A 170-year-old lizard specimen is to be returned to its Jamaican homeland from a Scottish university collection as part of reparatory justice moves.
A 170-YEAR-OLD lizard specimen is to be returned to its Jamaican homeland from a Scottish university collection as part of reparatory justice moves.
It comes following a 2019 Memorandum of Understanding between the UWI and University of Glasgow , which aims to foster collaboration in research andProfessor Sir Hilary Beckles, vice-chancellor of the UWI, said: “The reparatory justice movement deals with various issues of different scales that must be addressed.
The lizard, a mature adult, is contained in a glass stoppered jar and stored in 70% ethanol and is said to be in good condition for a wet preserved specimen that is around 170 years old.
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