Global Sustainability Lecture addresses seabird conservation

April 24, 2026

Selena Flores, a wildlife and conservation biologist speaking via Zoom from Cape Town, South Africa, explains how easily seabird eggs can be crushed by people walking on the beach and how farming equipment often destroys bird nests along coastal farmland during the annual Neher Global Sustainability Lecture on Tuesday in the Quay Davis Executive Board Room. Flores discussed how these disturbances impact bird populations, noting that only 20% of eggs successfully hatch and only 30% survive to fly. / photo by Ronald Banks

Selena Flores, a wildlife and conservation biologist speaking via Zoom from Cape Town, South Africa, explains how easily seabird eggs can be crushed by people walking on the beach and how farming equipment often destroys bird nests along coastal farmland during the annual Neher Global Sustainability Lecture on Tuesday in the Quay Davis Executive Board Room. Flores discussed how these disturbances impact bird populations, noting that only 20% of eggs successfully hatch and only 30% survive to fly. / photo by Ronald Banks

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Ronald Banks is a senior photography major and a staff photographer for the Campus Times and La Verne Magazine.

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