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=== Home === | === Home === | ||
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| <span style="color:#ff0000">''This website started in March 2012. Please excuse if many pages are still empty. Content will be added nearly every day from now on.''</span> | | <span style="color:#ff0000">''This website started in March 2012. Please excuse if many pages are still empty. Content will be added nearly every day from now on.''</span> | ||
− | <br/>This website has been initiated by the 20 participants (para-ecologists and project coordinators) of an international workshop on para-ecologist initiatives which was in Hamburg in June 2011. The workshop was funded by the [http://www.volkswagenstiftung.de Volkswagen Foundation]. | + | <br/>This website has been initiated by the 20 participants (para-ecologists and project coordinators) of an international workshop on para-ecologist initiatives which was held in Hamburg in June 2011. The workshop was funded by the [http://www.volkswagenstiftung.de Volkswagen Foundation]. |
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'''Platform for para-ecologists worldwide''' | '''Platform for para-ecologists worldwide''' | ||
− | + | This website is a platform for para-ecologists worldwide as well as for projects, organisations or individuals that are involved in the capacity development of para-ecologists. The platform aims to facilitate the networking and sharing of information within the para-ecologist community but also inform the public about the concepts, aims and methodology of para-ecologist programmes. | |
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For the website, we stick to the term para-ecologist. With t<span style="color:#ff0000"></span>his term, we explicitly also refer to '''<span style="color:#ff0000">para-taxonomists</span>, <span style="color:#ff0000">biodiversity facilitator</span><span style="color:#ff0000">s and </span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0)">other terms</span>''' that have been created in this context. | For the website, we stick to the term para-ecologist. With t<span style="color:#ff0000"></span>his term, we explicitly also refer to '''<span style="color:#ff0000">para-taxonomists</span>, <span style="color:#ff0000">biodiversity facilitator</span><span style="color:#ff0000">s and </span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0)">other terms</span>''' that have been created in this context. | ||
− | + | A para-ecologist* is a specialist with extensive local knowledge and being trained largely on-the-job in one or more fields of ecological science. He or she is mutually communicating with the local and scientific communities, contributing to both scientific research and local development. | |
Revision as of 09:02, 18 March 2012
Home
This website started in March 2012. Please excuse if many pages are still empty. Content will be added nearly every day from now on.
Platform for para-ecologists worldwide This website is a platform for para-ecologists worldwide as well as for projects, organisations or individuals that are involved in the capacity development of para-ecologists. The platform aims to facilitate the networking and sharing of information within the para-ecologist community but also inform the public about the concepts, aims and methodology of para-ecologist programmes.
Para-ecologists For the website, we stick to the term para-ecologist. With this term, we explicitly also refer to para-taxonomists, biodiversity facilitators and other terms that have been created in this context. A para-ecologist* is a specialist with extensive local knowledge and being trained largely on-the-job in one or more fields of ecological science. He or she is mutually communicating with the local and scientific communities, contributing to both scientific research and local development.
The main objectives of para-ecologist approaches are
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