Hello all, A little over a month ago Claudine Sierra (UNA, Costa Rica), Mariana Altrichter (IUCN) with help from the Organization for Tropical Studies taught a course on Biodiversity Conservation through the Lens of Indigenous Peoples. The professors and students used Las Cruces Biological Station (http://bit.ly/13FnA6e) and the territory of Coto Brus (Ngäbe-Buglé) as headquarters for the course.
This course was directed towards graduate students interested in Biological Conservation Projects that overlap with Indigenous Territories. The course focused on the governmental and non-governmental conservation paradigms and the issues faced by conservation leaders developing projects within indigenous lands. With this in mind the course concentrated on theoretical and practical approaches that integrate social and natural sciences. The coordinators and students created a Course book that we at OTS would like at share with you. You can find the course book at http://bit.ly/1dMtgAf . Cheers, Andres Santana Graduate Education Department Organization for Tropical Studies San Pedro, Costa Rica. 676-2050 (506) 2524-0607 ext. 1511 www.ots.ac.cr
