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Date
March 20, 2012
- Time 10:30 a.m.
- Location Dallas, TX
- Price Free, registration required.
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Photograph by Martin Harvey, NGT
As a two-time Emmy Award-nominated field correspondent for the National Geographic Channel, and host of the Nat Geo Channel series Wild Nights, Mireya Mayor has reported to audiences worldwide on pertinent wildlife and habitat issues. Closest to her heart is her ongoing study of a newfound species of microcebus, or mouse lemur, which she discovered on a 2000 field expedition in Madagascar. Her work with this rare primate inspired the prime minister of Madagascar to establish a national park to help protect the new species, conserving the 10 percent that remains of the African island nation’s once vast forest.
Mayor recently earned her Ph.D. while conducting research on the effects of forest fragmentation and isolation on two types of lemurs found only in northern Madagascar. Earning her the nickname of “female Indiana Jones,” Mayor’s Ultimate Explorer TV expeditions have taken her to Central Africa’s gorillas, underwater with the six-foot (1.8-meter) Humboldt squid, and into a veterinarian’s haven for leopards in Namibia.
Recommended for grades 5–8.
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