{"id":18184,"date":"2015-09-03T14:05:46","date_gmt":"2015-09-03T18:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/?p=18184"},"modified":"2015-09-03T14:05:46","modified_gmt":"2015-09-03T18:05:46","slug":"floridas-wild-places-photojournalist-carlton-ward-jr-delivers-stetsons-biodiversity-lecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/index.php\/2015\/09\/03\/floridas-wild-places-photojournalist-carlton-ward-jr-delivers-stetsons-biodiversity-lecture\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida&#8217;s wild places: photojournalist Carlton Ward Jr. delivers Stetson&#8217;s biodiversity lecture"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_18186\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18186\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/IMG_1900_CarltonWardspeaks.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-18186\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/IMG_1900_CarltonWardspeaks-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Carlton Ward Jr. delivered the Sept. 3 biodiversity lecture. Photo by SeanCarlo Lopez.\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18186\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carlton Ward Jr. delivered the Sept. 3 biodiversity lecture. Photo by SeanCarlo Lopez.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8220;What I really want to share with the students here today is that Florida is still a wild place, and we have a chance to keep it that way,&#8221; Carlton Ward Jr. told an audience gathered to hear him speak on Thursday afternoon on Stetson&#8217;s Gulfport campus.<\/p>\n<p>Ward\u00a0addressed students, faculty, staff and members of the community at Stetson Law&#8217;s first Edward and\u00a0Bonnie Foreman Biodiversity Lecture of the fall semester.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/x6UyyiWctDg\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Ward is an environmental photojournalist from Clearwater, Florida, who uses his photography to promote conservation of natural environments and cultural legacies.<\/p>\n<p>Ward&#8217;s\u00a0book, &#8220;Florida Wildlife Corridor Expedition,&#8221; documents Ward&#8217;s 1,000-mile journey in 2012 from the Everglades National Park in Florida to the Okefenokee Swamp in Georgia in 100 days.\u00a0The journey continued in 2015 with a 70-day, 1,000-mile trek from the Everglades headwaters near Orlando to Gulf Islands National Seashore near Pensacola, bringing new attention to a statewide vision to keep Florida wild.<\/p>\n<p>Stetson&#8217;s biodiversity lecture series brings leading experts to campus to speak on a range of environmental topics. 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