Le cycle de conférences annuelles sur le thème de la biologie de la conservation, initié par la Tour du Valat pour rendre hommage au travail de Heinz Hafner pour la conservation des oiseaux d’eau et des zones humides, a été l’occasion d’accueillir le 14 novembre 2022, David Grémillet, directeur de recherche au CEFE-CNRS Montpellier et chercheur associé à l’université de Cap Town.
Sa conférence intitulée « Eco-grief: From mourning to marveling through environmental storytelling » est désormais visible ci-dessous en anglais.
Abstract:
The global environmental crisis is leading to high levels of eco-anxiety, and ultimately to eco-grief. This state of mourning upon nature loss affects the moral of ecologists and of the public, and may jeopardize our capacity to stand up for conservation. In this context, environmental storytelling and nature writing may provide a new narrative, transforming mourning into renewed marveling at wild creatures, empathy with the natural world, and activism.
By revisiting 30 years of work as a seabird ecologist from the Arctic to the Southern Ocean and metropolitan France, I will explore the complex interfaces between my curiosity for the ecophysiology marine birds, my involvement for their conservation in the context of global warming and overfishing, and my recent experimentations with nature writing and popular science.
David Grémillet is a biological oceanographer with a keen interest for seabird ecophysiology and animal tracking technologies. His work aims at understanding seabird responses to global changes and at enhancing marine conservation strategies. After a PhD at GEOMAR in Kiel (Germany) and a Marie Curie Post Doc with NERC-CEH in Banchory (Scotland), he joined CNRS in 1999. He is currently CNRS senior researcher at the Montpellier Centre for Functional and Evolutionary Ecology (CEFE) and research associate at the University of Cape Town.
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