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Field Museum's Parker/Gentry Award goes to Peruvian conservationists

forest bigger than Connecticut and extraordinarily rich in biodiversity. The new Parque Nacional Cordillera Azul one of the largest parks in the world is still undeveloped and largely uninhabited.

The year before, biologists from The Field Museum partnered with Peruvian and international biologists to study the area and inventory its biodiversity. What they found was truly spectacular, including at least 28 new plant and animal species. Our team of awardees played instrumental roles in securing protection for this park by bringing it to the attention of the international conservation community, organizing and participating in the biological inventory, and deftly navigating administrative and legal requirements.

Los Amigos
On July 24, 2001, president Paniagua signed another decree, this time creating Peru's first conservation concession. The lower Los Amigos watershed is recognized as a center for terrestrial and freshwater biodiversity. The conservation concession was awarded to the Asociacin para la Conservacin de la Cuenca Amaznica and will allow for the development of a center of expertise in tropical forest management, biodiversity science and training.

A conservation concession is contract between the government and a nongovernmental organization that confers management responsibility for ecosystem and biodiversity conservation to the NGO. The awardees made this new mechanism for protecting biological resources possible, particularly by helping to create the Peruvian Forestry Law that allows for conservation concessions.


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Contact: Greg Borzo
gborzo@fieldmuseum.org
312-665-7106
Field Museum
23-Aug-2002


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