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IBSAR / EARTH University partnership
Introduction
Initiate
academic exchange to conduct
collaborative research on
bioprospecting and biodiversity
mapping in Lebanon and Costa
Rica.
Collaborations and
academic exchanges are planned between EARTH and
AUB. The visit with various AUB faculty partners
confirmed this commitment.
Bioprospecting: IBSAR is establishing
collaboration to support biological testing of
plant extracts and molecules derived from plants
native to Costa Rica.
Biodiversity Mapping: Partners are in the
process of preparing a proposal to produce an
atlas of biodiversity hotspots in Lebanon. The
atlas will be based on organisms that have been
well sampled over the country and with a good
knowledge of their taxonomy like insects
(butterflies and fruit flies), plants (orchids
and mints) and vertebrates (amphibians, reptiles
and mammals).
