{"id":211744,"date":"2024-01-23T11:02:09","date_gmt":"2024-01-23T16:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/?p=211744"},"modified":"2024-01-23T11:02:09","modified_gmt":"2024-01-23T16:02:09","slug":"professor-borgerson-featured-in-bbc-earth-our-planet-earth-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/2024\/01\/23\/professor-borgerson-featured-in-bbc-earth-our-planet-earth-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Borgerson Featured in BBC Earth \u201cOur Planet Earth\u201d Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cortni Borgerson, Associate Professor of <a href=\"http:\/\/montclair.edu\/anthropology\">Anthropology<\/a>, is featured in the <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbcearth.com\/how-can-a-small-insect-help-in-the-fight-against-famine\" target=\"_blank\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.bbcearth.com\/how-can-a-small-insect-help-in-the-fight-against-famine&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1705757601125000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2r_pRIfl3DHsxme5zqQmoJ\">BBC Earth \u201cOur Planet Earth\u201d series<\/a>, which spotlights people and communities dedicating their lives to building a more sustainable world.<\/p>\n<p>The video highlights Borgerson\u2019s work in Madagascar, where climate change and human activity have led to devastating droughts and associated impacts on human health and the environment. Borgerson has been working with villagers to develop sustainable ways to farm sakondry, or \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/magazine-archive\/fall-winter-2020\/bugs-theyre-whats-for-dinner\/\">bacon bugs<\/a>,\u201d as a staple food source which can fill many of the nutritional gaps left by the famine while reducing the pressure on the shrinking forests. The sakondry are native to Madagascar and thrive in the current climate, creating a great opportunity to farm the insects and save the endangered lemur population.<\/p>\n<p>When people get hungry and desperate there, they turn to the forest. Borgerson\u2019s early studies in Madagascar showed that in some villages, 75% of animal-source foods come from forest animals, including lemurs, and that there are higher rates of malnutrition in households that hunt lemurs, indicating that lemur is a \u201clast resort\u201d food.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBiodiversity conservation depends on understanding why people make the choices that they make,\u201d says Borgerson. \u201cWhether it\u2019s climate change, hunting or habitat loss, all of lemur conservation depends on making people\u2019s lives better.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbcearth.com\/how-can-a-small-insect-help-in-the-fight-against-famine\">Watch Cortni\u2019s Our Planet Earth spotlight<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/magazine-archive\/fall-winter-2020\/bugs-theyre-whats-for-dinner\/\">Bugs! They\u2019re What\u2019s For Dinner<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/2023\/01\/05\/eating-insects-to-fight-the-climate-crisis\/\">Eating Insects to Fight the Climate Crisis<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/2023\/01\/24\/faculty-spotlight-anthropology-assistant-professor-cortni-borgerson\/\">Faculty Spotlight: Cortni Borgerson<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cortni Borgerson, Associate Professor of Anthropology, is featured in the BBC Earth \u201cOur Planet Earth\u201d series, which spotlights people and communities dedicating their lives to building a more sustainable world. The video highlights Borgerson\u2019s work in Madagascar, where climate change and human activity have led to devastating droughts and associated impacts on human health and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":211745,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,23,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-134_anthropology","category-7_homepage-news-and-events","category-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211744"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":211746,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211744\/revisions\/211746"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}