Table 1. Ten principles guide the
actions of Omora Park to implement biocultural conservation at the
southern extreme of the Americas. All principles interact simultaneously
and have multiple functions; however, they can be grouped under three
main subject areas and practices that enable Omora to put these concepts
into action.
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Principle
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Main subject
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Practice
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(1) Interinstitutional collaboration
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Maintaining diverse participants in the project
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Omora’s participatory approach, involving cross-scale
interplay of institutions with both horizontal and
vertical linkages
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(2) Participatory approach
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(3) Interdisciplinary
biocultural approach
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(4) Networking and
international cooperation
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(5) Communication through the media
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Outreach of biocultural conservation practices and
results
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Involving the community in the Omora initiative,
reaching out to local, national, and international
levels; biocultural integration of sciences and
humanities
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(6) Identification of a
flagship species
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| (7) Integration of
curriculum and intercultural education in the outdoors |
(8) Economic sustainability
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Sustainable socioecological systems
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A three-dimensional approach to achieve sustainability
at the level of the Omora Park, as well as the level of
the Cape Horn region, based on a biocultural vision of
place
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(9) Social and
administrative sustainability
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(10) Research and
conceptual sustainability
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