BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//jEvents 2.0 for Joomla//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT UID:3a5169b675c5fff22e8b96474ed2ded4 CATEGORIES:Membershp Meetings CREATED:20170915T232335 SUMMARY:October Membership Meeting: Sunda – A Land of Birds, Beasts and Dragons DESCRIPTION;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:
Location: Niles Discovery Church; 36600 Niles Blvd, Fremont, CA 94536 (c
orner of Nursery Ave. and Niles Blvd.)
Presenter: Bob Lewis
One of our popular speakers, Bob Lewis, is back for our October meeting! His to pic is Sunda - A Land of Birds, Beasts and Dragons.
20,000 years ago the lands which make up Malaysia, Indonesia and Singapore were all intercon nected in the area geologists call Sunda. As glaciers melted and the sea level rose, islands like Borneo, Bali and Komodo were separated from th e mainland of Asia, where the Malaysian peninsula is today. Alfred Ru ssel Wallace explored this area in the 19th century when he independently d eveloped the concept of evolution by natural selection made famous by Darwi n. While reviewing many of the avian families of the area, Bob will t ouch on some of the other forest creatures of the area, the importance of i slands to evolution, and the impact of the palm oil industry to tropical fo rests.
Bob trained as a chemist and worked for Chevron for 33 years.& nbsp; He’s taught birding classes in the San Francisco Bay Area for over 25 years, and is the past chair of Golden Gate Audubon’s Adult Education Comm ittee. His life list is over 4700, and he loves to travel.  ; He’s an award-winning photographer, focusing on birds, and will be return ing from Colombia just before giving this presentation. In 2016, Bob was honored with American Birding Association’s Chandler Robbins Award for Education and Conservation .
Directions:
From the South or West
via 880, Take Mowry Avenue exit. Follow Mowry across Fremont (toward the hi
lls) to Mission Boulevard, turn left. You will pass Niles Blvd and the Sull
ivan Underpass. Turn left at Nursery Ave. Turn left on Niles Blvd. You will
see the church just on the left after the turn.
From the North via 88
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Take Alvarado Niles Boulevard (east): From the freeway exit, turn l
eft to go over the overpass, then in approximately four miles (through Unio
n City and into the Fremont city limits), you will see the church on your l
eft (just after Nursery Ave.).
From Pleasanton or Livermore, or other
points to the east of the hills , you can take 680 to the first Mission Bou
levard exit, and turn right onto Mission. Stay on Mission until you get to
Nursery Avenue, and turn left. Turn left on Niles Blvd. You will see the ch
urch just on the left after the turn.
From the North via Mission Boul
evard
Turn right on Nursery, and left on Niles Boulevard. You will see
the church just on the left after the turn.