Workshops
The Power of Connections Project brings together diverse Pan Amazonian leaders, knowledge holders, and practitioners to share lessons learned, strengthen and expand networks, and chart new Amazonian conservation pathways
To realize these goals, the University of Florida project team and partner organizations in the Amazon basin are creating spaces for shared learning and collaboration centered on five thematic areas.
Conservation Themes
Five discrete and complementary workshops centered on these themes are being held across Amazonian countries, bringing together those who are immersed in day-to-day basin realities and actively forging innovative biocultural conservation strategies.
1. Sociobioeconomies and conservation finance
Seasoned practitioners, from conservation finance experts to local entrepreneurs, share details of market-based experiences that enhance community well-being while conserving the region’s rich biocultural diversity.
2. Reshaping institutions for next generation conservation leaders
Intergenerational community leaders and educators from geographically and culturally diverse Amazonian institutions stimulate dialogue, knowledge exchange, and collaboration in support of next generation conservation leaders.
3. Collaborative
management centered on Indigenous Peoples and local communities
Researchers, governmental, non-governmental and private sector actors join community members to feature and exchange experiences that have fortified local knowledge and protagonism and led to enduring resource and territorial management.
4. Innovations in the research process
Community researchers, transdisciplinary scientists, and public managers highlight the effects and co-design challenges of implementing novel research methodologies, tools, and approaches for discovery and stewardship of Amazonia.
5. Indigenous rights and governance instruments
Diverse Amazonian actors to uncover and share examples of Indigenous-focused actions that have led to meaningful territorial and conservation achievements via legal strategies, policies, and laws in the Pan Amazon region.
Organizers and Collaborators
