Monday February 13, 7:30pm in LCNB upstairs Community Room
Audubon Miami Valley presents Dr. Michael P. Gilmore from the Miami
University Department of Botany with his pioneering work:
An Ethnobotanical Study of the Maijuna of the Peruvian Amazon.

The Maijuna are indigenous native Amerindian people living in the Peruvian
Amazon on tributaries to the Napo River.  Their numbers have been reduced to
fewer than 400 individuals in four separate villages. For a year and a half,
Dr. Gilmore lived with and focused his investigations on the one village of
Sucasari natives.

Mr. Gilmore shares insights into how the Maijuna perceive their world. He
will touch upon ethical considerations that are presented by ethnobiological
research and the challenges he encountered. How does ethnocartography, or
community mapping, empower indigenous peoples and create possible positive
conservation outcomes?

Refreshments will be served.
In the spirit of conservation, bring an old cup to use and then leave at the
Community Room.

AMV's Feb 13 scheduled public speaker, DeVere Burt, cancelled due to health
issues.




            Audubon ... it's habitat forming!
            Debra Bowles, Communications
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