The planned talks for this season of Science and Conservation lecture series can be found here: What's on I am planning on attending the November talk on extinct Madagascan megafauna, if anyone else was in London and also hoped to attend Madagascar's missing megafauna: life after lemurs, hippos and elephant birds
It's unusual for me to miss one of the ZSL Scientific Meetings; the November one should be especially interesting so I'll definitely attend. I'll see both "Crowthorne" and "Dassie rat" there.
Indeed, it's inconvenient that next month's ZSL Scientific Meeting and the ZSL AGM are on consecutive evenings. I will attend both but I appreciate that could be awkward for those who don't live in the London area.
The talks last night were really very interesting. It was fascinating to learn more about the recent fossil history of Madagascar, and what this can tell us about past habitats and comparing those to existing habitats today, with implications for potential future rewilding. The story of the reintroduction of the Madagascar Pochard to new lakes was also very interesting, although it would have been nice to hear more about the work done at Slimbridge on the project. Looking forward to next month's talks on surveillance technology and conservation
