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Lecture: "Biocultural conservation in the Peruvian Amazon"

03/13/2009

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Michael P. Gilmore to discuss biocultural conservation.

A community-based project to address conservation, development, and resource use by the Maijuna people of the Peruvian Amazon is the topic of a public lecture by Michael P. Gilmore, assistant professor at New Century College, George Mason University.

Presented by Miami University’s department of botany, the lecture will be held from 7-8:15 p.m. Wednesday, March 18, in 218 Pearson Hall.

The Maijuna are an Amazonian indigenous group found along the Sucusari, Yanayacu, and Algodón rivers of the northeastern Peruvian Amazon and presently number approximately 400 individuals. Both the biological and cultural resources of the Maijuna are currently threatened due to a number of reasons that will be explored in Wednesday’s discussion titled, “Biocultural Conservation in the Peruvian Amazon.”

Gilmore earned his doctorate from Miami in 2005. Since that time, he has been a post doctoral professor at the University of Florida working out of the University of Amazonas, Iquitos, Peru, and a visiting professor of botany at the University of Oklahoma.