Effective Conservation: Parks, Rewilding, and Local Development

A Smart Growth Network Webinar

Thursday, March 31, 2022 - 1:00pm EDT
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Ignacio Jiménez has managed conservation projects on three continents over 30 years, pioneering an approach to conservation he calls “Full Nature” that seeks to integrate the ecological health of a region with the health of human communities. His book Effective Conservation: Parks, Rewilding, and Local Development further explores a "Full Nature" approach.

Jiménez explained how rewilding techniques can preserve endangered species and protect communities by promoting fully functional natural landscapes that are tied to the basic needs of the communities in their midst.

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Ignacio Jiménez

Ignacio Jimenez has extensive international experience in conservation. He has coordinated research and management projects with manatees in Costa Rica and Nicaragua and with golden-crowned sifakas in Madagascar, worked on wetlands and protected areas in El Salvador, and coordinated a national assessment of the Spanish experience in endangered species recovery. He worked for CLT/Tompkins Conservation in Argentina between 2005 and 2018, where he managed the largest reintroduction program in the Americas.