Brigitte Baptiste offers to us a view on nature in a way we had never seen before. Brigitte is the director of the Alexander von Humboldt Biological Resources Research Institute in Colombia, one of the most important centers of studies on biodiversity in the world. She is a biologist and moves between science, development and culture, in her country and throughout Latin America.

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Brigitte Baptiste: Nothing more queer than nature | Brigitte Baptiste | TEDxRíodelaPlata

Nothing more queer than nature | Brigitte Baptiste | TEDxRíodelaPlata

Director of the Institute of Biological Resources Research Alexander Von Humboldt

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