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Environment, Culture and Conservation at The Field Museum  Diversity: Where would we be without it? Research reveals that its value goes far beyond the aesthetic pleasure of flashing reef fishes or the multicultural delights of a city like Chicago. Diversity is Earth's lifeblood, the source of resilience in wild nature and human culture. Forces of homogenization—from the global spread of chain stores to the gutting of ancient forests —threaten to leave us with an impoverished and vulnerable world. In 2004, The Field Museum took a significant step to confront this specter: the creation of Environment, Culture, and Conservation (ECCo). This new division unites and strengthens the Museum's existing departments of Environmental and Conservation Programs (ECP) and the Center for Cultural Understanding and Change (CCUC). Within and outside the Museum, in landscapes as different as urban Chicago and rural Peru, ECCo mobilizes scientific inquiry for action on behalf of diversity. More information...ECCo News ECCo Annual Report The ECCo Annual Report from 2007 is now available online:
Peru's Newest Protected Area—Santuario Nacional Megantoni  Armed with the results from our joint rapid inventory and more than a decade of anthropological work in the region, our Peruvian partner CEDIA presented a report to the Peruvian Natural Resource Dept. (INRENA - Instituto Nacional de Recursos Naturales) detailing the reasons for protecting Megantoni, an area of extraordinary biological and cultural diversity. The 216,005 hectares of Megantoni shelter more than 3000 plant, 70 fish, 100 amphibian and reptile, 600 bird, and 45 large mammal species, and sustain the traditional lifestyles of the Machiguenga, Ashaninka, Nanti, and Yine Yami native communities. On 10 August 2004, only three months after our expedition, Megantoni was designated a National Sanctuary, one of the highest levels of protection within the Peruvian parks system. The formal protection of Megantoni links several large protected areas in southeastern Peru, creating an uninterrupted wilderness corridor of more than 3.4 million hectares in one of the most diverse places in the world.ECCo links: Read more information about ECCo |
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