National Parks of Argentina: History and Current Challenges
Watch below Ana Martelli’s presentation on Argentina’s national parks
Thursday, May 27, 2021, from 3:00pm to 4:30pm
Speaker, Lic. Ana Martelli, Environmental Manager, National Park Service of Argentina
Argentina is the world’s 8th largest country, and it is also incredibly diverse. There are subtropical rainforests, desert landscapes, grasslands, wetlands, and the immense Patagonia, among many others spectacular sceneries. From north to south, there is a world’s worth of ecosystems contained within the borders of one country. Fortunately, at the turn of the 20th century, a movement began in Argentina to recognize and conserve its natural beauty and resources by creating national parks and reserves. From those early days, the National Park system of Argentina has evolved, and now has forty-nine (49) protected areas to oversee, each with a different conservation challenge.
In this talk, Lic. Ana Martelli will discuss the history of the National Park system, how it has changed over time, its responsibilities, current and future challenges. She will share details of some ongoing conservation programs, focusing on the central-eastern region of Argentina and the El Palmar National Park with which she currently works. She will also talk about how you as an Argentine citizen or resident can play a role in caring for the national treasures that exist in Argentina’s diverse and valuable ecosystems.
About Our Speaker:
Lic. Ana Martelli has been an Environmental Manager for the National Park Service of Argentina for the past ten years. She specializes in the development of conservation policies and environmental regulations, sustainability guidelines, environmental impact assessments, environmental damage assessments and more recently, in species conservation programs. She has also carried out conservation and management projects, took part in the participatory planning process of protected areas, the measurement of management effectiveness and coordinated the Integral Management of Urban Solid Waste (GIRSU) in the headquarters of the organization in Buenos Aires.
Most of her childhood was spent in the countryside, in her family’s farm and various National Parks. As a daughter of a retired park ranger, she has always known she wanted to work in conservation. With that desire and goal in mind, she studied Environmental Science in the School of Agronomy of Buenos Aires University (UBA), where she graduated with honors
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