International Night at the Library

July 2007

Kenya and Uganda

Presented by Jane Snyder with Ten Thousand Villages
(more program info)

Tuesday July 10th at the Fort Collins Main Public Library
Thursday July 26th at the Harmony Library at Front Range Community College



August 2007

Tanzania

Presented by Klaus Lorenz
(more program info)

Tuesday August 14th at the Fort Collins Main Public Library
Thursday August 23rd at the Harmony Library at Front Range Community College



Programs begin at 7pm and run for about an hour and a half.
Reasonable accommodations will be made for access to services, programs and activities and special communication arrangements will be made for persons with disabilities.
Please call 221-6680 for assistance.


Kenya and Uganda - July 2007

Join guest presenter Jane Snyder as she explores the effects of fair trade on several groups in Kenya and Uganda. She will also discuss the "good wood" project and the Chimp Sanctuary in Uganda.


Tanzania - August 2007

Join Klaus Lorenz for a presentation on his trip to Tanzania. This presentation will take us on an adventurous African Safari to view the spectacular wildlife of Tanzania and visit and learn about the life of the Maasai.

We will travel with slides through Tanzania’s legendary wildlife parks - Tarangire National Park and the Ngorongoro Crater Conservation Area - and fully explore the vast wildlife-rich savanna of Serengeti National Park where we encounter elephants, cheetahs, buffalos, hyenas, giraffes, zebras, hippos, crocodiles and a wealth of bird life.

Each June and again in December on the Serengeti plains, a huge area the size of Connecticut ,animals resume a journey to and from the Maasai Mara National Park in Kenya, a journey they have been making for millions of years and which is the largest mammal migration of wildlife species unrivaled anywhere on the planet. The caldera of Ngorongoro marks the ancient walls of a collapsed volcano which probably once was the size of Kilimanjaro and is now a haven for wildlife.

Tanzania is also the home of the Olduvai Gorge, the site where some of the earliest human remains on earth have been discovered by the Leakeys in 1959. We will then visit the " bomos" of the the cattle-herding Maasai who proudly continue their traditional way of life with few inroads from modern civilization .

Klaus is well known to those of you who regularly attend International Night at the Library. He has traveled to over 70 countries and shared many of these adventures with us at the Library Program. He is retired from CSU and enjoys traveling the world.