You and a guest are invited to enjoy dinner at the Occidental Grill & Seafood (www.occidentaldc.com) with renowned primatologist Dr. Anthony Rylands of Conservation International. Executive Chef Rodney Scruggs will assemble a tasting menu with the freshest ingredients to please your palate, along with complimenting wine pairings chosen by their sommelier. One of DC's finest restaurants, Occidental Grill and Seafood was established in 1906, is located a block from the White House, and is filled with history. Over dinner, chat with Anthony Rylands about conservation of the golden lion tamarins in Brazil and his work to save neotropical primates and other biodiversity.

British by birth, Brazilian by heart, Anthony Rylands, is one the world's leading experts in neotropical primate biodiversity. Currently a Senior Research Scientist at Conservation International, Washington, DC, Anthony began his career in 1976, at the National Institute for Amazon Research (INPA) in Manaus, Brazil Amazon, earning his doctorate in 1982 from Cambridge, UK on the behaviour and ecology of marmosets and lion tamarins. From 1986 to 2005 he was Professor of Vertebrate Zoology at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil. Anthony is a member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences and Deputy Chair of the IUCN/SSC Primate Specialist Group and has been working with Conservation International since 1993. He is a founding editor of the newsletter and journal Neotropical Primates, is currently editor of the journal Primate Conservation. Anthony has edited eight books and authored more than 220 articles and book chapters on protected areas, primate taxonomy and distribution, as well as species distinguishing characteristics, special adaptations and particularly striking features, such as sociality. Anthony is also a scholar of conservation efforts past and future, and of factors, largely human-caused, that are threatening non-human primates with extinction.