FRANKLIN, Ind. – Franklin College will host one of the few lectures scheduled across the state as part of the Indianapolis Prize Lecture Series presented by the Indianapolis Zoo on Tuesday, Sept. 30, at 7 p.m., in the Branigin Room of the Napolitan Student Center.

The lecture is titled “A Global Conversation with Indianapolis Prize Winner, Lily-Arison René de Roland, Ph.D.”

A renowned conservationist, René de Roland, is the Peregrine Fund’s national director of its Madagascar Program. He will share his journey from rediscovering species in Madagascar, thought to be extinct, to winning the Indianapolis Zoo’s Indianapolis Prize for his work.

His contribution to the discovery of a variety of species is substantial, including the rediscovery of the Madagascar pochard, a rare duck thought t

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