The New York Botanical Garden is going on a field trip. Or, rather, its scientists are. In a partnership with the Taft School in Watertown, CT, the finest botanical minds in the northeast will come forward to present a lecture series of epic proportions. And the subject matter could scarcely be more significant.

As the Nathaniel Lord Britton Curator of Botany at the NYBG, Dr. Scott A. Mori’s credentials are solid. Excursions into the world’s rainforests have made him an expert of a different breed, a scientist whose wealth of knowledge comes not only from the laboratory, but from the field. In the first of six lectures scheduled at Taft, “The Role of the Rainforest in Maintaining Life on Earth” minces no words in headline or content.

“The diversity of plants and animals is very tightly woven and a fragile composition. Most people don’t understand the complexity of diversity. If a certain flower is bat pollinated, for example, it will not produce seed without its pollinator, although it might live on. There’s an elusive sense that all is well.”

Join Dr. Mori and others on February 29 for a presentation made available not only for Taft students, but the public as well. The free lecture begins at 6:30 p.m. in the Laube Auditorium of the Hulbert Taft, Jr. Library, on the Taft School campus. Click through for more details, and stay tuned for future lectures to come.

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