See www.brooklinebirdclub.org for the zoom registration.
We will be presenting, for Members voting, the slate of BBC Officers and
Directors, additional business items, and club updates.
Not long ago, vultures in South Asia were so abundant that no one had
bothered to count them in their millions, then during the 1990s the
populations of three Gyps vulture species collapsed by more than 97 per
cent. This was the fastest avian decline ever recorded. Conservationists
scrambled to find the cause and start captive breeding programs. What
happens when South Asia’s essential clean-up crew vanishes? Join us to
learn more about this environmental lesson for all.
Meera Subramanian is an award-winning freelance journalist and National
Geographic Explorer whose work has been published in Nature, The New
York Times, The NewYorker.com, Audubon, and many others; she is a
contributing editor of Orion. She is the author of A River Runs Again:
India’s Natural World in Crisis, which was short-listed for the Orion
Book Award. Based on a glacial moraine on the edge of the Atlantic,
she’s a perpetual wanderer who can’t stop planting perennials. You can
find her at www.meerasub.org.
The author will bring copies of her book for purchase.
