Having received the 4th Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Ecology and Conservation Biology, biologist Daniel H. Janzen explains in this interview how ecological restoration and biodiversity protection require a long-term vision that integrates science, management, and social participation. Janzen details his work in the Guanacaste Conservation Area (Costa Rica), a pioneering project that demonstrates how the recovery of degraded ecosystems is possible when conservation policies, local education, and institutional collaboration are combined. He also reflects on the importance of documenting biological diversity and creating replicable models that allow other countries to protect their natural heritage. His testimony is a clear defense of conservation as a large-scale social and scientific project.
The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Ecology and Conservation Biology ca
Having received the 4th Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Ecology and Conservation Biology, biologist Daniel H. Janzen explains in this interview how ecological restoration and biodiversity protection require a long-term vision that integrates science, management, and social participation. Janzen details his work in the Guanacaste Conservation Area (Costa Rica), a pioneering project that demonstrates how the recovery of degraded ecosystems is possible when conservation policies, local education, and institutional collaboration are combined. He also reflects on the importance of documenting biological diversity and creating replicable models that allow other countries to protect their natural heritage. His testimony is a clear defense of conservation as a large-scale social and scientific project.
The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Ecology and Conservation Biology category goes in this fourth edition to the U.S. ecologist and naturalist Daniel Janzen, for his pioneering work in tropical ecology and the conservation of tropical ecosystems. The work done by Janzen has moved us on from a merely descriptive knowledge of tropical ecosystems to an understanding of their function.
