UNT student Catalina Hungerford and Dr. Ricardo Rozzi recently received the award for “best student poster” at the 11th International Congress of Ethnobiology, held from 25 to 30 June 2008 in Cuzco, Peru. The poster, entitled Biological and cultural diversity in the forests of southern Chile: Biocultural verses in Pablo Neruda and Lorenzo Aillapan’s love poetry, is one more example of the biocultural research and conservation initiatives being pioneered in the Cape Horn Biosphere Reserve. In addition, Ximena Arango and Tomas Ibarra traveled to Cuzco to present their work on the implementation of a charismatic flagship species and the cultural landscape of Cape Horn, respectively.
Daily Archives: July 23, 2008
Peace Boat to Return in 2009
Based on the positive experience in January 2008, the organizers of the Peace Boat have requested that representatives of the Cape Horn Biosphere Reserve collaborate again in their 2009 voyage to explain the biocultural conservation initiative taking place in the subantarctic archipelago. To learn more, read the article written about the previous visit to Punta Arenas.