Thursday, May 7, 2009 Please Don't Eat the Monkeys: Biodiversity Conservation on Africa's Bioko Island Presented By Dr. Gail Hearn, Drexel University 4:00 - 7:00 PM Lecture at 5:30 PM
Papio leucophaeus. The Natural History of Monkeys by Sir William Jardine. Edinburgh: Lizars, 1833. Primatologist Gail Hearn is the founder of the Bioko Biodiversity Protection Program and has been traveling to the pristine island of Bioko since 1990. As the home to Africa's largest concentration of endangered primates, Dr. Hearn's immediate focus on Bioko is saving seven species of monkeys being hunted for their meat, most notable the Drill, Africa's primate most at risk. She will discuss how we can stop the hunting of monkeys for bush meat and make it possible for them to return to Bioko's forests before it's too late. Dr. Gail Hearn started the Bioko Biodiversity Protection Program in 1998 to protect Bioko’s primate species. Her current research focuses on the population decline of primate species on Bioko Island due to bush meat hunting. Her work was featured in the August 2008 issue of National Geographic. A professor in the Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology at Drexel University, she received her bachelor’s degree from Bryn Mawr College and a Ph.D. in protein biology from the Rockefeller University.
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