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Speakers: Daniel Janzen and Winnie Hallwachs<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/ibol.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/webinar-Janzen.jpg” alt=”Carlos Manuel Rodr\u00edguez visiting the iBOL booth at the Trondheim Conference on Biodiversity (July, 2019). 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The reason for spending a summer evening in front of their computer screens was to see Daniel Janzen and Winnie Hallwachs (University of Pennsylvania, members of iBOL board of directors) discussing their work in Costa Rica and their journey to BioAlfa<\/strong><\/a>. <\/span> Dan gave an overview of his six decades in this tropical country, from his first visit in 1963, to his later ecological work in various national parks. This led to Dan and Winnie eventually focusing their interests on \u00c1rea de Conservaci\u00f3n Guanacaste<\/a><\/strong> (ACG), a UNESCO World Heritage Site covering more than 150,000 hectares of land and sea in the Northwest of Costa Rica.<\/span>“]Almost 200 people from Latin America were connected through Zoom on June 24, 2020. The reason for spending a summer evening in front of their computer screens was to see Daniel Janzen and Winnie Hallwachs (University of Pennsylvania, members of iBOL board of directors) discussing their work in Costa Rica and their journey to BioAlfa<\/strong><\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n Dan gave an overview of his six decades in this tropical country, from his first visit in 1963, to his later ecological work in various national parks. This led to Dan and Winnie eventually focusing their interests on \u00c1rea de Conservaci\u00f3n Guanacaste<\/a><\/strong> (ACG), a UNESCO World Heritage Site covering more than 150,000 hectares of land and sea in the Northwest of Costa Rica. <\/span>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.4.8″ custom_padding=”20px||0px||false|false”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.4.8″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.4.8″ hover_enabled=”0″ content_last_edited=”on|desktop”]Founding Guanacaste Dry Forest Conservation Fund<\/strong><\/a>, a not-for-profit organization, helped establish formal relations with the Costa Rican government to promote biodiversity conservation in ACG. From the beginning of their work in ACG, Dan and Winnie considered the local communities to be paramount for successful conservation efforts. In 1989, local people interested in biodiversity – but without a formal education in this area – assembled for a first course for parataxonomists held in ACG. Since then, their numbers grew and some 40 parataxonomists are currently employed in ACG to conduct daily activities in biodiversity research, mainly related to rearing insects and documenting their food preference for different plants. <\/span><\/p>\n Their hard work provided the basis needed to test DNA barcoding as a method for species identification and discovery since the early days (\u2018Ten species in one<\/a>\u2019<\/strong> is all too known to the barcoding community). The ACG parataxonomists also sample insect tissue to fill up 96-well plates to send to the Centre for Biodiversity Genomics<\/strong><\/a> (University of Guelph, Canada) together with the associated metadata (images, collection data, preliminary taxonomic information etc.). Between individual samples and bulk samples, hundreds of thousands of samples have been sent to be processed in Canada and their information stored in the Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD<\/strong><\/a>), ACG being one of the main single contributors of barcode data to BOLD. The data so far generated show that only 0.2% of BINs (Barcode Index Numbers used as proxies for species) were shared between the dry, cloud and rainforest sites sampled with Malaise traps in ACG. Additionally, based on the work of the parataxonomists and the DNA barcoding approach new species have been discovered and described, sometimes by a team of authors including parataxonomists. <\/span><\/p>\n With ecotourism being Costa Rica\u2019s largest revenue source, this country was in the best position to choose to inventory and protect its biodiversity for the benefit of its people. BioAlfa, estimated to cost $100 million over 10 years, was proposed as a project for national bioliteracy, to inventory the approximately one million species estimated to occur on the five million hectares of Costa Rica. Strong political support at the highest levels of the government made this project a reality and worthy of national interest. Costa Rica is on track to become the first tropical bioliterate country, where its people will have free access to information about what lives where. It is part of BIOSCAN<\/strong><\/a>, an international project aiming to inventory Earth\u2019s multi-cellular life, but it will provide an in-depth view of a country\u2019s natural assets. <\/span>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=”2_5,3_5″ _builder_version=”4.4.8″ custom_padding=”20px||20px||false|false”][et_pb_column type=”2_5″ _builder_version=”4.4.8″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.4.8″ hover_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n BioAlfa can also serve as an example for other megadiverse countries, and is gaining interest from other Latin American countries, such as Colombia. After an initial visit of Dan and Winnie to Bogot\u00e1 (October 2019) where they had various discussions at the Instituto de Investigaci\u00f3n de Recursos Biol\u00f3gicos Alexander von Humboldt<\/a><\/strong> (IAVH), a Colombian delegation visited ACG in February 2020 to learn how BioAlfa originated and how it is implemented. COVID-19 and its traveling restrictions did not manage to stop this South-South collaboration but just to move it into the virtual space. <\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”3_5″ _builder_version=”4.4.8″][et_pb_video src=”http:\/\/ibol.org\/video\/C%C3%B3digosdeBarras%20Daniel%20Janzen.mp4″ _builder_version=”4.4.8″][\/et_pb_video][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.4.8″ min_height=”529px” custom_padding=”0px|||||”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.4.8″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.4.8″ hover_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n Mailyn Gonzalez (Conservation Genetics lead, IAVH and the Colombian representative in iBOL\u2019s Science Committee), Carlos Prieto (Professor at Universidad del Atlantico<\/a><\/strong> (UA), Barranquilla, Colombia), Felipe Villegas (Communication team, IAVH) and Nathalie Baena \u00a0(Postdoctoral Fellow, IAVH) joined forces with Dan and Winnie and their Costa Rican team to organize a webinar in Spanish. It all started with an invitation from Carlos Prieto to Dan and Winnie to provide an online class to the biology students of UA. It soon became obvious to the organizing team that a larger Spanish speaking audience would be interested to learn about how Costa Rica is using sustainably its natural resources but also what major challenges are encountered in megadiverse countries when studying biodiversity and how to inspire future work in the region.<\/span><\/p>\n The presentation given by Dan and Winnie stirred a lot of interest from participants, most of whom were very interested to know how can the BioAlfa model be adopted by Colombia. Technical questions were also raised (e.g., reference libraries, documentation) and discussed. Interest in volunteering in ACG has been also addressed (only volunteers fluent in Spanish, able to cover all their costs and committed to work very hard to match the parataxonomists are encouraged to apply). 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