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Conserv’Session Conservation Documentary Nights

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Virunga
Virunga

Date & Time
2017 January 09, 17:00-20:00
日時
2017年1月9日 午後5時~午後8時

Location
International Conference Hall I, Clock Tower Centennial Hall, Kyoto University
場所
京都大学百周年時計台記念館 国際交流ホールⅠ

Film
作品タイトル
ヴィルンガ

Invited Speakers
Prof. Juichi Yamagiwa
President of Kyoto University

Dr. Naobi Okayasu
Japan Monkey Centre
ゲスト・スピーカー
山極壽一氏
京都大学総長

岡安直比氏
公益財団法人日本モンキーセンター国際保全事業部部長

Registration
Not required
申込
不要

For More Information
詳細情報

Report
This Conserv'Session was the third conservation-related screening and discussion session to be organized at Kyoto University main campus. This session aimed at approaching the different issues conservationists and field scientists may face while working in war zone-type conditions. Those conditions were illustrated in the film Virunga from Orlando von Einsiedel (2014) depicting the resource and war conflicts happening in the national park located at the border between DRCongo, Rwanda and Uganda, and which ultimately threaten biodiversity and the rangers protecting the park. Although Virunga national park is a UNESCO World Heritage site, until the film came out, oil investigations were still happening in the park and illegal poaching remains a main threat. To discuss about those issues at the end of the documentary, we invited two field scientists/conservationists who have spent extensive periods of time working in such regions: Pr. Juichi Yamagiwa (Primatologist and President of Kyoto University) and Pr. Naobi Okayasu (Director of the Habitat Conservation Section, Japan Monkey Centre and Specially Appointed Professor at the Wildlife Research Center of Kyoto University)... [Click here to continue reading]
— Cécile Sarabian

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