Laurie Marker: A Future for Cheetahs: How Biofuels and Goat Cheese Can Save Wildlife and Lead to Sustainable Development in Namibia

The Program for Andrew D. White Professors-at-Large announces the upcoming formal campus visits for the month of October 2014.
LAURIE MARKER (2013-2019), a wildlife conservationist, and founder and executive director of the Cheetah Conservation Fund, will make her first formal A.D. White Professor-at-Large campus visit from October 19-25, 2014.
Dr. Marker is considered to be one of the world's pre-eminent wildlife conservationists, internationally famous for her innovative, holistic thinking in designing multidisciplinary approaches that conserve biodiversity through the promotion of sustainable human development. Her career began as a wildlife biologist working on the care of captive animals in zoos. She developed an affinity for cheetahs and began to incorporate in situ conservation research in Namibia, Africa. In 1990, Dr. Marker single-handedly built the Cheetah Conservation Fund (CCF), which works to save the wild cheetah and its habitat through education, public outreach, applied conservation biology and management, public policy and science and research. The CCF's education program works with Namibian farmers, students, educators, and public policy makers to help them understand the value of sustainable practices in conservation as well as the importance and value of predators for a healthy ecosystem.
She will present an A.D. White Professor-at-Large public lecture titled "A Future for Cheetahs: How Biofuels and Goat Cheese Can Save Wildlife and Lead to Sustainable Development in Namibia,"on Thursday, October 23, 2014, 5:00-6:00 pm, in Schwartz Auditorium, Rockefeller Hall, to be followed by a book signing,

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