Thursday, April 13 - Friday, April 14, 2000
Kaufmann Theater, American Museum of Natural History, New York City

An archive of each of the presenter's topics will be available on line in the near future.

Sprawl is all around us — housing developments, strip malls, endless miles of roadways — and most people experience the problems caused by unplanned development every day. But beyond the pollution, the traffic jams, the destruction of community, and the increasing tax burdens resulting from sprawl, there is another problem: sprawl's impact on biodiversity. Our post-war, auto-driven style of development has fragmented natural habitats and ecosystems, threatening species survival, and, ultimately, human health and well-being.

Click here for information about our 1999 Spring Symposium on Climate Change.

Nature in Fragments is co-sponsored by
the American Museum of Natural History's Center for Biodiversity and Conservationvation
and the Wildlife Conservation Society's Metropolitan Conservation Alliance.