Threatened Species Day
Includes film screening of Living with Devils by Simon Plowright
Saturday 7 September, 1.30–3.30pm
Central Gallery, TMAG (entry via Watergate)
To mark Threatened Species Day, we invite you to a special screening of Simon Plowright’s new documentary, Living with Devils, which showcases a year spent living with the world’s last healthy population of Tasmania’s largest native carnivore.
Following the film we will hold a panel discussion about threatened species with Simon Plowright and two of the scientists featured in the film: Dr Rodrigo Hamede Ross and Dr David Hocking. TMAG Director Mary Mulcahy will facilitate the discussion.
Running time for the film is around 60 minutes, and the panel discussion, including questions afterwards, will conclude by 3.30pm.
SPEAKERS
Facilitator Mary Mulcahy is the Director of the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery.
Simon Plowright is an ecologist and natural history filmmaker with 40 years of experience observing and filming Tasmanian wildlife. His most recent film, Living with Devils, showcases the unique behaviours and personality of one of Tasmania’s most iconic—and threatened—species.
Dr Rodrigo Hamede Ross is a research biologist at the University of Tasmania whose work explores the epidemiology of Tasmanian devil facial tumour disease and the role that cancer plays in ecological and evolutionary processes.
Dr David Hocking is an evolutionary biologist and Curator of Vertebrate Zoology and Palaeontology at TMAG.
This is a FREE event and you are welcome to bring along non-member friends.
