The Duke/UNC Roots & Shoots group arose from a collaboration between Duke and UNC-CH students. Our main interest is primate conservation. By protecting primates, the ecosystems in which primates live will also be protected. Similarly, saving primates is linked to helping human populations that live in primate habitat countries. To save primates we must (1) improve education and healthcare for people living near primates and (2) educate people in the US about science and conservation.
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
High schools Skype to save bonobos (and humanity)
Yesterday Aaron Sandel and Kara Schroepfer had a discussion about bonobo conservation with a high school in Minnetonka, Minnesota. The biology club had questions about Friends of Bonobos and bonobo cognition and conservation. After discussing research by Dr. Brian Hare's research team on bonobo cooperation, empathy and cognition, we discussed general conservation issues. We brainstormed the threats to bonobos, the problems facing humanity/the world and realized the solutions to both are the same (decrease poverty, increase education, facilitate empathy among people, etc.).
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