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Omora Ethnobotanical Park
Omora Ethnobotanical Park is a protected area located 4 kilometres west of Puerto Williams on Navarino Island. The Omora Park is a research, education and conservation center for the Cape Horn Biosphere Reserve. The park itself includes a representative variety sub-Antarctic 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 trasdisciplinary biocultural conservation initiative that led 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.
External links
OSARA (Omora Subantarctic Research Alliance)
Center for Environmental Philosophy
Institute of Ecology and Biodiversity, Chile (IEB)
References
Comision Nacional de Medio Ambiente (CONAMA): El Uso de los Recursos Naturales en el Desarrollo de la Region Duodecima Region de Magallanes y Antartica Chilena, Capitulo IVb. [*]
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