A Journey to Mount Everest in Search of Snow Leopards and Adventure

Thursday, June 16th at 6:00pm
Registration begins June 1st
There are only about 4,00 – 6,000 snow leopards left in the wild owing to hunting, global warming, retribution killing and habitat loss. Unfortunately, there are few research programs or scientists available to ascertain their status. As a result, the Snow Leopard Trust in Seattle enlists citizen scientists and academic researchers in other fields to assist in research. This illustrated program will give participants an orientation to the snow leopard – habits, habitats and status and show two scientific expeditions – one to Siberia and one to Mt Everest undertaken by the presenter in 2015 and 2018 on behalf of the Snow Leopard Trust to expand our knowledge on this beautiful but rare wild cat. Given by the delightful, Dr. Richard W. Benfield.
 
 
Dr Richard W. Benfield is Professor of Geography at Central Connecticut State University in New Britain, Connecticut where he teaches courses in Human Geography, Plants, Predators and Parks, Russia, The European Union and many of the courses in the departments tourism track. Prior to coming to Central he was Senior Program Coordinator in the Division of Continuing Education at the University of Oklahoma where he instructed citizens of the new Russian Federation on privatization and the transition to a market economy. He obtained his doctorate in geography from the University of Oklahoma in 1998.
 

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