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This website started in March 2012. Please excuse if many pages are still empty. Content will be added nearly every day from now on.
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 Volkswagen Foundation (link to www.volkswagenstiftung.de). The 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* are members of local communities that do not have academic background but are trained in the field of ecology, taxonomy or socio-ecology, sociology, anthropology or related fields and are employed to actively support research or development activities in their environment.
The main objectives of para-ecologist approaches are
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