Dr Roland Silva Memorial Lecture on Lanka’s biodiversity heritage
View(s):The Dr Roland Silva Memorial lecture will be delivered by Dr Rohan Pethiyagoda who will talk on “Serendipity: The Discovery of Sri Lanka’s Biodiversity Heritage”.
The lecture which is part of the National Trust of Sri Lanka’s monthly series will be delivered online on Thursday, January 26 at 6 p.m.
Link to join the
Zoom meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81249396683
Sri Lanka’s natural wealth—
its species, landscapes and ecosystems—are justly celebrated in it being recognized as part of a Global Biodiversity Hotspot. Yet, we rarely stop to wonder how this incredible heritage came to be discovered. This lecture tells the tale of this voyage of discovery: the doctors and the housewives who became botanical explorers; a village lad who rose to number among Asia’s most famous illustrators; a tea planter who went on to become president of the Royal Entomological Society… In this lecture the speaker celebrates their achievements and their all too human foibles and not least, their genius.
Richly illustrated with portraits, works of art and anecdotes, the lecture will relate the story of the explorations that led to the discoveries that in turn gave rise to the literature upon which knowledge of our living island is based. In short, the speaker explains how deserving it is that the phenomenon of serendipity takes its name from the classical moniker for Sri Lanka.
Rohan Pethiyagoda was educated at S. Thomas Prep School, S. Thomas College, King’s College, London, and the University of Sussex. He is the author of some 60 scientific papers and several books, and he has been awarded the Rolex Award for Enterprise, the Linnean Medal and other
honours. He is Deputy Chair of the IUCN Species
Survival Commission.
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