Vanishing and Re-emerging: Reviving Biological and Cultural Diversity

Around the world, languages, cultures and ecosystems are disappearing at an alarming rate, erasing richness vital to our survival. Based on interviews conducted at a major international conference on biocultural diversity held at the American Museum of Natural History in New York in April 2008, this program examines how diversity is also re-emerging even as the old ways are dying.

Guests:
Rick Stepp, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Latin American Studies, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, US
Tero Mustonen and Vyacheslav Shadrin, The Snowchange Cooperative, Finland; Head, Yukaghir Elders Council
Gary Paul Nabhan, Founder, Renewing Americas Food Traditions, Southwest Center, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, US
Alejandro Argumedo, Founding Member and Co-Chair, Call of the Earth Steering Committee, Cusco, Peru
Eleanor Sterling, Director, Center for Biodiversity and Conservation, American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York, US
Jules Pretty, Professor of Environment and Society, University of Essex, UK


The following conversations were also recorded at the conference, but were not included in the full program.

Luisa Maffi, Ph.D, Director of Terralingua
Peter Brosius, Professor of Anthropology, University of Georgia
Jessica Brown, Senior Vice-President for International Programs with Quebec-Labrador Foundation
Amber Namaka Whitehead, Ecologist, and Scott Kekuewa Kikiloi, Cultural Assets Manager,Kamehameha Schools, Hawaii
Ashish Kotari, Kalpavriksh Environmental Action Group, Pune, India
Iain Ken MacDonald, Program in International Development Studies, University of Toronto
Michel Pimbert, Director, Sustainable Agriculture, Biodiversity and Livelihoods Program, International Institute for Environment and Development, London
David Rapport and Luisa Maffi, Principal, EcoHealth Consulting; and Director, Terralingua
Alaka Wali, Field Museum, Chicago