Amazonia-Yungas Observatory on Biodiversity and Indigenous Health and Well-being: Development of a South-South-North Research and Partner Consortium

这项提议是关于一个为期6个月的伙伴关系和项目开发催化剂项目，以建立一个跨学科的研究和伙伴联合体，该联合体将涉及并支持本国和国际上一些最边缘化的人民。土著人民是国际上处境最不利的民族之一。然而，这些人也是地球上一些最重要的生态系统的守护者。亚马逊是地球上最珍贵的生态系统之一。当亚马逊森林到达安第斯山脉时，它与一个相邻的、同样重要的生物圈--云雾森林--融合在一起。这两个姐妹森林生态系统是世界上生物多样性最丰富的地区之一，横跨几个拉丁美洲国家，包括巴西、阿根廷、秘鲁和玻利维亚。在这四个国家，这些生态系统总共覆盖了600多万平方公里，大约是英国的25倍。几千年来，跨越现代地缘政治边界的400多个不同的土著民族保护着亚马逊和尤加斯人。反过来，亚马逊和尤加斯人通过食物、药品、家园、文化和自然资源为这些土著人民提供了健康和福祉。这些森林生物圈还在森林和食物资源、现有和潜在的新药、降雨调节和全球碳汇方面为世界提供了一些最重要的生态系统服务。在国际上，迫切需要提高对生物多样性对人类健康和福祉的重要性的认识，特别是对直接依赖生物多样性生态系统的社区而言。这一需求在这一脆弱而至关重要的区域尤为迫切，该区域拥有相互依存的生物和文化多样性，目前正受到砍伐森林、资源开采和气候变化等外部因素的重大威胁。这项提议是一笔为期6个月的赠款，用于发展一个主要的伙伴关系和研究联合体，以领导和管理亚马逊-云加斯生物多样性和土著健康与福祉观测站。这样一个观测站将为本区域和国际上生物多样性与土著健康和福祉之间的联系提供重要证据，并将成为决策者以及土著和环境利益攸关方群体的主要证据库。该提案由来自阿根廷、秘鲁、巴西、英国和加拿大的国际和区域科学家牵头，他们组成了一个由生物学家、社会和环境流行病学家、人类学家、兽医科学家和社会科学家组成的初始跨学科团队，与包括生态基金会和土著协会在内的当地、区域和国际行为者以及国际机构一起工作。如果获奖，我们将重点发展支持和指导天文台的合作伙伴，以及长期将成为天文台主要用户的合作伙伴。目标：1.发展一个多学科的南南--北方研究联盟，提议、领导和运行云加斯-亚马逊生物多样性和土著健康及福祉观察站2.发展一个伙伴组织的多方利益攸关方网络，致力于制定、支持、促进和使用云加斯-亚马逊生物多样性和土著健康及福祉观察站的研究结果。具体目标：a.审查关于云加斯和亚马逊生物多样性与土著健康联系的现有证据。B.与伙伴组织和拟议研究财团的成员举行一次区域研讨会，讨论和制定一项主要的跨学科建议，以建立一个为期5年的尤加斯-亚马逊生物多样性和土著健康与福祉观测站。C.为尤加斯-亚马逊天文台提出一份建议书，包括研究团队和方法、伙伴组织、影响计划、环境抵消计划以及受益者和吸收计划。

This proposal is for a 6 month partnership and project development catalyst project to build an interdisciplinary research and partner consortium that will involve and support some of the most marginalised peoples in their countries and internationally. Indigenous peoples are amongst the most disadvantaged peoples internationally. Yet these peoples are also the guardians of some of the most important ecosystems of the planet. Amazonia is one of Earth's most precious ecosystems. As the Amazonian forest reaches the Andes it merges with a contiguous and equally important biosphere: the Yungas (or Cloud Forest). These two sister forest ecosystems are amongst the most biodiverse regions of the world, spanning several Latin American countries including Brazil, Argentina, Peru, and Bolivia. Together, across these four countries, these ecosystems span more than 6 million square kilometers, roughly 25 times the size of the UK. For millennia, spanning modern geopolitical boundaries, over 400 different indigenous peoples have protected Amazonia and the Yungas. In turn Amazonia and the Yungas have provided health and well-being for these indigenous peoples via food, medicines, home, culture, and natural resources. These forest biospheres also provide the world with some of its most important ecosystem services in terms of forest and food resources, current and potential new medicines, rainfall regulation and a global carbon sink. Internationally, there is an urgent need to improve understanding of the importance of biodiversity for human health and well-being particularly for communities directly dependent on biodiverse ecosystems. The need is especially urgent in this fragile and vital region, home to such interdependent biological and cultural diversity, and currently under major threat from exogenous forces such as deforestation, resource extraction and climate change. This proposal is for a 6-month grant to develop a major partnership and research consortium to lead and manage an Amazonia-Yungas Observatory on Biodiversity and Indigenous Health and Wellbeing. Such an observatory will provide vital evidence on the links of biodiversity and indigenous health and well-being in the region and internationally, and will be a major evidence base for decision-makers and indigenous and environmental stakeholder groups. This proposal is led by international and regional scientists from Argentina, Peru, Brazil, the UK and Canada who form an initial interdisciplinary team of biologists, social and environmental epidemiologists, anthropologists, veterinary scientists and social scientists working with a diverse group of local, regional and international actors including ecological foundations and indigenous associations, and international agencies. If awarded, we place a major emphasis on development of partners who will support and guide the Observatory and who will be major users of the Observatory in the longer term. Aims: 1. To develop a multi-disciplinary South-South-North research consortium to propose, then lead and run a Yungas-Amazonia Observatory on Biodiversity and Indigenous Health and Well-being 2. To develop a multi-stakeholder network of partner organisations committed to develop, support, promote and use findings of the Yungas-Amazonia Observatory on Biodiversity and Indigenous Health and Well-being Specific Objectives: a. To review existing evidence on links of biodiversity and indigenous health in the Yungas and Amazonia. b. To hold a regional workshop with both partner organisations and members of the proposed research consortium to discuss and develop a major interdisciplinary proposal for a 5 year Yungas-Amazonia Observatory on Biodiversity and Indigenous Health and Well-being. c. To produce a proposal for the Yungas-Amazonia Observatory including research team and methods; partner organisations; impact plan; environmental offsetting plan; and beneficiary and uptake plan.