Robin Reid's 60 Minutes Interview Featured in CSU's Competitive Edge

November 2009 | Robin Reid's 60 Minutes Interview Featured in CSU's Competitive Edge! A powerful Oct. 4 interview airing on CBS' 60 Minutes with Robin Reid, director of Colorado State University's Center for Collaborative Conservation, highlighted the remarkable Serengeti-Mara wildebeest migration, the largest remaining migration of large mammals on Earth. Reid talked with 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley in Kenya about the challenges for the survival of this 1.3 million-strong herd, including issues of deforestation, low river flows, rising human populations, and climate change. In June, we reported on Reid’s research on the decline of wildlife in the Masai Mara National Reserve, where six species have decreased substantially in only 15 years as they compete for survival with the region’s growing human settlements. Before serving as center director, Reid worked with the International Livestock Research Institute in Nairobi, Kenya, where she led research and education on conservation and development issues in Africa, Latin America, Asia, and the western United States. Reid also has served as a senior research scientist at Colorado State's Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory and is on the faculty in the Department of Human Dimensions of Natural Resources and the Department of Forest, Rangeland, and Watershed Stewardship. Access "The Great Migration" on the 60 Minutes website.

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