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Friday, October 21 • 2:45pm - 4:15pm
Making Peace with Earth by Protecting Biodiversity - With Synchronicity Earth
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Unless we change course, we will soon accelerate the 6th Mass Extinction, the first caused by humans. What needs to happen so that we can we ensure that we pass on a planet worth inhabiting to future generations? Hosted by Jessica Sweidan, co-founder, Synchronicity Earth. With: Mark Plotkin, Ph.D., ethnobotanist, author, co-founder/President Amazon Conservation Team; Kate Horner, Executive Director, International Rivers; Chris LaFranchi, founder/CEO, One Reef; Robin Moore, Ph.D., Communications Director, Global Wildlife Conservation.
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Kate Horner

Kate Horner, Executive Director of International Rivers, leads the organization's work to protect rivers and the communities that depend on them. She has more than a decade of experience and exceptional track record in securing transformational change in protecting the environment... Read More →
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Chris LaFranchi

Chris LaFranchi, trained as an economist and biologist, worked for years for large organizations including USAID and the World Bank but left it all in 2012 to found and lead OneReef Worldwide Stewardship, a Santa Cruz, CA-based organization that seeks to serve local communities around... Read More →
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Robin Moore

Robin Moore, Ph.D., Communications Director with Global Wildlife Conservation, is an author and conservationist. A former leader of the amphibian program at Conservation International, Robin spearheaded one of the organization’s most successful biodiversity campaigns—a global... Read More →
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Mark Plotkin

Amazon Conservation Team
Mark Plotkin, Ph.D., co-founder/President of the Amazon Conservation Team, author of such bestselling books as: Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice; Medicine Quest: In Search of Nature's Healing Secrets; and The Killers Within: The Deadly Rise of Drug-Resistant Bacteria, is a renowned... Read More →
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Jessica Sweidan

Jessica Sweidan co-founded Synchronicity Earth, a UK-based registered charity, with her husband Adam in 2009 to help address the global biodiversity crisis. Recently appointed an International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Patron of Nature, whose role is to raise the... Read More →

Friday October 21, 2016 2:45pm - 4:15pm PDT
Veteran’s Memorial Auditorium (VMA)
  Biodiversity