Conserving Guyana's Southern Forests: Collaboration for Indigenous Science in the Amazon
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Indigenous Waiwai people in southern Guyana own and manage the Kanashen Amerindian Protected Area (KAPA), a 625,000-hectare reserve. KAPA is the only Indigenous-owned and protected territory within Guyana's National Protected Areas System.
Come meet Phillip Suse, manager of KAPA and community collaborator with the Field Museum's Keller Science Action Center. With a team of Waiwai Rangers from the community, Phillip is responsible for regular monitoring activities to protect biodiversity and safeguard the headwaters of the Essequibo River-- the largest in Guyana.
Phillip will discuss the community’s approach to conservation, the importance of collaboration between Western scientists and Indigenous peoples, and the community's participation in the Field Museum's Rapid Inventory 32, a survey of biodiversity and local ecological knowledge.
Visitors to this session will explore various mammal specimens from Guyana, as well as fish and plant specimens collected from the rainforests east of KAPA Indigenous lands during the Field Museum's Rapid Inventory 32.
Presenters include Elliot Oakley, Field Museum Environmental Social Scientist; Farah Carrasco, Field Museum Conservation Ecologist; Phillip Suse, Kanashen Amerindian Protected Area Manager.
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