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<p class="MsoBodyText">PRESS RELEASE<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-weight:normal">FOR RELEASE: MAY 2024 CONTACT: Joan DiPersio<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText" align="center" style="text-align:center">“ON AVIAN EXTINCTION” – A PANEL DISCUSSION<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-weight:normal"> Join us at the Sandwich Center for Active Living, 70 Quaker Meetinghouse Road, Sandwich on
</span>Thursday, June 13 from 6pm-8:30pm <span style="font-weight:normal">for</span>
<span style="font-weight:normal">a panel discussion</span> <span style="font-weight:normal">
on </span>“Avian Extinction,”<span style="font-weight:normal"> featuring three noted conservation authorities and moderator/author Christi Palmer Lowrance. The panel consists of Wayne R. Petersen, Director of the Massachusetts Important Bird Areas Program at
Mass Audubon; Christopher Neill, an ecologist and Senor Scientist at the Woodwell Climate Research Center in Falmouth; and Luanne Johnson, a conservation biologist and founder of Biodiversity Works on Martha’ Vineyard.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-weight:normal"> This event is the third in a series on Thornton Burgess Nature Books for children, part of a year-long celebration of Burgess’ 150<sup>th</sup> birthday. Admission is free, but reservations
are recommended by going online at thorntonburgess.org. Refreshments will be served. 508-888-6870
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