CCBD Council for Cultural and Biological Diversity

(Council for Cultural and Biological Diversity) Fundacion OSA - Organización Social y Ambiental, Costa Rica and Ecuador.

1. •Jonathon Miller Weisberger - Director, Ethnobotanist
   

2. •Paul Malo Pozo - President, Fundacion OSA Ecuador
   

3. •Ladna Miller Weisberger - Student of Ecology in Ecuador, founding member
   

4. •Dr. Galo Cadena - Legal advisor Ecuador
   

5. •Mirtha Aguay - Secretary Ecador branch
   

6. •Patricia Morales Mora – Treasurerer Costa Rica branch
   

7. •Ricardo Alvarado – Legal advisor, Educator, Costa Rica branch
   

8. •Nelson Jimenez - Municipality of Osa, Costa Rica branch
   

9. •Dahlia K. Miller - USA Liaison, Ph.D. Social & Cultural Anthropology
   

10. •Lizbeth Rymland – Fundraising
    

11. •Donna Runnals - Director Living Bridges Foundation
    

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13. •Costa Rican Projects
    

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15. •Ethnobotany of the Osa Peninsula
    

16. •Marine turtle conservation on San Josecito Beach
    

17. •Envirornmental education and community outreach
    

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19. •Ecuador Projects
    

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21. •Llushin River Rainforest Conservation Project with the Amazanga community.
    

22. •Ethnobotanical studies and cultural heritage projects among the Secoya
    

23. •Land acquisition and agricultural project with Highland Andean Quichua
    

International Advisory Council

•Alex Rubin – Director, Tropical Rainforest Coalition, USA

•Victorio Villareal Villareal - Herbologist; Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica

•Don Pablo Amaringo - Artist and Director of Usko Ayar School of Amazonian Painting; Pucallpa, Perú

•Dennis McKenna, Ph.D. - Director of Ethnopharmacology Heffter Research Institute and author; USA

•Lisa Faithorn - Anthropologist, organizational consultant, deep ecologist; USA

•Vernice Solimar - Professor & Chair of Department of Consciousness Studies, John F. Kennedy University; USA

•Rudolf W. Becking - Professor Emeritus, Natural Resources & Forestry, Humboldt State University; USA

•Bruce Harlow - Alternative Technology technician; USA

•Leonard Weisberger - Artist; USA

Contact

Dahlia K Miller - International Liaison
Tel: 510-235-4313 In Northern California
E-mail: puravida@guariadeosa.com