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Research and Training Tree Species ID Iwokrama-Guyana Dr Raquel Thomas-Caesar Iwokrama International Centre for Rain Forest Conservation and Development Tonka Island, Suriname September 2015. Iwokrama. A protected area An intact tropical rain forest One million acres (> 371,000 ha)
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Research and Training Tree Species ID Iwokrama-Guyana Dr Raquel Thomas-Caesar Iwokrama International Centre for Rain Forest Conservation and Development Tonka Island, Suriname September 2015
Iwokrama A protected area An intact tropical rain forest One million acres (> 371,000 ha) Named after a Mountain Range – 1000 m Indigenous Makushi -‘Place of refuge’
@ Olivier Chassot 2014 River Lodge and Research Centre
Iwokrama International Centre for Rain Forest Conservation and Development • An international experiment in sustainable development – Guyana & Commonwealth 1989 • An autonomous international multidisciplinary research and development centre • 1 million acres -2% Guyana’s Forest • Governed by an Act (1996) • One of 4 established Protected Areas
Integrating Conservation with Sustainable Use • Wilderness Preserve (WP) • Sustainable Utilisation Area (SUA)
Research • Training • Management • Monitoring • Ecotourism • Sustainable Timber harvesting • Other Business Development Projects • We collaborate with 16 neighbouring Amerindian communities (visit www.nrbbd.org) and with key partners including Government, private sector, indigenous groups, NGOs, universities, research institutions, schools and zoos.
Research • Biodiversity surveys/research • Flora • Fauna • Forest utilisation studies • Timber • Non-timber forest products • Community Forestry • Volume and Decay Study • Biomass assessment • Bio-prospecting • Endophytic fungi • Wetlands research • Marketing research (Timber, NTFPs) • Social research • Community resource use mapping • Traditional ecological knowledge • IPR and benefit sharing • Impact of Iwokrama capacity building on community development • Ecosystem services • Alternative business development
Tourist Cabins Iwokrama River Lodge and Research Centre Fred Allicock Building
Tree ID related studies • D B Fanshawe (Forestry Dept) • Principal Timbers 1954 • Vegetation of British Guyana, A prelim Review 1952 • Checklist of Indig Woody Plants of British Guiana 1949 • Tropenbos-Guyana (1989 – 2001) • Inventories/PSPs • Major Timber trees of Guyana, Field Guide 1992 • Checklist of woody plants of Guyana 1988 • Checklist of flowering plats of Mabura Hill 2003 • Non Timber Forest Products –Field Guide • Smithsonian Institution • Checklist of plants of the Guianas
Tree ID related studies • Iwokrama • Inventories • PSPs (Timber related, Rainfor, Amazon Tree Diversity Gp) • Tree population studies in low-diversity forests, Floristic composition ….Johnston and Gillman 1995. • Plant Diversity of the Iwokrama Forest (Smithsonian) 2001) • Volume and Decay study (timber related)- Trevin 2009 • Guyana Forestry Commission • Inventories • PSPs (Moraballi, Chickabaru, Yarrokabra, Old tropenbos sites- Mabura Hill Forest Reserve, Pibiri )
Current institutions- Training in Tree ID • Iwokrama- • Forest Botany/Dendrology • Guyana Forestry Commission (internal)- • Dendrology • Forestry Training Centre (external)- • Dendrology
Iwokrama International Centre for Rain Forest Conservation and Development www.iwokrama.org Request for Proposals for our Research and Science Programme http://iwokrama.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/RFP-Research-July-2014-V1.pdf Dr Raquel Thomas-Caesar Director for Resource Management and Training rthomas@iwokrama.org Vanessa Benn vbenn@iwokrama.org Check us out of Facebook and Instagram