[MPWG] Fw: Lecture by Wade Davis: Lost Amazon - Friday, February 10 at noon

[Patricia_DeAngelis at fws.gov]

Passing along this information - hope some of you can attend!
-Patricia

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In February, the Office of Education and Latino Program of the
Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History will be sponsoring the
following activities to complement  the exhibit: "The Spirit of Ancient
Colombian Gold" on display through April 9, 2006. For more information
about this exhibit, visit: http://www.mnh.si.edu/exhibits/gold/index.htm

ILLUSTRATED LECTURE

Friday, February 10
Baird Auditorium, noon.
National Museum of Natural History, 10th and Constitution Ave.

Lost Amazon: The Photographic Journey of Richard Evans Schultes. Lecture
and book signing with ethnobotanist, explorer and author Dr. Wade Davis-a
Schultes student and protégé. In 1941, Harvard professor Richard Evans
Schultes embarked on a 12-year journey into the Amazon region of Northwest
Colombia, mapping uncharted rivers, living among two dozen Indian tribes,
and collecting some 30,000 botanical specimens. Davis selected the best of
his mentor's photography and provides insight into the science and the
people of the Colombian Amazon.


FILM

Saturday, February 18
Baird Auditorium, 2 pm.
National Museum of Natural History, 10th and Constitution Ave.

Secrets of the Choco (1995, 52 min.)
The Choco in Colombia, one of the planet's largest relatively unspoiled
rainforests, hugs the Pacific Coast to the West and rises to the Andes in
the East. The Choco hides thousands of undiscovered plants and animals.
Choco's future and the lives of the blacks and Indians who live along the
banks of its maze of rivers are threatened by development. Travel on an old
steamboat with six experts on tropical ecology and sustainable development
as they debate the region's future.