{"id":771,"date":"2020-02-28T16:03:45","date_gmt":"2020-02-28T21:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/anthropology\/?p=771"},"modified":"2020-02-28T16:03:45","modified_gmt":"2020-02-28T21:03:45","slug":"professor-receives-research-and-exploration-grant-from-national-geographic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/anthropology\/2020\/02\/28\/professor-receives-research-and-exploration-grant-from-national-geographic\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Receives Research and Exploration Grant from National Geographic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/profilepages\/view_profile.php?username=borgersonc\">Cortni Borgerson<\/a>, an assistant professor in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/academics\/anthropology\/?wp_logged_in=true\">Anthropology Department<\/a>, has been awarded a research and exploration grant for $44,592 from the National Geographic Society. Her project, &#8220;Edible insects for reducing the illegal hunting of threatened lemurs on the Masoala Peninsula of Madagascar&#8221;, aims to tackle the illegal hunting of lemurs due to food insecurity.<\/p>\n<p>Madagascar is currently facing dual challenges in biodiversity and public health. The survivorship of lemurs (94% of which are threatened with extinction) depends on the sustainable hunting of a malnourished human population who commonly hunts them for food. In Madagascar, insects are an indispensable part of seasonal diets for many ethnic groups. The native Fulgorid plant hopper, the <em>sakondry<\/em> or bacon bug, is a widely-preferred traditional food source that is high in essential nutrients.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Borgerson\u2019s project will build upon 13 years of research on illegal lemur-hunting in Madagascar. The project will design native-insect farming methods for rural households, and quantitatively measure the effects of enhanced and expanded insect farming (and eating) on food security and the targeted-hunting of threatened lemurs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cortni Borgerson, an assistant professor in the Anthropology Department, has been awarded a research and exploration grant for $44,592 from the National Geographic Society. Her project, &#8220;Edible insects for reducing the illegal hunting of threatened lemurs on the Masoala Peninsula of Madagascar&#8221;, aims to tackle the illegal hunting of lemurs due to food insecurity. Madagascar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":772,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faculty-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/anthropology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/anthropology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/anthropology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/anthropology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/anthropology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=771"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/anthropology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":773,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/anthropology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771\/revisions\/773"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/anthropology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/anthropology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/anthropology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/anthropology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}