One of the University’s most high-profile alumni‚ television presenter‚ author and photographer Chris Packham will argue that new ideas and initiatives are needed to solve global conservation problems at a prestigious lecture on Thursday 7 May at 6pm in the Nightingale Building‚ Highfield Campus. Chris‚who has joined BBC2’s popular live wildlife programme Springwatch‚ will deliver this year’s Vitacress Conservation Trust Annual Environment Lecture.
At an exciting and critically important time for environmental issues, Chris will look to both challenge and stimulate in his lecture, addressing current attitudes to conservation and what is influencing practice and policy. He will consider the problems of complacency, inflexibility and sentimentalism and how a new generation of ideas and initiatives are challenging such views.
The event celebrates the partnership between the University and The Vitacress Conservation Trust (www.vitacress-conservation.org) whose Patron is former University of Southampton Chancellor, Lord Selborne. The VCT has been established to research, conserve and enhance the wildlife and habitats associated with watercress and salad crop farming, with the key objectives of communication and education. Vitacress and the University began working together in 1999.
The lecture is free to attend but places are limited so pre-registration is required. To reserve your place, please contact Lee Reynolds on 023 8059 9114 or email: [email protected]
You can also register online at www.soton.ac.uk/about/events/register.html