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Talks on 26th June 2025
10:00 – 10:30 Presentation of credentials, welcome video, and greeting from Tourism Councillor Cristina Galán.
10:30 10:45: 1st presentation: Alicia Colson (English) “Working with Indigenous people: understanding Ahnishinahbayeshshikaywin - a worldview called animism - as they do.”
10:50 11:05: 2nd presentation: Javier Cacho. “First landing on Cacho Island”
11:10 11:25: 3rd presentation: Silvia Benito. “The Jaguar's Last Frontier: Conservation at the Edge of the Kingdom.”
11:30 12:00: BREAK (coffee and pastries)
12:05 12:20: 4th presentation: Diego Cortijo. “RUTEON, an ecosystem for explorers in the time of "FOMO"
12:45 12:40: 5th presentation: Gonçalo J. Costa. “I was thinking of: A better society. With insects.”
12:45 13:00: 6th presentation: Alberto de Zunzunegui. "The Sea as a Teacher: Silence, Presence, and Transcendence"
13:00 13:30: GROUP ACTIVITY.
13:30 14:00: DEBATE.
14:00 – 16:50 LUNCH: at the Pandorgos Brotherhood House
Break until the afternoon programme.
16:50 Welcome to the afternoon program and greetings from the Mayor of Ciudad Real, Francisco Cañizares.
17:15 17:30: 7th presentation: Alejandro del Moral. “Aboriginal Expedition-Guadiana Paths”
17:35 17:50: 8th presentation: Fabien Schultz. (English). “From forest remedies to lab discoveries: How mountain gorillas, chimpanzees, and elephants inspire the future of medicine.”
17:55 18:10: 9th presentation: Alicia Colson (English). “Intelligence: a force multiplier for conservation” - Langland Conservation
18:15 18:30: 10th presentation: María José Lozano. “The Royal Geographical Society: Legacy and Heritage of Spanish Geography”
18:30 18:45 BREAK
18:45 19:00: 11th presentation: Miguel Gutiérrez Garitano and Alejandro Muñoz. “Spanish Geographical Society Expedition Vilcabamba 2025”
19:05 19:20: 12th presentation: Book “My Favorite Explorers” with Javier Cacho, Carlos Micó, Miguel Gutiérrez Garitano, Guillermo Fesser, and Manuel José Carpintero.
19:25 19:40: 13th presentation: Marcelo Méndez and Alex Serrano. “THE EXPLORERS CLUB/Trail of Ice and Stars”
19:45 20:00: 14th presentation: Sebastián Álvaro Lomba "My Mountains".
20:00 Farewell and Acknowledgements | World Explorers Symposium
20:00 22:00: Cocktail party in the Old Casino Hall.