ABSTRACT
The Omora Ethnobotanical Park is transdisciplinary, long-term, socio-ecological research site at the world’s southernmost city, Puerto Williams, capital of the Antarctic Province of Chile. Launched in 2000, its research, education, and conservation program is based on the conceptual framework of the biocultural ethic that values the links among specific habitats, co-inhabitants, and their life habits. This conceptual “3Hs” model serves as a foundation for the field environmental philosophy methodological approach, which has achieved a biocultural “change of lenses” in the valuation of subantarctic biodiversity, inter-institutional and international collaborations for co-production of knowledge, and decision-making incorporating indigenous and other local populations.
