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Jardín
Etnobotánico Nugkui
Santa
María de Nieva, Jaén, Perú
An LAE sister garden is being proposed
in Condorcanqui, Department of Amazonas, in order to gather knowledge for
conservation and development of the resources of the jungle of highland
Marañón, with a technical perspective adapted to the fundamental
reference to traditional managmenet of the Aguaruna and Huambisa peoples,
of the Jíbaro ethnolinguistic family. As part of the Tunaants
Cultural Center, the sister graden will also have a zoonursery, a forest
tree species nursery and an orchideary. The project will work in
three fronts: plant production (fruit, medicines, reforestation, etc.),
native culture and cosmovision (relation of myths and the jungle), and
education (new models for jungle environmental education).
Our collaborators are members of
the Vicariato Apostólico San Francisco Xavier del Marañón,
a denominational organization of Jesuit priests and indigenous representatives
of the Aguaruna and Huambisa. We
want to emphasize the value of traditional
knowledge in biodiversity and the use of heirlooms and natural heritage
for cultural conservation of sacred landscapes.
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