Lecture 1 by Oliver Hillel (Part 3 of 5): Saving Spaces, Saving Species Why is it Important to You?

Lecture on biological diversity, given by Oliver Hillel, Program Officer, Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity, an organism of the United Nations. 2010 was designated as the International Year of Biodiversity. You will find a second lecture by Oliver Hillel, given about a year later, also on this channel.
The lecture, titled Saving Spaces, Saving Species: Why is it Important to You? -- was organized by Doris Miller, the Environmental Studies Coordinator at the college. Doris Miller spent the fall semester of 2009 with a half-time leave from teaching to act as coordinator for the Nature Connection activity at the college. Nature Connection continues to function under Doris Miller.
The overall video lasts about 45 minutes, including part of the question period at the end. For use on YouTube, it is broken down into 5 parts, each approaching 10 minutes in duration. Part 5 of 5 samples scenes from the question period after the lecture. These videos were recorded, edited/produced, and uploaded to YouTube by Ed Baylin, a teacher in the Computer Science Department at the college. You hear Ed's voice identifying the different parts of the video for a few moments at the start and end of each of the five parts of the video.
The talk was to a public audience in a large hall, where you can sometimes, unfortunately, hear random noise from people outside the hall walking by. The talk was given on September 17th, 2009 at John Abbott College, Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue (Montreal Island, far west), Quebec, Canada.

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