Syracuse.com - SUNY ESF prof lecturing on saving Russia's snow leopards

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SUNY ESF Professor James P. Gibbs,will lecture Wednesday evening on efforts to save Russia's rare and endangered snow leopards. The free talk is the first in the Dale L. Travis Public Lecture Series and will begin at 7:30 p.m. at ESF's new Gateway Center. A dessert reception will follow the lecture. Gibbs, director of the Roosevelt Wild Life Station...

SUNY ESF Professor James P. Gibbs,will lecture Wednesday evening on efforts to save Russia's rare and endangered snow leopards.

The free talk is the first in the Dale L. Travis Public Lecture Series and will begin at 7:30 p.m. at ESF's new Gateway Center. A dessert reception will follow the lecture.

Gibbs, director of the Roosevelt Wild Life Station and associate chair of the Department of Environmental and Forest Biology, will discuss his conservation work with Russian and US partners to save the last snow leopards in Russia's Altai Republic, according to a SUNY ESF press release.

"The Altai Republic is in southern Siberia, bordering China, Mongolia, and Kazakhstan in central Asia and distinguished by its remote mountain landscape and ancient herding-based culture," according to the release.

"Snow leopards are one of the most endangered species in Russia, where the species' distribution is generally limited to where the Altai-Sayan Ecoregion a portion of which falls within the Altai Republic's borders. According to recent surveys, less than 100 leopards inhabit the area."

Free parking will be available on the ESF campus.

The public lecture is timed to also celebrate installation of the Roosevelt Wildlife Collection display in the Gateway Center's main concourse.

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