Tourism with a Hand Lens
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"Tourism with a Hand Lens" is a term coined by Dr. Ricardo Rozzi
and his colleagues to refer to a new speciality tourism being promoted in the Cape Horn Biosphere Reserve. Given the discovery of the archipelago's outstanding diversity of mosses, lichens and liverworts (5% of the world's total), Rozzi has called upon tourism operators to place this narrative into their offering for the region and take advantage of this biodiversity hotspot for non-vascular flora.
In turn, Rozzi and the Omora Ethnobotanical Park
have metaphorically called these small plant communities the "Miniature Forests of Cape Horn" to help the broader society understand the ecological role played by these tiny, but diverse, abundant and important organisms.
"Tourism with a hand lens" has been likened to a nature-venerating ritual by the ethnographer Bron Taylor
in his book Dark Green Religion
.
Ricardo Rozzi
Ricardo Rozzi is a Chilean ecologist and philosopher who teaches at the University of North Texas and the Universidad de Magallanes...
and his colleagues to refer to a new speciality tourism being promoted in the Cape Horn Biosphere Reserve. Given the discovery of the archipelago's outstanding diversity of mosses, lichens and liverworts (5% of the world's total), Rozzi has called upon tourism operators to place this narrative into their offering for the region and take advantage of this biodiversity hotspot for non-vascular flora.
In turn, Rozzi and the Omora Ethnobotanical Park
Omora Ethnobotanical Park
Omora Ethnobotanical Park is a protected area of Chile located west of Puerto Williams on Navarino Island in the extreme southern Magellan and Chilean Antarctica Region. The Omora Park is a research, education and conservation center for the Cape Horn Biosphere Reserve...
have metaphorically called these small plant communities the "Miniature Forests of Cape Horn" to help the broader society understand the ecological role played by these tiny, but diverse, abundant and important organisms.
"Tourism with a hand lens" has been likened to a nature-venerating ritual by the ethnographer Bron Taylor
Bron Taylor
Bron Raymond Taylor is an American scholar and conservationist. He is Professor of Religion and Nature at the University of Florida and has also been an Affiliated Scholar with the Center for Environment and Development at the University of Oslo. Taylor works principally in the areas of religion...
in his book Dark Green Religion
Bron Taylor
Bron Raymond Taylor is an American scholar and conservationist. He is Professor of Religion and Nature at the University of Florida and has also been an Affiliated Scholar with the Center for Environment and Development at the University of Oslo. Taylor works principally in the areas of religion...
.
External links
- Omora Biocultural Conservation Approach: Ecology & Society 2006
- Field environmental philosophy and biocultural conservation at the Omora Ethnobotanical Park: Methodological approaches to broaden the ways of integrating the social component(“S”) in Long-Term Socio-Ecological Research (LTSER) Sites
- TV UMAG Ecotourism with a Hand Lens - Ecoturismo con Lupa