the Aldo Leopold Foundation outside Baraboo, Wisconsin.   In the weeks ahead, CHN and ALF will provide a summary and synthesis of the discussion, which organizers hope will lead to continued exchanges among all who share an interest in this vital conservation issue.

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CHN Contributes to New Book on Recovery of Gray Wolves

Regional Cultures of Conservation,

March 20th, 2009

Curt Meine, CHN Director of Conservation Biology and History, has contributed the opening chapter, “Early Wolf Research and Conservation in the Great Lakes Region,” to The Recovery of Gray Wolves in the Great Lakes Region of the United States: And Endangered Species Success Story, edited by Adrian P. Wydeven, Tim R. Van Deelen, and Ed Heske (New York: Springer-Verlag, 2009).

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