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Naughton receives course development grant for environmental conservation education game
Professor Lisa Naughton was recently awarded a College of Agricultural & Life Sciences International Programs (CALS IP) Science Internationalization Course Development Award for her project, "Who Owns Paradise? Competing Claims to Tambopata, Peru, a Last Wilderness Frontier". The award supports the redesign and renovation of a role-playing exercise designed to ‘bring to life’ environmental science and public policy issues in tropical countries. It is an educational tool Naughton has used for over 10 years in Environmental Conservation (Geog/Env St 339), a class she co-teaches with Professor Matt Turner.
Tambopata, a region of the Peruvian Amazon, is one of the most biologically diverse and least disturbed areas on the planet. Ecologists want to conserve its species-rich, carbon-heavy forests as do local indigenous people. But most other residents see Tambopata as a poor, isolated region with untapped reserves of timber, gold and farmland. To balance biodiversity protection with economic development, Peruvian officials invited local stakeholders (miners, indigenous people, loggers, ecotourism operators, etc.) to propose land use zoning maps to guide the region’s future. Read more...