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News Highlights → Research: From 8-13 June 2008, the new Chilean Long-Term
Socio-Ecological Research Network, coordinated by the Instiute of Ecology and
Biodiveristy was launched at the Omora Park. For more information, visit the
IEB’s website: www.ieb-chile.cl
Education: From 31 May to 13 June 2008, the third version of
the Tracing Darwin’s Path Field Course was conducted in the Omora Park. For
more information visit: www.chile.unt.edu
and www.osara.org Conservation: Currently, the Omora Park is in a process of
consolidating the consortium of organizations that coordinate activities in the
Cape Horn Biosphere Reserve, including the University of Magallanes, the
Institute of Ecology and Biodiversity, and the Omora Foundation in Chile and
the University of North Texas, the Center for Environmental Philosophy and
the Omora Sub-Antarctic Research Alliance in the US. Cape Horn Biosphere Reserve declared by UNESCO! o
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The Omora Ethnobotanical Park
The The
Park is located
Ethnobotany The As part of the park’s intercultural education
program, the signs identifying the various plants and animals include the
names in Yahgan, scientific Latin, English and Spanish for each species. For
example, the bush upush, Ribes
magellanicum or zarzaparrilla, possesses names which express diverse cultural
points of view about this species. In Yahgan, Puerto Williams was called Upushwaia, because it was the bay (waia) where upush
was abundant. For scientists
it is a species of the genus
Ribes (blackberries and
currants), which is exclusive to the region of Magallanes, hence the Latin
name: Ribes
magellanicum. The Spanish
conquistadors observed that this bush grew everywhere, much like a weed or zarza, and its leaves reminded them of the
grapevine or parra; hence, zarza-parrilla. The Omora Foundation
The Omora
Foundation is a Chilean non-governmental organization (NGO) dedicated to
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