The Arts & Culture Council for the Gallery at L.E. Shore is pleased to present Barbara Zimmerman and the Kayapo Story: Large Scale Amazon Forest Conservation with Indigenous Peoples.
After completing her MSc and PhD in tropical ecology, Barbara Zimmerman became involved with the struggle of the Kayapo Indigenous people of the Brazilian Amazon to defend their traditional territory in the face of the rapidly advancing frontier. Since 1992, she has worked with conservation non-governmental organizations (NGO’s) and Kayapo communities to strengthen Kayapo's capacity for protecting over 100,000 km2 of their legally ratified territories from encroachment, invasion, and deforestation in the lawless southeastern Amazon. Kayapo territory is the last large block of intact primary rainforest surviving in the high deforestation region of the southeastern Amazon.
Join us and hear the story of the Kayapo Project from Barbara L. Zimmerman, PhD, Officer of the Order of Canada (OOC) , Director, Kayapo Project with The International Conservation Fund of Canada and Environmental Defense Fund (USA)
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