Ten Criteria Omora Initiative

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Ten Criteria Omora Initiative

• By Lorie Bennett

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Inter-institutional Cooperation

• LAND-TENURE
• Chilean Land Ministry granted the park jointly
  to private non-profit organizations (Omora NGO,
  state institute etc.) which generated an
  innovative model of public- private collaboration
  for conservation.

• PARK FUNCTIONS
• Collaboration with state agencies, governmental
  authorities, local people, organizations. In
  turn, the perception of the park as a shared
  public-private initiative has stimulated
  inter-institutional work among a broad array of
  agencies.

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Inter-institutional Cooperation

• Hummingbirds watershed in the Mountains
• Catskills Mountains in New York

http//www.naturalworldphotos.com/NaturalWorld/Nat
uralWorld.htm
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Participatory Approach

• Goal
• Develop a rapport and a basis of trust with them,
  and for this reason for the whole first year no
  photographs were taken of the Yahgan people.

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Interdisciplinary biocultural approach

• Bridging of the humanities and sciences
• Achieved through research, education and
  conservation
• Ursula, the last pure Yagan Woman

http//www.victory-cruises.com/Ukika_indian_photos
.html
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Networking and international cooperation

• Collaboration between local and international
  partners can play in the generation of innovative
  scientific research and effective regional
  conservation.

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Networking and international cooperation

• UNT starting the Chile Field Station for
  Convention on Biological Diversity

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Communication through the media

• By communicating its discoveries, activities and
  projects through the media, television, radio,
  Omora has overcome the isolation of the remote
  austral archipelago.
• Ursula's son Hernan shelling King Crab, the main
  ingress of the people here

http//www.victory-cruises.com/Ukika_indian_photos
.html
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Flagship species

• Identification of flagships
• To appeal toward biological species helped the
  Omora initiative to reverse some socio-cultural
  prejudices.

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Outdoor education

• Emphasizes direct Encounter with mosses,
  lichens, tress, rocks, waters, birds, ect.

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Economic sustainability and ecotourism

• Make the visitor's experience as an interactive
  process of observation , dialogue and inquiry.
• Yellowstone national park

http//www.nps.gov/yell/tours/oldfaithful/mrngglry
.htm
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Administrative sustainability

• Sustainability of Omora project
• Close links with the University of Magallanes
  (UMAG) and other institutions
• At a regional scale of Cape Horn Archipelago

http//www.unesco.org/mab/BRs/map.shtml
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Research and conceptual sustainability for
conservation

• Exploration and research activates are necessary
  practices for discovering what we want to
  conserve hence conservation actions and research
  go hand and hand.

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unt.edu/about_us/talks/speakr06.php http//www.vi
ctory-cruises.com/Ukika_indian_photos.html http/
/www.naturalworldphotos.com/NaturalWorld/NaturalWo
rld.htm