Join Conserving Carolina Speaker Series at Landrum Library on Tuesday, June 5th when Melissa Pilgrim, Director of Research and Associate Professor of Biology at the University of South Carolina Upstate, will present “Hidden Biodiversity: Finding Reptiles and Amphibians All Around Us” at 6:00 p.m.

This is a free program, open to the public.

We are currently in a biodiversity crisis, as species are going extinct at an alarming rate. Reptiles and amphibians are declining particularly fast. Thus, conservation biologists and resource managers are increasingly interested in conducting research evaluating the presence and persistence of reptiles and amphibians in a region. Dr. Melissa Pilgrim and her undergraduate research group, Upstate Herpetology, will show the audience standard techniques used to identify and/or capture reptile and amphibians. In addition, we will bring some examples of reptile and amphibian species we can encounter in the Piedmont region of South Carolina.

Contact the Southeast (Polk County) office of Conserving Carolina to register for the workshop or for more information, 828-859-5060, or Pam Torlina at [email protected].