Mount Desert Islander advances Gill’s talk on saving species
Mount Desert Islander reported Jacquelyn Gill, a paleoecologist at the University of Maine, will present during the MDI Science Café at MDI Biological Laboratory’s Kinne Library in Bar Harbor at 5 p.m. June 27. Gill’s presentation, “Should We Clone the Woolly Mammoth to Protect the Tundra from Climate Change?” will focus on creative strategies to protect species in a warming world, according to the article. Gill argues that the threats of climate change and human activity will combine to create new challenges to biodiversity in the coming century that will require creative thinking about conservation strategies, the article states.