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	Conservation The Omora Foundation has focused its conservation efforts on the maintenance and monitoring of the Omora Ethnobotanical Park, an area of 400 hectares just outside of Pto. Williams on Navarino Island. The Park comprises all of the 13 habitat types that can be encountered on the islands south of Tierra del Fuego from different coastlines through the various forest types, shrub- and moorelands, all the way up to the alpine zone. Hence Omora is conserving a complete mosaic of the sub-antarctic eco-system. Furthermore, the Omora Park protects the watershed of the Robalo River, the principal source of drinking water for Puerto Williams. A further conservation effort focuses specifically on the control of invasive exotic fauna on Navarino Island (see article in La Prensa Austral and letter to the editor of Discover magazine). Since 2003, Omora has collaborated with the Chilean national service for agriculture and livestock (Servicio Agricola y Ganadero - SAG) with the aim of controlling the reproduction of beaver (Castor canadensis) and mink (Mustela vison).  The beaver has heavily impacted the forested regions of the island, while the mink threatens to decimate native rodent and bird populations. A significant contribution to conservation efforts in general is the co-edition of the Latin American version of Richard Primack's "Essentials of Conservation Biology" called "Fundamentos de Conservación Biológica - Perspectivas Latinoamericanas" in 2001. Ricardo Rozzi and Francisca Massardo contributed to its content and to the practical realisation of this large project. In concordance with Omora’s ambition to promote biocultural conservation, biological studies in the park are seen in relation with expressions of the Yahgan cosmology. This not only enriches the common understanding about ecological processes but also contributes to the rescue of remnants of the Yahgan culture and knowledge, especially concerning the forests. One possible result will be the assemblage of a Yahgan Natural History.
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