|  The mission of the Indianapolis Prize, the world’s leading award for animal conservation, is all about honoring the heroes of conservation and inspiring others to follow in their footsteps. The 2012 winner of the Indianapolis Prize, Dr. Steven Amstrup, will help fulfill that mission during a series of exciting lectures in the week following the Indianapolis Prize Gala presented by Cummins Inc., where he will receive a check for $100,000 and the Lilly Medal. If you come and hear him speak and experience his passion for saving polar bears, you will be inspired to join in the cause.
During his lecture, titled “Polar Bears and Global Warming: Reliable Predictions and Hope in an Uncertain World,” Dr. Amstrup will detail the 2007 research report that projected that we could lose two-thirds of the world’s polar bears by mid century and may lose all of them by this century’s end. More recently, he and his colleagues showed that preventing the extinction of polar bears is largely a matter of controlling greenhouse gas rise. The good news is that prompt action to arrest greenhouse gas rise will preserve sustainable polar bear populations over much of their current range. Even more importantly, acting in time to save polar bears will benefit the rest of life on earth—including human.
 Students and the public can see and hear Dr. Amstrup’s remarkable story and be inspired by his hope for the future at the following events:- DePauw University, Greencastle, Indiana
Sept. 30, 3pm
Memorial Student Union Building Ballroom
Open free to the public
- Butler University, Indianapolis, Indiana
Oct. 1, 7:30pm
Woods Science Lecture Series, Atherton Union, Reilly Room
Open free to the public
- California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, California
Thursday, Oct. 4, 7:30pm, Forum Theatre
Tickets can be purchased in advance online at www.calacademy.org/event_tickets, or by calling (415) 378-8000.
Won't you get involved and help save the polar bears?
Steve Amstrup photo by Daniel Cox. Polar bear photo by Fred Cate |