NOTE: THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED DUE TO UNFORESEEN TRAVEL COMPLICATIONS
Join Explorers Club 50 explorer Alejandro Arteaga and The Explorers Club for a deep dive into Alejandro’s new book, Reptiles of Ecuador, as well as insights into the process of finding and cataloging nearly 500 species in extreme environments.
In this presentation, biologist Alejandro Arteaga will bring to NY the story of the Reptiles of Ecuador book as well as some of the few copies printed of this enigmatic volume that took 14 years to produce. Arteaga will share some of the secrets behind finding the nearly 500 target species, some of which were previously declared extinct. He will also answer some of the most common questions about the project, explaining the difficulties with and strategies used to pose all the snakes and lizards in the same way, and the practicalities of photographing a 4 m long caiman on a white background. Arteaga will reveal what is coming next and distribute 30 books of this heavy volume among the attendees.
This in-person event at the Explorers Club Headquarters will include an audience Q&A.
Streaming live here on explorers.org, our YouTube Channel, and our Facebook Live — Thursday, September 12th at 7:00 pm ET.
RESERVATIONS
This will be an in-person lecture at Explorers Club Headquarters.
In-person tickets are $20 for Members, and $35 for the General Public.
Check-in will begin at 6:00 pm, with a beer and wine reception from 6:00 – 7:00 pm
Alejandro Arteaga
Alejandro Arteaga is an Ecuadorian–Venezuelan biologist and explorer and author of three books (including Reptiles of Ecuador), 27 scientific articles, and 35 species new to science. He is the founder of Khamai Foundation, an organization focused on creating reserves for amphibians and reptiles.
