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

[Gary Krupnick]

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.