Leo Lanna has been leading expeditions in Amazonia and the Atlantic Forest since 2015. While still at university, he founded Projeto Mantis -- an independent research, conservation and wildlife photography organization intended to capture, understand and disseminate the mysterious diversity of the rainforest. Much of the time, this involves hanging out in pitch darkness.
A National Geographic Explorer, Lanna brings together rigorous scientific methods, photography and poetry to search for praying mantises and understand more about them. That includes living closely with the insects, as he and his team look after every mantis collected for research until its natural death.
What a week! Eleven mainstage sessions of TED Talks, two sessions of TED Fellows talks, an incredible array of on-site activations, countless Discovery Sessions, parties, dinners and more made TED2022 a triumphant return to Vancouver. The closing session of the conference capped off the week with world-changing ideas from the mountains of Nepal to the […]
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