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Dr. Karen Shragg | What if Wolves Could Vote? | 2024-05-08 | CACOR Live
May 8 @ 13:30 - 16:00 EDT
Speaker: Dr. Karen Shragg
Topic: What if Wolves Could Vote?
Time: May 8, 2024 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Summary:
This talk takes a look at our political history in the U.S. and Canada of protecting and often harming the wolf from a wolf’s perspective. Wolves have been maligned ever since European settlement in North America and yet as an apex and keystone specie we need them to thrive in order to maintain ecosystems at their optimal level. What do wolves need, and which political party is doing the most to help them? This is the question that will be explored as we do a deep dive into the attitudes and policies towards this most important mammal, while learning a lot about ourselves because the better we treat the wolf, the better lives we can all have.
Bio:
Dr. Karen I. Shragg is a naturalist, writer and speaker with a passion for wildlife. She has written numerous articles on the relationship between overpopulation and the health of ecosystems and the dismal future of humanity if it is not addressed properly. She ran an urban nature center for 28 years and has authored 16 books for adults and children including, “Move Upstream: A Call to Solve Overpopulation” and co-authored the Nature’s Yucky series for children. Her degrees in education are from the University of Minnesota and the University of St. Thomas where she did her doctoral research in critical pedagogy. Shragg now runs an LLC, MoveUpstream Environmental Consulting and works with NGOs in their efforts to bring awareness to the overpopulation issue.