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The Hellbender: New York’s Living Fossil – Tonight at 7:00PM The Eastern Hellbender is a unique salamander found only in the eastern United States. Hellbenders are “living fossils” that have remained virtually unchanged for millions of years, giving us a glimpse into our ecological past. In recent years, this iconic species has declined significantly in New York and throughout its entire range. Join conservation biologist Robin Foster to learn more about the hellbender and how you can help to conserve this amazing amphibian! Please join us at RTPI (311 Curtis St., Jamestown, NY) at 7:00 for...
Read MoreSpeaker Series Event – The Hellbender: New York’s Living Fossil with Robin Foster
The Eastern Hellbender is a unique salamander found only in the eastern United States. Hellbenders are “living fossils” that have remained virtually unchanged for millions of years, giving us a glimpse into our ecological past. In recent years, this iconic species has declined significantly in New York and throughout its entire range. RTPI staff are working with conservation biologist Robin Foster and other conservationists to better understand the status of this species in our region. Join us as we welcome Robin at Roger Tory Peterson Institute on Friday, July 17th at 7pm to learn...
Read MoreThe Migratory Connection
Join us at RTPI on Thursday, June 11 at 7:00PM for a free public event – The Migratory Connection: RTPI’s Tropical Conservation and Education Programs by RTPI President Twan Leenders. Find out where your favorite warblers and hummingbirds hang out when they are not in your backyard and be amazed by the other tropical birds they share their wintering grounds with. Meet some of the rarest frogs on our planet and see what RTPI is doing to help save them from extinction. Explore the exotic wildlife that calls the jungles of Costa Rica and Panama home – and see how some of it visits us on a...
Read MoreMay Speaker – Twan Leenders
With so much happening at RTPI and all of the active conservation and education work we are completing this spring and summer in our local area we decided that our own President and Executive Director Dr. Twan Leenders should be our May speaker. Please join us on Wednesday, May 21 at 7:00PM at RTPI for this free and educational event. Twan is a biologist from The Netherlands interested in animal ecology and conservation management. For more than twenty years his work with birds, mammals, plants and especially tropical amphibians and reptiles has taken him to various places on the planet. As...
Read MoreFebruary speaker – Dr. Robert S. Feranec
Dr. Robert S. Feranec, Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology and Curator of Mammals at the New York State Museum in Albany, will present a program titled, “Carbon Dating the Megafauna of New York at the End of the Ice Age” at the Roger Tory Peterson Institute of Natural History on Monday, February 24 at 7 p.m. Twenty-five thousand years ago, at the height of the last Ice Age, New York State was almost entirely covered by ice. The retreat of the ice, in the thousands of years that followed, left habitable land available for plants and animals, such as woolly mammoths and giant ground sloths. ...
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