Collaboration Opportunity; Texas Tech hosts Yucatan biocultural reserve leader
The director of a sprawling biocultural reserve on southeastern Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula is set to address a largely Texas Tech faculty audience this week on the possibility of doing even more collaborative projects in that region in the future, an official with the College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources said today.
James Callaghan, director of the Kaxil Kiuic-Helen Moyers Biocultural Reserve, will make his presentation
at 9 a.m. Friday (March 25) in room 108 of the Tech's Plant and Soil Science Building.
Among the collaboration opportunities are:
" Study Abroad
" Conservation Management
" Sustainable Production
" Sustainable Development
" Biological Research
" Wild Life Management
" Biodiversity Research
" Climate Change
" Rural Community Development
" Alternative Agricultural Models
The Kaxil Kiuic-Helen Moyers Biocultural Reserve already has a long history with the university's landscape architecture department, which began a study abroad program in community-based low impact tourism in 1995, said Charles Klein, an associate professor with the Department of Landscape Architecture.
Klein explained that the nearly 4,000 acre biocultural reserve is a special living laboratory located in the Yucatan's Puuc region. Managed by the Mexico-based nonprofit Kaxil Kiuic, and supported in part by Mississippi's Millsaps College, it's considered one of the best remaining zones of dry tropical forest in the Yucatan Peninsula.
Named after Helen Moyers, the benefactor who made purchase of the reserve lands possible, it is located on the private lands historically known as Rancho Kiuic. The reserve was created through the purchase of a number of privately owned parcels of land that had originally formed a single territory.
Written by Norman Martin
CONTACT: Charles Klein, associate professor, Department of Landscape Architecture, Texas Tech University at (806) 742-3771 or charles.klein@ttu.edu
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