Council for Cultural and Biological Diversity

"The Council for Cultural and Biological Diversity, in Spanish known as Fundacion OSA, formerly Grupo Osanimi, is a collaborative effort among a small group of concerned individuals in Costa Rica, Ecuador and the United States in the fields of fundraising and proactively endorsing rainforest and wildlife conservation and cultural heritage revivification projects among Indigenous minorities and rural peoples' communities. The work supports the struggle for cultural and territorial autonomy through land purchase programs and in the past via demarcation and decolonization programs. "


 * Jonathon Sparrow Miller Weisberger - Director, Ethnobotanist

International Advisory Council
Accessed April 2012:


 * Alex Rubin – Director, Tropical Rainforest Coalition, USA
 * Victorio Villareal Villareal - Herbologist; Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica
 * Don Pablo Amaringo - Artist and Director of Usko Ayar School of Amazonian Painting; Pucallpa, Perú
 * Dennis McKenna, Ph.D. - Director of Ethnopharmacology Heffter Research Institute and author; USA
 * Lisa Faithorn - Anthropologist, organizational consultant, deep ecologist; USA
 * Vernice Solimar - Professor & Chair of Department of Consciousness Studies, John F. Kennedy University; USA
 * Rudolf W. Becking - Professor Emeritus, Natural Resources & Forestry, Humboldt State University; USA
 * Bruce Harlow - Alternative Technology technician; USA
 * Leonard Weisberger - Artist; USA

GO Advisory Council (2001)
Accessed April 2012:


 * Alex Rubin, Director, Tropical Rainforest Coalition
 * Michael McColm, President, Jatunsacha Foundation, Ecuador
 * Rocio Alarcón - Ethnobotanist, Board Member of EcoCiencia, Ecuador
 * Don Pablo Amaringo - Artist and Director, USKO-AYAR School of Amazonian Painting, Perú
 * Patricia Bastidas - ETNOTUR, Ecuador
 * Rudolf W. Becking - Professor Emeritus, Humboldt State University, CA
 * Huang Chen-Jin - Traditional Chinese Medicine, Director of Academia Kong Fa Chino, Ecuador
 * Lisa Faithorn - Anthropologist,
 * Leo Figgs - Eye Surgeon and Physician,
 * Luis Guevara - Curator of Huillacuna Archeology Museum, Ecuador
 * Bruce Harlow - Environmental Scientist and Ecologist
 * Robert Hass - United States Poet Laureate
 * Hernan Mayorga - Homeopath, Ecuador
 * Ralph Metzner - Psychologist, California Institute of Integral Studies, CA
 * Dennis McKenna - Ethnopharmacologist, Researcher and Author
 * Mario Müller - Director of Fundación Casa Tandayapa, Ecuador
 * Luís Ortíz - Executive Director of UTEPA, Ecuador
 * Manual Pallares - Lawyer & Biologist, Ecuador
 * Pablo Yepez, Biologist
 * Iván Salazar - Homeopath, Ecuador
 * Vernice Solimar - Professor and Chair of Department of Consciousness Studies at John F. Kennedy University, CA
 * David Walsh - Ancient Forest International CA
 * Leonard Weisberger - Artist, New York

Contact
Web: http://www.guariadeosa.com