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Speaker
Eric W. Sanderson
Landscape Ecologist
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Eric W. Sanderson’s update to his “Welikia Project.”
“We’re going beyond ‘Mannahatta,’ launching the Welikia Project to encompass all of New York City circa 1609: Brooklyn, the Bronx, Queens, Staten Island, and surrounding waters.
“Welikia means ‘my good home’ in Lenape, the original Native American language of the region.”
Eric W. Sanderson is a Senior Conservation Ecologist for the Wildlife Conservation Society at the Bronx Zoo, director of the Welikia Project and author of the best-selling “Mannahatta: A Natural History of New York City,” and “Terra Nova: The New World After Oil, Cars, and Suburbs.”
September 26, 2020