WNPS November Monthly Lecture today

• Dr. Jinie Dela to speak on The Western Purple-faced Langur Tree Top ‘Soap’

The Wildlife and Nature Protection Society (WNPS) will hold its Monthly Lecture today at 6 p.m. at Jasmine Hall, BMICH.

The speaker is Dr. Jinie Dela who will speak on the title The Western Purple-faced Langur Tree Top ‘Soap’. 

Dr. Dela is a field researcher on primate ecology and behaviour who has experienced the western purple-faced langur tree top drama for over 30 years. She will share with us dramatic episodes in the lives of a monkey listed since 2006 as among the 25 most threatened primates in the world.  She will also take us from our world to theirs in our own backyards where the WPFL soap opera is played out, and share with us some little known facets of their life which shows remarkable similarity to ours. Coming back to reality, she will highlight some of the problems facing primate conservation in our country which we could help resolve.  She will brief about the work, she, her colleagues, students, and the Forest Department are carrying out jointly to help solve some of these pressing issues through the Project for Conservation of the Western Purple-faced Langur and its Forest Habitats.  

Dr. Dela is currently a visiting academic at the Open University of Sri Lanka, and is a member of the National Man and the Biosphere Committee of the National Science Foundation and the National Experts’ Committee on Biological Diversity of the MoMD&E. She works currently as a freelance professional on biodiversity, climate change, Protected Areas and environmental communication. She is also the President of the yet nascent Primatalogical Society of Sri Lanka. 

The WNPS Monthly Lecture is open to members and non-members and entrance is free.