Peace with nature: helping former Colombian guerrilla fighters to become citizen scientists
- Written by Jaime Gongora, Associate Professor, Animal and Wildlife Genetics and Genomics, University of Sydney
Ex-combatants learned to survey birds, plants and other wildlife.Jamie Gongora, Author provided
Colombia is the second most biodiverse country in the world with more than 56,000 recorded species, some 9,000 of which are unique. However protecting and researching this natural treasure has been extraordinarily difficult during Colombia’s nearly...