- Omora Ethnobotanical Park
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Omora Ethnobotanical Park is a protected area of Chile located 4 km (2 mi) west of Puerto Williams on Navarino Island in the extreme southern Magellan and Chilean Antarctica Region. The Omora Park is a research, education and conservation center for the Cape Horn Biosphere Reserve. The park itself includes a representative variety subantarctic flora open to the public for formal and information education. Within its boundaries, one can find deciduous forests (Nothofagus antarctica and Nothofagus pumilio) and evergreen broadleaf forests (Nothofagus betuloides), as well as bogs and high-Andean ecosystems and diverse mosses, lichens and liverworts (termed the "Miniature Forests of Cape Horn" by Omora Park scientists).
Founding director Dr Ricardo Rozzi inaugurated the practice of "field environmental philosophy" at the Omora Park. Since its creation in 2000, the Omora Park and its partners and colleagues have gone on to lead a transdisciplinary biocultural conservation initiative that led to the creation of the Cape Horn Biosphere Reserve. A consortium of institutions now support this program including the Institute of Ecology and Biodiversity and the University of Magallanes in Chile and the University of North Texas, the Center for Environmental Philosophy and the Omora Sub-Antarctic Research Alliance in the United States.
One example of the way the Omora Park attempts to link theory and practice can be found in the Tourism with a Hand Lens initiative. In 2008, the Omora Park received the "Science and Practice of Ecology and Society Award", given by the Foundation for Scientific Synthesis.
External links
Dr.Rozzi
- Omora Foundation
- OSARA (Omora Subantarctic Research Alliance)
- Center for Environmental Philosophy
- Institute of Ecology and Biodiversity, Chile (IEB)
- UNT Chile Program Office
- Omora Biocultural Conservation Approach: Ecology & Society 2006
- Field environmental philosophy and biocultural conservation at the Omora Ethnobotanical Park: Methodological approaches to broaden the ways of integrating the social component(“S”) in Long-Term Socio-Ecological Research (LTSER) Sites
- Belleza de Pensar Cristian Warnken, Lorenzo Aillapán y Ricardo Rozzi
- La Medida de Omora Claudia Esslinger
- Efecto Picaflor
- Efecto Picaflor sinopsis
- TV UMAG Omora LA BIODIVERSIDAD
- TV UMAG Omora VALOR INTRINSECO
- TV UMAG Omora VALOR INSTRUMENTAL
References
- Comisión Nacional de Medio Ambiente (CONAMA): El Uso de los Recursos Naturales en el Desarrollo de la Region • Duodécima Región de Magallanes y Antártica Chilena, Capítulo IVb. [1]
- Summary of Omora program: Ecology & Society 2006
- Field environmental philosophy and biocultural conservation at the Omora Ethnobotanical Park: Methodological approaches to broaden the ways of integrating the social component(“S”) in Long-Term Socio-Ecological Research (LTSER) Sites
Coordinates: 54°56′08″S 67°36′17″W / 54.93556°S 67.60472°W
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