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| valign="top" | <br>Cuéllar, Erika (2009): Manuales Técnicos, 1er Curso de Capacitación para la Formación de Parabiólogos. A training manual developed for the Gran Chaco paraecologist project.<br />
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Engbers, Moritz (2008): How to organise my computer data [http://www.paraecologist.org/images/d/d8/Engbers_2008_Computer-Basics.pdf '''PDF''' (76 KB)]<br />
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Engbers, Moritz (2008): Climate Change - Causes, processes and possible effects [http://www.paraecologist.org/images/5/5b/Engbers_2008_para-ecologists_climate_change.pdf '''PDF''' (1.313 KB)]<br />
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Grohmann, Constanze (2008): What are termites? [http://www.paraecologist.org/images/e/eb/Grohman_2008_Introduction_to_Termites_PE.pdf '''PDF''' (1.883 KB)]<br />
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Hesse, Alan J. & Cuéllar S., Erika (2008): Manuales Técnicos, 1er Curso de Capacitación para la Formación de Parabiólogos, '''PDF (16 MB) on request: Ute.Schmiedel@uni-hamburg.de'''<br />
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Schmiedel, Ute (2008): Guide to selected plant families [http://www.paraecologist.org/images/0/02/Schmiedel_2008_Plant_families.pdf '''PDF''' (1025 KB)]<br />
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Shekhar KS (2007): A field guide to the tracks and signs of Eastern Himalayan, Central Indian and Eastern Ghats Wildlife IBH: Delhi, 294 pp.<br />
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Shekhar KS (2008): Training rural residents as Naturalist Guides: Introductory training program at Saptura National Park, Madhya Pradesh. [http://www.paraecologist.org/images/7/71/Training_rural_guides_in_India_to_work_as_Naturalists.pdf '''PDF''' (83 KB)]<br />
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Parabiologist training manual 2006 – on primate ecology in Ecuador – funded by the Darwin Initiative <br />
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[[Media:Parabiologist_training_manual_2006_Curso_de_capacitacion_de_parabiologos.pdf|'''Download PDF''' (900 KB)]] <br />
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Parabiologist training manual 2007 – on primate ecology in Ecuador – funded by the Darwin Initiative<br />
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Department for Environment Food & Rural Affairs, UK (2019): UN International Day of Forests 2019: <br>Para-ecologists – the paramedics of the rainforest<br><br />
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- Gobabeb / Namibia, 2004 [http://www.paraecologist.org/images/e/e6/BIOTA_Reader_1st_training_2004.pdf '''PDF''' (486 KB)]<br />
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- Gellap Ost, Keetmanshoop / Namibia, 2005 [http://www.paraecologist.org/images/7/79/BIOTA_Reader_2nd_training_2005.pdf '''PDF''' (401 KB)]<br />
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- Gellap Ost, Keetmanshoop / Namibia, 2006 [http://www.paraecologist.org/images/5/57/BIOTA_Reader_3rd_training_2006.pdf '''PDF''' (218 KB)]<br />
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- Kamieskroon / South Africa, 2007 [http://www.paraecologist.org/images/c/ce/BIOTA_Reader_4th_training_2007.pdf '''PDF''' (1.243 KB)]<br />
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- Vanrhynsdorp / South Africa, 2008 [http://www.paraecologist.org/images/3/36/BIOTA_Reader_5th_training_2008.pdf '''PDF''' (1.316 KB)]<br />
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- Nieuwoudtville / South Africa, 2009 [http://www.paraecologist.org/images/8/85/BIOTA_Reader_6th_training_2009.pdf '''PDF''' (577 KB)]<br />
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[[Training materials Readers#top seitenanfang|Top]]</div>Till Krausehttp://www.paraecologist.org/index.php?title=Para-ecologist_programmes&diff=2774Para-ecologist programmes2022-02-24T05:03:58Z<p>Till Krause: </p>
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<div>=== Research projects with paraecologists ===<br />
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<span style="color:#ff0000"><span style="font-size:large">'''A) Overview of programmes, initiatives and organisations <br>that are currently involving paraecologists:'''</span></span><br />
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<br>'''Area de Conservación Guanacaste (ACG), Costa Rica'''<br />
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|The Costa Rican parataxonomist programme in the Area de Conservacion Guanacaste (ACG) was initiated in 1989 from a partnership between the non-governmental, non-profit organisation INBio ([http://www.inbio.ac.cr/en/ www.inbio.ac.cr]) and the administrative authorities of ACG ([http://www.acguanacaste.ac.cr/ www.acguanacaste.ac.cr]). The programme implements INBio’s goal of conducting an ambitious national species inventory of Costa Rica’s wildland biodiversity, to try to ensure its conservation through non-damaging uses by society. An important, albeit not principal, use of biodiversity information was bioprospecting, undertaken by a specific team within INBio. This is developed in parallel with the work of conducting the national inventory. Between them, a broad offering of educational projects is aimed at all sectors of society to help promote rapid, self-reinforcing taxonomic literacy and an improved awareness of biodiversity’s. This project was the first initiative to involve formally identified and course-trained parataxonomists into scientific biodiversity inventories.<br />
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'''Creative Conservation Alliance (CCA), Bangladesh'''<br />
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|The Creative Conservation Alliance (CCA) is a government registered non-profit organization, dedicated to ecological and cultural preservation within Bangladesh’s last remaining wild places. Through our grassroots efforts we empower local people to become stakeholders in their own landscapes. As a critical part of the international Indo-Burma Biodiversity Hotspot-the most threatened Biodiversity Hotspot in the world-these remaining forests offer a refuge for over 26 globally threatened species. Through our comprehensive approach, we empower local people to become stakeholders in their own landscapes.<br />
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About the parabiologist initiative of the Creative Conservation Alliance (CCA):<br />
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Indigenous parabiologists are a foundation of our organization. Local community members - with little to no formal education - are trained to carry out basic scientific tasks such as collecting morphometric data, GPS logging, and telemetry work. These citizen scientists act as role models for their communities and serve as local conservation ambassadors for the region. Without these dedicated souls we would not have the manpower or requisite traditional ecological knowledge of the study areas to conduct our research.<br />
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'''Gran Chaco paraecologist project, Bolivia and Paraguay'''<br />
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[https://whitleyaward.org/winners/conservation-chaco-bolivia-paraguay/ https://whitleyaward.org/winners/conservation-chaco-bolivia-paraguay/]<br />
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'''Kakamega Environmental Education Program (KEEP)'''<br />
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|KEEP is a grass-roots organization, working to save one of the last remaining rainforests in Kenya, through environmental education and creation of awareness among local communities, and development and / or implementation of economic alternatives to the exploitation of forest resources.<br />
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'''Mitsinjo Association'''<br />
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|A Malagasy NGO that started as a grassroots community initiative founded in 1999, Association Mitsinjo works in conservation, nature-based tourism, and development (including agriculture and health). Located in Andasibe, one of the biodiversity hotspots of the eastern Madagascar rainforest corridor, Mitsinjo integrates the protection of prime habitat and the generation of sustainable income for the local population living in and around these areas.<br />
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We host visitors and researchers from all around the world, thus encouraging our local staff to stay on top of scientific discovery and have a constant interest in the ecology of the forest they manage. Over the years, Mitsinjo has collected a wealth of knowledge on a wide range of the area’s biodiversity. It is our goal to standardise this large expanse of information and make it scientifically streamlined.<br />
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<br/>'''The New Guinea Binatang Research Center'''<br />
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|This paraecologist initiative was started in Madang (Papua New Guinea, PNG) in 1994 as a small team of permanently employed paraecologists assisting studies of plant–herbivore interactions in rainforest ecosystems. The programme has expanded over the past 20 years to include ecological research on plants, insects and vertebrates. Several large research projects have been completed under this programme, including the study of plant–herbivore food webs in tropical forests, monitoring >250,000 individual plants in a 50-ha forest plot, and studies of invertebrate and vertebrate biodiversity and ecosystem change along an altitudinal gradient. The paraecologist team also assists PNG and overseas postgraduate students, works with indigenous landowners on rainforest conservation, and participates in the country’s biodiversity and environmental quality surveys for the PNG government and local industry. The paraecologist team is established as a non-profit organisation (New Guinea Binatang Research Center, BRC) registered in PNG, and working in collaboration with national and overseas academic institutions.<br />
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'''Tesoro Escondido Reserve, Ecuador'''<br />
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Scientific research generated from within the reserve is a priority and a permanent activity for all the staff. Research projects are carried out by students, researchers and by our parabiologists.<br />
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A parabiologist is a person from a local community who is trained to become a research assistant. They undergo a process of permanent tutoring and ends up specializing in one or two topics. Results from research are published and presented by scientists and parabiologists in different national and international forums and journals.<br />
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For long term projects we offer research groups the possibility to collect and send data by our parabiologist group (with training in the specific topic). <br />
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Some permanent projects we carry out:<br />
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– Biodiversity monitoring using camera traps<br><br />
– Monitoring of a harpy eagle’s nest (Harpia harpyja)<br><br />
– Amphibian monitoring in different habitats and altitudes<br><br />
– Propagation of critically endangered trees Magnolia dixonii and M.canandeana<br><br />
– Primate monitoring focused on the critically endangered Ateles fusciceps fusciceps<br><br />
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<span style="color:#ff0000"><span style="font-size:large">'''B) Overview of programmes, initiatives and organisations <br>that involved paraecologists in the past:'''</span></span><br />
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|'''Project ALAS, Arthropods of La Selva, Costa Rica'''<br/><br />
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Project ALAS began in late 1991. An existing structure at La Selva Biological Station was remodeled as an entomological laboratory dedicated to the project. Danilo Brenes and Ronald Vargas were chosen from among more than 50 applicants from communities surrounding La Selva to attend the National Biodiversity Institute (INBio) 6-month Parataxonomist course in 1992. (Parataxonomists are rapidly trained biologists who assist INBio in the national inventory process.) Later, Maylin Paniagua and Nelci Oconotrillo joined the project as Biodiversity Technicians and were trained by visiting taxonomic collaborators.<br />
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[http://viceroy.eeb.uconn.edu/ALAS/ALAS.html http://viceroy.eeb.uconn.edu/ALAS/ALAS.html]<br />
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|BIOTA AFRICA has been jointly invented by African and German researchers aiming at the establishment of research supporting sustainable use and conservation of biodiversity in Africa. From October 2004 until March 2010, the regional network BIOTA Southern Africa employed and trained eight paraecologists. They worked at different sites within the BIOTA Southern Africa research area in Namibia and South Africa.<br />
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'''The Future Okavango'''<br />
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|The Okavango basin in southern Africa with its variety of savannah woodlands and wetland ecosystems linked by the central lifeline of the Okavango River is a global hot-spot of accelerating change and land use conflicts. The river has its source in the rainy highlands of Angola and terminates in the Okavango Delta, the world's largest inland delta and the largest freshwater swamp south of the equator. The Future Okavango project analyses ecosystem functions and services within this trans-boundary basin of high international visibility and high potential transferability of results to other tropical and sub-tropical regions.<br><br />
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The Future Okavango project employs and trains three paraecologists, based in Angola, Botswana and Namibia, respectively.<br />
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'''Groen Sebenza Paraecologists'''<br />
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[https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.658468030841124.1073741840.205627006125231&type=3 BotSoc Groen Sebenza Paraecologist training camp]<br />
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[https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.785980601423199.1073741848.205627006125231&type=3 BotSoc Groen Sebenza paraecologist training workshop 2]<br />
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<br></div>Till Krausehttp://www.paraecologist.org/index.php?title=Para-ecologist_programmes&diff=2773Para-ecologist programmes2022-02-24T05:03:43Z<p>Till Krause: </p>
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<div>=== Research projects with paraecologists ===<br />
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<span style="color:#ff0000"><span style="font-size:large">'''A) Overview of programmes, initiatives and organisations <br>that are currently involving paraecologists:'''</span></span><br />
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<br>'''Area de Conservación Guanacaste (ACG), Costa Rica'''<br />
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|The Costa Rican parataxonomist programme in the Area de Conservacion Guanacaste (ACG) was initiated in 1989 from a partnership between the non-governmental, non-profit organisation INBio ([http://www.inbio.ac.cr/en/ www.inbio.ac.cr]) and the administrative authorities of ACG ([http://www.acguanacaste.ac.cr/ www.acguanacaste.ac.cr]). The programme implements INBio’s goal of conducting an ambitious national species inventory of Costa Rica’s wildland biodiversity, to try to ensure its conservation through non-damaging uses by society. An important, albeit not principal, use of biodiversity information was bioprospecting, undertaken by a specific team within INBio. This is developed in parallel with the work of conducting the national inventory. Between them, a broad offering of educational projects is aimed at all sectors of society to help promote rapid, self-reinforcing taxonomic literacy and an improved awareness of biodiversity’s. This project was the first initiative to involve formally identified and course-trained parataxonomists into scientific biodiversity inventories.<br />
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'''Creative Conservation Alliance (CCA), Bangladesh'''<br />
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|The Creative Conservation Alliance (CCA) is a government registered non-profit organization, dedicated to ecological and cultural preservation within Bangladesh’s last remaining wild places. Through our grassroots efforts we empower local people to become stakeholders in their own landscapes. As a critical part of the international Indo-Burma Biodiversity Hotspot-the most threatened Biodiversity Hotspot in the world-these remaining forests offer a refuge for over 26 globally threatened species. Through our comprehensive approach, we empower local people to become stakeholders in their own landscapes.<br />
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About the parabiologist initiative of the Creative Conservation Alliance (CCA):<br />
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Indigenous parabiologists are a foundation of our organization. Local community members - with little to no formal education - are trained to carry out basic scientific tasks such as collecting morphometric data, GPS logging, and telemetry work. These citizen scientists act as role models for their communities and serve as local conservation ambassadors for the region. Without these dedicated souls we would not have the manpower or requisite traditional ecological knowledge of the study areas to conduct our research.<br />
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'''Gran Chaco paraecologist project, Bolivia and Paraguay'''<br />
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[https://whitleyaward.org/winners/conservation-chaco-bolivia-paraguay/ https://whitleyaward.org/winners/conservation-chaco-bolivia-paraguay/]<br />
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'''Kakamega Environmental Education Program (KEEP)'''<br />
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|KEEP is a grass-roots organization, working to save one of the last remaining rainforests in Kenya, through environmental education and creation of awareness among local communities, and development and / or implementation of economic alternatives to the exploitation of forest resources.<br />
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'''Mitsinjo Association'''<br />
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|A Malagasy NGO that started as a grassroots community initiative founded in 1999, Association Mitsinjo works in conservation, nature-based tourism, and development (including agriculture and health). Located in Andasibe, one of the biodiversity hotspots of the eastern Madagascar rainforest corridor, Mitsinjo integrates the protection of prime habitat and the generation of sustainable income for the local population living in and around these areas.<br />
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We host visitors and researchers from all around the world, thus encouraging our local staff to stay on top of scientific discovery and have a constant interest in the ecology of the forest they manage. Over the years, Mitsinjo has collected a wealth of knowledge on a wide range of the area’s biodiversity. It is our goal to standardise this large expanse of information and make it scientifically streamlined.<br />
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<br/>'''The New Guinea Binatang Research Center'''<br />
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| valign="center" | [http://www.entu.cas.cz/png/index.html www.entu.cas.cz/png/index.html]<br />
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|This paraecologist initiative was started in Madang (Papua New Guinea, PNG) in 1994 as a small team of permanently employed paraecologists assisting studies of plant–herbivore interactions in rainforest ecosystems. The programme has expanded over the past 20 years to include ecological research on plants, insects and vertebrates. Several large research projects have been completed under this programme, including the study of plant–herbivore food webs in tropical forests, monitoring >250,000 individual plants in a 50-ha forest plot, and studies of invertebrate and vertebrate biodiversity and ecosystem change along an altitudinal gradient. The paraecologist team also assists PNG and overseas postgraduate students, works with indigenous landowners on rainforest conservation, and participates in the country’s biodiversity and environmental quality surveys for the PNG government and local industry. The paraecologist team is established as a non-profit organisation (New Guinea Binatang Research Center, BRC) registered in PNG, and working in collaboration with national and overseas academic institutions.<br />
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'''Tesoro Escondido Reserve, Ecuador'''<br />
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| valign="center" | [https://tesororeserve.org/en/research-projects-and-parabiologists-programme/ https://tesororeserve.org/en/research-projects-and-parabiologists-programme/]<br />
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Scientific research generated from within the reserve is a priority and a permanent activity for all the staff. Research projects are carried out by students, researchers and by our parabiologists.<br />
<br />
A parabiologist is a person from a local community who is trained to become a research assistant. They undergo a process of permanent tutoring and ends up specializing in one or two topics. Results from research are published and presented by scientists and parabiologists in different national and international forums and journals.<br />
<br />
For long term projects we offer research groups the possibility to collect and send data by our parabiologist group (with training in the specific topic). <br />
<br />
Some permanent projects we carry out:<br />
<br />
– Biodiversity monitoring using camera traps<br><br />
– Monitoring of a harpy eagle’s nest (Harpia harpyja)<br><br />
– Amphibian monitoring in different habitats and altitudes<br><br />
– Propagation of critically endangered trees Magnolia dixonii and M.canandeana<br><br />
– Primate monitoring focused on the critically endangered Ateles fusciceps fusciceps<br><br />
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|}<br />
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<br><br />
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<span style="color:#ff0000"><span style="font-size:large">'''B) Overview of programmes, initiatives and organisations <br>that involved paraecologists in the past:'''</span></span><br />
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|'''Project ALAS, Arthropods of La Selva, Costa Rica'''<br/><br />
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Project ALAS began in late 1991. An existing structure at La Selva Biological Station was remodeled as an entomological laboratory dedicated to the project. Danilo Brenes and Ronald Vargas were chosen from among more than 50 applicants from communities surrounding La Selva to attend the National Biodiversity Institute (INBio) 6-month Parataxonomist course in 1992. (Parataxonomists are rapidly trained biologists who assist INBio in the national inventory process.) Later, Maylin Paniagua and Nelci Oconotrillo joined the project as Biodiversity Technicians and were trained by visiting taxonomic collaborators.<br />
|}<br />
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[http://viceroy.eeb.uconn.edu/ALAS/ALAS.html http://viceroy.eeb.uconn.edu/ALAS/ALAS.html]<br />
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| '''BIOTA Southern Africa'''<br />
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[[File:Biota logo.gif|Biota logo.gif|link=http://www.biota-africa.org/reg_south_paraecol_ba.php]]<br />
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| style="vertical-align: top; width: 40px" |<br />
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| valign="center" | [http://www.biota-africa.org/reg_south_paraecol_ba.php http://www.biota-africa.org/reg_south_paraecol_ba.php]<br />
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|}<br />
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|BIOTA AFRICA has been jointly invented by African and German researchers aiming at the establishment of research supporting sustainable use and conservation of biodiversity in Africa. From October 2004 until March 2010, the regional network BIOTA Southern Africa employed and trained eight paraecologists. They worked at different sites within the BIOTA Southern Africa research area in Namibia and South Africa.<br />
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|}<br />
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'''The Future Okavango'''<br />
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| [[File:72 70 TFO Logo.jpg|72 70 TFO Logo.jpg|link=http://www.future-okavango.org]]<br />
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| valign="center" | [http://www.future-okavango.org www.future-okavango.org]<br />
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|}<br />
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|The Okavango basin in southern Africa with its variety of savannah woodlands and wetland ecosystems linked by the central lifeline of the Okavango River is a global hot-spot of accelerating change and land use conflicts. The river has its source in the rainy highlands of Angola and terminates in the Okavango Delta, the world's largest inland delta and the largest freshwater swamp south of the equator. The Future Okavango project analyses ecosystem functions and services within this trans-boundary basin of high international visibility and high potential transferability of results to other tropical and sub-tropical regions.<br><br />
<br />
The Future Okavango project employs and trains three paraecologists, based in Angola, Botswana and Namibia, respectively.<br />
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|}<br />
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'''Groen Sebenza Paraecologists'''<br />
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[https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.658468030841124.1073741840.205627006125231&type=3 BotSoc Groen Sebenza Paraecologist training camp]<br />
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[https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.785980601423199.1073741848.205627006125231&type=3 BotSoc Groen Sebenza paraecologist training workshop 2]<br />
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<br/>[[Para-ecologist programmes#top seitenanfang|Top]]<br />
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<br></div>Till Krausehttp://www.paraecologist.org/index.php?title=Para-ecologist_programmes&diff=2772Para-ecologist programmes2022-02-24T05:02:29Z<p>Till Krause: </p>
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<div>=== Research projects with paraecologists ===<br />
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<br><br />
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<span style="color:#ff0000"><span style="font-size:large">'''A) Overview of programmes, initiatives and organisations <br>that are currently involving paraecologists:'''</span></span><br />
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<br>'''Area de Conservación Guanacaste (ACG), Costa Rica'''<br />
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| [[File:logo-acg-sombra.jpg|link=http://www.acguanacaste.ac.cr/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=59&Itemid=218&lang=es]]<br />
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| valign="center" | [http://www.acguanacaste.ac.cr/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=59&Itemid=218&lang=es programme of the Area de Conservación Guanacaste (ACG)]<br />
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|}<br />
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|The Costa Rican parataxonomist programme in the Area de Conservacion Guanacaste (ACG) was initiated in 1989 from a partnership between the non-governmental, non-profit organisation INBio ([http://www.inbio.ac.cr/en/ www.inbio.ac.cr]) and the administrative authorities of ACG ([http://www.acguanacaste.ac.cr/ www.acguanacaste.ac.cr]). The programme implements INBio’s goal of conducting an ambitious national species inventory of Costa Rica’s wildland biodiversity, to try to ensure its conservation through non-damaging uses by society. An important, albeit not principal, use of biodiversity information was bioprospecting, undertaken by a specific team within INBio. This is developed in parallel with the work of conducting the national inventory. Between them, a broad offering of educational projects is aimed at all sectors of society to help promote rapid, self-reinforcing taxonomic literacy and an improved awareness of biodiversity’s. This project was the first initiative to involve formally identified and course-trained parataxonomists into scientific biodiversity inventories.<br />
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|}<br />
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'''Creative Conservation Alliance (CCA), Bangladesh'''<br />
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| [[File:CCA.jpg|180px|link=https://www.conservationalliance.org/]]<br />
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| valign="center" | [https://www.conservationalliance.org/ https://www.conservationalliance.org/]<br />
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|The Creative Conservation Alliance (CCA) is a government registered non-profit organization, dedicated to ecological and cultural preservation within Bangladesh’s last remaining wild places. Through our grassroots efforts we empower local people to become stakeholders in their own landscapes. As a critical part of the international Indo-Burma Biodiversity Hotspot-the most threatened Biodiversity Hotspot in the world-these remaining forests offer a refuge for over 26 globally threatened species. Through our comprehensive approach, we empower local people to become stakeholders in their own landscapes.<br />
<br />
About the parabiologist initiative of the Creative Conservation Alliance (CCA):<br />
<br />
Indigenous parabiologists are a foundation of our organization. Local community members - with little to no formal education - are trained to carry out basic scientific tasks such as collecting morphometric data, GPS logging, and telemetry work. These citizen scientists act as role models for their communities and serve as local conservation ambassadors for the region. Without these dedicated souls we would not have the manpower or requisite traditional ecological knowledge of the study areas to conduct our research.<br />
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|}<br />
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'''Gran Chaco paraecologist project, Bolivia and Paraguay'''<br />
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[https://whitleyaward.org/winners/conservation-chaco-bolivia-paraguay/ https://whitleyaward.org/winners/conservation-chaco-bolivia-paraguay/]<br />
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'''Kakamega Environmental Education Program (KEEP)'''<br />
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| [[File:72 280 Keep logo.jpg|72 280 Keep logo.jpg|link=http://www.columbia.edu/cu/e3b/conservation/KEEP/index.htm]]<br />
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| valign="center" | [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/e3b/conservation/KEEP/index.htm http://www.columbia.edu/cu/e3b/conservation/KEEP/index.htm]<br />
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|KEEP is a grass-roots organization, working to save one of the last remaining rainforests in Kenya, through environmental education and creation of awareness among local communities, and development and / or implementation of economic alternatives to the exploitation of forest resources.<br />
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|}<br />
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'''Mitsinjo Association'''<br />
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| [[File:72 200 mitsinjo.jpg|link=https://associationmitsinjo.wordpress.com/]]<br />
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| [https://associationmitsinjo.wordpress.com/ Association Mitsinjo]<br />
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|A Malagasy NGO that started as a grassroots community initiative founded in 1999, Association Mitsinjo works in conservation, nature-based tourism, and development (including agriculture and health). Located in Andasibe, one of the biodiversity hotspots of the eastern Madagascar rainforest corridor, Mitsinjo integrates the protection of prime habitat and the generation of sustainable income for the local population living in and around these areas.<br />
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We host visitors and researchers from all around the world, thus encouraging our local staff to stay on top of scientific discovery and have a constant interest in the ecology of the forest they manage. Over the years, Mitsinjo has collected a wealth of knowledge on a wide range of the area’s biodiversity. It is our goal to standardise this large expanse of information and make it scientifically streamlined.<br />
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<br/>'''The New Guinea Binatang Research Center'''<br />
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| [[File:72 200 BRClogo.jpg|72 200 BRClogo.jpg|link=http://www.entu.cas.cz/png/index.html]]<br />
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| valign="center" | [http://www.entu.cas.cz/png/index.html www.entu.cas.cz/png/index.html]<br />
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{| style="width: 500px" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
|This paraecologist initiative was started in Madang (Papua New Guinea, PNG) in 1994 as a small team of permanently employed paraecologists assisting studies of plant–herbivore interactions in rainforest ecosystems. The programme has expanded over the past 20 years to include ecological research on plants, insects and vertebrates. Several large research projects have been completed under this programme, including the study of plant–herbivore food webs in tropical forests, monitoring >250,000 individual plants in a 50-ha forest plot, and studies of invertebrate and vertebrate biodiversity and ecosystem change along an altitudinal gradient. The paraecologist team also assists PNG and overseas postgraduate students, works with indigenous landowners on rainforest conservation, and participates in the country’s biodiversity and environmental quality surveys for the PNG government and local industry. The paraecologist team is established as a non-profit organisation (New Guinea Binatang Research Center, BRC) registered in PNG, and working in collaboration with national and overseas academic institutions.<br />
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|}<br />
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'''Tesoro Escondido Reserve, Ecuador'''<br />
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| [[File:Logo_Tesoro_Reserve.png|link=https://tesororeserve.org/en/research-projects-and-parabiologists-programme/]]<br />
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| valign="center" | [https://tesororeserve.org/en/research-projects-and-parabiologists-programme/ https://tesororeserve.org/en/research-projects-and-parabiologists-programme/]<br />
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Scientific research generated from within the reserve is a priority and a permanent activity for all the staff. Research projects are carried out by students, researchers and by our parabiologists.<br />
<br />
A parabiologist is a person from a local community who is trained to become a research assistant. They undergo a process of permanent tutoring and ends up specializing in one or two topics. Results from research are published and presented by scientists and parabiologists in different national and international forums and journals.<br />
<br />
For long term projects we offer research groups the possibility to collect and send data by our parabiologist group (with training in the specific topic). <br />
<br />
Some permanent projects we carry out:<br />
<br />
– Biodiversity monitoring using camera traps<br><br />
– Monitoring of a harpy eagle’s nest (Harpia harpyja)<br><br />
– Amphibian monitoring in different habitats and altitudes<br><br />
– Propagation of critically endangered trees Magnolia dixonii and M.canandeana<br><br />
– Primate monitoring focused on the critically endangered Ateles fusciceps fusciceps<br><br />
<br />
|}<br />
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<br><br />
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<br><br />
<br />
<span style="color:#ff0000"><span style="font-size:large">'''B) Overview of programmes, initiatives and organisations <br>that involved paraecologists in the past:'''</span></span><br />
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<br><br />
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{| style="width: 500px" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
|'''Project ALAS, Arthropods of La Selva, Costa Rica'''<br/><br />
<br />
Project ALAS began in late 1991. An existing structure at La Selva Biological Station was remodeled as an entomological laboratory dedicated to the project. Danilo Brenes and Ronald Vargas were chosen from among more than 50 applicants from communities surrounding La Selva to attend the National Biodiversity Institute (INBio) 6-month Parataxonomist course in 1992. (Parataxonomists are rapidly trained biologists who assist INBio in the national inventory process.) Later, Maylin Paniagua and Nelci Oconotrillo joined the project as Biodiversity Technicians and were trained by visiting taxonomic collaborators.<br />
|}<br />
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[http://viceroy.eeb.uconn.edu/ALAS/ALAS.html http://viceroy.eeb.uconn.edu/ALAS/ALAS.html]<br />
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| '''BIOTA Southern Africa'''<br />
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[[File:Biota logo.gif|Biota logo.gif|link=http://www.biota-africa.org/reg_south_paraecol_ba.php]]<br />
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| style="vertical-align: top; width: 40px" |<br />
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| valign="center" | [http://www.biota-africa.org/reg_south_paraecol_ba.php http://www.biota-africa.org/reg_south_paraecol_ba.php]<br />
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|}<br />
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{| style="width: 500px" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
|BIOTA AFRICA has been jointly invented by African and German researchers aiming at the establishment of research supporting sustainable use and conservation of biodiversity in Africa. From October 2004 until March 2010, the regional network BIOTA Southern Africa employed and trained eight paraecologists. They worked at different sites within the BIOTA Southern Africa research area in Namibia and South Africa.<br />
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|}<br />
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'''The Future Okavango'''<br />
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{| style="text-align: left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
| [[File:72 70 TFO Logo.jpg|72 70 TFO Logo.jpg|link=http://www.future-okavango.org]]<br />
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| style="vertical-align: top; width: 40px" |<br />
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| valign="center" | [http://www.future-okavango.org www.future-okavango.org]<br />
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|}<br />
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{| style="width: 500px" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
|The Okavango basin in southern Africa with its variety of savannah woodlands and wetland ecosystems linked by the central lifeline of the Okavango River is a global hot-spot of accelerating change and land use conflicts. The river has its source in the rainy highlands of Angola and terminates in the Okavango Delta, the world's largest inland delta and the largest freshwater swamp south of the equator. The Future Okavango project analyses ecosystem functions and services within this trans-boundary basin of high international visibility and high potential transferability of results to other tropical and sub-tropical regions.<br><br />
<br />
The Future Okavango project employs and trains three paraecologists, based in Angola, Botswana and Namibia, respectively.<br />
<br />
|}<br />
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'''Groen Sebenza Paraecologists'''<br />
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[https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.658468030841124.1073741840.205627006125231&type=3 BotSoc Groen Sebenza Paraecologist training camp]<br />
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[https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.785980601423199.1073741848.205627006125231&type=3 BotSoc Groen Sebenza paraecologist training workshop 2]<br />
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<br/>[[Para-ecologist programmes#top seitenanfang|Top]]<br />
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<br></div>Till Krausehttp://www.paraecologist.org/index.php?title=Para-ecologist_programmes&diff=2771Para-ecologist programmes2022-02-24T05:01:06Z<p>Till Krause: </p>
<hr />
<div>=== Research projects with paraecologists ===<br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
<span style="color:#ff0000"><span style="font-size:large">'''A) Overview of programmes, initiatives and organisations <br>that are currently involving paraecologists:'''</span></span><br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br>'''Area de Conservación Guanacaste (ACG), Costa Rica'''<br />
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{| style="text-align: left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
| [[File:logo-acg-sombra.jpg|link=http://www.acguanacaste.ac.cr/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=59&Itemid=218&lang=es]]<br />
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| style="vertical-align: top; width: 40px" |<br />
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| valign="center" | [http://www.acguanacaste.ac.cr/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=59&Itemid=218&lang=es programme of the Area de Conservación Guanacaste (ACG)]<br />
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|}<br />
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{| style="width: 500px" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
|The Costa Rican parataxonomist programme in the Area de Conservacion Guanacaste (ACG) was initiated in 1989 from a partnership between the non-governmental, non-profit organisation INBio ([http://www.inbio.ac.cr/en/ www.inbio.ac.cr]) and the administrative authorities of ACG ([http://www.acguanacaste.ac.cr/ www.acguanacaste.ac.cr]). The programme implements INBio’s goal of conducting an ambitious national species inventory of Costa Rica’s wildland biodiversity, to try to ensure its conservation through non-damaging uses by society. An important, albeit not principal, use of biodiversity information was bioprospecting, undertaken by a specific team within INBio. This is developed in parallel with the work of conducting the national inventory. Between them, a broad offering of educational projects is aimed at all sectors of society to help promote rapid, self-reinforcing taxonomic literacy and an improved awareness of biodiversity’s. This project was the first initiative to involve formally identified and course-trained parataxonomists into scientific biodiversity inventories.<br />
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|}<br />
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'''Creative Conservation Alliance (CCA), Bangladesh'''<br />
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{| style="text-align: left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
| [[File:CCA.jpg|180px|link=https://www.conservationalliance.org/]]<br />
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| style="vertical-align: top; width: 20px" |<br />
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| valign="center" | [https://www.conservationalliance.org/ https://www.conservationalliance.org/]<br />
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|}<br />
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{| style="width: 500px" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
|The Creative Conservation Alliance (CCA) is a government registered non-profit organization, dedicated to ecological and cultural preservation within Bangladesh’s last remaining wild places. Through our grassroots efforts we empower local people to become stakeholders in their own landscapes. As a critical part of the international Indo-Burma Biodiversity Hotspot-the most threatened Biodiversity Hotspot in the world-these remaining forests offer a refuge for over 26 globally threatened species. Through our comprehensive approach, we empower local people to become stakeholders in their own landscapes.<br />
<br />
About the parabiologist initiative of the Creative Conservation Alliance (CCA):<br />
<br />
Indigenous parabiologists are a foundation of our organization. Local community members - with little to no formal education - are trained to carry out basic scientific tasks such as collecting morphometric data, GPS logging, and telemetry work. These citizen scientists act as role models for their communities and serve as local conservation ambassadors for the region. Without these dedicated souls we would not have the manpower or requisite traditional ecological knowledge of the study areas to conduct our research.<br />
<br />
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|}<br />
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'''Gran Chaco paraecologist project, Bolivia and Paraguay'''<br />
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[https://whitleyaward.org/winners/conservation-chaco-bolivia-paraguay/ https://whitleyaward.org/winners/conservation-chaco-bolivia-paraguay/]<br />
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'''Kakamega Environmental Education Program (KEEP)'''<br />
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| [[File:72 280 Keep logo.jpg|72 280 Keep logo.jpg|link=http://www.columbia.edu/cu/e3b/conservation/KEEP/index.htm]]<br />
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| valign="center" | [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/e3b/conservation/KEEP/index.htm http://www.columbia.edu/cu/e3b/conservation/KEEP/index.htm]<br />
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|}<br />
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|KEEP is a grass-roots organization, working to save one of the last remaining rainforests in Kenya, through environmental education and creation of awareness among local communities, and development and / or implementation of economic alternatives to the exploitation of forest resources.<br />
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|}<br />
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'''Mitsinjo Association'''<br />
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| [[File:72 200 mitsinjo.jpg|link=https://associationmitsinjo.wordpress.com/]]<br />
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| [https://associationmitsinjo.wordpress.com/ Association Mitsinjo]<br />
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|}<br />
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{| style="width: 500px" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
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|A Malagasy NGO that started as a grassroots community initiative founded in 1999, Association Mitsinjo works in conservation, nature-based tourism, and development (including agriculture and health). Located in Andasibe, one of the biodiversity hotspots of the eastern Madagascar rainforest corridor, Mitsinjo integrates the protection of prime habitat and the generation of sustainable income for the local population living in and around these areas.<br />
<br />
We host visitors and researchers from all around the world, thus encouraging our local staff to stay on top of scientific discovery and have a constant interest in the ecology of the forest they manage. Over the years, Mitsinjo has collected a wealth of knowledge on a wide range of the area’s biodiversity. It is our goal to standardise this large expanse of information and make it scientifically streamlined.<br />
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|}<br />
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<br/>'''The New Guinea Binatang Research Center'''<br />
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| [[File:72 200 BRClogo.jpg|72 200 BRClogo.jpg|link=http://www.entu.cas.cz/png/index.html]]<br />
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| valign="center" | [http://www.entu.cas.cz/png/index.html www.entu.cas.cz/png/index.html]<br />
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|}<br />
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{| style="width: 500px" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
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|This paraecologist initiative was started in Madang (Papua New Guinea, PNG) in 1994 as a small team of permanently employed paraecologists assisting studies of plant–herbivore interactions in rainforest ecosystems. The programme has expanded over the past 20 years to include ecological research on plants, insects and vertebrates. Several large research projects have been completed under this programme, including the study of plant–herbivore food webs in tropical forests, monitoring >250,000 individual plants in a 50-ha forest plot, and studies of invertebrate and vertebrate biodiversity and ecosystem change along an altitudinal gradient. The paraecologist team also assists PNG and overseas postgraduate students, works with indigenous landowners on rainforest conservation, and participates in the country’s biodiversity and environmental quality surveys for the PNG government and local industry. The paraecologist team is established as a non-profit organisation (New Guinea Binatang Research Center, BRC) registered in PNG, and working in collaboration with national and overseas academic institutions.<br />
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|}<br />
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'''Tesoro Escondido Reserve, Ecuador'''<br />
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| [[File:Logo_Tesoro_Reserve.png|link=https://tesororeserve.org/en/research-projects-and-parabiologists-programme/]]<br />
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| valign="center" | [https://tesororeserve.org/en/research-projects-and-parabiologists-programme/ https://tesororeserve.org/en/research-projects-and-parabiologists-programme/]<br />
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|}<br />
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|-<br />
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Scientific research generated from within the reserve is a priority and a permanent activity for all the staff. Research projects are carried out by students, researchers and by our parabiologists.<br />
<br />
A parabiologist is a person from a local community who is trained to become a research assistant. They undergo a process of permanent tutoring and ends up specializing in one or two topics. Results from research are published and presented by scientists and parabiologists in different national and international forums and journals.<br />
<br />
For long term projects we offer research groups the possibility to collect and send data by our parabiologist group (with training in the specific topic). <br />
<br />
Some permanent projects we carry out:<br />
<br />
– Biodiversity monitoring using camera traps<br><br />
– Monitoring of a harpy eagle’s nest (Harpia harpyja)<br><br />
– Amphibian monitoring in different habitats and altitudes<br><br />
– Propagation of critically endangered trees Magnolia dixonii and M.canandeana<br><br />
– Primate monitoring focused on the critically endangered Ateles fusciceps fusciceps<br><br />
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|}<br />
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<br><br />
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<span style="color:#ff0000"><span style="font-size:large">'''B) Overview of programmes, initiatives and organisations <br>that involved paraecologists in the past:'''</span></span><br />
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{| style="width: 500px" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
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|'''Project ALAS, Arthropods of La Selva, Costa Rica'''<br/><br />
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Project ALAS began in late 1991. An existing structure at La Selva Biological Station was remodeled as an entomological laboratory dedicated to the project. Danilo Brenes and Ronald Vargas were chosen from among more than 50 applicants from communities surrounding La Selva to attend the National Biodiversity Institute (INBio) 6-month Parataxonomist course in 1992. (Parataxonomists are rapidly trained biologists who assist INBio in the national inventory process.) Later, Maylin Paniagua and Nelci Oconotrillo joined the project as Biodiversity Technicians and were trained by visiting taxonomic collaborators.<br />
|}<br />
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[http://viceroy.eeb.uconn.edu/ALAS/ALAS.html http://viceroy.eeb.uconn.edu/ALAS/ALAS.html]<br />
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| '''BIOTA Southern Africa'''<br />
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[[File:Biota logo.gif|Biota logo.gif|link=http://www.biota-africa.org/reg_south_paraecol_ba.php]]<br />
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| valign="center" | [http://www.biota-africa.org/reg_south_paraecol_ba.php http://www.biota-africa.org/reg_south_paraecol_ba.php]<br />
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|}<br />
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|-<br />
|BIOTA AFRICA has been jointly invented by African and German researchers aiming at the establishment of research supporting sustainable use and conservation of biodiversity in Africa. From October 2004 until March 2010, the regional network BIOTA Southern Africa employed and trained eight paraecologists. They worked at different sites within the BIOTA Southern Africa research area in Namibia and South Africa.<br />
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|}<br />
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'''The Future Okavango'''<br />
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|-<br />
| [[File:72 70 TFO Logo.jpg|72 70 TFO Logo.jpg|link=http://www.future-okavango.org]]<br />
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| valign="center" | [http://www.future-okavango.org www.future-okavango.org]<br />
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|}<br />
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{| style="width: 500px" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
|The Okavango basin in southern Africa with its variety of savannah woodlands and wetland ecosystems linked by the central lifeline of the Okavango River is a global hot-spot of accelerating change and land use conflicts. The river has its source in the rainy highlands of Angola and terminates in the Okavango Delta, the world's largest inland delta and the largest freshwater swamp south of the equator. The Future Okavango project analyses ecosystem functions and services within this trans-boundary basin of high international visibility and high potential transferability of results to other tropical and sub-tropical regions.<br><br />
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The Future Okavango project employs and trains three paraecologists, based in Angola, Botswana and Namibia, respectively.<br />
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|}<br />
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'''Groen Sebenza Paraecologists'''<br />
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[https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.658468030841124.1073741840.205627006125231&type=3 BotSoc Groen Sebenza Paraecologist training camp]<br />
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[https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.785980601423199.1073741848.205627006125231&type=3 BotSoc Groen Sebenza paraecologist training workshop 2]<br />
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<br/>[[Para-ecologist programmes#top seitenanfang|Top]]<br />
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<br></div>Till Krausehttp://www.paraecologist.org/index.php?title=Para-ecologist_programmes&diff=2770Para-ecologist programmes2022-02-24T05:00:43Z<p>Till Krause: </p>
<hr />
<div>=== Research projects with paraecologists ===<br />
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<br><br />
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<span style="color:#ff0000"><span style="font-size:large">'''A) Overview of programmes, initiatives and organisations <br>that are currently involving paraecologists:'''</span></span><br />
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<br>'''Area de Conservación Guanacaste (ACG), Costa Rica'''<br />
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| [[File:logo-acg-sombra.jpg|link=http://www.acguanacaste.ac.cr/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=59&Itemid=218&lang=es]]<br />
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| style="vertical-align: top; width: 40px" |<br />
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| valign="center" | [http://www.acguanacaste.ac.cr/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=59&Itemid=218&lang=es programme of the Area de Conservación Guanacaste (ACG)]<br />
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|}<br />
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|The Costa Rican parataxonomist programme in the Area de Conservacion Guanacaste (ACG) was initiated in 1989 from a partnership between the non-governmental, non-profit organisation INBio ([http://www.inbio.ac.cr/en/ www.inbio.ac.cr]) and the administrative authorities of ACG ([http://www.acguanacaste.ac.cr/ www.acguanacaste.ac.cr]). The programme implements INBio’s goal of conducting an ambitious national species inventory of Costa Rica’s wildland biodiversity, to try to ensure its conservation through non-damaging uses by society. An important, albeit not principal, use of biodiversity information was bioprospecting, undertaken by a specific team within INBio. This is developed in parallel with the work of conducting the national inventory. Between them, a broad offering of educational projects is aimed at all sectors of society to help promote rapid, self-reinforcing taxonomic literacy and an improved awareness of biodiversity’s. This project was the first initiative to involve formally identified and course-trained parataxonomists into scientific biodiversity inventories.<br />
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'''Creative Conservation Alliance (CCA), Bangladesh'''<br />
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| [[File:CCA.jpg|180px|link=https://www.conservationalliance.org/]]<br />
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| valign="center" | [https://www.conservationalliance.org/ https://www.conservationalliance.org/]<br />
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|The Creative Conservation Alliance (CCA) is a government registered non-profit organization, dedicated to ecological and cultural preservation within Bangladesh’s last remaining wild places. Through our grassroots efforts we empower local people to become stakeholders in their own landscapes. As a critical part of the international Indo-Burma Biodiversity Hotspot-the most threatened Biodiversity Hotspot in the world-these remaining forests offer a refuge for over 26 globally threatened species. Through our comprehensive approach, we empower local people to become stakeholders in their own landscapes.<br />
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About the parabiologist initiative of the Creative Conservation Alliance (CCA):<br />
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Indigenous parabiologists are a foundation of our organization. Local community members - with little to no formal education - are trained to carry out basic scientific tasks such as collecting morphometric data, GPS logging, and telemetry work. These citizen scientists act as role models for their communities and serve as local conservation ambassadors for the region. Without these dedicated souls we would not have the manpower or requisite traditional ecological knowledge of the study areas to conduct our research.<br />
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'''Gran Chaco paraecologist project, Bolivia and Paraguay'''<br />
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[https://whitleyaward.org/winners/conservation-chaco-bolivia-paraguay/ https://whitleyaward.org/winners/conservation-chaco-bolivia-paraguay/]<br />
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'''Kakamega Environmental Education Program (KEEP)'''<br />
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| [[File:72 280 Keep logo.jpg|72 280 Keep logo.jpg|link=http://www.columbia.edu/cu/e3b/conservation/KEEP/index.htm]]<br />
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| valign="center" | [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/e3b/conservation/KEEP/index.htm http://www.columbia.edu/cu/e3b/conservation/KEEP/index.htm]<br />
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|}<br />
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{| style="width: 500px" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
|KEEP is a grass-roots organization, working to save one of the last remaining rainforests in Kenya, through environmental education and creation of awareness among local communities, and development and / or implementation of economic alternatives to the exploitation of forest resources.<br />
<br />
|}<br />
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'''Mitsinjo Association'''<br />
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{| style="text-align: left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
| [[File:72 200 mitsinjo.jpg|link=https://associationmitsinjo.wordpress.com/]]<br />
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| style="vertical-align: top; width: 40px" |<br />
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| [https://associationmitsinjo.wordpress.com/ Association Mitsinjo]<br />
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|}<br />
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{| style="width: 500px" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
|A Malagasy NGO that started as a grassroots community initiative founded in 1999, Association Mitsinjo works in conservation, nature-based tourism, and development (including agriculture and health). Located in Andasibe, one of the biodiversity hotspots of the eastern Madagascar rainforest corridor, Mitsinjo integrates the protection of prime habitat and the generation of sustainable income for the local population living in and around these areas.<br />
<br />
We host visitors and researchers from all around the world, thus encouraging our local staff to stay on top of scientific discovery and have a constant interest in the ecology of the forest they manage. Over the years, Mitsinjo has collected a wealth of knowledge on a wide range of the area’s biodiversity. It is our goal to standardise this large expanse of information and make it scientifically streamlined.<br />
<br />
|}<br />
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<br/>'''The New Guinea Binatang Research Center'''<br />
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|-<br />
| [[File:72 200 BRClogo.jpg|72 200 BRClogo.jpg|link=http://www.entu.cas.cz/png/index.html]]<br />
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| style="vertical-align: top; width: 40px" |<br />
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| valign="center" | [http://www.entu.cas.cz/png/index.html www.entu.cas.cz/png/index.html]<br />
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|}<br />
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{| style="width: 500px" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
|This paraecologist initiative was started in Madang (Papua New Guinea, PNG) in 1994 as a small team of permanently employed paraecologists assisting studies of plant–herbivore interactions in rainforest ecosystems. The programme has expanded over the past 20 years to include ecological research on plants, insects and vertebrates. Several large research projects have been completed under this programme, including the study of plant–herbivore food webs in tropical forests, monitoring >250,000 individual plants in a 50-ha forest plot, and studies of invertebrate and vertebrate biodiversity and ecosystem change along an altitudinal gradient. The paraecologist team also assists PNG and overseas postgraduate students, works with indigenous landowners on rainforest conservation, and participates in the country’s biodiversity and environmental quality surveys for the PNG government and local industry. The paraecologist team is established as a non-profit organisation (New Guinea Binatang Research Center, BRC) registered in PNG, and working in collaboration with national and overseas academic institutions.<br />
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|}<br />
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'''Tesoro Escondido Reserve, Ecuador'''<br />
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|-<br />
| [[File:Logo_Tesoro_Reserve.png|link=https://tesororeserve.org/en/research-projects-and-parabiologists-programme/]]<br />
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| valign="center" | [https://tesororeserve.org/en/research-projects-and-parabiologists-programme/ https://tesororeserve.org/en/research-projects-and-parabiologists-programme/]<br />
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Scientific research generated from within the reserve is a priority and a permanent activity for all the staff. Research projects are carried out by students, researchers and by our parabiologists.<br />
<br />
A parabiologist is a person from a local community who is trained to become a research assistant. They undergo a process of permanent tutoring and ends up specializing in one or two topics. Results from research are published and presented by scientists and parabiologists in different national and international forums and journals.<br />
<br />
For long term projects we offer research groups the possibility to collect and send data by our parabiologist group (with training in the specific topic). <br />
<br />
Some permanent projects we carry out:<br />
<br />
– Biodiversity monitoring using camera traps<br><br />
– Monitoring of a harpy eagle’s nest (Harpia harpyja)<br><br />
– Amphibian monitoring in different habitats and altitudes<br><br />
– Propagation of critically endangered trees Magnolia dixonii and M.canandeana<br><br />
– Primate monitoring focused on the critically endangered Ateles fusciceps fusciceps<br><br />
<br />
|}<br />
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<br><br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
<span style="color:#ff0000"><span style="font-size:large">'''B) Overview of programmes, initiatives and organisations <br>that involved paraecologists in the past:'''</span></span><br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
{| style="width: 500px" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
|'''Project ALAS, Arthropods of La Selva, Costa Rica'''<br/><br />
<br />
Project ALAS began in late 1991. An existing structure at La Selva Biological Station was remodeled as an entomological laboratory dedicated to the project. Danilo Brenes and Ronald Vargas were chosen from among more than 50 applicants from communities surrounding La Selva to attend the National Biodiversity Institute (INBio) 6-month Parataxonomist course in 1992. (Parataxonomists are rapidly trained biologists who assist INBio in the national inventory process.) Later, Maylin Paniagua and Nelci Oconotrillo joined the project as Biodiversity Technicians and were trained by visiting taxonomic collaborators.<br />
|}<br />
<br />
[http://viceroy.eeb.uconn.edu/ALAS/ALAS.html http://viceroy.eeb.uconn.edu/ALAS/ALAS.html]<br />
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|-<br />
| '''BIOTA Southern Africa'''<br />
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[[File:Biota logo.gif|Biota logo.gif|link=http://www.biota-africa.org/reg_south_paraecol_ba.php]]<br />
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| style="vertical-align: top; width: 40px" |<br />
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| valign="center" | [http://www.biota-africa.org/reg_south_paraecol_ba.php http://www.biota-africa.org/reg_south_paraecol_ba.php]<br />
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|}<br />
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{| style="width: 500px" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
|BIOTA AFRICA has been jointly invented by African and German researchers aiming at the establishment of research supporting sustainable use and conservation of biodiversity in Africa. From October 2004 until March 2010, the regional network BIOTA Southern Africa employed and trained eight paraecologists. They worked at different sites within the BIOTA Southern Africa research area in Namibia and South Africa.<br />
<br />
|}<br />
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<br />
'''The Future Okavango'''<br />
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|-<br />
| [[File:72 70 TFO Logo.jpg|72 70 TFO Logo.jpg|link=http://www.future-okavango.org]]<br />
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| style="vertical-align: top; width: 40px" |<br />
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| valign="center" | [http://www.future-okavango.org www.future-okavango.org]<br />
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|}<br />
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{| style="width: 500px" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
|The Okavango basin in southern Africa with its variety of savannah woodlands and wetland ecosystems linked by the central lifeline of the Okavango River is a global hot-spot of accelerating change and land use conflicts. The river has its source in the rainy highlands of Angola and terminates in the Okavango Delta, the world's largest inland delta and the largest freshwater swamp south of the equator. The Future Okavango project analyses ecosystem functions and services within this trans-boundary basin of high international visibility and high potential transferability of results to other tropical and sub-tropical regions.<br><br />
<br />
The Future Okavango project employs and trains three paraecologists, based in Angola, Botswana and Namibia, respectively.<br />
<br />
|}<br />
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'''Groen Sebenza Paraecologists'''<br />
<br />
[https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.658468030841124.1073741840.205627006125231&type=3 BotSoc Groen Sebenza Paraecologist training camp]<br />
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[https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.785980601423199.1073741848.205627006125231&type=3 BotSoc Groen Sebenza paraecologist training workshop 2]<br />
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<br/>[[Para-ecologist programmes#top seitenanfang|Top]]<br />
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<br></div>Till Krausehttp://www.paraecologist.org/index.php?title=Para-ecologist_programmes&diff=2769Para-ecologist programmes2022-02-24T05:00:04Z<p>Till Krause: </p>
<hr />
<div>=== Research projects with paraecologists ===<br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
<span style="color:#ff0000"><span style="font-size:large">'''A) Overview of programmes, initiatives and organisations <br>that are currently involving paraecologists:'''</span></span><br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br>'''Area de Conservación Guanacaste (ACG), Costa Rica'''<br />
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{| style="text-align: left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
| [[File:logo-acg-sombra.jpg|link=http://www.acguanacaste.ac.cr/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=59&Itemid=218&lang=es]]<br />
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| style="vertical-align: top; width: 40px" |<br />
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| valign="center" | [http://www.acguanacaste.ac.cr/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=59&Itemid=218&lang=es programme of the Area de Conservación Guanacaste (ACG)]<br />
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|}<br />
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{| style="width: 500px" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
|The Costa Rican parataxonomist programme in the Area de Conservacion Guanacaste (ACG) was initiated in 1989 from a partnership between the non-governmental, non-profit organisation INBio ([http://www.inbio.ac.cr/en/ www.inbio.ac.cr]) and the administrative authorities of ACG ([http://www.acguanacaste.ac.cr/ www.acguanacaste.ac.cr]). The programme implements INBio’s goal of conducting an ambitious national species inventory of Costa Rica’s wildland biodiversity, to try to ensure its conservation through non-damaging uses by society. An important, albeit not principal, use of biodiversity information was bioprospecting, undertaken by a specific team within INBio. This is developed in parallel with the work of conducting the national inventory. Between them, a broad offering of educational projects is aimed at all sectors of society to help promote rapid, self-reinforcing taxonomic literacy and an improved awareness of biodiversity’s. This project was the first initiative to involve formally identified and course-trained parataxonomists into scientific biodiversity inventories.<br />
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'''Creative Conservation Alliance (CCA), Bangladesh'''<br />
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| [[File:CCA.jpg|150px|link=https://www.conservationalliance.org/]]<br />
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| valign="center" | [https://www.conservationalliance.org/ https://www.conservationalliance.org/]<br />
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|}<br />
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{| style="width: 500px" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
|The Creative Conservation Alliance (CCA) is a government registered non-profit organization, dedicated to ecological and cultural preservation within Bangladesh’s last remaining wild places. Through our grassroots efforts we empower local people to become stakeholders in their own landscapes. As a critical part of the international Indo-Burma Biodiversity Hotspot-the most threatened Biodiversity Hotspot in the world-these remaining forests offer a refuge for over 26 globally threatened species. Through our comprehensive approach, we empower local people to become stakeholders in their own landscapes.<br />
<br />
About the parabiologist initiative of the Creative Conservation Alliance (CCA):<br />
<br />
Indigenous parabiologists are a foundation of our organization. Local community members - with little to no formal education - are trained to carry out basic scientific tasks such as collecting morphometric data, GPS logging, and telemetry work. These citizen scientists act as role models for their communities and serve as local conservation ambassadors for the region. Without these dedicated souls we would not have the manpower or requisite traditional ecological knowledge of the study areas to conduct our research.<br />
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|}<br />
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'''Gran Chaco paraecologist project, Bolivia and Paraguay'''<br />
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[https://whitleyaward.org/winners/conservation-chaco-bolivia-paraguay/ https://whitleyaward.org/winners/conservation-chaco-bolivia-paraguay/]<br />
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'''Kakamega Environmental Education Program (KEEP)'''<br />
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| [[File:72 280 Keep logo.jpg|72 280 Keep logo.jpg|link=http://www.columbia.edu/cu/e3b/conservation/KEEP/index.htm]]<br />
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| style="vertical-align: top; width: 40px" |<br />
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| valign="center" | [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/e3b/conservation/KEEP/index.htm http://www.columbia.edu/cu/e3b/conservation/KEEP/index.htm]<br />
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|}<br />
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|KEEP is a grass-roots organization, working to save one of the last remaining rainforests in Kenya, through environmental education and creation of awareness among local communities, and development and / or implementation of economic alternatives to the exploitation of forest resources.<br />
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|}<br />
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'''Mitsinjo Association'''<br />
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{| style="text-align: left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
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| [[File:72 200 mitsinjo.jpg|link=https://associationmitsinjo.wordpress.com/]]<br />
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| style="vertical-align: top; width: 40px" |<br />
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| [https://associationmitsinjo.wordpress.com/ Association Mitsinjo]<br />
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|}<br />
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{| style="width: 500px" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
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|A Malagasy NGO that started as a grassroots community initiative founded in 1999, Association Mitsinjo works in conservation, nature-based tourism, and development (including agriculture and health). Located in Andasibe, one of the biodiversity hotspots of the eastern Madagascar rainforest corridor, Mitsinjo integrates the protection of prime habitat and the generation of sustainable income for the local population living in and around these areas.<br />
<br />
We host visitors and researchers from all around the world, thus encouraging our local staff to stay on top of scientific discovery and have a constant interest in the ecology of the forest they manage. Over the years, Mitsinjo has collected a wealth of knowledge on a wide range of the area’s biodiversity. It is our goal to standardise this large expanse of information and make it scientifically streamlined.<br />
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|}<br />
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<br/>'''The New Guinea Binatang Research Center'''<br />
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{| style="text-align: left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
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| [[File:72 200 BRClogo.jpg|72 200 BRClogo.jpg|link=http://www.entu.cas.cz/png/index.html]]<br />
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| style="vertical-align: top; width: 40px" |<br />
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| valign="center" | [http://www.entu.cas.cz/png/index.html www.entu.cas.cz/png/index.html]<br />
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{| style="width: 500px" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
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|This paraecologist initiative was started in Madang (Papua New Guinea, PNG) in 1994 as a small team of permanently employed paraecologists assisting studies of plant–herbivore interactions in rainforest ecosystems. The programme has expanded over the past 20 years to include ecological research on plants, insects and vertebrates. Several large research projects have been completed under this programme, including the study of plant–herbivore food webs in tropical forests, monitoring >250,000 individual plants in a 50-ha forest plot, and studies of invertebrate and vertebrate biodiversity and ecosystem change along an altitudinal gradient. The paraecologist team also assists PNG and overseas postgraduate students, works with indigenous landowners on rainforest conservation, and participates in the country’s biodiversity and environmental quality surveys for the PNG government and local industry. The paraecologist team is established as a non-profit organisation (New Guinea Binatang Research Center, BRC) registered in PNG, and working in collaboration with national and overseas academic institutions.<br />
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|}<br />
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'''Tesoro Escondido Reserve, Ecuador'''<br />
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{| style="text-align: left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
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| [[File:Logo_Tesoro_Reserve.png|link=https://tesororeserve.org/en/research-projects-and-parabiologists-programme/]]<br />
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| valign="center" | [https://tesororeserve.org/en/research-projects-and-parabiologists-programme/ https://tesororeserve.org/en/research-projects-and-parabiologists-programme/]<br />
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Scientific research generated from within the reserve is a priority and a permanent activity for all the staff. Research projects are carried out by students, researchers and by our parabiologists.<br />
<br />
A parabiologist is a person from a local community who is trained to become a research assistant. They undergo a process of permanent tutoring and ends up specializing in one or two topics. Results from research are published and presented by scientists and parabiologists in different national and international forums and journals.<br />
<br />
For long term projects we offer research groups the possibility to collect and send data by our parabiologist group (with training in the specific topic). <br />
<br />
Some permanent projects we carry out:<br />
<br />
– Biodiversity monitoring using camera traps<br><br />
– Monitoring of a harpy eagle’s nest (Harpia harpyja)<br><br />
– Amphibian monitoring in different habitats and altitudes<br><br />
– Propagation of critically endangered trees Magnolia dixonii and M.canandeana<br><br />
– Primate monitoring focused on the critically endangered Ateles fusciceps fusciceps<br><br />
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|}<br />
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<br><br />
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<span style="color:#ff0000"><span style="font-size:large">'''B) Overview of programmes, initiatives and organisations <br>that involved paraecologists in the past:'''</span></span><br />
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{| style="width: 500px" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
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|'''Project ALAS, Arthropods of La Selva, Costa Rica'''<br/><br />
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Project ALAS began in late 1991. An existing structure at La Selva Biological Station was remodeled as an entomological laboratory dedicated to the project. Danilo Brenes and Ronald Vargas were chosen from among more than 50 applicants from communities surrounding La Selva to attend the National Biodiversity Institute (INBio) 6-month Parataxonomist course in 1992. (Parataxonomists are rapidly trained biologists who assist INBio in the national inventory process.) Later, Maylin Paniagua and Nelci Oconotrillo joined the project as Biodiversity Technicians and were trained by visiting taxonomic collaborators.<br />
|}<br />
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[http://viceroy.eeb.uconn.edu/ALAS/ALAS.html http://viceroy.eeb.uconn.edu/ALAS/ALAS.html]<br />
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| '''BIOTA Southern Africa'''<br />
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[[File:Biota logo.gif|Biota logo.gif|link=http://www.biota-africa.org/reg_south_paraecol_ba.php]]<br />
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| style="vertical-align: top; width: 40px" |<br />
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| valign="center" | [http://www.biota-africa.org/reg_south_paraecol_ba.php http://www.biota-africa.org/reg_south_paraecol_ba.php]<br />
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|}<br />
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{| style="width: 500px" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
|BIOTA AFRICA has been jointly invented by African and German researchers aiming at the establishment of research supporting sustainable use and conservation of biodiversity in Africa. From October 2004 until March 2010, the regional network BIOTA Southern Africa employed and trained eight paraecologists. They worked at different sites within the BIOTA Southern Africa research area in Namibia and South Africa.<br />
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|}<br />
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'''The Future Okavango'''<br />
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| [[File:72 70 TFO Logo.jpg|72 70 TFO Logo.jpg|link=http://www.future-okavango.org]]<br />
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| valign="center" | [http://www.future-okavango.org www.future-okavango.org]<br />
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|}<br />
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|The Okavango basin in southern Africa with its variety of savannah woodlands and wetland ecosystems linked by the central lifeline of the Okavango River is a global hot-spot of accelerating change and land use conflicts. The river has its source in the rainy highlands of Angola and terminates in the Okavango Delta, the world's largest inland delta and the largest freshwater swamp south of the equator. The Future Okavango project analyses ecosystem functions and services within this trans-boundary basin of high international visibility and high potential transferability of results to other tropical and sub-tropical regions.<br><br />
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The Future Okavango project employs and trains three paraecologists, based in Angola, Botswana and Namibia, respectively.<br />
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'''Groen Sebenza Paraecologists'''<br />
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[https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.658468030841124.1073741840.205627006125231&type=3 BotSoc Groen Sebenza Paraecologist training camp]<br />
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[https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.785980601423199.1073741848.205627006125231&type=3 BotSoc Groen Sebenza paraecologist training workshop 2]<br />
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<br/>[[Para-ecologist programmes#top seitenanfang|Top]]<br />
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<br></div>Till Krausehttp://www.paraecologist.org/index.php?title=Para-ecologist_programmes&diff=2768Para-ecologist programmes2022-02-24T04:59:48Z<p>Till Krause: </p>
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<div>=== Research projects with paraecologists ===<br />
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<span style="color:#ff0000"><span style="font-size:large">'''A) Overview of programmes, initiatives and organisations <br>that are currently involving paraecologists:'''</span></span><br />
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<br>'''Area de Conservación Guanacaste (ACG), Costa Rica'''<br />
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{| style="text-align: left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
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| [[File:logo-acg-sombra.jpg|link=http://www.acguanacaste.ac.cr/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=59&Itemid=218&lang=es]]<br />
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| style="vertical-align: top; width: 40px" |<br />
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| valign="center" | [http://www.acguanacaste.ac.cr/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=59&Itemid=218&lang=es programme of the Area de Conservación Guanacaste (ACG)]<br />
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|}<br />
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{| style="width: 500px" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
|The Costa Rican parataxonomist programme in the Area de Conservacion Guanacaste (ACG) was initiated in 1989 from a partnership between the non-governmental, non-profit organisation INBio ([http://www.inbio.ac.cr/en/ www.inbio.ac.cr]) and the administrative authorities of ACG ([http://www.acguanacaste.ac.cr/ www.acguanacaste.ac.cr]). The programme implements INBio’s goal of conducting an ambitious national species inventory of Costa Rica’s wildland biodiversity, to try to ensure its conservation through non-damaging uses by society. An important, albeit not principal, use of biodiversity information was bioprospecting, undertaken by a specific team within INBio. This is developed in parallel with the work of conducting the national inventory. Between them, a broad offering of educational projects is aimed at all sectors of society to help promote rapid, self-reinforcing taxonomic literacy and an improved awareness of biodiversity’s. This project was the first initiative to involve formally identified and course-trained parataxonomists into scientific biodiversity inventories.<br />
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|}<br />
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'''Creative Conservation Alliance (CCA), Bangladesh'''<br />
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{| style="text-align: left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
| [[File:CCA.jpg|50px|link=https://www.conservationalliance.org/]]<br />
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| style="vertical-align: top; width: 20px" |<br />
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| valign="center" | [https://www.conservationalliance.org/ https://www.conservationalliance.org/]<br />
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|}<br />
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{| style="width: 500px" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
|The Creative Conservation Alliance (CCA) is a government registered non-profit organization, dedicated to ecological and cultural preservation within Bangladesh’s last remaining wild places. Through our grassroots efforts we empower local people to become stakeholders in their own landscapes. As a critical part of the international Indo-Burma Biodiversity Hotspot-the most threatened Biodiversity Hotspot in the world-these remaining forests offer a refuge for over 26 globally threatened species. Through our comprehensive approach, we empower local people to become stakeholders in their own landscapes.<br />
<br />
About the parabiologist initiative of the Creative Conservation Alliance (CCA):<br />
<br />
Indigenous parabiologists are a foundation of our organization. Local community members - with little to no formal education - are trained to carry out basic scientific tasks such as collecting morphometric data, GPS logging, and telemetry work. These citizen scientists act as role models for their communities and serve as local conservation ambassadors for the region. Without these dedicated souls we would not have the manpower or requisite traditional ecological knowledge of the study areas to conduct our research.<br />
<br />
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|}<br />
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'''Gran Chaco paraecologist project, Bolivia and Paraguay'''<br />
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[https://whitleyaward.org/winners/conservation-chaco-bolivia-paraguay/ https://whitleyaward.org/winners/conservation-chaco-bolivia-paraguay/]<br />
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'''Kakamega Environmental Education Program (KEEP)'''<br />
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{| style="text-align: left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
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| [[File:72 280 Keep logo.jpg|72 280 Keep logo.jpg|link=http://www.columbia.edu/cu/e3b/conservation/KEEP/index.htm]]<br />
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| style="vertical-align: top; width: 40px" |<br />
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| valign="center" | [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/e3b/conservation/KEEP/index.htm http://www.columbia.edu/cu/e3b/conservation/KEEP/index.htm]<br />
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|}<br />
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{| style="width: 500px" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
|KEEP is a grass-roots organization, working to save one of the last remaining rainforests in Kenya, through environmental education and creation of awareness among local communities, and development and / or implementation of economic alternatives to the exploitation of forest resources.<br />
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|}<br />
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'''Mitsinjo Association'''<br />
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{| style="text-align: left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
| [[File:72 200 mitsinjo.jpg|link=https://associationmitsinjo.wordpress.com/]]<br />
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| style="vertical-align: top; width: 40px" |<br />
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| [https://associationmitsinjo.wordpress.com/ Association Mitsinjo]<br />
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|}<br />
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{| style="width: 500px" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
|A Malagasy NGO that started as a grassroots community initiative founded in 1999, Association Mitsinjo works in conservation, nature-based tourism, and development (including agriculture and health). Located in Andasibe, one of the biodiversity hotspots of the eastern Madagascar rainforest corridor, Mitsinjo integrates the protection of prime habitat and the generation of sustainable income for the local population living in and around these areas.<br />
<br />
We host visitors and researchers from all around the world, thus encouraging our local staff to stay on top of scientific discovery and have a constant interest in the ecology of the forest they manage. Over the years, Mitsinjo has collected a wealth of knowledge on a wide range of the area’s biodiversity. It is our goal to standardise this large expanse of information and make it scientifically streamlined.<br />
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|}<br />
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<br/>'''The New Guinea Binatang Research Center'''<br />
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{| style="text-align: left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
| [[File:72 200 BRClogo.jpg|72 200 BRClogo.jpg|link=http://www.entu.cas.cz/png/index.html]]<br />
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| style="vertical-align: top; width: 40px" |<br />
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| valign="center" | [http://www.entu.cas.cz/png/index.html www.entu.cas.cz/png/index.html]<br />
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|}<br />
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{| style="width: 500px" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
|This paraecologist initiative was started in Madang (Papua New Guinea, PNG) in 1994 as a small team of permanently employed paraecologists assisting studies of plant–herbivore interactions in rainforest ecosystems. The programme has expanded over the past 20 years to include ecological research on plants, insects and vertebrates. Several large research projects have been completed under this programme, including the study of plant–herbivore food webs in tropical forests, monitoring >250,000 individual plants in a 50-ha forest plot, and studies of invertebrate and vertebrate biodiversity and ecosystem change along an altitudinal gradient. The paraecologist team also assists PNG and overseas postgraduate students, works with indigenous landowners on rainforest conservation, and participates in the country’s biodiversity and environmental quality surveys for the PNG government and local industry. The paraecologist team is established as a non-profit organisation (New Guinea Binatang Research Center, BRC) registered in PNG, and working in collaboration with national and overseas academic institutions.<br />
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|}<br />
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'''Tesoro Escondido Reserve, Ecuador'''<br />
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{| style="text-align: left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
| [[File:Logo_Tesoro_Reserve.png|link=https://tesororeserve.org/en/research-projects-and-parabiologists-programme/]]<br />
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| style="vertical-align: top; width: 40px" |<br />
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| valign="center" | [https://tesororeserve.org/en/research-projects-and-parabiologists-programme/ https://tesororeserve.org/en/research-projects-and-parabiologists-programme/]<br />
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|}<br />
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{| style="width: 500px" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
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Scientific research generated from within the reserve is a priority and a permanent activity for all the staff. Research projects are carried out by students, researchers and by our parabiologists.<br />
<br />
A parabiologist is a person from a local community who is trained to become a research assistant. They undergo a process of permanent tutoring and ends up specializing in one or two topics. Results from research are published and presented by scientists and parabiologists in different national and international forums and journals.<br />
<br />
For long term projects we offer research groups the possibility to collect and send data by our parabiologist group (with training in the specific topic). <br />
<br />
Some permanent projects we carry out:<br />
<br />
– Biodiversity monitoring using camera traps<br><br />
– Monitoring of a harpy eagle’s nest (Harpia harpyja)<br><br />
– Amphibian monitoring in different habitats and altitudes<br><br />
– Propagation of critically endangered trees Magnolia dixonii and M.canandeana<br><br />
– Primate monitoring focused on the critically endangered Ateles fusciceps fusciceps<br><br />
<br />
|}<br />
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<br><br />
<br />
<span style="color:#ff0000"><span style="font-size:large">'''B) Overview of programmes, initiatives and organisations <br>that involved paraecologists in the past:'''</span></span><br />
<br />
<br><br />
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{| style="width: 500px" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
|'''Project ALAS, Arthropods of La Selva, Costa Rica'''<br/><br />
<br />
Project ALAS began in late 1991. An existing structure at La Selva Biological Station was remodeled as an entomological laboratory dedicated to the project. Danilo Brenes and Ronald Vargas were chosen from among more than 50 applicants from communities surrounding La Selva to attend the National Biodiversity Institute (INBio) 6-month Parataxonomist course in 1992. (Parataxonomists are rapidly trained biologists who assist INBio in the national inventory process.) Later, Maylin Paniagua and Nelci Oconotrillo joined the project as Biodiversity Technicians and were trained by visiting taxonomic collaborators.<br />
|}<br />
<br />
[http://viceroy.eeb.uconn.edu/ALAS/ALAS.html http://viceroy.eeb.uconn.edu/ALAS/ALAS.html]<br />
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{| style="text-align: left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
| '''BIOTA Southern Africa'''<br />
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[[File:Biota logo.gif|Biota logo.gif|link=http://www.biota-africa.org/reg_south_paraecol_ba.php]]<br />
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| style="vertical-align: top; width: 40px" |<br />
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| valign="center" | [http://www.biota-africa.org/reg_south_paraecol_ba.php http://www.biota-africa.org/reg_south_paraecol_ba.php]<br />
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|}<br />
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{| style="width: 500px" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
|BIOTA AFRICA has been jointly invented by African and German researchers aiming at the establishment of research supporting sustainable use and conservation of biodiversity in Africa. From October 2004 until March 2010, the regional network BIOTA Southern Africa employed and trained eight paraecologists. They worked at different sites within the BIOTA Southern Africa research area in Namibia and South Africa.<br />
<br />
|}<br />
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'''The Future Okavango'''<br />
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{| style="text-align: left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
| [[File:72 70 TFO Logo.jpg|72 70 TFO Logo.jpg|link=http://www.future-okavango.org]]<br />
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| style="vertical-align: top; width: 40px" |<br />
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| valign="center" | [http://www.future-okavango.org www.future-okavango.org]<br />
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|}<br />
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'''Groen Sebenza Paraecologists'''<br />
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<br>'''Area de Conservación Guanacaste (ACG), Costa Rica'''<br />
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|The Costa Rican parataxonomist programme in the Area de Conservacion Guanacaste (ACG) was initiated in 1989 from a partnership between the non-governmental, non-profit organisation INBio ([http://www.inbio.ac.cr/en/ www.inbio.ac.cr]) and the administrative authorities of ACG ([http://www.acguanacaste.ac.cr/ www.acguanacaste.ac.cr]). The programme implements INBio’s goal of conducting an ambitious national species inventory of Costa Rica’s wildland biodiversity, to try to ensure its conservation through non-damaging uses by society. An important, albeit not principal, use of biodiversity information was bioprospecting, undertaken by a specific team within INBio. This is developed in parallel with the work of conducting the national inventory. Between them, a broad offering of educational projects is aimed at all sectors of society to help promote rapid, self-reinforcing taxonomic literacy and an improved awareness of biodiversity’s. This project was the first initiative to involve formally identified and course-trained parataxonomists into scientific biodiversity inventories.<br />
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'''Creative Conservation Alliance (CCA), Bangladesh'''<br />
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|The Creative Conservation Alliance (CCA) is a government registered non-profit organization, dedicated to ecological and cultural preservation within Bangladesh’s last remaining wild places. Through our grassroots efforts we empower local people to become stakeholders in their own landscapes. As a critical part of the international Indo-Burma Biodiversity Hotspot-the most threatened Biodiversity Hotspot in the world-these remaining forests offer a refuge for over 26 globally threatened species. Through our comprehensive approach, we empower local people to become stakeholders in their own landscapes.<br />
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About the parabiologist initiative of the Creative Conservation Alliance (CCA):<br />
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Indigenous parabiologists are a foundation of our organization. Local community members - with little to no formal education - are trained to carry out basic scientific tasks such as collecting morphometric data, GPS logging, and telemetry work. These citizen scientists act as role models for their communities and serve as local conservation ambassadors for the region. Without these dedicated souls we would not have the manpower or requisite traditional ecological knowledge of the study areas to conduct our research.<br />
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'''Gran Chaco paraecologist project, Bolivia and Paraguay'''<br />
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'''Kakamega Environmental Education Program (KEEP)'''<br />
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|A Malagasy NGO that started as a grassroots community initiative founded in 1999, Association Mitsinjo works in conservation, nature-based tourism, and development (including agriculture and health). Located in Andasibe, one of the biodiversity hotspots of the eastern Madagascar rainforest corridor, Mitsinjo integrates the protection of prime habitat and the generation of sustainable income for the local population living in and around these areas.<br />
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We host visitors and researchers from all around the world, thus encouraging our local staff to stay on top of scientific discovery and have a constant interest in the ecology of the forest they manage. Over the years, Mitsinjo has collected a wealth of knowledge on a wide range of the area’s biodiversity. It is our goal to standardise this large expanse of information and make it scientifically streamlined.<br />
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|This paraecologist initiative was started in Madang (Papua New Guinea, PNG) in 1994 as a small team of permanently employed paraecologists assisting studies of plant–herbivore interactions in rainforest ecosystems. The programme has expanded over the past 20 years to include ecological research on plants, insects and vertebrates. Several large research projects have been completed under this programme, including the study of plant–herbivore food webs in tropical forests, monitoring >250,000 individual plants in a 50-ha forest plot, and studies of invertebrate and vertebrate biodiversity and ecosystem change along an altitudinal gradient. The paraecologist team also assists PNG and overseas postgraduate students, works with indigenous landowners on rainforest conservation, and participates in the country’s biodiversity and environmental quality surveys for the PNG government and local industry. The paraecologist team is established as a non-profit organisation (New Guinea Binatang Research Center, BRC) registered in PNG, and working in collaboration with national and overseas academic institutions.<br />
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Scientific research generated from within the reserve is a priority and a permanent activity for all the staff. Research projects are carried out by students, researchers and by our parabiologists.<br />
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A parabiologist is a person from a local community who is trained to become a research assistant. They undergo a process of permanent tutoring and ends up specializing in one or two topics. Results from research are published and presented by scientists and parabiologists in different national and international forums and journals.<br />
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For long term projects we offer research groups the possibility to collect and send data by our parabiologist group (with training in the specific topic). <br />
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– Amphibian monitoring in different habitats and altitudes<br><br />
– Propagation of critically endangered trees Magnolia dixonii and M.canandeana<br><br />
– Primate monitoring focused on the critically endangered Ateles fusciceps fusciceps<br><br />
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Project ALAS began in late 1991. An existing structure at La Selva Biological Station was remodeled as an entomological laboratory dedicated to the project. Danilo Brenes and Ronald Vargas were chosen from among more than 50 applicants from communities surrounding La Selva to attend the National Biodiversity Institute (INBio) 6-month Parataxonomist course in 1992. (Parataxonomists are rapidly trained biologists who assist INBio in the national inventory process.) Later, Maylin Paniagua and Nelci Oconotrillo joined the project as Biodiversity Technicians and were trained by visiting taxonomic collaborators.<br />
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'''The Future Okavango'''<br />
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'''Groen Sebenza Paraecologists'''<br />
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[https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.658468030841124.1073741840.205627006125231&type=3 BotSoc Groen Sebenza Paraecologist training camp]<br />
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<div>=== Reginald Christiaan ===<br />
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Email: [mailto:Reginald.Christiaan@gmail.com?subject=Paraecologist Reginald.Christiaan@gmail.com]<br/>Mobile: +27 72 4829617<br />
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<u>Where am I from</u><br />
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South Africa<br />
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Afrikaans 1st<br/>English 2nd<br />
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Soebatsfontein & Springbok, Northern Cape Province, South Africa<br />
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<u>Current activities</u><br />
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Environmental monitor at Namaqualand National Park, South Africa <br />
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Co-worker of the [http://www.arc.agric.za/arc-ppri/Pages/Biosystematics/SANSA.aspx South African National Survey of Arachnida (SANSA)]<br />
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Conducting of scorpion workshops (for more information see [[Reginald_Christiaan_Scorpion_Workshops|scorpion workshops website]]) <br />
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Collecting scorpions in Namaqualand for the scientific collection and research activities at the [https://www.amnh.org/ American Museum of Natural History] in New York, USA<br />
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Assisting the Arachnida assessment as part of the [http://karoobiogapsproject.blogspot.com/2017/06/biogaps-scorpions-fieldtrip.html Karoo BioGaps project] run by SANBI<br />
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Assisting (since 2002 until today) in the ongoing long-term vegetation monitoring programme of BIOTA Southern Africa and SASSCAL <br />
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'''SANParks'''<br />
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Oct.-Nov. 2014 and 2017: Kids in Parks Programme at Namaqua National Park<br />
*Offering activities for school children as part of the Kids in Parks programme <br />
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Aug.-Sept 2012: Namaqua National Park, Groenrivier, Coastal Section, Tourism Assistant<br> <br />
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Aug.-Sept 2015: Namaqua National Park, Skilpad, Tourism Assistant<br> <br />
*Assisting tourists<br> <br />
*Issuing entry permits for tourists<br />
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<br/>'''Conservation South Africa (CSA)'''<br />
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2011-2012: Internship at Springbok office, South Africa<br><br />
*Scorpion workshops (for more information see [[Reginald_Christiaan_Scorpion_Workshops|'''scorpion workshops website''']])<br />
*Weather stations installations<br />
*Downloading of data from weather stations<br />
*Capturing climate data<br />
*Co-ordinate participatory research activities in the Namakwa District with 15 EcoRangers on at least 1 communal farm, 4 private farms, and 1 national park<br />
*Collect, capture and analyse EcoRanger data from 15 EcoRangers<br />
*Communicate outcomes of data analysis to all research participants; all relevant CSA staff members; 2 meetings with local stakeholders; in 3 Veepos articles; and 1 article in a local newspaper.<br />
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<br/>'''Ditsong National Museums of Natural History, Pretoria, South Africa'''<br />
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2011: Internship as paraecologist and trainee<br><br />
*Curation and rebottling of Buthidae scorpions of the Lower Invertebrate collection<br />
*Sorting of spiders<br />
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<br/>'''BIOTA Southern Africa, international research project'''<br />
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2002-2010: Employed as a paraecologist (Soebatsfontein / South Africa)<br><br />
*Documentation of biodiversity data (plants and arthropods)<br />
*Monitoring of plant phenology (monthly)<br />
*Downloading of data from automatic weather stations<br />
*Environmental awareness projects with school children<br />
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<u>My skills and expertise</u><br />
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Computer skills: Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Power Point, Internet Explorer, email<br />
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Entering phenological plant data into MS Excel database<br />
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G.P.S (Global Positioning System)<br />
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Installment and maintenance of automatic weather stations<br />
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Monitoring and collection of plants and insects<br />
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Use of digital photo and video cameras<br />
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Taking of plant pictures for scientific purposes<br />
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Identification of plants and plant names<br />
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Ecology of succulents on quartz fields<br />
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Facilitation of workshops<br />
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Conflict management<br />
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<u>Awards</u><br />
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In 2019 I was nominated for the Website Community Choice Award for "Dedication, hard work and stellar service". <br />
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In November 2017, I won the Kudu Award "Youth in Conservation" from South African National Parks (SANParks) for my contribution to conservation through my scorpion project that raises awareness on the diversity and ecology of this understudied Arachnida fauna of the Namaqualand.<br>[http://www.paraecologist.org/images/1/17/Die_Plattelander_Reginald_Christiaan_1_Desember_2017.pdf Read article]<br />
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<u>Special interests</u><br />
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Habitat requirements of scorpions<br />
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Collecting and identifying scorpions<br />
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Habitat requirements of different plant species<br />
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Botany and photography<br />
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<u>Ambitions and dreams</u><br />
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During my work in BIOTA as paraecologist my interest in nature and natural science has been strongly fostered. My particular interest lies in the collecting and identification of scorpions. I closely cooperate with Dr Lorenzo Prendini from the New York Museum of Natural History who kindly identifies the specimens for us and incorporated them into his scientific collection, and in the near future I want to specialize in the identification of Southern African scorpions. The experience gained during the internship with ARC/Ditsong has further increased my need to want to learn more about these creatures. I hope to continue to build my relationships with the researchers at these institutes. I feel the next step will be to be employed at one of these institutes in order to learn more and possible expand my knowledge into research.<br />
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<u>Publications</u><br />
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For publications by and about Reginald Christiaan click [[Reginald_Christiaan_publications|'''here''']] <br />
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<u>Contact for references</u><br />
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Dr. Ute Schmiedel (paraecologist programme coordinator and supervisor from 2003 until 2010)<br/>Biocentre Klein Flottbek & Botanical Garden<br/>University of Hamburg<br/>Ohnhorststrasse 18<br/>D-22609 Hamburg<br/>Tel. +49 - (0)40 - 42816-548<br/>Fax +49 - (0)40 - 42816-539<br/>Email: [mailto:Ute.Schmiedel@uni-hamburg.de?subject=Paraecologist Ute.Schmiedel@uni-hamburg.de]<br />
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Ronald Newman (Conservation South Africa, Manager, Namaqualand Green Economic Demonstration)<br/>Conservation South Africa<br/>Springbok<br/>Tel: +27 27 718 1577<br/>Email: [mailto:r.newman@conservation.org?subject=Paraecologist r.newman@conservation.org]<br />
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Further activities by Reginald Christiaan: [[Reginald_Christiaan|click here]]<br />
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<br></div>Till Krausehttp://www.paraecologist.org/index.php?title=Training_materials_Readers&diff=2765Training materials Readers2022-02-24T04:39:06Z<p>Till Krause: </p>
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<div>=== Training Material / Readers ===<br />
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| valign="top" | <br>Cuéllar, Erika (2009): Manuales Técnicos, 1er Curso de Capacitación para la Formación de Parabiólogos. A training manual developed for the Gran Chaco paraecologist project.<br />
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Engbers, Moritz (2008): How to organise my computer data [http://www.paraecologist.org/images/d/d8/Engbers_2008_Computer-Basics.pdf '''PDF''' (76 KB)]<br />
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Engbers, Moritz (2008): Climate Change - Causes, processes and possible effects [http://www.paraecologist.org/images/5/5b/Engbers_2008_para-ecologists_climate_change.pdf '''PDF''' (1.313 KB)]<br />
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Grohmann, Constanze (2008): What are termites? [http://www.paraecologist.org/images/e/eb/Grohman_2008_Introduction_to_Termites_PE.pdf '''PDF''' (1.883 KB)]<br />
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Hesse, Alan J. & Cuéllar S., Erika (2008): Manuales Técnicos, 1er Curso de Capacitación para la Formación de Parabiólogos, '''PDF (16 MB) on request: Ute.Schmiedel@uni-hamburg.de'''<br />
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Schmiedel, Ute (2008): Guide to selected plant families [http://www.paraecologist.org/images/0/02/Schmiedel_2008_Plant_families.pdf '''PDF''' (1025 KB)]<br />
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Shekhar KS (2007): A field guide to the tracks and signs of Eastern Himalayan, Central Indian and Eastern Ghats Wildlife IBH: Delhi, 294 pp.<br />
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Shekhar KS (2008): Training rural residents as Naturalist Guides: Introductory training program at Saptura National Park, Madhya Pradesh. [http://www.paraecologist.org/images/7/71/Training_rural_guides_in_India_to_work_as_Naturalists.pdf '''PDF''' (83 KB)]<br />
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Parabiologist training manual 2006 – on primate ecology in Ecuador – funded by the Darwin Initiative <br />
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Parabiologist training manual 2007 – on primate ecology in Ecuador – funded by the Darwin Initiative<br />
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Department for Environment Food & Rural Affairs, UK (2019): UN International Day of Forests 2019: <br>Para-ecologists – the paramedics of the rainforest<br><br />
[https://www.gov.uk/government/news/un-international-day-of-forests-2019-para-ecologists-the-paramedics-of-the-rainforest www.gov.uk/government/news/un-international-day-of-forests-2019-para-ecologists-the-paramedics-of-the-rainforest]<br />
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<u>Readers of the BIOTA paraecologist training workshops:</u><br />
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- Gobabeb / Namibia, 2004 [http://www.paraecologist.org/images/e/e6/BIOTA_Reader_1st_training_2004.pdf '''PDF''' (486 KB)]<br />
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- Gellap Ost, Keetmanshoop / Namibia, 2005 [http://www.paraecologist.org/images/7/79/BIOTA_Reader_2nd_training_2005.pdf '''PDF''' (401 KB)]<br />
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- Gellap Ost, Keetmanshoop / Namibia, 2006 [http://www.paraecologist.org/images/5/57/BIOTA_Reader_3rd_training_2006.pdf '''PDF''' (218 KB)]<br />
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- Kamieskroon / South Africa, 2007 [http://www.paraecologist.org/images/c/ce/BIOTA_Reader_4th_training_2007.pdf '''PDF''' (1.243 KB)]<br />
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- Vanrhynsdorp / South Africa, 2008 [http://www.paraecologist.org/images/3/36/BIOTA_Reader_5th_training_2008.pdf '''PDF''' (1.316 KB)]<br />
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- Nieuwoudtville / South Africa, 2009 [http://www.paraecologist.org/images/8/85/BIOTA_Reader_6th_training_2009.pdf '''PDF''' (577 KB)]<br />
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[[Training materials Readers#top seitenanfang|Top]]</div>Till Krausehttp://www.paraecologist.org/index.php?title=Para-ecologist_programmes&diff=2764Para-ecologist programmes2022-02-24T04:35:58Z<p>Till Krause: </p>
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<div>=== Research projects with paraecologists ===<br />
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<span style="color:#ff0000"><span style="font-size:large">'''A) Overview of programmes, initiatives and organisations <br>that are currently involving paraecologists:'''</span></span><br />
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<br>'''Area de Conservación Guanacaste (ACG), Costa Rica'''<br />
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| valign="center" | [http://www.acguanacaste.ac.cr/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=59&Itemid=218&lang=es programme of the Area de Conservación Guanacaste (ACG)]<br />
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|The Costa Rican parataxonomist programme in the Area de Conservacion Guanacaste (ACG) was initiated in 1989 from a partnership between the non-governmental, non-profit organisation INBio ([http://www.inbio.ac.cr/en/ www.inbio.ac.cr]) and the administrative authorities of ACG ([http://www.acguanacaste.ac.cr/ www.acguanacaste.ac.cr]). The programme implements INBio’s goal of conducting an ambitious national species inventory of Costa Rica’s wildland biodiversity, to try to ensure its conservation through non-damaging uses by society. An important, albeit not principal, use of biodiversity information was bioprospecting, undertaken by a specific team within INBio. This is developed in parallel with the work of conducting the national inventory. Between them, a broad offering of educational projects is aimed at all sectors of society to help promote rapid, self-reinforcing taxonomic literacy and an improved awareness of biodiversity’s. This project was the first initiative to involve formally identified and course-trained parataxonomists into scientific biodiversity inventories.<br />
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'''Creative Conservation Alliance (CCA), Bangladesh'''<br />
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|The Creative Conservation Alliance (CCA) is a government registered non-profit organization, dedicated to ecological and cultural preservation within Bangladesh’s last remaining wild places. Through our grassroots efforts we empower local people to become stakeholders in their own landscapes. As a critical part of the international Indo-Burma Biodiversity Hotspot-the most threatened Biodiversity Hotspot in the world-these remaining forests offer a refuge for over 26 globally threatened species. Through our comprehensive approach, we empower local people to become stakeholders in their own landscapes.<br />
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'''Gran Chaco paraecologist project, Bolivia and Paraguay'''<br />
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[https://whitleyaward.org/winners/conservation-chaco-bolivia-paraguay/ https://whitleyaward.org/winners/conservation-chaco-bolivia-paraguay/]<br />
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'''Kakamega Environmental Education Program (KEEP)'''<br />
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| valign="center" | [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/e3b/conservation/KEEP/index.htm http://www.columbia.edu/cu/e3b/conservation/KEEP/index.htm]<br />
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|KEEP is a grass-roots organization, working to save one of the last remaining rainforests in Kenya, through environmental education and creation of awareness among local communities, and development and / or implementation of economic alternatives to the exploitation of forest resources.<br />
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'''Mitsinjo Association'''<br />
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| [https://associationmitsinjo.wordpress.com/ Association Mitsinjo]<br />
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|A Malagasy NGO that started as a grassroots community initiative founded in 1999, Association Mitsinjo works in conservation, nature-based tourism, and development (including agriculture and health). Located in Andasibe, one of the biodiversity hotspots of the eastern Madagascar rainforest corridor, Mitsinjo integrates the protection of prime habitat and the generation of sustainable income for the local population living in and around these areas.<br />
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We host visitors and researchers from all around the world, thus encouraging our local staff to stay on top of scientific discovery and have a constant interest in the ecology of the forest they manage. Over the years, Mitsinjo has collected a wealth of knowledge on a wide range of the area’s biodiversity. It is our goal to standardise this large expanse of information and make it scientifically streamlined.<br />
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<br/>'''The New Guinea Binatang Research Center'''<br />
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|This paraecologist initiative was started in Madang (Papua New Guinea, PNG) in 1994 as a small team of permanently employed paraecologists assisting studies of plant–herbivore interactions in rainforest ecosystems. The programme has expanded over the past 20 years to include ecological research on plants, insects and vertebrates. Several large research projects have been completed under this programme, including the study of plant–herbivore food webs in tropical forests, monitoring >250,000 individual plants in a 50-ha forest plot, and studies of invertebrate and vertebrate biodiversity and ecosystem change along an altitudinal gradient. The paraecologist team also assists PNG and overseas postgraduate students, works with indigenous landowners on rainforest conservation, and participates in the country’s biodiversity and environmental quality surveys for the PNG government and local industry. The paraecologist team is established as a non-profit organisation (New Guinea Binatang Research Center, BRC) registered in PNG, and working in collaboration with national and overseas academic institutions.<br />
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'''Tesoro Escondido Reserve, Ecuador'''<br />
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Scientific research generated from within the reserve is a priority and a permanent activity for all the staff. Research projects are carried out by students, researchers and by our parabiologists.<br />
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A parabiologist is a person from a local community who is trained to become a research assistant. They undergo a process of permanent tutoring and ends up specializing in one or two topics. Results from research are published and presented by scientists and parabiologists in different national and international forums and journals.<br />
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For long term projects we offer research groups the possibility to collect and send data by our parabiologist group (with training in the specific topic). <br />
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Some permanent projects we carry out:<br />
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– Biodiversity monitoring using camera traps<br><br />
– Monitoring of a harpy eagle’s nest (Harpia harpyja)<br><br />
– Amphibian monitoring in different habitats and altitudes<br><br />
– Propagation of critically endangered trees Magnolia dixonii and M.canandeana<br><br />
– Primate monitoring focused on the critically endangered Ateles fusciceps fusciceps<br><br />
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<span style="color:#ff0000"><span style="font-size:large">'''B) Overview of programmes, initiatives and organisations <br>that involved paraecologists in the past:'''</span></span><br />
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|'''Project ALAS, Arthropods of La Selva, Costa Rica'''<br/><br />
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Project ALAS began in late 1991. An existing structure at La Selva Biological Station was remodeled as an entomological laboratory dedicated to the project. Danilo Brenes and Ronald Vargas were chosen from among more than 50 applicants from communities surrounding La Selva to attend the National Biodiversity Institute (INBio) 6-month Parataxonomist course in 1992. (Parataxonomists are rapidly trained biologists who assist INBio in the national inventory process.) Later, Maylin Paniagua and Nelci Oconotrillo joined the project as Biodiversity Technicians and were trained by visiting taxonomic collaborators.<br />
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[http://viceroy.eeb.uconn.edu/ALAS/ALAS.html http://viceroy.eeb.uconn.edu/ALAS/ALAS.html]<br />
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| '''BIOTA Southern Africa'''<br />
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[[File:Biota logo.gif|Biota logo.gif|link=http://www.biota-africa.org/reg_south_paraecol_ba.php]]<br />
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|BIOTA AFRICA has been jointly invented by African and German researchers aiming at the establishment of research supporting sustainable use and conservation of biodiversity in Africa. From October 2004 until March 2010, the regional network BIOTA Southern Africa employed and trained eight paraecologists. They worked at different sites within the BIOTA Southern Africa research area in Namibia and South Africa.<br />
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'''The Future Okavango'''<br />
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|The Okavango basin in southern Africa with its variety of savannah woodlands and wetland ecosystems linked by the central lifeline of the Okavango River is a global hot-spot of accelerating change and land use conflicts. The river has its source in the rainy highlands of Angola and terminates in the Okavango Delta, the world's largest inland delta and the largest freshwater swamp south of the equator. The Future Okavango project analyses ecosystem functions and services within this trans-boundary basin of high international visibility and high potential transferability of results to other tropical and sub-tropical regions.<br><br />
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The Future Okavango project employs and trains three paraecologists, based in Angola, Botswana and Namibia, respectively.<br />
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'''Groen Sebenza Paraecologists'''<br />
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[https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.658468030841124.1073741840.205627006125231&type=3 BotSoc Groen Sebenza Paraecologist training camp]<br />
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[https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.785980601423199.1073741848.205627006125231&type=3 BotSoc Groen Sebenza paraecologist training workshop 2]<br />
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<br></div>Till Krausehttp://www.paraecologist.org/index.php?title=Para-ecologist_programmes&diff=2763Para-ecologist programmes2022-02-24T04:35:29Z<p>Till Krause: </p>
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<div>=== Research projects with paraecologists ===<br />
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<br><br />
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<span style="color:#ff0000"><span style="font-size:large">'''A) Overview of programmes, initiatives and organisations <br>that are currently involving paraecologists:'''</span></span><br />
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<br>'''Area de Conservación Guanacaste (ACG), Costa Rica'''<br />
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| [[File:logo-acg-sombra.jpg|link=http://www.acguanacaste.ac.cr/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=59&Itemid=218&lang=es]]<br />
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| valign="center" | [http://www.acguanacaste.ac.cr/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=59&Itemid=218&lang=es programme of the Area de Conservación Guanacaste (ACG)]<br />
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|The Costa Rican parataxonomist programme in the Area de Conservacion Guanacaste (ACG) was initiated in 1989 from a partnership between the non-governmental, non-profit organisation INBio ([http://www.inbio.ac.cr/en/ www.inbio.ac.cr]) and the administrative authorities of ACG ([http://www.acguanacaste.ac.cr/ www.acguanacaste.ac.cr]). The programme implements INBio’s goal of conducting an ambitious national species inventory of Costa Rica’s wildland biodiversity, to try to ensure its conservation through non-damaging uses by society. An important, albeit not principal, use of biodiversity information was bioprospecting, undertaken by a specific team within INBio. This is developed in parallel with the work of conducting the national inventory. Between them, a broad offering of educational projects is aimed at all sectors of society to help promote rapid, self-reinforcing taxonomic literacy and an improved awareness of biodiversity’s. This project was the first initiative to involve formally identified and course-trained parataxonomists into scientific biodiversity inventories.<br />
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'''Creative Conservation Alliance (CCA), Bangladesh'''<br />
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|The Creative Conservation Alliance (CCA) is a government registered non-profit organization, dedicated to ecological and cultural preservation within Bangladesh’s last remaining wild places. Through our grassroots efforts we empower local people to become stakeholders in their own landscapes. As a critical part of the international Indo-Burma Biodiversity Hotspot-the most threatened Biodiversity Hotspot in the world-these remaining forests offer a refuge for over 26 globally threatened species. Through our comprehensive approach, we empower local people to become stakeholders in their own landscapes.<br />
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'''Gran Chaco paraecologist project, Bolivia and Paraguay'''<br />
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[https://whitleyaward.org/winners/conservation-chaco-bolivia-paraguay/ https://whitleyaward.org/winners/conservation-chaco-bolivia-paraguay/]<br />
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'''Kakamega Environmental Education Program (KEEP)'''<br />
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| [[File:72 280 Keep logo.jpg|72 280 Keep logo.jpg|link=http://www.columbia.edu/cu/e3b/conservation/KEEP/index.htm]]<br />
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|KEEP is a grass-roots organization, working to save one of the last remaining rainforests in Kenya, through environmental education and creation of awareness among local communities, and development and / or implementation of economic alternatives to the exploitation of forest resources.<br />
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'''Mitsinjo Association'''<br />
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| [[File:72 200 mitsinjo.jpg|link=https://associationmitsinjo.wordpress.com/]]<br />
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| [https://associationmitsinjo.wordpress.com/ Association Mitsinjo]<br />
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|A Malagasy NGO that started as a grassroots community initiative founded in 1999, Association Mitsinjo works in conservation, nature-based tourism, and development (including agriculture and health). Located in Andasibe, one of the biodiversity hotspots of the eastern Madagascar rainforest corridor, Mitsinjo integrates the protection of prime habitat and the generation of sustainable income for the local population living in and around these areas.<br />
<br />
We host visitors and researchers from all around the world, thus encouraging our local staff to stay on top of scientific discovery and have a constant interest in the ecology of the forest they manage. Over the years, Mitsinjo has collected a wealth of knowledge on a wide range of the area’s biodiversity. It is our goal to standardise this large expanse of information and make it scientifically streamlined.<br />
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<br/>'''The New Guinea Binatang Research Center'''<br />
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|This paraecologist initiative was started in Madang (Papua New Guinea, PNG) in 1994 as a small team of permanently employed paraecologists assisting studies of plant–herbivore interactions in rainforest ecosystems. The programme has expanded over the past 20 years to include ecological research on plants, insects and vertebrates. Several large research projects have been completed under this programme, including the study of plant–herbivore food webs in tropical forests, monitoring >250,000 individual plants in a 50-ha forest plot, and studies of invertebrate and vertebrate biodiversity and ecosystem change along an altitudinal gradient. The paraecologist team also assists PNG and overseas postgraduate students, works with indigenous landowners on rainforest conservation, and participates in the country’s biodiversity and environmental quality surveys for the PNG government and local industry. The paraecologist team is established as a non-profit organisation (New Guinea Binatang Research Center, BRC) registered in PNG, and working in collaboration with national and overseas academic institutions.<br />
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'''Tesoro Escondido Reserve, Ecuador'''<br />
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| valign="center" | [https://tesororeserve.org/en/research-projects-and-parabiologists-programme/ https://tesororeserve.org/en/research-projects-and-parabiologists-programme/]<br />
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Scientific research generated from within the reserve is a priority and a permanent activity for all the staff. Research projects are carried out by students, researchers and by our parabiologists.<br />
<br />
A parabiologist is a person from a local community who is trained to become a research assistant. They undergo a process of permanent tutoring and ends up specializing in one or two topics. Results from research are published and presented by scientists and parabiologists in different national and international forums and journals.<br />
<br />
For long term projects we offer research groups the possibility to collect and send data by our parabiologist group (with training in the specific topic). <br />
<br />
Some permanent projects we carry out:<br />
<br />
– Biodiversity monitoring using camera traps<br><br />
– Monitoring of a harpy eagle’s nest (Harpia harpyja)<br><br />
– Amphibian monitoring in different habitats and altitudes<br><br />
– Propagation of critically endangered trees Magnolia dixonii and M.canandeana<br><br />
– Primate monitoring focused on the critically endangered Ateles fusciceps fusciceps<br><br />
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|}<br />
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<br><br />
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<br><br />
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<span style="color:#ff0000"><span style="font-size:large">'''B) Overview of programmes, initiatives and organisations <br>that involved paraecologists in the past:'''</span></span><br />
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{| style="width: 500px" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
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|'''Project ALAS, Arthropods of La Selva, Costa Rica'''<br/><br />
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Project ALAS began in late 1991. An existing structure at La Selva Biological Station was remodeled as an entomological laboratory dedicated to the project. Danilo Brenes and Ronald Vargas were chosen from among more than 50 applicants from communities surrounding La Selva to attend the National Biodiversity Institute (INBio) 6-month Parataxonomist course in 1992. (Parataxonomists are rapidly trained biologists who assist INBio in the national inventory process.) Later, Maylin Paniagua and Nelci Oconotrillo joined the project as Biodiversity Technicians and were trained by visiting taxonomic collaborators.<br />
|}<br />
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[http://viceroy.eeb.uconn.edu/ALAS/ALAS.html http://viceroy.eeb.uconn.edu/ALAS/ALAS.html]<br />
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| '''BIOTA Southern Africa'''<br />
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[[File:Biota logo.gif|Biota logo.gif|link=http://www.biota-africa.org/reg_south_paraecol_ba.php]]<br />
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| style="vertical-align: top; width: 40px" |<br />
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| valign="center" | [http://www.biota-africa.org/reg_south_paraecol_ba.php http://www.biota-africa.org/reg_south_paraecol_ba.php]<br />
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|}<br />
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{| style="width: 500px" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
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|BIOTA AFRICA has been jointly invented by African and German researchers aiming at the establishment of research supporting sustainable use and conservation of biodiversity in Africa. From October 2004 until March 2010, the regional network BIOTA Southern Africa employed and trained eight paraecologists. They worked at different sites within the BIOTA Southern Africa research area in Namibia and South Africa.<br />
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|}<br />
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'''The Future Okavango'''<br />
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|-<br />
| [[File:72 70 TFO Logo.jpg|72 70 TFO Logo.jpg|link=http://www.future-okavango.org]]<br />
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| style="vertical-align: top; width: 40px" |<br />
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| valign="center" | [http://www.future-okavango.org www.future-okavango.org]<br />
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|}<br />
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{| style="width: 500px" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
|The Okavango basin in southern Africa with its variety of savannah woodlands and wetland ecosystems linked by the central lifeline of the Okavango River is a global hot-spot of accelerating change and land use conflicts. The river has its source in the rainy highlands of Angola and terminates in the Okavango Delta, the world's largest inland delta and the largest freshwater swamp south of the equator. The Future Okavango project analyses ecosystem functions and services within this trans-boundary basin of high international visibility and high potential transferability of results to other tropical and sub-tropical regions.<br><br />
<br />
The Future Okavango project employs and trains three paraecologists, based in Angola, Botswana and Namibia, respectively.<br />
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|}<br />
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'''Groen Sebenza Paraecologists'''<br />
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[https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.658468030841124.1073741840.205627006125231&type=3 BotSoc Groen Sebenza Paraecologist training camp]<br />
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[https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.785980601423199.1073741848.205627006125231&type=3 BotSoc Groen Sebenza paraecologist training workshop 2]<br />
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<br/>[[Para-ecologist programmes#top seitenanfang|Top]]<br />
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<br></div>Till Krausehttp://www.paraecologist.org/index.php?title=Para-ecologist_programmes&diff=2762Para-ecologist programmes2022-02-24T04:33:50Z<p>Till Krause: </p>
<hr />
<div>=== Research projects with paraecologists ===<br />
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<br><br />
<br />
<span style="color:#ff0000"><span style="font-size:large">'''A) Overview of programmes, initiatives and organisations <br>that are currently involving paraecologists:'''</span></span><br />
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<br>'''Area de Conservación Guanacaste (ACG), Costa Rica'''<br />
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{| style="text-align: left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
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| [[File:logo-acg-sombra.jpg|link=http://www.acguanacaste.ac.cr/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=59&Itemid=218&lang=es]]<br />
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| style="vertical-align: top; width: 40px" |<br />
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| valign="center" | [http://www.acguanacaste.ac.cr/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=59&Itemid=218&lang=es programme of the Area de Conservación Guanacaste (ACG)]<br />
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|}<br />
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{| style="width: 500px" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
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|The Costa Rican parataxonomist programme in the Area de Conservacion Guanacaste (ACG) was initiated in 1989 from a partnership between the non-governmental, non-profit organisation INBio ([http://www.inbio.ac.cr/en/ www.inbio.ac.cr]) and the administrative authorities of ACG ([http://www.acguanacaste.ac.cr/ www.acguanacaste.ac.cr]). The programme implements INBio’s goal of conducting an ambitious national species inventory of Costa Rica’s wildland biodiversity, to try to ensure its conservation through non-damaging uses by society. An important, albeit not principal, use of biodiversity information was bioprospecting, undertaken by a specific team within INBio. This is developed in parallel with the work of conducting the national inventory. Between them, a broad offering of educational projects is aimed at all sectors of society to help promote rapid, self-reinforcing taxonomic literacy and an improved awareness of biodiversity’s. This project was the first initiative to involve formally identified and course-trained parataxonomists into scientific biodiversity inventories.<br />
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|}<br />
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'''Creative Conservation Alliance (CCA), Bangladesh'''<br />
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{| style="text-align: left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
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| [[File:CCA.jpg|link=https://www.conservationalliance.org/]]<br />
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| style="vertical-align: top; width: 40px" |<br />
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| valign="center" | [https://www.conservationalliance.org/ https://www.conservationalliance.org/]<br />
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|}<br />
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{| style="width: 500px" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
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|The Creative Conservation Alliance (CCA) is a government registered non-profit organization, dedicated to ecological and cultural preservation within Bangladesh’s last remaining wild places. Through our grassroots efforts we empower local people to become stakeholders in their own landscapes. As a critical part of the international Indo-Burma Biodiversity Hotspot-the most threatened Biodiversity Hotspot in the world-these remaining forests offer a refuge for over 26 globally threatened species. Through our comprehensive approach, we empower local people to become stakeholders in their own landscapes.<br />
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|}<br />
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'''Gran Chaco paraecologist project, Bolivia and Paraguay'''<br />
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[https://whitleyaward.org/winners/conservation-chaco-bolivia-paraguay/ https://whitleyaward.org/winners/conservation-chaco-bolivia-paraguay/]<br />
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'''Kakamega Environmental Education Program (KEEP)'''<br />
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{| style="text-align: left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
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| [[File:72 280 Keep logo.jpg|72 280 Keep logo.jpg|link=http://www.columbia.edu/cu/e3b/conservation/KEEP/index.htm]]<br />
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| style="vertical-align: top; width: 40px" |<br />
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| valign="center" | [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/e3b/conservation/KEEP/index.htm http://www.columbia.edu/cu/e3b/conservation/KEEP/index.htm]<br />
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|}<br />
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{| style="width: 500px" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
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|KEEP is a grass-roots organization, working to save one of the last remaining rainforests in Kenya, through environmental education and creation of awareness among local communities, and development and / or implementation of economic alternatives to the exploitation of forest resources.<br />
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|}<br />
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'''Mitsinjo Association'''<br />
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{| style="text-align: left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
| [[File:72 200 mitsinjo.jpg|link=https://associationmitsinjo.wordpress.com/]]<br />
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| style="vertical-align: top; width: 40px" |<br />
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| [https://associationmitsinjo.wordpress.com/ Association Mitsinjo]<br />
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|}<br />
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{| style="width: 500px" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
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|A Malagasy NGO that started as a grassroots community initiative founded in 1999, Association Mitsinjo works in conservation, nature-based tourism, and development (including agriculture and health). Located in Andasibe, one of the biodiversity hotspots of the eastern Madagascar rainforest corridor, Mitsinjo integrates the protection of prime habitat and the generation of sustainable income for the local population living in and around these areas.<br />
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We host visitors and researchers from all around the world, thus encouraging our local staff to stay on top of scientific discovery and have a constant interest in the ecology of the forest they manage. Over the years, Mitsinjo has collected a wealth of knowledge on a wide range of the area’s biodiversity. It is our goal to standardise this large expanse of information and make it scientifically streamlined.<br />
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|}<br />
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<br/>'''The New Guinea Binatang Research Center'''<br />
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{| style="text-align: left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
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| [[File:72 200 BRClogo.jpg|72 200 BRClogo.jpg|link=http://www.entu.cas.cz/png/index.html]]<br />
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| style="vertical-align: top; width: 40px" |<br />
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| valign="center" | [http://www.entu.cas.cz/png/index.html www.entu.cas.cz/png/index.html]<br />
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|}<br />
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{| style="width: 500px" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
|This paraecologist initiative was started in Madang (Papua New Guinea, PNG) in 1994 as a small team of permanently employed paraecologists assisting studies of plant–herbivore interactions in rainforest ecosystems. The programme has expanded over the past 20 years to include ecological research on plants, insects and vertebrates. Several large research projects have been completed under this programme, including the study of plant–herbivore food webs in tropical forests, monitoring >250,000 individual plants in a 50-ha forest plot, and studies of invertebrate and vertebrate biodiversity and ecosystem change along an altitudinal gradient. The paraecologist team also assists PNG and overseas postgraduate students, works with indigenous landowners on rainforest conservation, and participates in the country’s biodiversity and environmental quality surveys for the PNG government and local industry. The paraecologist team is established as a non-profit organisation (New Guinea Binatang Research Center, BRC) registered in PNG, and working in collaboration with national and overseas academic institutions.<br />
<br />
|}<br />
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'''Tesoro Escondido Reserve, Ecuador'''<br />
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{| style="text-align: left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
| [[File:Logo_Tesoro_Reserve.png|link=https://tesororeserve.org/en/research-projects-and-parabiologists-programme/]]<br />
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| style="vertical-align: top; width: 40px" |<br />
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| valign="center" | [https://tesororeserve.org/en/research-projects-and-parabiologists-programme/ https://tesororeserve.org/en/research-projects-and-parabiologists-programme/]<br />
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|}<br />
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{| style="width: 500px" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
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Scientific research generated from within the reserve is a priority and a permanent activity for all the staff. Research projects are carried out by students, researchers and by our parabiologists.<br />
<br />
A parabiologist is a person from a local community who is trained to become a research assistant. They undergo a process of permanent tutoring and ends up specializing in one or two topics. Results from research are published and presented by scientists and parabiologists in different national and international forums and journals.<br />
<br />
For long term projects we offer research groups the possibility to collect and send data by our parabiologist group (with training in the specific topic). <br />
<br />
Some permanent projects we carry out:<br />
<br />
– Biodiversity monitoring using camera traps<br><br />
– Monitoring of a harpy eagle’s nest (Harpia harpyja)<br><br />
– Amphibian monitoring in different habitats and altitudes<br><br />
– Propagation of critically endangered trees Magnolia dixonii and M.canandeana<br><br />
– Primate monitoring focused on the critically endangered Ateles fusciceps fusciceps<br><br />
<br />
|}<br />
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<br><br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
<span style="color:#ff0000"><span style="font-size:large">'''B) Overview of programmes, initiatives and organisations <br>that involved paraecologists in the past:'''</span></span><br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
{| style="text-align: left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
| '''Project ALAS, Arthropods of La Selva, Costa Rica'''<br/><br />
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| style="vertical-align: top; width: 40px" |<br />
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| valign="center" | [http://viceroy.eeb.uconn.edu/ALAS/ALAS.html http://viceroy.eeb.uconn.edu/ALAS/ALAS.html]<br />
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|}<br />
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{| style="text-align: left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
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| '''BIOTA Southern Africa'''<br />
<br />
[[File:Biota logo.gif|Biota logo.gif|link=http://www.biota-africa.org/reg_south_paraecol_ba.php]]<br />
<br />
| style="vertical-align: top; width: 40px" |<br />
<br />
| valign="center" | [http://www.biota-africa.org/reg_south_paraecol_ba.php http://www.biota-africa.org/reg_south_paraecol_ba.php]<br />
<br />
|}<br />
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{| style="width: 500px" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
|BIOTA AFRICA has been jointly invented by African and German researchers aiming at the establishment of research supporting sustainable use and conservation of biodiversity in Africa. From October 2004 until March 2010, the regional network BIOTA Southern Africa employed and trained eight paraecologists. They worked at different sites within the BIOTA Southern Africa research area in Namibia and South Africa.<br />
<br />
|}<br />
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<br />
<br />
<br />
'''The Future Okavango'''<br />
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{| style="text-align: left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
| [[File:72 70 TFO Logo.jpg|72 70 TFO Logo.jpg|link=http://www.future-okavango.org]]<br />
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| style="vertical-align: top; width: 40px" |<br />
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| valign="center" | [http://www.future-okavango.org www.future-okavango.org]<br />
<br />
|}<br />
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{| style="width: 500px" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
|The Okavango basin in southern Africa with its variety of savannah woodlands and wetland ecosystems linked by the central lifeline of the Okavango River is a global hot-spot of accelerating change and land use conflicts. The river has its source in the rainy highlands of Angola and terminates in the Okavango Delta, the world's largest inland delta and the largest freshwater swamp south of the equator. The Future Okavango project analyses ecosystem functions and services within this trans-boundary basin of high international visibility and high potential transferability of results to other tropical and sub-tropical regions.<br><br />
<br />
The Future Okavango project employs and trains three paraecologists, based in Angola, Botswana and Namibia, respectively.<br />
<br />
|}<br />
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<br />
'''Groen Sebenza Paraecologists'''<br />
<br />
[https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.658468030841124.1073741840.205627006125231&type=3 BotSoc Groen Sebenza Paraecologist training camp]<br />
<br />
[https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.785980601423199.1073741848.205627006125231&type=3 BotSoc Groen Sebenza paraecologist training workshop 2]<br />
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<br/>[[Para-ecologist programmes#top seitenanfang|Top]]<br />
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<br></div>Till Krausehttp://www.paraecologist.org/index.php?title=Para-ecologist_programmes&diff=2761Para-ecologist programmes2022-02-24T04:33:02Z<p>Till Krause: </p>
<hr />
<div>=== Research projects with paraecologists ===<br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
<span style="color:#ff0000"><span style="font-size:large">'''A) Overview of programmes, initiatives and organisations <br>that are currently involving paraecologists:'''</span></span><br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br>'''Area de Conservación Guanacaste (ACG), Costa Rica'''<br />
<br />
{| style="text-align: left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
| [[File:logo-acg-sombra.jpg|link=http://www.acguanacaste.ac.cr/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=59&Itemid=218&lang=es]]<br />
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| style="vertical-align: top; width: 40px" |<br />
<br />
| valign="center" | [http://www.acguanacaste.ac.cr/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=59&Itemid=218&lang=es programme of the Area de Conservación Guanacaste (ACG)]<br />
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|}<br />
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{| style="width: 500px" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
|The Costa Rican parataxonomist programme in the Area de Conservacion Guanacaste (ACG) was initiated in 1989 from a partnership between the non-governmental, non-profit organisation INBio ([http://www.inbio.ac.cr/en/ www.inbio.ac.cr]) and the administrative authorities of ACG ([http://www.acguanacaste.ac.cr/ www.acguanacaste.ac.cr]). The programme implements INBio’s goal of conducting an ambitious national species inventory of Costa Rica’s wildland biodiversity, to try to ensure its conservation through non-damaging uses by society. An important, albeit not principal, use of biodiversity information was bioprospecting, undertaken by a specific team within INBio. This is developed in parallel with the work of conducting the national inventory. Between them, a broad offering of educational projects is aimed at all sectors of society to help promote rapid, self-reinforcing taxonomic literacy and an improved awareness of biodiversity’s. This project was the first initiative to involve formally identified and course-trained parataxonomists into scientific biodiversity inventories.<br />
<br />
|}<br />
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'''Creative Conservation Alliance (CCA), Bangladesh'''<br />
<br />
{| style="text-align: left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
| [[File:CCA.jpg|link=https://www.conservationalliance.org/]]<br />
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| style="vertical-align: top; width: 40px" |<br />
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| valign="center" | [https://www.conservationalliance.org/ https://www.conservationalliance.org/]<br />
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|}<br />
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{| style="width: 500px" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
|The Creative Conservation Alliance (CCA) is a government registered non-profit organization, dedicated to ecological and cultural preservation within Bangladesh’s last remaining wild places. Through our grassroots efforts we empower local people to become stakeholders in their own landscapes. As a critical part of the international Indo-Burma Biodiversity Hotspot-the most threatened Biodiversity Hotspot in the world-these remaining forests offer a refuge for over 26 globally threatened species. Through our comprehensive approach, we empower local people to become stakeholders in their own landscapes.<br />
<br />
|}<br />
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<br />
<br />
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'''Gran Chaco paraecologist project, Bolivia and Paraguay'''<br />
<br />
[https://whitleyaward.org/winners/conservation-chaco-bolivia-paraguay/ https://whitleyaward.org/winners/conservation-chaco-bolivia-paraguay/]<br />
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'''Kakamega Environmental Education Program (KEEP)'''<br />
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{| style="text-align: left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
| [[File:72 280 Keep logo.jpg|72 280 Keep logo.jpg|link=http://www.columbia.edu/cu/e3b/conservation/KEEP/index.htm]]<br />
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| style="vertical-align: top; width: 40px" |<br />
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| valign="center" | [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/e3b/conservation/KEEP/index.htm http://www.columbia.edu/cu/e3b/conservation/KEEP/index.htm]<br />
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|}<br />
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{| style="width: 500px" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
|KEEP is a grass-roots organization, working to save one of the last remaining rainforests in Kenya, through environmental education and creation of awareness among local communities, and development and / or implementation of economic alternatives to the exploitation of forest resources.<br />
<br />
|}<br />
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'''Mitsinjo Association'''<br />
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{| style="text-align: left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
| [[File:72 200 mitsinjo.jpg|link=https://associationmitsinjo.wordpress.com/]]<br />
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| style="vertical-align: top; width: 40px" |<br />
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| [https://associationmitsinjo.wordpress.com/ Association Mitsinjo]<br />
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|}<br />
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We host visitors and researchers from all around the world, thus encouraging our local staff to stay on top of scientific discovery and have a constant interest in the ecology of the forest they manage. Over the years, Mitsinjo has collected a wealth of knowledge on a wide range of the area’s biodiversity. It is our goal to standardise this large expanse of information and make it scientifically streamlined.<br />
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|This paraecologist initiative was started in Madang (Papua New Guinea, PNG) in 1994 as a small team of permanently employed paraecologists assisting studies of plant–herbivore interactions in rainforest ecosystems. The programme has expanded over the past 20 years to include ecological research on plants, insects and vertebrates. Several large research projects have been completed under this programme, including the study of plant–herbivore food webs in tropical forests, monitoring >250,000 individual plants in a 50-ha forest plot, and studies of invertebrate and vertebrate biodiversity and ecosystem change along an altitudinal gradient. The paraecologist team also assists PNG and overseas postgraduate students, works with indigenous landowners on rainforest conservation, and participates in the country’s biodiversity and environmental quality surveys for the PNG government and local industry. The paraecologist team is established as a non-profit organisation (New Guinea Binatang Research Center, BRC) registered in PNG, and working in collaboration with national and overseas academic institutions.<br />
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Scientific research generated from within the reserve is a priority and a permanent activity for all the staff. Research projects are carried out by students, researchers and by our parabiologists.<br />
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A parabiologist is a person from a local community who is trained to become a research assistant. They undergo a process of permanent tutoring and ends up specializing in one or two topics. Results from research are published and presented by scientists and parabiologists in different national and international forums and journals.<br />
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– Biodiversity monitoring using camera traps<br><br />
– Monitoring of a harpy eagle’s nest (Harpia harpyja)<br><br />
– Amphibian monitoring in different habitats and altitudes<br><br />
– Propagation of critically endangered trees Magnolia dixonii and M.canandeana<br><br />
– Primate monitoring focused on the critically endangered Ateles fusciceps fusciceps<br><br />
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'''The Future Okavango'''<br />
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|The Okavango basin in southern Africa with its variety of savannah woodlands and wetland ecosystems linked by the central lifeline of the Okavango River is a global hot-spot of accelerating change and land use conflicts. The river has its source in the rainy highlands of Angola and terminates in the Okavango Delta, the world's largest inland delta and the largest freshwater swamp south of the equator. The Future Okavango project analyses ecosystem functions and services within this trans-boundary basin of high international visibility and high potential transferability of results to other tropical and sub-tropical regions.<br><br />
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The Future Okavango project employs and trains three paraecologists, based in Angola, Botswana and Namibia, respectively.<br />
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'''Groen Sebenza Paraecologists'''<br />
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[https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.658468030841124.1073741840.205627006125231&type=3 BotSoc Groen Sebenza Paraecologist training camp]<br />
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[https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.785980601423199.1073741848.205627006125231&type=3 BotSoc Groen Sebenza paraecologist training workshop 2]<br />
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<br></div>Till Krausehttp://www.paraecologist.org/index.php?title=Reginald_Christiaan_personal_profile&diff=2760Reginald Christiaan personal profile2022-02-23T10:29:51Z<p>Till Krause: </p>
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<div>=== Reginald Christiaan ===<br />
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<u>Contact details:</u><br />
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Email: [mailto:Reginald.Christiaan@gmail.com?subject=Paraecologist Reginald.Christiaan@gmail.com]<br/>Mobile: +27 72 4829617<br />
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<u>Where am I from</u><br />
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South Africa<br />
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<u>Languages</u><br />
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Afrikaans 1st<br/>English 2nd<br />
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<u>I live in</u><br />
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Soebatsfontein & Springbok, Northern Cape Province, South Africa<br />
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<u>Current activities</u><br />
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Environmental monitor at Namaqualand National Park, South Africa <br />
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Co-worker of the [http://www.arc.agric.za/arc-ppri/Pages/Biosystematics/SANSA.aspx South African National Survey of Arachnida (SANSA)]<br />
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Conducting of scorpion workshops (for more information see [[Reginald_Christiaan_Scorpion_Workshops|scorpion workshops website]]) <br />
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Collecting scorpions in Namaqualand for the scientific collection and research activities at the [https://www.amnh.org/ American Museum of Natural History] in New York, USA<br />
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Assisting the Arachnida assessment as part of the [http://karoobiogapsproject.blogspot.com/2017/06/biogaps-scorpions-fieldtrip.html Karoo BioGaps project] run by SANBI<br />
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Assisting (since 2002 until today) in the ongoing long-term vegetation monitoring programme of BIOTA Southern Africa and SASSCAL <br />
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<u>Organisations I worked for</u><br />
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'''SANParks'''<br />
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Oct.-Nov. 2014 and 2017: Kids in Parks Programme at Namaqua National Park<br />
*Offering activities for school children as part of the Kids in Parks programme <br />
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Aug.-Sept 2012: Namaqua National Park, Groenrivier, Coastal Section, Tourism Assistant<br> <br />
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Aug.-Sept 2015: Namaqua National Park, Skilpad, Tourism Assistant<br> <br />
*Assisting tourists<br> <br />
*Issuing entry permits for tourists<br />
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<br/>'''Conservation South Africa (CSA)'''<br />
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2011-2012: Internship at Springbok office, South Africa<br><br />
*Scorpion workshops (for more information see [[Reginald_Christiaan_Scorpion_Workshops|'''scorpion workshops website''']])<br />
*Weather stations installations<br />
*Downloading of data from weather stations<br />
*Capturing climate data<br />
*Co-ordinate participatory research activities in the Namakwa District with 15 EcoRangers on at least 1 communal farm, 4 private farms, and 1 national park<br />
*Collect, capture and analyse EcoRanger data from 15 EcoRangers<br />
*Communicate outcomes of data analysis to all research participants; all relevant CSA staff members; 2 meetings with local stakeholders; in 3 Veepos articles; and 1 article in a local newspaper.<br />
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<br/>'''Ditsong National Museums of Natural History, Pretoria, South Africa'''<br />
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2011: Internship as paraecologist and trainee<br><br />
*Curation and rebottling of Buthidae scorpions of the Lower Invertebrate collection<br />
*Sorting of spiders<br />
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<br/>'''BIOTA Southern Africa, international research project'''<br />
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2002-2010: Employed as a paraecologist (Soebatsfontein / South Africa)<br><br />
*Documentation of biodiversity data (plants and arthropods)<br />
*Monitoring of plant phenology (monthly)<br />
*Downloading of data from automatic weather stations<br />
*Environmental awareness projects with school children<br />
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<u>My skills and expertise</u><br />
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Computer skills: Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Power Point, Internet Explorer, email<br />
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Entering phenological plant data into MS Excel database<br />
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G.P.S (Global Positioning System)<br />
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Installment and maintenance of automatic weather stations<br />
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Monitoring and collection of plants and insects<br />
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Use of digital photo and video cameras<br />
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Taking of plant pictures for scientific purposes<br />
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Identification of plants and plant names<br />
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Ecology of succulents on quartz fields<br />
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Facilitation of workshops<br />
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Conflict management<br />
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<u>Awards</u><br />
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In 2019 I was nominated for the Website Community Choice Award for "Dedication, hard work and stellar service". <br />
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In November 2017, I won the Kudu Award "Youth in Conservation" from South African National Parks (SANParks) for my contribution to conservation through my scorpion project that raises awareness on the diversity and ecology of this understudied Arachnida fauna of the Namaqualand.<br>(Read more about the Kudu Awards 2017: [http://www.traveller24.com/Explore/Green/sanparks-kudu-awards-2017-honours-conservation-heroes-20171124 Sanparks Kudu Awards2017]) <br>[http://www.paraecologist.org/images/1/17/Die_Plattelander_Reginald_Christiaan_1_Desember_2017.pdf Read article]<br />
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<u>Special interests</u><br />
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Habitat requirements of scorpions<br />
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Collecting and identifying scorpions<br />
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Habitat requirements of different plant species<br />
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Botany and photography<br />
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<u>Ambitions and dreams</u><br />
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During my work in BIOTA as paraecologist my interest in nature and natural science has been strongly fostered. My particular interest lies in the collecting and identification of scorpions. I closely cooperate with Dr Lorenzo Prendini from the New York Museum of Natural History who kindly identifies the specimens for us and incorporated them into his scientific collection, and in the near future I want to specialize in the identification of Southern African scorpions. The experience gained during the internship with ARC/Ditsong has further increased my need to want to learn more about these creatures. I hope to continue to build my relationships with the researchers at these institutes. I feel the next step will be to be employed at one of these institutes in order to learn more and possible expand my knowledge into research.<br />
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<u>Publications</u><br />
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For publications by and about Reginald Christiaan click [[Reginald_Christiaan_publications|'''here''']] <br />
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<u>Contact for references</u><br />
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Dr. Ute Schmiedel (paraecologist programme coordinator and supervisor from 2003 until 2010)<br/>Biocentre Klein Flottbek & Botanical Garden<br/>University of Hamburg<br/>Ohnhorststrasse 18<br/>D-22609 Hamburg<br/>Tel. +49 - (0)40 - 42816-548<br/>Fax +49 - (0)40 - 42816-539<br/>Email: [mailto:Ute.Schmiedel@uni-hamburg.de?subject=Paraecologist Ute.Schmiedel@uni-hamburg.de]<br />
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Ronald Newman (Conservation South Africa, Manager, Namaqualand Green Economic Demonstration)<br/>Conservation South Africa<br/>Springbok<br/>Tel: +27 27 718 1577<br/>Email: [mailto:r.newman@conservation.org?subject=Paraecologist r.newman@conservation.org]<br />
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[[File:Reginald_Christiaan_Kudu_Award_2017_with_Parkmanager_e_555.jpg|link=]]<br><sup><span style="font-size:xx-small">Reginald Christiaan wins the Kudu Award "Youth in Conservation" from South African National Parks (SANParks), 2017. [http://www.paraecologist.org/images/1/17/Die_Plattelander_Reginald_Christiaan_1_Desember_2017.pdf '''Read article''']</span><br />
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<br></div>Till Krausehttp://www.paraecologist.org/index.php?title=Reginald_Christiaan_personal_profile&diff=2759Reginald Christiaan personal profile2022-02-23T10:22:52Z<p>Till Krause: </p>
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<div>=== Reginald Christiaan ===<br />
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Email: [mailto:Reginald.Christiaan@gmail.com?subject=Paraecologist Reginald.Christiaan@gmail.com]<br/>Mobile: +27 72 4829617<br />
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<u>Where am I from</u><br />
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South Africa<br />
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<u>Languages</u><br />
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Afrikaans 1st<br/>English 2nd<br />
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<u>I live in</u><br />
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Soebatsfontein & Springbok, Northern Cape Province, South Africa<br />
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<br />
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<u>Current activities</u><br />
<br />
Environmental monitor at Namaqualand National Park, South Africa <br />
<br />
Co-worker of the [http://www.arc.agric.za/arc-ppri/Pages/Biosystematics/SANSA.aspx South African National Survey of Arachnida (SANSA)]<br />
<br />
Conducting of scorpion workshops (for more information see [[Reginald_Christiaan_Scorpion_Workshops|scorpion workshops website]]) <br />
<br />
Collecting scorpions in Namaqualand for the scientific collection and research activities at the [https://www.amnh.org/ American Museum of Natural History] in New York, USA<br />
<br />
Assisting the Arachnida assessment as part of the [http://karoobiogapsproject.blogspot.com/2017/06/biogaps-scorpions-fieldtrip.html Karoo BioGaps project] run by SANBI<br />
<br />
Assisting (since 2002 until today) in the ongoing long-term vegetation monitoring programme of BIOTA Southern Africa and SASSCAL <br />
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<u>Organisations I worked for</u><br />
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'''''SANParks'''''<br />
<br />
Oct.-Nov. 2014 and 2017: Kids in Parks Programme at Namaqua National Park<br />
*Offering activities for school children as part of the Kids in Parks programme <br />
<br />
Aug.-Sept 2012: Namaqua National Park, Groenrivier, Coastal Section, Tourism Assistant<br> <br />
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Aug.-Sept 2015: Namaqua National Park, Skilpad, Tourism Assistant<br> <br />
*Assisting tourists<br> <br />
*Issuing entry permits for tourists<br />
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<br/>'''''Conservation South Africa (CSA)'''''<br />
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2011-2012: Internship at Springbok office, South Africa<br><br />
*Scorpion workshops (for more information see [[Reginald_Christiaan_Scorpion_Workshops|'''scorpion workshops website''']])<br />
*Weather stations installations<br />
*Downloading of data from weather stations<br />
*Capturing climate data<br />
*Co-ordinate participatory research activities in the Namakwa District with 15 EcoRangers on at least 1 communal farm, 4 private farms, and 1 national park<br />
*Collect, capture and analyse EcoRanger data from 15 EcoRangers<br />
*Communicate outcomes of data analysis to all research participants; all relevant CSA staff members; 2 meetings with local stakeholders; in 3 Veepos articles; and 1 article in a local newspaper.<br />
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<br/>'''''Ditsong National Museums of Natural History, Pretoria, South Africa'''''<br />
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2011: Internship as paraecologist and trainee<br><br />
*Curation and rebottling of Buthidae scorpions of the Lower Invertebrate collection<br />
*Sorting of spiders<br />
<br />
<br/>'''''BIOTA Southern Africa, international research project'''''<br />
<br />
2002-2010: Employed as a paraecologist (Soebatsfontein / South Africa)<br><br />
*Documentation of biodiversity data (plants and arthropods)<br />
*Monitoring of plant phenology (monthly)<br />
*Downloading of data from automatic weather stations<br />
*Environmental awareness projects with school children<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<u>My skills and expertise</u><br />
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Computer skills: Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Power Point, Internet Explorer, email<br />
<br />
Entering phenological plant data into MS Excel database<br />
<br />
G.P.S (Global Positioning System)<br />
<br />
Installment and maintenance of automatic weather stations<br />
<br />
Monitoring and collection of plants and insects<br />
<br />
Use of digital photo and video cameras<br />
<br />
Taking of plant pictures for scientific purposes<br />
<br />
Identification of plants and plant names<br />
<br />
Ecology of succulents on quartz fields<br />
<br />
Facilitation of workshops<br />
<br />
Conflict management<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<u>Awards</u><br />
<br />
In 2019 I was nominated for the Website Community Choice Award for "Dedication, hard work and stellar service". <br />
<br />
In November 2017, I won the Kudu Award "Youth in Conservation" from South African National Parks (SANParks) for my contribution to conservation through my scorpion project that raises awareness on the diversity and ecology of this understudied Arachnida fauna of the Namaqualand.<br>(Read more about the Kudu Awards 2017: [http://www.traveller24.com/Explore/Green/sanparks-kudu-awards-2017-honours-conservation-heroes-20171124 Sanparks Kudu Awards2017]) <br>[http://www.paraecologist.org/images/1/17/Die_Plattelander_Reginald_Christiaan_1_Desember_2017.pdf Read article]<br />
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<u>Special interests</u><br />
<br />
Habitat requirements of scorpions<br />
<br />
Collecting and identifying scorpions<br />
<br />
Habitat requirements of different plant species<br />
<br />
Botany and photography<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<u>Ambitions and dreams</u><br />
<br />
During my work in BIOTA as paraecologist my interest in nature and natural science has been strongly fostered. My particular interest lies in the collecting and identification of scorpions. I closely cooperate with Dr Lorenzo Prendini from the New York Museum of Natural History who kindly identifies the specimens for us and incorporated them into his scientific collection, and in the near future I want to specialize in the identification of Southern African scorpions. The experience gained during the internship with ARC/Ditsong has further increased my need to want to learn more about these creatures. I hope to continue to build my relationships with the researchers at these institutes. I feel the next step will be to be employed at one of these institutes in order to learn more and possible expand my knowledge into research.<br />
<br />
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<u>Publications</u><br />
<br />
For publications by and about Reginald Christiaan click [[Reginald_Christiaan_publications|'''here''']] <br />
<br />
<br />
<u>Contact for references</u><br />
<br />
Dr. Ute Schmiedel (paraecologist programme coordinator and supervisor from 2003 until 2010)<br/>Biocentre Klein Flottbek & Botanical Garden<br/>University of Hamburg<br/>Ohnhorststrasse 18<br/>D-22609 Hamburg<br/>Tel. +49 - (0)40 - 42816-548<br/>Fax +49 - (0)40 - 42816-539<br/>Email: [mailto:Ute.Schmiedel@uni-hamburg.de?subject=Paraecologist Ute.Schmiedel@uni-hamburg.de]<br />
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<br />
Ronald Newman (Conservation South Africa, Manager, Namaqualand Green Economic Demonstration)<br/>Conservation South Africa<br/>Springbok<br/>Tel: +27 27 718 1577<br/>Email: [mailto:r.newman@conservation.org?subject=Paraecologist r.newman@conservation.org]<br />
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[[File:Reginald_Christiaan_Kudu_Award_2017_with_Parkmanager_e_555.jpg|link=]]<br><sup><span style="font-size:xx-small">Reginald Christiaan wins the Kudu Award "Youth in Conservation" from South African National Parks (SANParks), 2017. [http://www.paraecologist.org/images/1/17/Die_Plattelander_Reginald_Christiaan_1_Desember_2017.pdf '''Read article''']</span><br />
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<br></div>Till Krausehttp://www.paraecologist.org/index.php?title=Reginald_Christiaan_personal_profile&diff=2758Reginald Christiaan personal profile2022-02-23T10:22:05Z<p>Till Krause: </p>
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<div>=== Reginald Christiaan ===<br />
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<u>Contact details:</u><br />
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Email: [mailto:Reginald.Christiaan@gmail.com?subject=Paraecologist Reginald.Christiaan@gmail.com]<br/>Mobile: +27 72 4829617<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<u>Where am I from</u><br />
<br />
South Africa<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<u>Languages</u><br />
<br />
Afrikaans 1st<br/>English 2nd<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<u>I live in</u><br />
<br />
Soebatsfontein & Springbok, Northern Cape Province, South Africa<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<u>Current activities</u><br />
<br />
Environmental monitor at Namaqualand National Park, South Africa <br />
<br />
Co-worker of the [http://www.arc.agric.za/arc-ppri/Pages/Biosystematics/SANSA.aspx South African National Survey of Arachnida (SANSA)]<br />
<br />
Conducting of scorpion workshops (for more information see [[Reginald_Christiaan_Scorpion_Workshops|scorpion workshops website]]) <br />
<br />
Collecting scorpions in Namaqualand for the scientific collection and research activities at the [https://www.amnh.org/ American Museum of Natural History] in New York, USA<br />
<br />
Assisting the Arachnida assessment as part of the [http://karoobiogapsproject.blogspot.com/2017/06/biogaps-scorpions-fieldtrip.html Karoo BioGaps project] run by SANBI<br />
<br />
Assisting (since 2002 until today) in the ongoing long-term vegetation monitoring programme of BIOTA Southern Africa and SASSCAL <br />
<br />
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<u>Organisations I worked for</u><br />
<br />
'''''SANParks'''''<br />
<br />
Oct.-Nov. 2014 and 2017: Kids in Parks Programme at Namaqua National Park<br />
*Offering activities for school children as part of the Kids in Parks programme <br />
<br />
Aug.-Sept 2012: Namaqua National Park, Groenrivier, Coastal Section, Tourism Assistant<br> <br />
<br />
Aug.-Sept 2015: Namaqua National Park, Skilpad, Tourism Assistant<br> <br />
*Assisting tourists<br> <br />
*Issuing entry permits for tourists<br />
<br />
<br/>'''''Conservation South Africa (CSA)'''''<br />
<br />
2011-2012: Internship at Springbok office, South Africa<br><br />
*Scorpion workshops (for more information see [[Reginald_Christiaan_Scorpion_Workshops|'''scorpion workshops website''']])<br />
*Weather stations installations<br />
*Downloading of data from weather stations<br />
*Capturing climate data<br />
*Co-ordinate participatory research activities in the Namakwa District with 15 EcoRangers on at least 1 communal farm, 4 private farms, and 1 national park<br />
*Collect, capture and analyse EcoRanger data from 15 EcoRangers<br />
*Communicate outcomes of data analysis to all research participants; all relevant CSA staff members; 2 meetings with local stakeholders; in 3 Veepos articles; and 1 article in a local newspaper.<br />
<br />
<br/>'''''Ditsong National Museums of Natural History, Pretoria, South Africa'''''<br />
<br />
2011: Internship as paraecologist and trainee<br><br />
*Curation and rebottling of Buthidae scorpions of the Lower Invertebrate collection<br />
*Sorting of spiders<br />
<br />
<br/>'''''BIOTA Southern Africa, international research project'''''<br />
<br />
2002-2010: Employed as a paraecologist (Soebatsfontein / South Africa)<br><br />
*Documentation of biodiversity data (plants and arthropods)<br />
*Monitoring of plant phenology (monthly)<br />
*Downloading of data from automatic weather stations<br />
*Environmental awareness projects with school children<br />
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<br />
<u>My skills and expertise</u><br />
<br />
Computer skills: Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Power Point, Internet Explorer, email<br />
<br />
Entering phenological plant data into MS Excel database<br />
<br />
G.P.S (Global Positioning System)<br />
<br />
Installment and maintenance of automatic weather stations<br />
<br />
Monitoring and collection of plants and insects<br />
<br />
Use of digital photo and video cameras<br />
<br />
Taking of plant pictures for scientific purposes<br />
<br />
Identification of plants and plant names<br />
<br />
Ecology of succulents on quartz fields<br />
<br />
Facilitation of workshops<br />
<br />
Conflict management<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<u>Awards</u><br />
<br />
In 2019 I was nominated for the Website Community Choice Award for "Dedication, hard work and stellar service". <br />
<br />
In November 2017, I won the Kudu Award "Youth in Conservation" from South African National Parks (SANParks) for my contribution to conservation through my scorpion project that raises awareness on the diversity and ecology of this understudied Arachnida fauna of the Namaqualand.<br>(Read more about the Kudu Awards 2017: [http://www.traveller24.com/Explore/Green/sanparks-kudu-awards-2017-honours-conservation-heroes-20171124 Sanparks Kudu Awards2017]) <br>[http://www.paraecologist.org/images/1/17/Die_Plattelander_Reginald_Christiaan_1_Desember_2017.pdf Read article]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<u>Special interests</u><br />
<br />
Habitat requirements of scorpions<br />
<br />
Collecting and identifying scorpions<br />
<br />
Habitat requirements of different plant species<br />
<br />
Botany and photography<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<u>Ambitions and dreams</u><br />
<br />
During my work in BIOTA as paraecologist my interest in nature and natural science has been strongly fostered. My particular interest lies in the collecting and identification of scorpions. I closely cooperate with Dr Lorenzo Prendini from the New York Museum of Natural History who kindly identifies the specimens for us and incorporated them into his scientific collection, and in the near future I want to specialize in the identification of Southern African scorpions. The experience gained during the internship with ARC/Ditsong has further increased my need to want to learn more about these creatures. I hope to continue to build my relationships with the researchers at these institutes. I feel the next step will be to be employed at one of these institutes in order to learn more and possible expand my knowledge into research.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<u>Publications</u><br />
<br />
For publications by and about Reginald Christiaan click [[Reginald_Christiaan_publications|'''here''']] <br />
<br />
<br />
<u>Contact for references</u><br />
<br />
Dr. Ute Schmiedel (paraecologist programme coordinator and supervisor from 2003 until 2010)<br/>Biocentre Klein Flottbek & Botanical Garden<br/>University of Hamburg<br/>Ohnhorststrasse 18<br/>D-22609 Hamburg<br/>Tel. +49 - (0)40 - 42816-548<br/>Fax +49 - (0)40 - 42816-539<br/>Email: [mailto:Ute.Schmiedel@uni-hamburg.de?subject=Paraecologist Ute.Schmiedel@uni-hamburg.de]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Ronald Newman (Conservation South Africa, Manager, Namaqualand Green Economic Demonstration)<br/>Conservation South Africa<br/>Springbok<br/>Tel: +27 27 718 1577<br/>Email: [mailto:r.newman@conservation.org?subject=Paraecologist r.newman@conservation.org]<br />
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[[File:Soil samples.jpg|Soil samples.jpg|link=]]<br><sup><span style="font-size:xx-small">soil sampling</span><br />
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[[File:Reginald_Christiaan_Kudu_Award_2017_with_Parkmanager_e_555.jpg|link=]]<br><sup><span style="font-size:xx-small">Reginald Christiaan wins the Kudu Award "Youth in Conservation" from South African National Parks (SANParks), 2017. [http://www.paraecologist.org/images/1/17/Die_Plattelander_Reginald_Christiaan_1_Desember_2017.pdf '''Read article''']</span><br />
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<br></div>Till Krausehttp://www.paraecologist.org/index.php?title=Reginald_Christiaan_personal_profile&diff=2757Reginald Christiaan personal profile2022-02-23T10:20:26Z<p>Till Krause: </p>
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<div>=== Reginald Christiaan ===<br />
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{| width="1000" border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"<br />
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<u>Contact details:</u><br />
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Email: [mailto:Reginald.Christiaan@gmail.com?subject=Paraecologist Reginald.Christiaan@gmail.com]<br/>Mobile: +27 72 4829617<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<u>Where am I from</u><br />
<br />
South Africa<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<u>Languages</u><br />
<br />
Afrikaans 1st<br/>English 2nd<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<u>I live in</u><br />
<br />
Soebatsfontein & Springbok, Northern Cape Province, South Africa<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<u>Current activities</u><br />
<br />
Environmental monitor at Namaqualand National Park, South Africa <br />
<br />
Co-worker of the [http://www.arc.agric.za/arc-ppri/Pages/Biosystematics/SANSA.aspx South African National Survey of Arachnida (SANSA)]<br />
<br />
Conducting of scorpion workshops (for more information see [[Reginald_Christiaan_Scorpion_Workshops|scorpion workshops website]]) <br />
<br />
Collecting scorpions in Namaqualand for the scientific collection and research activities at the [https://www.amnh.org/ American Museum of Natural History] in New York, USA<br />
<br />
Assisting the Arachnida assessment as part of the [http://karoobiogapsproject.blogspot.com/2017/06/biogaps-scorpions-fieldtrip.html Karoo BioGaps project] run by SANBI<br />
<br />
Assisting (since 2002 until today) in the ongoing long-term vegetation monitoring programme of BIOTA Southern Africa and SASSCAL <br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<u>Organisations I worked for</u><br />
<br />
'''''SANParks'''''<br />
<br />
Oct.-Nov. 2014 and 2017: Kids in Parks Programme at Namaqua National Park<br />
*Offering activities for school children as part of the Kids in Parks programme <br />
<br />
Aug.-Sept 2012: Namaqua National Park, Groenrivier, Coastal Section, Tourism Assistant<br> <br />
<br />
Aug.-Sept 2015: Namaqua National Park, Skilpad, Tourism Assistant<br> <br />
*Assisting tourists<br> <br />
*Issuing entry permits for tourists<br />
<br />
<br/>'''''Conservation South Africa (CSA)'''''<br />
<br />
2011-2012: Internship at Springbok office, South Africa<br><br />
*Scorpion workshops (for more information see [[Reginald_Christiaan_Scorpion_Workshops|'''scorpion workshops website''']])<br />
*Weather stations installations<br />
*Downloading of data from weather stations<br />
*Capturing climate data<br />
*Co-ordinate participatory research activities in the Namakwa District with 15 EcoRangers on at least 1 communal farm, 4 private farms, and 1 national park<br />
*Collect, capture and analyse EcoRanger data from 15 EcoRangers<br />
*Communicate outcomes of data analysis to all research participants; all relevant CSA staff members; 2 meetings with local stakeholders; in 3 Veepos articles; and 1 article in a local newspaper.<br />
<br />
<br/>'''''Ditsong National Museums of Natural History, Pretoria, South Africa'''''<br />
<br />
2011: Internship as paraecologist and trainee<br><br />
*Curation and rebottling of Buthidae scorpions of the Lower Invertebrate collection<br />
*Sorting of spiders<br />
<br />
<br/>'''''BIOTA Southern Africa, international research project'''''<br />
<br />
2002-2010: Employed as a paraecologist (Soebatsfontein / South Africa)<br><br />
*Documentation of biodiversity data (plants and arthropods)<br />
*Monitoring of plant phenology (monthly)<br />
*Downloading of data from automatic weather stations<br />
*Environmental awareness projects with school children<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<u>My skills and expertise</u><br />
<br />
Computer skills: Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Power Point, Internet Explorer, email<br />
<br />
Entering phenological plant data into MS Excel database<br />
<br />
G.P.S (Global Positioning System)<br />
<br />
Installment and maintenance of automatic weather stations<br />
<br />
Monitoring and collection of plants and insects<br />
<br />
Use of digital photo and video cameras<br />
<br />
Taking of plant pictures for scientific purposes<br />
<br />
Identification of plants and plant names<br />
<br />
Ecology of succulents on quartz fields<br />
<br />
Facilitation of workshops<br />
<br />
Conflict management<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<u>Awards</u><br />
<br />
In 2019 I was nominated for the Website Community Choice Award for "Dedication, hard work and stellar service". <br />
<br />
In November 2017, I won the Kudu Award "Youth in Conservation" from South African National Parks (SANParks) for my contribution to conservation through my scorpion project that raises awareness on the diversity and ecology of this understudied Arachnida fauna of the Namaqualand.<br>(Read more about the Kudu Awards 2017: [http://www.traveller24.com/Explore/Green/sanparks-kudu-awards-2017-honours-conservation-heroes-20171124 Sanparks Kudu Awards2017]) <br>[http://www.paraecologist.org/images/1/17/Die_Plattelander_Reginald_Christiaan_1_Desember_2017.pdf Read article]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<u>Special interests</u><br />
<br />
Habitat requirements of scorpions<br />
<br />
Collecting and identifying scorpions<br />
<br />
Habitat requirements of different plant species<br />
<br />
Botany and photography<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<u>Ambitions and dreams</u><br />
<br />
During my work in BIOTA as paraecologist my interest in nature and natural science has been strongly fostered. My particular interest lies in the collecting and identification of scorpions. I closely cooperate with Dr Lorenzo Prendini from the New York Museum of Natural History who kindly identifies the specimens for us and incorporated them into his scientific collection, and in the near future I want to specialize in the identification of Southern African scorpions. The experience gained during the internship with ARC/Ditsong has further increased my need to want to learn more about these creatures. I hope to continue to build my relationships with the researchers at these institutes. I feel the next step will be to be employed at one of these institutes in order to learn more and possible expand my knowledge into research.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<u>Publications</u><br />
<br />
For publications by and about Reginald Christiaan click [[Reginald_Christiaan_publications|'''here''']] <br />
<br />
<br />
<u>Contact for references</u><br />
<br />
Dr. Ute Schmiedel (paraecologist programme coordinator and supervisor from 2003 until 2010)<br/>Biocentre Klein Flottbek & Botanical Garden<br/>University of Hamburg<br/>Ohnhorststrasse 18<br/>D-22609 Hamburg<br/>Tel. +49 - (0)40 - 42816-548<br/>Fax +49 - (0)40 - 42816-539<br/>Email: [mailto:Ute.Schmiedel@uni-hamburg.de?subject=Paraecologist Ute.Schmiedel@uni-hamburg.de]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Ronald Newman (Conservation South Africa, Manager, Namaqualand Green Economic Demonstration)<br/>Conservation South Africa<br/>Springbok<br/>Tel: +27 27 718 1577<br/>Email: [mailto:r.newman@conservation.org?subject=Paraecologist r.newman@conservation.org]<br />
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<br/>[[File:Parabuthus_capensis_RC_P7102297_Soebatsfontein_400.jpg|link=]]<br><sup><span style="font-size:xx-small">Photo: Reginald Christiaan</span><br />
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<br/>[[File:Community_Choice_Award_2019_Reginald_Christiaan.jpg|link=]]<br />
<br />
[[File:Reginald_Christiaan_Kudu_Award_2017_with_Parkmanager_e_555.jpg|link=]]<br><sup><span style="font-size:xx-small">Reginald Christiaan wins the Kudu Award "Youth in Conservation" from South African National Parks (SANParks), 2017. [http://www.paraecologist.org/images/1/17/Die_Plattelander_Reginald_Christiaan_1_Desember_2017.pdf '''Read article''']</span><br />
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<br/>[[File:Foto_Reginald_Christiaan_10_0985_555.jpg|link=]]<br><sup><span style="font-size:xx-small">Photo: Reginald Christiaan</span><br />
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[[File:Soil samples.jpg|Soil samples.jpg|link=]]<br><sup><span style="font-size:xx-small">soil sampling</span><br />
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[[File:P1010794_72_275.jpg|link=]][[File:Reginald_US12_3611_72_280.jpg|link=]]<br />
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<br></div>Till Krausehttp://www.paraecologist.org/index.php?title=Reginald_Christiaan_personal_profile&diff=2756Reginald Christiaan personal profile2022-02-23T10:19:23Z<p>Till Krause: </p>
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<div>=== Reginald Christiaan ===<br />
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<u>Contact details:</u><br />
<br />
Email: [mailto:Reginald.Christiaan@gmail.com?subject=Paraecologist Reginald.Christiaan@gmail.com]<br/>Mobile: +27 72 4829617<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<u>Where am I from</u><br />
<br />
South Africa<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<u>Languages</u><br />
<br />
Afrikaans 1st<br/>English 2nd<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<u>I live in</u><br />
<br />
Soebatsfontein & Springbok, Northern Cape Province, South Africa<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<u>Current activities</u><br />
<br />
Environmental monitor at Namaqualand National Park, South Africa <br />
<br />
Co-worker of the [http://www.arc.agric.za/arc-ppri/Pages/Biosystematics/SANSA.aspx South African National Survey of Arachnida (SANSA)]<br />
<br />
Conducting of scorpion workshops (for more information see [[Reginald_Christiaan_Scorpion_Workshops|scorpion workshops website]]) <br />
<br />
Collecting scorpions in Namaqualand for the scientific collection and research activities at the [https://www.amnh.org/ American Museum of Natural History] in New York, USA<br />
<br />
Assisting the Arachnida assessment as part of the [http://karoobiogapsproject.blogspot.com/2017/06/biogaps-scorpions-fieldtrip.html Karoo BioGaps project] run by SANBI<br />
<br />
Assisting (since 2002 until today) in the ongoing long-term vegetation monitoring programme of BIOTA Southern Africa and SASSCAL <br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<u>Organisations I worked for</u><br />
<br />
'''''SANParks'''''<br />
<br />
Oct.-Nov. 2014 and 2017: Kids in Parks Programme at Namaqua National Park<br />
*Offering activities for school children as part of the Kids in Parks programme <br />
<br />
Aug.-Sept 2012: Namaqua National Park, Groenrivier, Coastal Section, Tourism Assistant<br> <br />
<br />
Aug.-Sept 2015: Namaqua National Park, Skilpad, Tourism Assistant<br> <br />
*Assisting tourists<br> <br />
*Issuing entry permits for tourists<br />
<br />
<br/>'''''Conservation South Africa (CSA)'''''<br />
<br />
2011-2012: Internship at Springbok office, South Africa<br><br />
*Scorpion workshops (for more information see [[Reginald_Christiaan_Scorpion_Workshops|'''scorpion workshops website''']])<br />
*Weather stations installations<br />
*Downloading of data from weather stations<br />
*Capturing climate data<br />
*Co-ordinate participatory research activities in the Namakwa District with 15 EcoRangers on at least 1 communal farm, 4 private farms, and 1 national park<br />
*Collect, capture and analyse EcoRanger data from 15 EcoRangers<br />
*Communicate outcomes of data analysis to all research participants; all relevant CSA staff members; 2 meetings with local stakeholders; in 3 Veepos articles; and 1 article in a local newspaper.<br />
<br />
<br/>'''''Ditsong National Museums of Natural History, Pretoria, South Africa'''''<br />
<br />
2011: Internship as paraecologist and trainee<br><br />
*Curation and rebottling of Buthidae scorpions of the Lower Invertebrate collection<br />
*Sorting of spiders<br />
<br />
<br/>'''''BIOTA Southern Africa, international research project'''''<br />
<br />
2002-2010: Employed as a paraecologist (Soebatsfontein / South Africa)<br><br />
*Documentation of biodiversity data (plants and arthropods)<br />
*Monitoring of plant phenology (monthly)<br />
*Downloading of data from automatic weather stations<br />
*Environmental awareness projects with school children<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<u>My skills and expertise</u><br />
<br />
Computer skills: Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Power Point, Internet Explorer, email<br />
<br />
Entering phenological plant data into MS Excel database<br />
<br />
G.P.S (Global Positioning System)<br />
<br />
Installment and maintenance of automatic weather stations<br />
<br />
Monitoring and collection of plants and insects<br />
<br />
Use of digital photo and video cameras<br />
<br />
Taking of plant pictures for scientific purposes<br />
<br />
Identification of plants and plant names<br />
<br />
Ecology of succulents on quartz fields<br />
<br />
Facilitation of workshops<br />
<br />
Conflict management<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<u>Awards</u><br />
<br />
In 2019 I was nominated for the Website Community Choice Award for "Dedication, hard work and stellar service". <br />
<br />
In November 2017, I won the Kudu Award "Youth in Conservation" from South African National Parks (SANParks) for my contribution to conservation through my scorpion project that raises awareness on the diversity and ecology of this understudied Arachnida fauna of the Namaqualand.<br>(Read more about the Kudu Awards 2017: [http://www.traveller24.com/Explore/Green/sanparks-kudu-awards-2017-honours-conservation-heroes-20171124 Sanparks Kudu Awards2017]) <br>[http://www.paraecologist.org/images/1/17/Die_Plattelander_Reginald_Christiaan_1_Desember_2017.pdf Read article]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<u>Special interests</u><br />
<br />
Habitat requirements of scorpions<br />
<br />
Collecting and identifying scorpions<br />
<br />
Habitat requirements of different plant species<br />
<br />
Botany and photography<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<u>Ambitions and dreams</u><br />
<br />
During my work in BIOTA as paraecologist my interest in nature and natural science has been strongly fostered. My particular interest lies in the collecting and identification of scorpions. I closely cooperate with Dr Lorenzo Prendini from the New York Museum of Natural History who kindly identifies the specimens for us and incorporated them into his scientific collection, and in the near future I want to specialize in the identification of Southern African scorpions. The experience gained during the internship with ARC/Ditsong has further increased my need to want to learn more about these creatures. I hope to continue to build my relationships with the researchers at these institutes. I feel the next step will be to be employed at one of these institutes in order to learn more and possible expand my knowledge into research.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<u>Publications</u><br />
<br />
For publications by and about Reginald Christiaan click [[Reginald_Christiaan_publications|'''here''']] <br />
<br />
<br />
<u>Contact for references</u><br />
<br />
Dr. Ute Schmiedel (paraecologist programme coordinator and supervisor from 2003 until 2010)<br/>Biocentre Klein Flottbek & Botanical Garden<br/>University of Hamburg<br/>Ohnhorststrasse 18<br/>D-22609 Hamburg<br/>Tel. +49 - (0)40 - 42816-548<br/>Fax +49 - (0)40 - 42816-539<br/>Email: [mailto:Ute.Schmiedel@uni-hamburg.de?subject=Paraecologist Ute.Schmiedel@uni-hamburg.de]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Ronald Newman (Conservation South Africa, Manager, Namaqualand Green Economic Demonstration)<br/>Conservation South Africa<br/>Springbok<br/>Tel: +27 27 718 1577<br/>Email: [mailto:r.newman@conservation.org?subject=Paraecologist r.newman@conservation.org]<br />
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<br/>[[File:Parabuthus_capensis_RC_P7102297_Soebatsfontein_400.jpg|link=]]<br><sup><span style="font-size:xx-small">Photo: Reginald Christiaan</span><br />
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[[File:72 400 IMG 1057.jpg|72 400 IMG 1057.jpg|link=]]<br />
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<br/>[[File:Foto_Reginald_Christiaan_IMG_0339_400.jpg|link=]]<br><sup><span style="font-size:xx-small">Photo: Reginald Christiaan</span><br />
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<br/>[[File:Community_Choice_Award_2019_Reginald_Christiaan.jpg|link=]]<br />
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[[File:Reginald_Christiaan_Kudu_Award_2017_with_Parkmanager_e_555.jpg|link=]]<br><sup><span style="font-size:xx-small">Reginald Christiaan wins the Kudu Award "Youth in Conservation" from South African National Parks (SANParks), 2017. [http://www.paraecologist.org/images/1/17/Die_Plattelander_Reginald_Christiaan_1_Desember_2017.pdf '''Read article''']</span><br />
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[[File:At field work 72 555.jpg|At field work 72 555.jpg|link=]]<br />
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<br/>[[File:Foto_Reginald_Christiaan_10_0985_555.jpg|link=]]<br><sup><span style="font-size:xx-small">Photo: Reginald Christiaan</span><br />
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[[File:Soil samples.jpg|Soil samples.jpg|link=]]<br><sup><span style="font-size:xx-small">soil sampling</span><br />
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[[File:P1010794_72_275.jpg|link=]][[File:Reginald_US12_3611_72_280.jpg|link=]]<br />
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<br/>[[File:Reginald_Christiaan_Scorpion_P1030305_555.jpg|link=]]<br><sup><span style="font-size:xx-small">Photo: Reginald Christiaan</span><br />
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<br/>[[File:72 555 RE Workshop 14.jpg|72 555 RE Workshop 14.jpg|link=]]<br />
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<br></div>Till Krausehttp://www.paraecologist.org/index.php?title=Reginald_Christiaan_personal_profile&diff=2755Reginald Christiaan personal profile2022-02-23T10:18:37Z<p>Till Krause: </p>
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<div>=== Reginald Christiaan ===<br />
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{| width="1000" border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"<br />
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<u>Contact details:</u><br />
<br />
Email: [mailto:Reginald.Christiaan@gmail.com?subject=Paraecologist Reginald.Christiaan@gmail.com]<br/>Mobile: +27 72 4829617<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<u>Where am I from</u><br />
<br />
South Africa<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<u>Languages</u><br />
<br />
Afrikaans 1st<br/>English 2nd<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<u>I live in</u><br />
<br />
Soebatsfontein & Springbok, Northern Cape Province, South Africa<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<u>Current activities</u><br />
<br />
Environmental monitor at Namaqualand National Park, South Africa <br />
<br />
Co-worker of the [http://www.arc.agric.za/arc-ppri/Pages/Biosystematics/SANSA.aspx South African National Survey of Arachnida (SANSA)]<br />
<br />
Conducting of scorpion workshops (for more information see [[Reginald_Christiaan_Scorpion_Workshops|scorpion workshops website]]) <br />
<br />
Collecting scorpions in Namaqualand for the scientific collection and research activities at the [https://www.amnh.org/ American Museum of Natural History] in New York, USA<br />
<br />
Assisting the Arachnida assessment as part of the [http://karoobiogapsproject.blogspot.com/2017/06/biogaps-scorpions-fieldtrip.html Karoo BioGaps project] run by SANBI<br />
<br />
Assisting (since 2002 until today) in the ongoing long-term vegetation monitoring programme of BIOTA Southern Africa and SASSCAL <br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<u>Organisations I worked for</u><br />
<br />
'''''SANParks'''''<br />
<br />
Oct.-Nov. 2014 and 2017: Kids in Parks Programme at Namaqua National Park<br />
*Offering activities for school children as part of the Kids in Parks programme <br />
<br />
Aug.-Sept 2012: Namaqua National Park, Groenrivier, Coastal Section, Tourism Assistant<br> <br />
<br />
Aug.-Sept 2015: Namaqua National Park, Skilpad, Tourism Assistant<br> <br />
*Assisting tourists<br> <br />
*Issuing entry permits for tourists<br />
<br />
<br/>'''''Conservation South Africa (CSA)'''''<br />
<br />
2011-2012: Internship at Springbok office, South Africa<br><br />
*Scorpion workshops (for more information see [[Reginald_Christiaan_Scorpion_Workshops|'''scorpion workshops website''']])<br />
*Weather stations installations<br />
*Downloading of data from weather stations<br />
*Capturing climate data<br />
*Co-ordinate participatory research activities in the Namakwa District with 15 EcoRangers on at least 1 communal farm, 4 private farms, and 1 national park<br />
*Collect, capture and analyse EcoRanger data from 15 EcoRangers<br />
*Communicate outcomes of data analysis to all research participants; all relevant CSA staff members; 2 meetings with local stakeholders; in 3 Veepos articles; and 1 article in a local newspaper.<br />
<br />
<br/>'''''Ditsong National Museums of Natural History, Pretoria, South Africa'''''<br />
<br />
2011: Internship as paraecologist and trainee<br><br />
*Curation and rebottling of Buthidae scorpions of the Lower Invertebrate collection<br />
*Sorting of spiders<br />
<br />
<br/>'''''BIOTA Southern Africa, international research project'''''<br />
<br />
2002-2010: Employed as a paraecologist (Soebatsfontein / South Africa)<br><br />
*Documentation of biodiversity data (plants and arthropods)<br />
*Monitoring of plant phenology (monthly)<br />
*Downloading of data from automatic weather stations<br />
*Environmental awareness projects with school children<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<u>My skills and expertise</u><br />
<br />
Computer skills: Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Power Point, Internet Explorer, email<br />
<br />
Entering phenological plant data into MS Excel database<br />
<br />
G.P.S (Global Positioning System)<br />
<br />
Installment and maintenance of automatic weather stations<br />
<br />
Monitoring and collection of plants and insects<br />
<br />
Use of digital photo and video cameras<br />
<br />
Taking of plant pictures for scientific purposes<br />
<br />
Identification of plants and plant names<br />
<br />
Ecology of succulents on quartz fields<br />
<br />
Facilitation of workshops<br />
<br />
Conflict management<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<u>Awards</u><br />
<br />
In 2019 I was nominated for the Website Community Choice Award for "Dedication, hard work and stellar service". <br />
<br />
In November 2017, I won the Kudu Award "Youth in Conservation" from South African National Parks (SANParks) for my contribution to conservation through my scorpion project that raises awareness on the diversity and ecology of this understudied Arachnida fauna of the Namaqualand.<br>(Read more about the Kudu Awards 2017: [http://www.traveller24.com/Explore/Green/sanparks-kudu-awards-2017-honours-conservation-heroes-20171124 Sanparks Kudu Awards2017]) <br>[http://www.paraecologist.org/images/1/17/Die_Plattelander_Reginald_Christiaan_1_Desember_2017.pdf Read article]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<u>Special interests</u><br />
<br />
Habitat requirements of scorpions<br />
<br />
Collecting and identifying scorpions<br />
<br />
Habitat requirements of different plant species<br />
<br />
Botany and photography<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<u>Ambitions and dreams</u><br />
<br />
During my work in BIOTA as paraecologist my interest in nature and natural science has been strongly fostered. My particular interest lies in the collecting and identification of scorpions. I closely cooperate with Dr Lorenzo Prendini from the New York Museum of Natural History who kindly identifies the specimens for us and incorporated them into his scientific collection, and in the near future I want to specialize in the identification of Southern African scorpions. The experience gained during the internship with ARC/Ditsong has further increased my need to want to learn more about these creatures. I hope to continue to build my relationships with the researchers at these institutes. I feel the next step will be to be employed at one of these institutes in order to learn more and possible expand my knowledge into research.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<u>Publications</u><br />
<br />
For publications by and about Reginald Christiaan click [[Reginald_Christiaan_publications|'''here''']] <br />
<br />
<br />
<u>Contact for references</u><br />
<br />
Dr. Ute Schmiedel (paraecologist programme coordinator and supervisor from 2003 until 2010)<br/>Biocentre Klein Flottbek & Botanical Garden<br/>University of Hamburg<br/>Ohnhorststrasse 18<br/>D-22609 Hamburg<br/>Tel. +49 - (0)40 - 42816-548<br/>Fax +49 - (0)40 - 42816-539<br/>Email: [mailto:Ute.Schmiedel@uni-hamburg.de?subject=Paraecologist Ute.Schmiedel@uni-hamburg.de]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Ronald Newman (Conservation South Africa, Manager, Namaqualand Green Economic Demonstration)<br/>Conservation South Africa<br/>Springbok<br/>Tel: +27 27 718 1577<br/>Email: [mailto:r.newman@conservation.org?subject=Paraecologist r.newman@conservation.org]<br />
<br />
<br/>[[File:72 400 Reg2.jpg|72 400 Reg2.jpg|link=]]<br />
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<br/>[[File:Parabuthus_capensis_RC_P7102297_Soebatsfontein_400.jpg|link=]]<br><sup><span style="font-size:xx-small">Photo: Reginald Christiaan</span><br />
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[[File:72 400 IMG 1057.jpg|72 400 IMG 1057.jpg|link=]]<br />
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<br/>[[File:Foto_Reginald_Christiaan_IMG_0339_400.jpg|link=]]<br><sup><span style="font-size:xx-small">Photo: Reginald Christiaan</span><br />
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<br/>[[File:72 555 at AZEF.jpg|72 555 at AZEF.jpg|link=]]<br />
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<br/>[[File:US06_2347_72_555.jpg|link=]]<br />
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<br/>[[File:Community_Choice_Award_2019_Reginald_Christiaan.jpg|link=]]<br />
<br />
[[File:Reginald_Christiaan_Kudu_Award_2017_with_Parkmanager_e_555.jpg|link=]]<br><sup><span style="font-size:xx-small">Reginald Christiaan wins the Kudu Award "Youth in Conservation" from South African National Parks (SANParks), 2017. [http://www.paraecologist.org/images/1/17/Die_Plattelander_Reginald_Christiaan_1_Desember_2017.pdf '''Read article''']</span><br />
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<br/>[[File:Foto_Reginald_Christiaan_10_0985_555.jpg|link=]]<br><sup><span style="font-size:xx-small">Photo: Reginald Christiaan</span><br />
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[[File:Soil samples.jpg|Soil samples.jpg|link=]]<br><sup><span style="font-size:xx-small">soil sampling</span><br />
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[[File:P1010794_72_275.jpg|link=]][[File:Reginald_US12_3611_72_280.jpg|link=]]<br />
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<br/>[[File:72 555 P1000377.jpg|72 555 P1000377.jpg|link=]]<br />
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<br/>[[File:Detail P1000377.jpg|Detail P1000377.jpg|link=]]<br />
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<br/>[[File:Reginald_Christiaan_Scorpion_P1030305_555.jpg|link=]]<br><sup><span style="font-size:xx-small">Photo: Reginald Christiaan</span><br />
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<br></div>Till Krausehttp://www.paraecologist.org/index.php?title=Reginald_Christiaan_personal_profile&diff=2754Reginald Christiaan personal profile2022-02-23T10:15:16Z<p>Till Krause: </p>
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<div>=== Reginald Christiaan ===<br />
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{| width="1000" border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"<br />
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<u>Contact details:</u><br />
<br />
Email: [mailto:Reginald.Christiaan@gmail.com?subject=Paraecologist Reginald.Christiaan@gmail.com]<br/>Mobile: +27 72 4829617<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<u>Where am I from</u><br />
<br />
South Africa<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<u>Languages</u><br />
<br />
Afrikaans 1st<br/>English 2nd<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<u>I live in</u><br />
<br />
Soebatsfontein & Springbok, Northern Cape Province, South Africa<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<u>Current activities</u><br />
<br />
Environmental monitor at Namaqualand National Park, South Africa <br />
<br />
Co-worker of the [http://www.arc.agric.za/arc-ppri/Pages/Biosystematics/SANSA.aspx South African National Survey of Arachnida (SANSA)]<br />
<br />
Conducting of scorpion workshops (for more information see [[Reginald_Christiaan_Scorpion_Workshops|scorpion workshops website]]) <br />
<br />
Collecting scorpions in Namaqualand for the scientific collection and research activities at the [https://www.amnh.org/ American Museum of Natural History] in New York, USA<br />
<br />
Assisting the Arachnida assessment as part of the [http://karoobiogapsproject.blogspot.com/2017/06/biogaps-scorpions-fieldtrip.html Karoo BioGaps project] run by SANBI<br />
<br />
Assisting (since 2002 until today) in the ongoing long-term vegetation monitoring programme of BIOTA Southern Africa and SASSCAL <br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<u>Organisations I worked for</u><br />
<br />
'''''SANParks'''''<br />
<br />
Oct.-Nov. 2014 and 2017: Kids in Parks Programme at Namaqua National Park<br />
*Offering activities for school children as part of the Kids in Parks programme <br />
<br />
Aug.-Sept 2012: Namaqua National Park, Groenrivier, Coastal Section, Tourism Assistant<br> <br />
<br />
Aug.-Sept 2015: Namaqua National Park, Skilpad, Tourism Assistant<br> <br />
*Assisting tourists<br> <br />
*Issuing entry permits for tourists<br />
<br />
<br/>'''''Conservation South Africa (CSA)'''''<br />
<br />
2011-2012: Internship at Springbok office, South Africa<br><br />
*Scorpion workshops (for more information see [[Reginald_Christiaan_Scorpion_Workshops|'''scorpion workshops website''']])<br />
*Weather stations installations<br />
*Downloading of data from weather stations<br />
*Capturing climate data<br />
*Co-ordinate participatory research activities in the Namakwa District with 15 EcoRangers on at least 1 communal farm, 4 private farms, and 1 national park<br />
*Collect, capture and analyse EcoRanger data from 15 EcoRangers<br />
*Communicate outcomes of data analysis to all research participants; all relevant CSA staff members; 2 meetings with local stakeholders; in 3 Veepos articles; and 1 article in a local newspaper.<br />
<br />
<br/>'''''Ditsong National Museums of Natural History, Pretoria, South Africa'''''<br />
<br />
2011: Internship as paraecologist and trainee<br><br />
*Curation and rebottling of Buthidae scorpions of the Lower Invertebrate collection<br />
*Sorting of spiders<br />
<br />
<br/>'''''BIOTA Southern Africa, international research project'''''<br />
<br />
2002-2010: Employed as a paraecologist (Soebatsfontein / South Africa)<br><br />
*Documentation of biodiversity data (plants and arthropods)<br />
*Monitoring of plant phenology (monthly)<br />
*Downloading of data from automatic weather stations<br />
*Environmental awareness projects with school children<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<u>My skills and expertise</u><br />
<br />
Computer skills: Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Power Point, Internet Explorer, email<br />
<br />
Entering phenological plant data into MS Excel database<br />
<br />
G.P.S (Global Positioning System)<br />
<br />
Installment and maintenance of automatic weather stations<br />
<br />
Monitoring and collection of plants and insects<br />
<br />
Use of digital photo and video cameras<br />
<br />
Taking of plant pictures for scientific purposes<br />
<br />
Identification of plants and plant names<br />
<br />
Ecology of succulents on quartz fields<br />
<br />
Facilitation of workshops<br />
<br />
Conflict management<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<u>Awards</u><br />
<br />
In 2019 I was nominated for the Website Community Choice Award for "Dedication, hard work and stellar service". <br />
<br />
In November 2017, I won the Kudu Award "Youth in Conservation" from South African National Parks (SANParks) for my contribution to conservation through my scorpion project that raises awareness on the diversity and ecology of this understudied Arachnida fauna of the Namaqualand.<br>(Read more about the Kudu Awards 2017: [http://www.traveller24.com/Explore/Green/sanparks-kudu-awards-2017-honours-conservation-heroes-20171124 Sanparks Kudu Awards2017]) <br>[http://www.paraecologist.org/images/1/17/Die_Plattelander_Reginald_Christiaan_1_Desember_2017.pdf Read article]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<u>Special interests</u><br />
<br />
Habitat requirements of scorpions<br />
<br />
Collecting and identifying scorpions<br />
<br />
Habitat requirements of different plant species<br />
<br />
Botany and photography<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<u>Ambitions and dreams</u><br />
<br />
During my work in BIOTA as paraecologist my interest in nature and natural science has been strongly fostered. My particular interest lies in the collecting and identification of scorpions. I closely cooperate with Dr Lorenzo Prendini from the New York Museum of Natural History who kindly identifies the specimens for us and incorporated them into his scientific collection, and in the near future I want to specialize in the identification of Southern African scorpions. The experience gained during the internship with ARC/Ditsong has further increased my need to want to learn more about these creatures. I hope to continue to build my relationships with the researchers at these institutes. I feel the next step will be to be employed at one of these institutes in order to learn more and possible expand my knowledge into research.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<u>Publications</u><br />
<br />
For publications by and about Reginald Christiaan click [[Reginald_Christiaan_publications|'''here''']] <br />
<br />
<br />
<u>Contact for references</u><br />
<br />
Dr. Ute Schmiedel (paraecologist programme coordinator and supervisor from 2003 until 2010)<br/>Biocentre Klein Flottbek & Botanical Garden<br/>University of Hamburg<br/>Ohnhorststrasse 18<br/>D-22609 Hamburg<br/>Tel. +49 - (0)40 - 42816-548<br/>Fax +49 - (0)40 - 42816-539<br/>Email: [mailto:Ute.Schmiedel@uni-hamburg.de?subject=Paraecologist Ute.Schmiedel@uni-hamburg.de]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Ronald Newman (Conservation South Africa, Manager, Namaqualand Green Economic Demonstration)<br/>Conservation South Africa<br/>Springbok<br/>Tel: +27 27 718 1577<br/>Email: [mailto:r.newman@conservation.org?subject=Paraecologist r.newman@conservation.org]<br />
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<br/>[[File:Parabuthus_capensis_RC_P7102297_Soebatsfontein_400.jpg|link=]]<br><sup><span style="font-size:xx-small">Photo: Reginald Christiaan</span><br />
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<br/>[[File:Foto_Reginald_Christiaan_IMG_0339_400.jpg|link=]]<br><sup><span style="font-size:xx-small">Photo: Reginald Christiaan</span><br />
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<br/>[[File:Community_Choice_Award_2019_Reginald_Christiaan.jpg|link=]]<br />
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<br/>[[File:Foto_Reginald_Christiaan_10_0985_555.jpg|link=]]<br><sup><span style="font-size:xx-small">Photo: Reginald Christiaan</span><br />
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[[File:Reginald_Christiaan_Kudu_Award_2017_with_Parkmanager_e_555.jpg|link=]]<br><sup><span style="font-size:xx-small">Reginald Christiaan wins the Kudu Award "Youth in Conservation" from South African National Parks (SANParks), 2017. [http://www.paraecologist.org/images/1/17/Die_Plattelander_Reginald_Christiaan_1_Desember_2017.pdf '''Read article''']</span><br />
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[[File:Soil samples.jpg|Soil samples.jpg|link=]]<br><sup><span style="font-size:xx-small">soil sampling</span><br />
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[[File:P1010794_72_275.jpg|link=]][[File:Reginald_US12_3611_72_280.jpg|link=]]<br />
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<br/>[[File:Reginald_Christiaan_Scorpion_P1030305_555.jpg|link=]]<br><sup><span style="font-size:xx-small">Photo: Reginald Christiaan</span><br />
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<br></div>Till Krausehttp://www.paraecologist.org/index.php?title=Reginald_Christiaan_personal_profile&diff=2753Reginald Christiaan personal profile2022-02-23T10:04:57Z<p>Till Krause: </p>
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<div>=== Reginald Christiaan ===<br />
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<u>Contact details:</u><br />
<br />
Email: [mailto:Reginald.Christiaan@gmail.com?subject=Paraecologist Reginald.Christiaan@gmail.com]<br/>Mobile: +27 72 4829617<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<u>Where am I from</u><br />
<br />
South Africa<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<u>Languages</u><br />
<br />
Afrikaans 1st<br/>English 2nd<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<u>I live in</u><br />
<br />
Soebatsfontein & Springbok, Northern Cape Province, South Africa<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<u>Current activities</u><br />
<br />
Environmental monitor at Namaqualand National Park, South Africa <br />
<br />
Co-worker of the [http://www.arc.agric.za/arc-ppri/Pages/Biosystematics/SANSA.aspx South African National Survey of Arachnida (SANSA)]<br />
<br />
Conducting of scorpion workshops (for more information see [[Reginald_Christiaan_Scorpion_Workshops|scorpion workshops website]]) <br />
<br />
Collecting scorpions in Namaqualand for the scientific collection and research activities at the [https://www.amnh.org/ American Museum of Natural History] in New York, USA<br />
<br />
Assisting the Arachnida assessment as part of the [http://karoobiogapsproject.blogspot.com/2017/06/biogaps-scorpions-fieldtrip.html Karoo BioGaps project] run by SANBI<br />
<br />
Assisting (since 2002 until today) in the ongoing long-term vegetation monitoring programme of BIOTA Southern Africa and SASSCAL <br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<u>Organisations I worked for</u><br />
<br />
'''''SANParks'''''<br />
<br />
Oct.-Nov. 2014 and 2017: Kids in Parks Programme at Namaqua National Park<br />
*Offering activities for school children as part of the Kids in Parks programme <br />
<br />
Aug.-Sept 2012: Namaqua National Park, Groenrivier, Coastal Section, Tourism Assistant<br> <br />
<br />
Aug.-Sept 2015: Namaqua National Park, Skilpad, Tourism Assistant<br> <br />
*Assisting tourists<br> <br />
*Issuing entry permits for tourists<br />
<br />
<br/>'''''Conservation South Africa (CSA)'''''<br />
<br />
2011-2012: Internship at Springbok office, South Africa<br><br />
*Scorpion workshops (for more information see [[Reginald_Christiaan_Scorpion_Workshops|'''scorpion workshops website''']])<br />
*Weather stations installations<br />
*Downloading of data from weather stations<br />
*Capturing climate data<br />
*Co-ordinate participatory research activities in the Namakwa District with 15 EcoRangers on at least 1 communal farm, 4 private farms, and 1 national park<br />
*Collect, capture and analyse EcoRanger data from 15 EcoRangers<br />
*Communicate outcomes of data analysis to all research participants; all relevant CSA staff members; 2 meetings with local stakeholders; in 3 Veepos articles; and 1 article in a local newspaper.<br />
<br />
<br/>'''''Ditsong National Museums of Natural History, Pretoria, South Africa'''''<br />
<br />
2011: Internship as paraecologist and trainee<br><br />
*Curation and rebottling of Buthidae scorpions of the Lower Invertebrate collection<br />
*Sorting of spiders<br />
<br />
<br/>'''''BIOTA Southern Africa, international research project'''''<br />
<br />
2002-2010: Employed as a paraecologist (Soebatsfontein / South Africa)<br><br />
*Documentation of biodiversity data (plants and arthropods)<br />
*Monitoring of plant phenology (monthly)<br />
*Downloading of data from automatic weather stations<br />
*Environmental awareness projects with school children<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<u>My skills and expertise</u><br />
<br />
Computer skills: Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Power Point, Internet Explorer, email<br />
<br />
Entering phenological plant data into MS Excel database<br />
<br />
G.P.S (Global Positioning System)<br />
<br />
Installment and maintenance of automatic weather stations<br />
<br />
Monitoring and collection of plants and insects<br />
<br />
Use of digital photo and video cameras<br />
<br />
Taking of plant pictures for scientific purposes<br />
<br />
Identification of plants and plant names<br />
<br />
Ecology of succulents on quartz fields<br />
<br />
Facilitation of workshops<br />
<br />
Conflict management<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<u>Awards</u><br />
<br />
In 2019 I was nominated for the Website Community Choice Award for "Dedication, hard work and stellar service". <br />
<br />
[[File:Community_Choice_Award_2019_Reginald_Christiaan.jpg|60px|link=]]<br />
<br />
In November 2017, I won the Kudu Award "Youth in Conservation" from South African National Parks (SANParks) for my contribution to conservation through my scorpion project that raises awareness on the diversity and ecology of this understudied Arachnida fauna of the Namaqualand.<br>(Read more about the Kudu Awards 2017: [http://www.traveller24.com/Explore/Green/sanparks-kudu-awards-2017-honours-conservation-heroes-20171124 Sanparks Kudu Awards2017]) <br>[http://www.paraecologist.org/images/1/17/Die_Plattelander_Reginald_Christiaan_1_Desember_2017.pdf Read article]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<u>Special interests</u><br />
<br />
Habitat requirements of scorpions<br />
<br />
Collecting and identifying scorpions<br />
<br />
Habitat requirements of different plant species<br />
<br />
Botany and photography<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<u>Ambitions and dreams</u><br />
<br />
During my work in BIOTA as paraecologist my interest in nature and natural science has been strongly fostered. My particular interest lies in the collecting and identification of scorpions. I closely cooperate with Dr Lorenzo Prendini from the New York Museum of Natural History who kindly identifies the specimens for us and incorporated them into his scientific collection, and in the near future I want to specialize in the identification of Southern African scorpions. The experience gained during the internship with ARC/Ditsong has further increased my need to want to learn more about these creatures. I hope to continue to build my relationships with the researchers at these institutes. I feel the next step will be to be employed at one of these institutes in order to learn more and possible expand my knowledge into research.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<u>Publications</u><br />
<br />
For publications by and about Reginald Christiaan click [[Reginald_Christiaan_publications|'''here''']] <br />
<br />
<br />
<u>Contact for references</u><br />
<br />
Dr. Ute Schmiedel (paraecologist programme coordinator and supervisor from 2003 until 2010)<br/>Biocentre Klein Flottbek & Botanical Garden<br/>University of Hamburg<br/>Ohnhorststrasse 18<br/>D-22609 Hamburg<br/>Tel. +49 - (0)40 - 42816-548<br/>Fax +49 - (0)40 - 42816-539<br/>Email: [mailto:Ute.Schmiedel@uni-hamburg.de?subject=Paraecologist Ute.Schmiedel@uni-hamburg.de]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Ronald Newman (Conservation South Africa, Manager, Namaqualand Green Economic Demonstration)<br/>Conservation South Africa<br/>Springbok<br/>Tel: +27 27 718 1577<br/>Email: [mailto:r.newman@conservation.org?subject=Paraecologist r.newman@conservation.org]<br />
<br />
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<br/>[[File:Parabuthus_capensis_RC_P7102297_Soebatsfontein_400.jpg|link=]]<br><sup><span style="font-size:xx-small">Photo: Reginald Christiaan</span><br />
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[[File:72 400 IMG 1057.jpg|72 400 IMG 1057.jpg|link=]]<br />
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<br/>[[File:Foto_Reginald_Christiaan_IMG_0339_400.jpg|link=]]<br><sup><span style="font-size:xx-small">Photo: Reginald Christiaan</span><br />
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<br/>[[File:Foto_Reginald_Christiaan_10_0985_555.jpg|link=]]<br><sup><span style="font-size:xx-small">Photo: Reginald Christiaan</span><br />
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[[File:Reginald_Christiaan_Kudu_Award_2017_with_Parkmanager_e_555.jpg|link=]]<br><sup><span style="font-size:xx-small">Reginald Christiaan wins the Kudu Award "Youth in Conservation" from South African National Parks (SANParks), 2017. [http://www.paraecologist.org/images/1/17/Die_Plattelander_Reginald_Christiaan_1_Desember_2017.pdf '''Read article''']</span><br />
<br />
[[File:Soil samples.jpg|Soil samples.jpg|link=]]<br><sup><span style="font-size:xx-small">soil sampling</span><br />
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[[File:P1010794_72_275.jpg|link=]][[File:Reginald_US12_3611_72_280.jpg|link=]]<br />
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<br/>[[File:Reginald_Christiaan_Scorpion_P1030305_555.jpg|link=]]<br><sup><span style="font-size:xx-small">Photo: Reginald Christiaan</span><br />
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<br></div>Till Krausehttp://www.paraecologist.org/index.php?title=Reginald_Christiaan_personal_profile&diff=2752Reginald Christiaan personal profile2022-02-23T10:00:52Z<p>Till Krause: </p>
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<div>=== Reginald Christiaan ===<br />
<br />
{| width="1000" border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
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<u>Contact details:</u><br />
<br />
Email: [mailto:Reginald.Christiaan@gmail.com?subject=Paraecologist Reginald.Christiaan@gmail.com]<br/>Mobile: +27 72 4829617<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<u>Where am I from</u><br />
<br />
South Africa<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<u>Languages</u><br />
<br />
Afrikaans 1st<br/>English 2nd<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<u>I live in</u><br />
<br />
Soebatsfontein & Springbok, Northern Cape Province, South Africa<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<u>Current activities</u><br />
<br />
Environmental monitor at Namaqualand National Park, South Africa <br />
<br />
Co-worker of the [http://www.arc.agric.za/arc-ppri/Pages/Biosystematics/SANSA.aspx South African National Survey of Arachnida (SANSA)]<br />
<br />
Conducting of scorpion workshops (for more information see [[Reginald_Christiaan_Scorpion_Workshops|scorpion workshops website]]) <br />
<br />
Collecting scorpions in Namaqualand for the scientific collection and research activities at the [https://www.amnh.org/ American Museum of Natural History] in New York, USA<br />
<br />
Assisting the Arachnida assessment as part of the [http://karoobiogapsproject.blogspot.com/2017/06/biogaps-scorpions-fieldtrip.html Karoo BioGaps project] run by SANBI<br />
<br />
Assisting (since 2002 until today) in the ongoing long-term vegetation monitoring programme of BIOTA Southern Africa and SASSCAL <br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<u>Organisations I worked for</u><br />
<br />
'''''SANParks'''''<br />
<br />
Oct.-Nov. 2014 and 2017: Kids in Parks Programme at Namaqua National Park<br />
*Offering activities for school children as part of the Kids in Parks programme <br />
<br />
Aug.-Sept 2012: Namaqua National Park, Groenrivier, Coastal Section, Tourism Assistant<br> <br />
<br />
Aug.-Sept 2015: Namaqua National Park, Skilpad, Tourism Assistant<br> <br />
*Assisting tourists<br> <br />
*Issuing entry permits for tourists<br />
<br />
<br/>'''''Conservation South Africa (CSA)'''''<br />
<br />
2011-2012: Internship at Springbok office, South Africa<br><br />
*Scorpion workshops (for more information see [[Reginald_Christiaan_Scorpion_Workshops|'''scorpion workshops website''']])<br />
*Weather stations installations<br />
*Downloading of data from weather stations<br />
*Capturing climate data<br />
*Co-ordinate participatory research activities in the Namakwa District with 15 EcoRangers on at least 1 communal farm, 4 private farms, and 1 national park<br />
*Collect, capture and analyse EcoRanger data from 15 EcoRangers<br />
*Communicate outcomes of data analysis to all research participants; all relevant CSA staff members; 2 meetings with local stakeholders; in 3 Veepos articles; and 1 article in a local newspaper.<br />
<br />
<br/>'''''Ditsong National Museums of Natural History, Pretoria, South Africa'''''<br />
<br />
2011: Internship as paraecologist and trainee<br><br />
*Curation and rebottling of Buthidae scorpions of the Lower Invertebrate collection<br />
*Sorting of spiders<br />
<br />
<br/>'''''BIOTA Southern Africa, international research project'''''<br />
<br />
2002-2010: Employed as a paraecologist (Soebatsfontein / South Africa)<br><br />
*Documentation of biodiversity data (plants and arthropods)<br />
*Monitoring of plant phenology (monthly)<br />
*Downloading of data from automatic weather stations<br />
*Environmental awareness projects with school children<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<u>My skills and expertise</u><br />
<br />
Computer skills: Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Power Point, Internet Explorer, email<br />
<br />
Entering phenological plant data into MS Excel database<br />
<br />
G.P.S (Global Positioning System)<br />
<br />
Installment and maintenance of automatic weather stations<br />
<br />
Monitoring and collection of plants and insects<br />
<br />
Use of digital photo and video cameras<br />
<br />
Taking of plant pictures for scientific purposes<br />
<br />
Identification of plants and plant names<br />
<br />
Ecology of succulents on quartz fields<br />
<br />
Facilitation of workshops<br />
<br />
Conflict management<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<u>Awards</u><br />
<br />
In 2019 I was nominated for the Website Community Choice Award for “Dedication, hard work and stellar service”. [Link zu jpg “Community Choice Award”]<br />
<br />
In November 2017, I won the Kudu Award "Youth in Conservation" from South African National Parks (SANParks) for my contribution to conservation through my scorpion project that raises awareness on the diversity and ecology of this understudied Arachnida fauna of the Namaqualand.<br>(Read more about the Kudu Awards 2017: [http://www.traveller24.com/Explore/Green/sanparks-kudu-awards-2017-honours-conservation-heroes-20171124 Sanparks Kudu Awards2017]) <br>[http://www.paraecologist.org/images/1/17/Die_Plattelander_Reginald_Christiaan_1_Desember_2017.pdf Read article]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<u>Special interests</u><br />
<br />
Habitat requirements of scorpions<br />
<br />
Collecting and identifying scorpions<br />
<br />
Habitat requirements of different plant species<br />
<br />
Botany and photography<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<u>Ambitions and dreams</u><br />
<br />
During my work in BIOTA as paraecologist my interest in nature and natural science has been strongly fostered. My particular interest lies in the collecting and identification of scorpions. I closely cooperate with Dr Lorenzo Prendini from the New York Museum of Natural History who kindly identifies the specimens for us and incorporated them into his scientific collection, and in the near future I want to specialize in the identification of Southern African scorpions. The experience gained during the internship with ARC/Ditsong has further increased my need to want to learn more about these creatures. I hope to continue to build my relationships with the researchers at these institutes. I feel the next step will be to be employed at one of these institutes in order to learn more and possible expand my knowledge into research.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<u>Publications</u><br />
<br />
For publications by and about Reginald Christiaan click [[Reginald_Christiaan_publications|'''here''']] <br />
<br />
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<u>Contact for references</u><br />
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Dr. Ute Schmiedel (paraecologist programme coordinator and supervisor from 2003 until 2010)<br/>Biocentre Klein Flottbek & Botanical Garden<br/>University of Hamburg<br/>Ohnhorststrasse 18<br/>D-22609 Hamburg<br/>Tel. +49 - (0)40 - 42816-548<br/>Fax +49 - (0)40 - 42816-539<br/>Email: [mailto:Ute.Schmiedel@uni-hamburg.de?subject=Paraecologist Ute.Schmiedel@uni-hamburg.de]<br />
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Ronald Newman (Conservation South Africa, Manager, Namaqualand Green Economic Demonstration)<br/>Conservation South Africa<br/>Springbok<br/>Tel: +27 27 718 1577<br/>Email: [mailto:r.newman@conservation.org?subject=Paraecologist r.newman@conservation.org]<br />
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[[File:Reginald_Christiaan_Kudu_Award_2017_with_Parkmanager_e_555.jpg|link=]]<br><sup><span style="font-size:xx-small">Reginald Christiaan wins the Kudu Award "Youth in Conservation" from South African National Parks (SANParks), 2017. [http://www.paraecologist.org/images/1/17/Die_Plattelander_Reginald_Christiaan_1_Desember_2017.pdf '''Read article''']</span><br />
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Further activities by Reginald Christiaan: [[Reginald_Christiaan|click here]]<br />
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<br></div>Till Krausehttp://www.paraecologist.org/index.php?title=Training_materials_Readers&diff=2751Training materials Readers2022-02-23T09:56:35Z<p>Till Krause: </p>
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Engbers, Moritz (2008): Climate Change - Causes, processes and possible effects [http://www.paraecologist.org/images/5/5b/Engbers_2008_para-ecologists_climate_change.pdf '''PDF''' (1.313 KB)]<br />
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Cuéllar, Erika (2009): Manuales Técnicos, 1er Curso de Capacitación para la Formación de Parabiólogos. A training manual developed for the Gran Chaco paraecologist project.<br />
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Grohmann, Constanze (2008): What are termites? [http://www.paraecologist.org/images/e/eb/Grohman_2008_Introduction_to_Termites_PE.pdf '''PDF''' (1.883 KB)]<br />
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Hesse, Alan J. & Cuéllar S., Erika (2008): Manuales Técnicos, 1er Curso de Capacitación para la Formación de Parabiólogos, '''PDF (16 MB) on request: Ute.Schmiedel@uni-hamburg.de'''<br />
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Schmiedel, Ute (2008): Guide to selected plant families [http://www.paraecologist.org/images/0/02/Schmiedel_2008_Plant_families.pdf '''PDF''' (1025 KB)]<br />
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Shekhar KS (2007): A field guide to the tracks and signs of Eastern Himalayan, Central Indian and Eastern Ghats Wildlife IBH: Delhi, 294 pp.<br />
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Shekhar KS (2008): Training rural residents as Naturalist Guides: Introductory training program at Saptura National Park, Madhya Pradesh. [http://www.paraecologist.org/images/7/71/Training_rural_guides_in_India_to_work_as_Naturalists.pdf '''PDF''' (83 KB)]<br />
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Parabiologist training manual 2006 – on primate ecology in Ecuador – funded by the Darwin Initiative <br />
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Parabiologist training manual 2007 – on primate ecology in Ecuador – funded by the Darwin Initiative<br />
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Department for Environment Food & Rural Affairs, UK (2019): UN International Day of Forests 2019: <br>Para-ecologists – the paramedics of the rainforest<br><br />
[https://www.gov.uk/government/news/un-international-day-of-forests-2019-para-ecologists-the-paramedics-of-the-rainforest www.gov.uk/government/news/un-international-day-of-forests-2019-para-ecologists-the-paramedics-of-the-rainforest]<br />
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<u>Readers of the BIOTA paraecologist training workshops:</u><br />
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- Gobabeb / Namibia, 2004 [http://www.paraecologist.org/images/e/e6/BIOTA_Reader_1st_training_2004.pdf '''PDF''' (486 KB)]<br />
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- Gellap Ost, Keetmanshoop / Namibia, 2005 [http://www.paraecologist.org/images/7/79/BIOTA_Reader_2nd_training_2005.pdf '''PDF''' (401 KB)]<br />
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- Gellap Ost, Keetmanshoop / Namibia, 2006 [http://www.paraecologist.org/images/5/57/BIOTA_Reader_3rd_training_2006.pdf '''PDF''' (218 KB)]<br />
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- Kamieskroon / South Africa, 2007 [http://www.paraecologist.org/images/c/ce/BIOTA_Reader_4th_training_2007.pdf '''PDF''' (1.243 KB)]<br />
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- Vanrhynsdorp / South Africa, 2008 [http://www.paraecologist.org/images/3/36/BIOTA_Reader_5th_training_2008.pdf '''PDF''' (1.316 KB)]<br />
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- Nieuwoudtville / South Africa, 2009 [http://www.paraecologist.org/images/8/85/BIOTA_Reader_6th_training_2009.pdf '''PDF''' (577 KB)]<br />
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[[Training materials Readers#top seitenanfang|Top]]</div>Till Krausehttp://www.paraecologist.org/index.php?title=Training_materials_Readers&diff=2750Training materials Readers2022-02-23T09:55:58Z<p>Till Krause: </p>
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| valign="top" | <br>Engbers, Moritz (2008): How to organise my computer data [http://www.paraecologist.org/images/d/d8/Engbers_2008_Computer-Basics.pdf '''PDF''' (76 KB)]<br />
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Engbers, Moritz (2008): Climate Change - Causes, processes and possible effects [http://www.paraecologist.org/images/5/5b/Engbers_2008_para-ecologists_climate_change.pdf '''PDF''' (1.313 KB)]<br />
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Cuéllar, Erika (2009): Manuales Técnicos, 1er Curso de Capacitación para la Formación de Parabiólogos. A training manual developed for the Gran Chaco paraecologist project.<br />
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Grohmann, Constanze (2008): What are termites? [http://www.paraecologist.org/images/e/eb/Grohman_2008_Introduction_to_Termites_PE.pdf '''PDF''' (1.883 KB)]<br />
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Hesse, Alan J. & Cuéllar S., Erika (2008): Manuales Técnicos, 1er Curso de Capacitación para la Formación de Parabiólogos, '''PDF (16 MB) on request: Ute.Schmiedel@uni-hamburg.de'''<br />
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Schmiedel, Ute (2008): Guide to selected plant families [http://www.paraecologist.org/images/0/02/Schmiedel_2008_Plant_families.pdf '''PDF''' (1025 KB)]<br />
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Shekhar KS (2007): A field guide to the tracks and signs of Eastern Himalayan, Central Indian and Eastern Ghats Wildlife IBH: Delhi, 294 pp.<br />
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Shekhar KS (2008): Training rural residents as Naturalist Guides: Introductory training program at Saptura National Park, Madhya Pradesh. [http://www.paraecologist.org/images/7/71/Training_rural_guides_in_India_to_work_as_Naturalists.pdf '''PDF''' (83 KB)]<br />
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Parabiologist training manual 2006 – on primate ecology in Ecuador – funded by the Darwin Initiative <br />
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Parabiologist training manual 2007 – on primate ecology in Ecuador – funded by the Darwin Initiative<br />
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<br />
<br />
Department for Environment Food & Rural Affairs, UK (2019): UN International Day of Forests 2019: <br>Para-ecologists – the paramedics of the rainforest<br><br />
[https://www.gov.uk/government/news/un-international-day-of-forests-2019-para-ecologists-the-paramedics-of-the-rainforest Para-ecologists – the paramedics of the rainforest]<br />
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<u>Readers of the BIOTA paraecologist training workshops:</u><br />
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- Gobabeb / Namibia, 2004 [http://www.paraecologist.org/images/e/e6/BIOTA_Reader_1st_training_2004.pdf '''PDF''' (486 KB)]<br />
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- Gellap Ost, Keetmanshoop / Namibia, 2005 [http://www.paraecologist.org/images/7/79/BIOTA_Reader_2nd_training_2005.pdf '''PDF''' (401 KB)]<br />
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- Gellap Ost, Keetmanshoop / Namibia, 2006 [http://www.paraecologist.org/images/5/57/BIOTA_Reader_3rd_training_2006.pdf '''PDF''' (218 KB)]<br />
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- Kamieskroon / South Africa, 2007 [http://www.paraecologist.org/images/c/ce/BIOTA_Reader_4th_training_2007.pdf '''PDF''' (1.243 KB)]<br />
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- Vanrhynsdorp / South Africa, 2008 [http://www.paraecologist.org/images/3/36/BIOTA_Reader_5th_training_2008.pdf '''PDF''' (1.316 KB)]<br />
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- Nieuwoudtville / South Africa, 2009 [http://www.paraecologist.org/images/8/85/BIOTA_Reader_6th_training_2009.pdf '''PDF''' (577 KB)]<br />
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[[Training materials Readers#top seitenanfang|Top]]</div>Till Krausehttp://www.paraecologist.org/index.php?title=Training_materials_Readers&diff=2749Training materials Readers2022-02-23T09:55:09Z<p>Till Krause: </p>
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| valign="top" | <br>Engbers, Moritz (2008): How to organise my computer data [http://www.paraecologist.org/images/d/d8/Engbers_2008_Computer-Basics.pdf '''PDF''' (76 KB)]<br />
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Engbers, Moritz (2008): Climate Change - Causes, processes and possible effects [http://www.paraecologist.org/images/5/5b/Engbers_2008_para-ecologists_climate_change.pdf '''PDF''' (1.313 KB)]<br />
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Cuéllar, Erika (2009): Manuales Técnicos, 1er Curso de Capacitación para la Formación de Parabiólogos. A training manual developed for the Gran Chaco paraecologist project.<br />
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Grohmann, Constanze (2008): What are termites? [http://www.paraecologist.org/images/e/eb/Grohman_2008_Introduction_to_Termites_PE.pdf '''PDF''' (1.883 KB)]<br />
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Hesse, Alan J. & Cuéllar S., Erika (2008): Manuales Técnicos, 1er Curso de Capacitación para la Formación de Parabiólogos, '''PDF (16 MB) on request: Ute.Schmiedel@uni-hamburg.de'''<br />
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Schmiedel, Ute (2008): Guide to selected plant families [http://www.paraecologist.org/images/0/02/Schmiedel_2008_Plant_families.pdf '''PDF''' (1025 KB)]<br />
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<br />
Shekhar KS (2007): A field guide to the tracks and signs of Eastern Himalayan, Central Indian and Eastern Ghats Wildlife IBH: Delhi, 294 pp.<br />
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Shekhar KS (2008): Training rural residents as Naturalist Guides: Introductory training program at Saptura National Park, Madhya Pradesh. [http://www.paraecologist.org/images/7/71/Training_rural_guides_in_India_to_work_as_Naturalists.pdf '''PDF''' (83 KB)]<br />
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Parabiologist training manual 2006 – on primate ecology in Ecuador – funded by the Darwin Initiative <br />
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Parabiologist training manual 2007 – on primate ecology in Ecuador – funded by the Darwin Initiative<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Department for Environment Food & Rural Affairs, UK (2019): UN International Day of Forests 2019: <br>Para-ecologists – the paramedics of the rainforest<br><br />
[https://www.gov.uk/government/news/un-international-day-of-forests-2019-para-ecologists-the-paramedics-of-the-rainforest Para-ecologists-the-paramedics-of-the-rainforest]<br />
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<u>Readers of the BIOTA paraecologist training workshops:</u><br />
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- Gobabeb / Namibia, 2004 [http://www.paraecologist.org/images/e/e6/BIOTA_Reader_1st_training_2004.pdf '''PDF''' (486 KB)]<br />
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- Gellap Ost, Keetmanshoop / Namibia, 2005 [http://www.paraecologist.org/images/7/79/BIOTA_Reader_2nd_training_2005.pdf '''PDF''' (401 KB)]<br />
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- Gellap Ost, Keetmanshoop / Namibia, 2006 [http://www.paraecologist.org/images/5/57/BIOTA_Reader_3rd_training_2006.pdf '''PDF''' (218 KB)]<br />
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- Kamieskroon / South Africa, 2007 [http://www.paraecologist.org/images/c/ce/BIOTA_Reader_4th_training_2007.pdf '''PDF''' (1.243 KB)]<br />
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- Vanrhynsdorp / South Africa, 2008 [http://www.paraecologist.org/images/3/36/BIOTA_Reader_5th_training_2008.pdf '''PDF''' (1.316 KB)]<br />
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- Nieuwoudtville / South Africa, 2009 [http://www.paraecologist.org/images/8/85/BIOTA_Reader_6th_training_2009.pdf '''PDF''' (577 KB)]<br />
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[[Training materials Readers#top seitenanfang|Top]]</div>Till Krausehttp://www.paraecologist.org/index.php?title=Training_materials_Readers&diff=2748Training materials Readers2022-02-23T09:53:12Z<p>Till Krause: </p>
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Engbers, Moritz (2008): Climate Change - Causes, processes and possible effects [http://www.paraecologist.org/images/5/5b/Engbers_2008_para-ecologists_climate_change.pdf '''PDF''' (1.313 KB)]<br />
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Cuéllar, Erika (2009): Manuales Técnicos, 1er Curso de Capacitación para la Formación de Parabiólogos. A training manual developed for the Gran Chaco paraecologist project.<br />
<br />
<br />
Grohmann, Constanze (2008): What are termites? [http://www.paraecologist.org/images/e/eb/Grohman_2008_Introduction_to_Termites_PE.pdf '''PDF''' (1.883 KB)]<br />
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Hesse, Alan J. & Cuéllar S., Erika (2008): Manuales Técnicos, 1er Curso de Capacitación para la Formación de Parabiólogos, '''PDF (16 MB) on request: Ute.Schmiedel@uni-hamburg.de'''<br />
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Schmiedel, Ute (2008): Guide to selected plant families [http://www.paraecologist.org/images/0/02/Schmiedel_2008_Plant_families.pdf '''PDF''' (1025 KB)]<br />
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<br />
Shekhar KS (2007): A field guide to the tracks and signs of Eastern Himalayan, Central Indian and Eastern Ghats Wildlife IBH: Delhi, 294 pp.<br />
<br />
<br />
Shekhar KS (2008): Training rural residents as Naturalist Guides: Introductory training program at Saptura National Park, Madhya Pradesh. [http://www.paraecologist.org/images/7/71/Training_rural_guides_in_India_to_work_as_Naturalists.pdf '''PDF''' (83 KB)]<br />
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Parabiologist training manual 2006 – on primate ecology in Ecuador – funded by the Darwin Initiative <br />
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Parabiologist training manual 2007 – on primate ecology in Ecuador – funded by the Darwin Initiative<br />
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<br />
Department for Environment Food & Rural Affairs, UK (2019): UN International Day of Forests 2019: <br>Para-ecologists – the paramedics of the rainforest<br />
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<u>Readers of the BIOTA paraecologist training workshops:</u><br />
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- Gobabeb / Namibia, 2004 [http://www.paraecologist.org/images/e/e6/BIOTA_Reader_1st_training_2004.pdf '''PDF''' (486 KB)]<br />
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- Gellap Ost, Keetmanshoop / Namibia, 2005 [http://www.paraecologist.org/images/7/79/BIOTA_Reader_2nd_training_2005.pdf '''PDF''' (401 KB)]<br />
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- Gellap Ost, Keetmanshoop / Namibia, 2006 [http://www.paraecologist.org/images/5/57/BIOTA_Reader_3rd_training_2006.pdf '''PDF''' (218 KB)]<br />
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- Kamieskroon / South Africa, 2007 [http://www.paraecologist.org/images/c/ce/BIOTA_Reader_4th_training_2007.pdf '''PDF''' (1.243 KB)]<br />
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- Vanrhynsdorp / South Africa, 2008 [http://www.paraecologist.org/images/3/36/BIOTA_Reader_5th_training_2008.pdf '''PDF''' (1.316 KB)]<br />
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- Nieuwoudtville / South Africa, 2009 [http://www.paraecologist.org/images/8/85/BIOTA_Reader_6th_training_2009.pdf '''PDF''' (577 KB)]<br />
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[[Training materials Readers#top seitenanfang|Top]]</div>Till Krausehttp://www.paraecologist.org/index.php?title=File:Logo_Tesoro_Reserve.png&diff=2747File:Logo Tesoro Reserve.png2022-02-23T09:50:05Z<p>Till Krause: </p>
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<div></div>Till Krausehttp://www.paraecologist.org/index.php?title=Training_materials_Readers&diff=2745Training materials Readers2022-02-18T15:50:29Z<p>Till Krause: </p>
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| valign="top" | <br>Engbers, Moritz (2008): How to organise my computer data [http://www.paraecologist.org/images/d/d8/Engbers_2008_Computer-Basics.pdf '''PDF''' (76 KB)]<br />
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Engbers, Moritz (2008): Climate Change - Causes, processes and possible effects [http://www.paraecologist.org/images/5/5b/Engbers_2008_para-ecologists_climate_change.pdf '''PDF''' (1.313 KB)]<br />
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Cuéllar, Erika (2009): Manuales Técnicos, 1er Curso de Capacitación para la Formación de Parabiólogos. A training manual developed for the Gran Chaco paraecologist project.<br />
<br />
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Grohmann, Constanze (2008): What are termites? [http://www.paraecologist.org/images/e/eb/Grohman_2008_Introduction_to_Termites_PE.pdf '''PDF''' (1.883 KB)]<br />
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Hesse, Alan J. & Cuéllar S., Erika (2008): Manuales Técnicos, 1er Curso de Capacitación para la Formación de Parabiólogos, '''PDF (16 MB) on request: Ute.Schmiedel@uni-hamburg.de'''<br />
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Schmiedel, Ute (2008): Guide to selected plant families [http://www.paraecologist.org/images/0/02/Schmiedel_2008_Plant_families.pdf '''PDF''' (1025 KB)]<br />
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<br />
Shekhar KS (2007): A field guide to the tracks and signs of Eastern Himalayan, Central Indian and Eastern Ghats Wildlife IBH: Delhi, 294 pp.<br />
<br />
<br />
Shekhar KS (2008): Training rural residents as Naturalist Guides: Introductory training program at Saptura National Park, Madhya Pradesh. [http://www.paraecologist.org/images/7/71/Training_rural_guides_in_India_to_work_as_Naturalists.pdf '''PDF''' (83 KB)]<br />
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Parabiologist training manual 2006 – on primate ecology in Ecuador – funded by the Darwin Initiative <br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Parabiologist training manual 2007 – on primate ecology in Ecuador – funded by the Darwin Initiative<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Department for Environment Food & Rural Affairs, UK (2019): UN International Day of Forests 2019: Para-ecologists – the paramedics of the rainforest<br />
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<u>Readers of the BIOTA paraecologist training workshops:</u><br />
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- Gobabeb / Namibia, 2004 [http://www.paraecologist.org/images/e/e6/BIOTA_Reader_1st_training_2004.pdf '''PDF''' (486 KB)]<br />
<br />
- Gellap Ost, Keetmanshoop / Namibia, 2005 [http://www.paraecologist.org/images/7/79/BIOTA_Reader_2nd_training_2005.pdf '''PDF''' (401 KB)]<br />
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- Gellap Ost, Keetmanshoop / Namibia, 2006 [http://www.paraecologist.org/images/5/57/BIOTA_Reader_3rd_training_2006.pdf '''PDF''' (218 KB)]<br />
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- Kamieskroon / South Africa, 2007 [http://www.paraecologist.org/images/c/ce/BIOTA_Reader_4th_training_2007.pdf '''PDF''' (1.243 KB)]<br />
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- Vanrhynsdorp / South Africa, 2008 [http://www.paraecologist.org/images/3/36/BIOTA_Reader_5th_training_2008.pdf '''PDF''' (1.316 KB)]<br />
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- Nieuwoudtville / South Africa, 2009 [http://www.paraecologist.org/images/8/85/BIOTA_Reader_6th_training_2009.pdf '''PDF''' (577 KB)]<br />
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[[Training materials Readers#top seitenanfang|Top]]</div>Till Krausehttp://www.paraecologist.org/index.php?title=Training_materials_Readers&diff=2744Training materials Readers2022-02-18T15:41:47Z<p>Till Krause: </p>
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| valign="top" | <br>Engbers, Moritz (2008): How to organise my computer data [http://www.paraecologist.org/images/d/d8/Engbers_2008_Computer-Basics.pdf '''PDF''' (76 KB)]<br />
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Engbers, Moritz (2008): Climate Change - Causes, processes and possible effects [http://www.paraecologist.org/images/5/5b/Engbers_2008_para-ecologists_climate_change.pdf '''PDF''' (1.313 KB)]<br />
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Cuéllar, Erika (2009): Manuales Técnicos, 1er Curso de Capacitación para la Formación de Parabiólogos. A training manual developed for the Gran Chaco paraecologist project.<br />
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Grohmann, Constanze (2008): What are termites? [http://www.paraecologist.org/images/e/eb/Grohman_2008_Introduction_to_Termites_PE.pdf '''PDF''' (1.883 KB)]<br />
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Hesse, Alan J. & Cuéllar S., Erika (2008): Manuales Técnicos, 1er Curso de Capacitación para la Formación de Parabiólogos, '''PDF (16 MB) on request: Ute.Schmiedel@uni-hamburg.de'''<br />
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Schmiedel, Ute (2008): Guide to selected plant families [http://www.paraecologist.org/images/0/02/Schmiedel_2008_Plant_families.pdf '''PDF''' (1025 KB)]<br />
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Shekhar KS (2007): A field guide to the tracks and signs of Eastern Himalayan, Central Indian and Eastern Ghats Wildlife IBH: Delhi, 294 pp.<br />
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Shekhar KS (2008): Training rural residents as Naturalist Guides: Introductory training program at Saptura National Park, Madhya Pradesh. [http://www.paraecologist.org/images/7/71/Training_rural_guides_in_India_to_work_as_Naturalists.pdf '''PDF''' (83 KB)]<br />
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Parabiologist training manual 2006 – on primate ecology in Ecuador – funded by the Darwin Initiative <br />
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Parabiologist training manual 2007 – on primate ecology in Ecuador – funded by the Darwin Initiative<br />
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Department for Environment Food & Rural Affairs, UK (2019): UN International Day of Forests 2019: Para-ecologists – the paramedics of the rainforest<br />
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<u>Readers of the BIOTA paraecologist training workshops:</u><br />
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- Gobabeb / Namibia, 2004 [http://www.paraecologist.org/images/e/e6/BIOTA_Reader_1st_training_2004.pdf '''PDF''' (486 KB)]<br />
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- Gellap Ost, Keetmanshoop / Namibia, 2005 [http://www.paraecologist.org/images/7/79/BIOTA_Reader_2nd_training_2005.pdf '''PDF''' (401 KB)]<br />
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- Gellap Ost, Keetmanshoop / Namibia, 2006 [http://www.paraecologist.org/images/5/57/BIOTA_Reader_3rd_training_2006.pdf '''PDF''' (218 KB)]<br />
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- Kamieskroon / South Africa, 2007 [http://www.paraecologist.org/images/c/ce/BIOTA_Reader_4th_training_2007.pdf '''PDF''' (1.243 KB)]<br />
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- Vanrhynsdorp / South Africa, 2008 [http://www.paraecologist.org/images/3/36/BIOTA_Reader_5th_training_2008.pdf '''PDF''' (1.316 KB)]<br />
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- Nieuwoudtville / South Africa, 2009 [http://www.paraecologist.org/images/8/85/BIOTA_Reader_6th_training_2009.pdf '''PDF''' (577 KB)]<br />
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[[Training materials Readers#top seitenanfang|Top]]</div>Till Krausehttp://www.paraecologist.org/index.php?title=Para-ecologist_programmes&diff=2743Para-ecologist programmes2022-02-18T12:25:50Z<p>Till Krause: </p>
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<div>=== Research projects with paraecologists ===<br />
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<br><br />
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<span style="color:#ff0000"><span style="font-size:large">'''A) Overview of programmes, initiatives and organisations <br>that are currently involving paraecologists:'''</span></span><br />
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<br>'''Area de Conservación Guanacaste (ACG), Costa Rica'''<br />
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| [[File:logo-acg-sombra.jpg|link=http://www.acguanacaste.ac.cr/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=59&Itemid=218&lang=es]]<br />
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| valign="center" | [http://www.acguanacaste.ac.cr/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=59&Itemid=218&lang=es programme of the Area de Conservación Guanacaste (ACG)]<br />
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|The Costa Rican parataxonomist programme in the Area de Conservacion Guanacaste (ACG) was initiated in 1989 from a partnership between the non-governmental, non-profit organisation INBio ([http://www.inbio.ac.cr/en/ www.inbio.ac.cr]) and the administrative authorities of ACG ([http://www.acguanacaste.ac.cr/ www.acguanacaste.ac.cr]). The programme implements INBio’s goal of conducting an ambitious national species inventory of Costa Rica’s wildland biodiversity, to try to ensure its conservation through non-damaging uses by society. An important, albeit not principal, use of biodiversity information was bioprospecting, undertaken by a specific team within INBio. This is developed in parallel with the work of conducting the national inventory. Between them, a broad offering of educational projects is aimed at all sectors of society to help promote rapid, self-reinforcing taxonomic literacy and an improved awareness of biodiversity’s. This project was the first initiative to involve formally identified and course-trained parataxonomists into scientific biodiversity inventories.<br />
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|}<br />
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'''Creative Conservation Alliance (CCA), Bangladesh'''<br />
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| [[File:CCA.jpg|link=https://www.conservationalliance.org/]]<br />
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| valign="center" | [https://www.conservationalliance.org/ https://www.conservationalliance.org/]<br />
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|The Creative Conservation Alliance (CCA) is a government registered non-profit organization, dedicated to ecological and cultural preservation within Bangladesh’s last remaining wild places. Through our grassroots efforts we empower local people to become stakeholders in their own landscapes. As a critical part of the international Indo-Burma Biodiversity Hotspot-the most threatened Biodiversity Hotspot in the world-these remaining forests offer a refuge for over 26 globally threatened species. Through our comprehensive approach, we empower local people to become stakeholders in their own landscapes.<br />
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|}<br />
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'''Gran Chaco paraecologist project, Bolivia and Paraguay'''<br />
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[https://whitleyaward.org/winners/conservation-chaco-bolivia-paraguay/ https://whitleyaward.org/winners/conservation-chaco-bolivia-paraguay/]<br />
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'''Kakamega Environmental Education Program (KEEP)'''<br />
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| [[File:72 280 Keep logo.jpg|72 280 Keep logo.jpg|link=http://www.columbia.edu/cu/e3b/conservation/KEEP/index.htm]]<br />
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| valign="center" | [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/e3b/conservation/KEEP/index.htm http://www.columbia.edu/cu/e3b/conservation/KEEP/index.htm]<br />
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|KEEP is a grass-roots organization, working to save one of the last remaining rainforests in Kenya, through environmental education and creation of awareness among local communities, and development and / or implementation of economic alternatives to the exploitation of forest resources.<br />
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|}<br />
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'''Mitsinjo Association'''<br />
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| [[File:72 200 mitsinjo.jpg|link=https://associationmitsinjo.wordpress.com/]]<br />
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| [https://associationmitsinjo.wordpress.com/ Association Mitsinjo]<br />
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{| style="width: 500px" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
|A Malagasy NGO that started as a grassroots community initiative founded in 1999, Association Mitsinjo works in conservation, nature-based tourism, and development (including agriculture and health). Located in Andasibe, one of the biodiversity hotspots of the eastern Madagascar rainforest corridor, Mitsinjo integrates the protection of prime habitat and the generation of sustainable income for the local population living in and around these areas.<br />
<br />
We host visitors and researchers from all around the world, thus encouraging our local staff to stay on top of scientific discovery and have a constant interest in the ecology of the forest they manage. Over the years, Mitsinjo has collected a wealth of knowledge on a wide range of the area’s biodiversity. It is our goal to standardise this large expanse of information and make it scientifically streamlined.<br />
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|}<br />
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<br/>'''The New Guinea Binatang Research Center'''<br />
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| [[File:72 200 BRClogo.jpg|72 200 BRClogo.jpg|link=http://www.entu.cas.cz/png/index.html]]<br />
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| valign="center" | [http://www.entu.cas.cz/png/index.html www.entu.cas.cz/png/index.html]<br />
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|This paraecologist initiative was started in Madang (Papua New Guinea, PNG) in 1994 as a small team of permanently employed paraecologists assisting studies of plant–herbivore interactions in rainforest ecosystems. The programme has expanded over the past 20 years to include ecological research on plants, insects and vertebrates. Several large research projects have been completed under this programme, including the study of plant–herbivore food webs in tropical forests, monitoring >250,000 individual plants in a 50-ha forest plot, and studies of invertebrate and vertebrate biodiversity and ecosystem change along an altitudinal gradient. The paraecologist team also assists PNG and overseas postgraduate students, works with indigenous landowners on rainforest conservation, and participates in the country’s biodiversity and environmental quality surveys for the PNG government and local industry. The paraecologist team is established as a non-profit organisation (New Guinea Binatang Research Center, BRC) registered in PNG, and working in collaboration with national and overseas academic institutions.<br />
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|}<br />
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'''Tesoro Escondido Reserve, Ecuador'''<br />
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| [[File:Logo_Tesoro_Reserve.png|link=https://tesororeserve.org/en/research-projects-and-parabiologists-programme/]]<br />
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| valign="center" | [https://tesororeserve.org/en/research-projects-and-parabiologists-programme/ https://tesororeserve.org/en/research-projects-and-parabiologists-programme/]<br />
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Scientific research generated from within the reserve is a priority and a permanent activity for all the staff. Research projects are carried out by students, researchers and by our parabiologists.<br />
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A parabiologist is a person from a local community who is trained to become a research assistant. They undergo a process of permanent tutoring and ends up specializing in one or two topics. Results from research are published and presented by scientists and parabiologists in different national and international forums and journals.<br />
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For long term projects we offer research groups the possibility to collect and send data by our parabiologist group (with training in the specific topic). <br />
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Some permanent projects we carry out:<br />
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– Biodiversity monitoring using camera traps<br><br />
– Monitoring of a harpy eagle’s nest (Harpia harpyja)<br><br />
– Amphibian monitoring in different habitats and altitudes<br><br />
– Propagation of critically endangered trees Magnolia dixonii and M.canandeana<br><br />
– Primate monitoring focused on the critically endangered Ateles fusciceps fusciceps<br><br />
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<span style="color:#ff0000"><span style="font-size:large">'''B) Overview of programmes, initiatives and organisations <br>that involved paraecologists in the past:'''</span></span><br />
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| '''Project ALAS, Arthropods of La Selva, Costa Rica'''<br/><br />
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| valign="center" | [http://viceroy.eeb.uconn.edu/ALAS/ALAS.html http://viceroy.eeb.uconn.edu/ALAS/ALAS.html]<br />
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| '''BIOTA Southern Africa'''<br />
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[[File:Biota logo.gif|Biota logo.gif|link=http://www.biota-africa.org/reg_south_paraecol_ba.php]]<br />
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| style="vertical-align: top; width: 40px" |<br />
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| valign="center" | [http://www.biota-africa.org/reg_south_paraecol_ba.php http://www.biota-africa.org/reg_south_paraecol_ba.php]<br />
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|BIOTA AFRICA has been jointly invented by African and German researchers aiming at the establishment of research supporting sustainable use and conservation of biodiversity in Africa. From October 2004 until March 2010, the regional network BIOTA Southern Africa employed and trained eight paraecologists. They worked at different sites within the BIOTA Southern Africa research area in Namibia and South Africa.<br />
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'''The Future Okavango'''<br />
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| [[File:72 70 TFO Logo.jpg|72 70 TFO Logo.jpg|link=http://www.future-okavango.org]]<br />
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| valign="center" | [http://www.future-okavango.org www.future-okavango.org]<br />
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|}<br />
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|The Okavango basin in southern Africa with its variety of savannah woodlands and wetland ecosystems linked by the central lifeline of the Okavango River is a global hot-spot of accelerating change and land use conflicts. The river has its source in the rainy highlands of Angola and terminates in the Okavango Delta, the world's largest inland delta and the largest freshwater swamp south of the equator. The Future Okavango project analyses ecosystem functions and services within this trans-boundary basin of high international visibility and high potential transferability of results to other tropical and sub-tropical regions.<br><br />
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The Future Okavango project employs and trains three paraecologists, based in Angola, Botswana and Namibia, respectively.<br />
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|}<br />
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'''Groen Sebenza Paraecologists'''<br />
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[https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.658468030841124.1073741840.205627006125231&type=3 BotSoc Groen Sebenza Paraecologist training camp]<br />
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[https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.785980601423199.1073741848.205627006125231&type=3 BotSoc Groen Sebenza paraecologist training workshop 2]<br />
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<br/>[[Para-ecologist programmes#top seitenanfang|Top]]<br />
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<br></div>Till Krausehttp://www.paraecologist.org/index.php?title=Para-ecologist_programmes&diff=2742Para-ecologist programmes2022-02-18T12:13:36Z<p>Till Krause: </p>
<hr />
<div>=== Research projects with paraecologists ===<br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
<span style="color:#ff0000"><span style="font-size:large">'''A) Overview of programmes, initiatives and organisations <br>that are currently involving paraecologists:'''</span></span><br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br>'''Area de Conservación Guanacaste (ACG), Costa Rica'''<br />
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|-<br />
| [[File:logo-acg-sombra.jpg|link=http://www.acguanacaste.ac.cr/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=59&Itemid=218&lang=es]]<br />
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| style="vertical-align: top; width: 40px" |<br />
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| valign="center" | [http://www.acguanacaste.ac.cr/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=59&Itemid=218&lang=es programme of the Area de Conservación Guanacaste (ACG)]<br />
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|}<br />
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{| style="width: 500px" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
|The Costa Rican parataxonomist programme in the Area de Conservacion Guanacaste (ACG) was initiated in 1989 from a partnership between the non-governmental, non-profit organisation INBio ([http://www.inbio.ac.cr/en/ www.inbio.ac.cr]) and the administrative authorities of ACG ([http://www.acguanacaste.ac.cr/ www.acguanacaste.ac.cr]). The programme implements INBio’s goal of conducting an ambitious national species inventory of Costa Rica’s wildland biodiversity, to try to ensure its conservation through non-damaging uses by society. An important, albeit not principal, use of biodiversity information was bioprospecting, undertaken by a specific team within INBio. This is developed in parallel with the work of conducting the national inventory. Between them, a broad offering of educational projects is aimed at all sectors of society to help promote rapid, self-reinforcing taxonomic literacy and an improved awareness of biodiversity’s. This project was the first initiative to involve formally identified and course-trained parataxonomists into scientific biodiversity inventories.<br />
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|}<br />
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'''Creative Conservation Alliance (CCA), Bangladesh'''<br />
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{| style="text-align: left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
| [[File:CCA.jpg|link=https://www.conservationalliance.org/]]<br />
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| style="vertical-align: top; width: 40px" |<br />
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| valign="center" | [https://www.conservationalliance.org/ https://www.conservationalliance.org/]<br />
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|}<br />
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{| style="width: 500px" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
|The Creative Conservation Alliance (CCA) is a government registered non-profit organization, dedicated to ecological and cultural preservation within Bangladesh’s last remaining wild places. Through our grassroots efforts we empower local people to become stakeholders in their own landscapes. As a critical part of the international Indo-Burma Biodiversity Hotspot-the most threatened Biodiversity Hotspot in the world-these remaining forests offer a refuge for over 26 globally threatened species. Through our comprehensive approach, we empower local people to become stakeholders in their own landscapes.<br />
<br />
|}<br />
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'''Gran Chaco paraecologist project, Bolivia and Paraguay'''<br />
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[https://whitleyaward.org/winners/conservation-chaco-bolivia-paraguay/ https://whitleyaward.org/winners/conservation-chaco-bolivia-paraguay/]<br />
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'''Kakamega Environmental Education Program (KEEP)'''<br />
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{| style="text-align: left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
| [[File:72 280 Keep logo.jpg|72 280 Keep logo.jpg|link=http://www.columbia.edu/cu/e3b/conservation/KEEP/index.htm]]<br />
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| style="vertical-align: top; width: 40px" |<br />
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| valign="center" | [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/e3b/conservation/KEEP/index.htm http://www.columbia.edu/cu/e3b/conservation/KEEP/index.htm]<br />
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|}<br />
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|KEEP is a grass-roots organization, working to save one of the last remaining rainforests in Kenya, through environmental education and creation of awareness among local communities, and development and / or implementation of economic alternatives to the exploitation of forest resources.<br />
<br />
|}<br />
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'''Mitsinjo Association'''<br />
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{| style="text-align: left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
| [[File:72 200 mitsinjo.jpg|link=https://associationmitsinjo.wordpress.com/]]<br />
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| style="vertical-align: top; width: 40px" |<br />
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| [https://associationmitsinjo.wordpress.com/ Association Mitsinjo]<br />
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|}<br />
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{| style="width: 500px" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
|A Malagasy NGO that started as a grassroots community initiative founded in 1999, Association Mitsinjo works in conservation, nature-based tourism, and development (including agriculture and health). Located in Andasibe, one of the biodiversity hotspots of the eastern Madagascar rainforest corridor, Mitsinjo integrates the protection of prime habitat and the generation of sustainable income for the local population living in and around these areas.<br />
<br />
We host visitors and researchers from all around the world, thus encouraging our local staff to stay on top of scientific discovery and have a constant interest in the ecology of the forest they manage. Over the years, Mitsinjo has collected a wealth of knowledge on a wide range of the area’s biodiversity. It is our goal to standardise this large expanse of information and make it scientifically streamlined.<br />
<br />
|}<br />
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<br/>'''The New Guinea Binatang Research Center'''<br />
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| [[File:72 200 BRClogo.jpg|72 200 BRClogo.jpg|link=http://www.entu.cas.cz/png/index.html]]<br />
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| valign="center" | [http://www.entu.cas.cz/png/index.html www.entu.cas.cz/png/index.html]<br />
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|}<br />
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{| style="width: 500px" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
|This paraecologist initiative was started in Madang (Papua New Guinea, PNG) in 1994 as a small team of permanently employed paraecologists assisting studies of plant–herbivore interactions in rainforest ecosystems. The programme has expanded over the past 20 years to include ecological research on plants, insects and vertebrates. Several large research projects have been completed under this programme, including the study of plant–herbivore food webs in tropical forests, monitoring >250,000 individual plants in a 50-ha forest plot, and studies of invertebrate and vertebrate biodiversity and ecosystem change along an altitudinal gradient. The paraecologist team also assists PNG and overseas postgraduate students, works with indigenous landowners on rainforest conservation, and participates in the country’s biodiversity and environmental quality surveys for the PNG government and local industry. The paraecologist team is established as a non-profit organisation (New Guinea Binatang Research Center, BRC) registered in PNG, and working in collaboration with national and overseas academic institutions.<br />
<br />
|}<br />
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'''Tesoro Escondido Reserve, Ecuador'''<br />
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|-<br />
| [[File:Logo_Tesoro_Reserve.png|link=https://tesororeserve.org/en/research-projects-and-parabiologists-programme/]]<br />
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| valign="center" | [https://tesororeserve.org/en/research-projects-and-parabiologists-programme/ https://tesororeserve.org/en/research-projects-and-parabiologists-programme/]<br />
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|-<br />
|<br />
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Scientific research generated from within the reserve is a priority and a permanent activity for all the staff. Research projects are carried out by students, researchers and by our parabiologists.<br />
<br />
A parabiologist is a person from a local community who is trained to become a research assistant. They undergo a process of permanent tutoring and ends up specializing in one or two topics. Results from research are published and presented by scientists and parabiologists in different national and international forums and journals.<br />
<br />
For long term projects we offer research groups the possibility to collect and send data by our parabiologist group (with training in the specific topic). <br />
<br />
Some permanent projects we carry out:<br />
<br />
– Biodiversity monitoring using camera traps<br><br />
– Monitoring of a harpy eagle’s nest (Harpia harpyja)<br><br />
– Amphibian monitoring in different habitats and altitudes<br><br />
– Propagation of critically endangered trees Magnolia dixonii and M.canandeana<br><br />
– Primate monitoring focused on the critically endangered Ateles fusciceps fusciceps<br><br />
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|}<br />
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[[File:Photo_Nino_Sekhniashvili_MG_2118_1000-b.jpg|link=https://tesororeserve.org/en/research-projects-and-parabiologists-programme/]]<br />
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<span style="color:#ff0000"><span style="font-size:large">'''B) Overview of programmes, initiatives and organisations <br>that involved paraecologists in the past:'''</span></span><br />
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{| style="text-align: left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
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| '''Project ALAS, Arthropods of La Selva, Costa Rica'''<br/><br />
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| style="vertical-align: top; width: 40px" |<br />
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| valign="center" | [http://viceroy.eeb.uconn.edu/ALAS/ALAS.html http://viceroy.eeb.uconn.edu/ALAS/ALAS.html]<br />
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{| style="text-align: left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
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| '''BIOTA Southern Africa'''<br />
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[[File:Biota logo.gif|Biota logo.gif|link=http://www.biota-africa.org/reg_south_paraecol_ba.php]]<br />
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| style="vertical-align: top; width: 40px" |<br />
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| valign="center" | [http://www.biota-africa.org/reg_south_paraecol_ba.php http://www.biota-africa.org/reg_south_paraecol_ba.php]<br />
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|}<br />
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{| style="width: 500px" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
|BIOTA AFRICA has been jointly invented by African and German researchers aiming at the establishment of research supporting sustainable use and conservation of biodiversity in Africa. From October 2004 until March 2010, the regional network BIOTA Southern Africa employed and trained eight paraecologists. They worked at different sites within the BIOTA Southern Africa research area in Namibia and South Africa.<br />
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|}<br />
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'''The Future Okavango'''<br />
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{| style="text-align: left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
| [[File:72 70 TFO Logo.jpg|72 70 TFO Logo.jpg|link=http://www.future-okavango.org]]<br />
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| style="vertical-align: top; width: 40px" |<br />
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| valign="center" | [http://www.future-okavango.org www.future-okavango.org]<br />
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|}<br />
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{| style="width: 500px" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
|The Okavango basin in southern Africa with its variety of savannah woodlands and wetland ecosystems linked by the central lifeline of the Okavango River is a global hot-spot of accelerating change and land use conflicts. The river has its source in the rainy highlands of Angola and terminates in the Okavango Delta, the world's largest inland delta and the largest freshwater swamp south of the equator. The Future Okavango project analyses ecosystem functions and services within this trans-boundary basin of high international visibility and high potential transferability of results to other tropical and sub-tropical regions.<br><br />
<br />
The Future Okavango project employs and trains three paraecologists, based in Angola, Botswana and Namibia, respectively.<br />
<br />
|}<br />
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'''Groen Sebenza Paraecologists'''<br />
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[https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.658468030841124.1073741840.205627006125231&type=3 BotSoc Groen Sebenza Paraecologist training camp]<br />
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[https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.785980601423199.1073741848.205627006125231&type=3 BotSoc Groen Sebenza paraecologist training workshop 2]<br />
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<br/>[[Para-ecologist programmes#top seitenanfang|Top]]<br />
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<br></div>Till Krausehttp://www.paraecologist.org/index.php?title=Para-ecologist_programmes&diff=2741Para-ecologist programmes2022-02-18T12:11:23Z<p>Till Krause: </p>
<hr />
<div>=== Research projects with paraecologists ===<br />
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<br><br />
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<span style="color:#ff0000"><span style="font-size:large">'''A) Overview of programmes, initiatives and organisations <br>that are currently involving paraecologists:'''</span></span><br />
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<br>'''Area de Conservación Guanacaste (ACG), Costa Rica'''<br />
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{| style="text-align: left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
| [[File:logo-acg-sombra.jpg|link=http://www.acguanacaste.ac.cr/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=59&Itemid=218&lang=es]]<br />
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| style="vertical-align: top; width: 40px" |<br />
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| valign="center" | [http://www.acguanacaste.ac.cr/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=59&Itemid=218&lang=es programme of the Area de Conservación Guanacaste (ACG)]<br />
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|}<br />
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{| style="width: 500px" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
|The Costa Rican parataxonomist programme in the Area de Conservacion Guanacaste (ACG) was initiated in 1989 from a partnership between the non-governmental, non-profit organisation INBio ([http://www.inbio.ac.cr/en/ www.inbio.ac.cr]) and the administrative authorities of ACG ([http://www.acguanacaste.ac.cr/ www.acguanacaste.ac.cr]). The programme implements INBio’s goal of conducting an ambitious national species inventory of Costa Rica’s wildland biodiversity, to try to ensure its conservation through non-damaging uses by society. An important, albeit not principal, use of biodiversity information was bioprospecting, undertaken by a specific team within INBio. This is developed in parallel with the work of conducting the national inventory. Between them, a broad offering of educational projects is aimed at all sectors of society to help promote rapid, self-reinforcing taxonomic literacy and an improved awareness of biodiversity’s. This project was the first initiative to involve formally identified and course-trained parataxonomists into scientific biodiversity inventories.<br />
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|}<br />
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'''Creative Conservation Alliance (CCA), Bangladesh'''<br />
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{| style="text-align: left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
| [[File:CCA.jpg|link=https://www.conservationalliance.org/]]<br />
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| style="vertical-align: top; width: 40px" |<br />
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| valign="center" | [https://www.conservationalliance.org/ https://www.conservationalliance.org/]<br />
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|}<br />
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{| style="width: 500px" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
|The Creative Conservation Alliance (CCA) is a government registered non-profit organization, dedicated to ecological and cultural preservation within Bangladesh’s last remaining wild places. Through our grassroots efforts we empower local people to become stakeholders in their own landscapes. As a critical part of the international Indo-Burma Biodiversity Hotspot-the most threatened Biodiversity Hotspot in the world-these remaining forests offer a refuge for over 26 globally threatened species. Through our comprehensive approach, we empower local people to become stakeholders in their own landscapes.<br />
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|}<br />
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'''Gran Chaco paraecologist project, Bolivia and Paraguay'''<br />
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[https://whitleyaward.org/winners/conservation-chaco-bolivia-paraguay/ https://whitleyaward.org/winners/conservation-chaco-bolivia-paraguay/]<br />
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'''Kakamega Environmental Education Program (KEEP)'''<br />
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{| style="text-align: left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
| [[File:72 280 Keep logo.jpg|72 280 Keep logo.jpg|link=http://www.columbia.edu/cu/e3b/conservation/KEEP/index.htm]]<br />
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| style="vertical-align: top; width: 40px" |<br />
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| valign="center" | [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/e3b/conservation/KEEP/index.htm http://www.columbia.edu/cu/e3b/conservation/KEEP/index.htm]<br />
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|}<br />
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{| style="width: 500px" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
|KEEP is a grass-roots organization, working to save one of the last remaining rainforests in Kenya, through environmental education and creation of awareness among local communities, and development and / or implementation of economic alternatives to the exploitation of forest resources.<br />
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|}<br />
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'''Mitsinjo Association'''<br />
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{| style="text-align: left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
| [[File:72 200 mitsinjo.jpg|link=https://associationmitsinjo.wordpress.com/]]<br />
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| style="vertical-align: top; width: 40px" |<br />
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| [https://associationmitsinjo.wordpress.com/ Association Mitsinjo]<br />
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|}<br />
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{| style="width: 500px" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
|A Malagasy NGO that started as a grassroots community initiative founded in 1999, Association Mitsinjo works in conservation, nature-based tourism, and development (including agriculture and health). Located in Andasibe, one of the biodiversity hotspots of the eastern Madagascar rainforest corridor, Mitsinjo integrates the protection of prime habitat and the generation of sustainable income for the local population living in and around these areas.<br />
<br />
We host visitors and researchers from all around the world, thus encouraging our local staff to stay on top of scientific discovery and have a constant interest in the ecology of the forest they manage. Over the years, Mitsinjo has collected a wealth of knowledge on a wide range of the area’s biodiversity. It is our goal to standardise this large expanse of information and make it scientifically streamlined.<br />
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|}<br />
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<br/>'''The New Guinea Binatang Research Center'''<br />
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{| style="text-align: left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
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| [[File:72 200 BRClogo.jpg|72 200 BRClogo.jpg|link=http://www.entu.cas.cz/png/index.html]]<br />
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| style="vertical-align: top; width: 40px" |<br />
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| valign="center" | [http://www.entu.cas.cz/png/index.html www.entu.cas.cz/png/index.html]<br />
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{| style="width: 500px" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
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|This paraecologist initiative was started in Madang (Papua New Guinea, PNG) in 1994 as a small team of permanently employed paraecologists assisting studies of plant–herbivore interactions in rainforest ecosystems. The programme has expanded over the past 20 years to include ecological research on plants, insects and vertebrates. Several large research projects have been completed under this programme, including the study of plant–herbivore food webs in tropical forests, monitoring >250,000 individual plants in a 50-ha forest plot, and studies of invertebrate and vertebrate biodiversity and ecosystem change along an altitudinal gradient. The paraecologist team also assists PNG and overseas postgraduate students, works with indigenous landowners on rainforest conservation, and participates in the country’s biodiversity and environmental quality surveys for the PNG government and local industry. The paraecologist team is established as a non-profit organisation (New Guinea Binatang Research Center, BRC) registered in PNG, and working in collaboration with national and overseas academic institutions.<br />
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|}<br />
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'''Tesoro Escondido Reserve, Ecuador'''<br />
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| [[File:Logo_Tesoro_Reserve.png]]<br><br />
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|link=https://tesororeserve.org/en/research-projects-and-parabiologists-programme/]]<br />
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| valign="center" | [https://tesororeserve.org/en/research-projects-and-parabiologists-programme/ https://tesororeserve.org/en/research-projects-and-parabiologists-programme/]<br />
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|}<br />
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{| style="width: 500px" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
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Scientific research generated from within the reserve is a priority and a permanent activity for all the staff. Research projects are carried out by students, researchers and by our parabiologists.<br />
<br />
A parabiologist is a person from a local community who is trained to become a research assistant. They undergo a process of permanent tutoring and ends up specializing in one or two topics. Results from research are published and presented by scientists and parabiologists in different national and international forums and journals.<br />
<br />
For long term projects we offer research groups the possibility to collect and send data by our parabiologist group (with training in the specific topic). <br />
<br />
Some permanent projects we carry out:<br />
<br />
– Biodiversity monitoring using camera traps<br><br />
– Monitoring of a harpy eagle’s nest (Harpia harpyja)<br><br />
– Amphibian monitoring in different habitats and altitudes<br><br />
– Propagation of critically endangered trees Magnolia dixonii and M.canandeana<br><br />
– Primate monitoring focused on the critically endangered Ateles fusciceps fusciceps<br><br />
<br />
|}<br />
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<br><br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
<span style="color:#ff0000"><span style="font-size:large">'''B) Overview of programmes, initiatives and organisations <br>that involved paraecologists in the past:'''</span></span><br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
{| style="text-align: left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
| '''Project ALAS, Arthropods of La Selva, Costa Rica'''<br/><br />
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| style="vertical-align: top; width: 40px" |<br />
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| valign="center" | [http://viceroy.eeb.uconn.edu/ALAS/ALAS.html http://viceroy.eeb.uconn.edu/ALAS/ALAS.html]<br />
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|}<br />
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{| style="text-align: left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
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| '''BIOTA Southern Africa'''<br />
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[[File:Biota logo.gif|Biota logo.gif|link=http://www.biota-africa.org/reg_south_paraecol_ba.php]]<br />
<br />
| style="vertical-align: top; width: 40px" |<br />
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| valign="center" | [http://www.biota-africa.org/reg_south_paraecol_ba.php http://www.biota-africa.org/reg_south_paraecol_ba.php]<br />
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|}<br />
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{| style="width: 500px" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
|BIOTA AFRICA has been jointly invented by African and German researchers aiming at the establishment of research supporting sustainable use and conservation of biodiversity in Africa. From October 2004 until March 2010, the regional network BIOTA Southern Africa employed and trained eight paraecologists. They worked at different sites within the BIOTA Southern Africa research area in Namibia and South Africa.<br />
<br />
|}<br />
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'''The Future Okavango'''<br />
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{| style="text-align: left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
| [[File:72 70 TFO Logo.jpg|72 70 TFO Logo.jpg|link=http://www.future-okavango.org]]<br />
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| style="vertical-align: top; width: 40px" |<br />
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| valign="center" | [http://www.future-okavango.org www.future-okavango.org]<br />
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|}<br />
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{| style="width: 500px" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
|The Okavango basin in southern Africa with its variety of savannah woodlands and wetland ecosystems linked by the central lifeline of the Okavango River is a global hot-spot of accelerating change and land use conflicts. The river has its source in the rainy highlands of Angola and terminates in the Okavango Delta, the world's largest inland delta and the largest freshwater swamp south of the equator. The Future Okavango project analyses ecosystem functions and services within this trans-boundary basin of high international visibility and high potential transferability of results to other tropical and sub-tropical regions.<br><br />
<br />
The Future Okavango project employs and trains three paraecologists, based in Angola, Botswana and Namibia, respectively.<br />
<br />
|}<br />
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'''Groen Sebenza Paraecologists'''<br />
<br />
[https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.658468030841124.1073741840.205627006125231&type=3 BotSoc Groen Sebenza Paraecologist training camp]<br />
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[https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.785980601423199.1073741848.205627006125231&type=3 BotSoc Groen Sebenza paraecologist training workshop 2]<br />
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<br/>[[Para-ecologist programmes#top seitenanfang|Top]]<br />
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<br></div>Till Krausehttp://www.paraecologist.org/index.php?title=Para-ecologist_programmes&diff=2740Para-ecologist programmes2022-02-18T12:10:56Z<p>Till Krause: </p>
<hr />
<div>=== Research projects with paraecologists ===<br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
<span style="color:#ff0000"><span style="font-size:large">'''A) Overview of programmes, initiatives and organisations <br>that are currently involving paraecologists:'''</span></span><br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br>'''Area de Conservación Guanacaste (ACG), Costa Rica'''<br />
<br />
{| style="text-align: left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
| [[File:logo-acg-sombra.jpg|link=http://www.acguanacaste.ac.cr/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=59&Itemid=218&lang=es]]<br />
<br />
| style="vertical-align: top; width: 40px" |<br />
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| valign="center" | [http://www.acguanacaste.ac.cr/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=59&Itemid=218&lang=es programme of the Area de Conservación Guanacaste (ACG)]<br />
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|}<br />
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{| style="width: 500px" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
|The Costa Rican parataxonomist programme in the Area de Conservacion Guanacaste (ACG) was initiated in 1989 from a partnership between the non-governmental, non-profit organisation INBio ([http://www.inbio.ac.cr/en/ www.inbio.ac.cr]) and the administrative authorities of ACG ([http://www.acguanacaste.ac.cr/ www.acguanacaste.ac.cr]). The programme implements INBio’s goal of conducting an ambitious national species inventory of Costa Rica’s wildland biodiversity, to try to ensure its conservation through non-damaging uses by society. An important, albeit not principal, use of biodiversity information was bioprospecting, undertaken by a specific team within INBio. This is developed in parallel with the work of conducting the national inventory. Between them, a broad offering of educational projects is aimed at all sectors of society to help promote rapid, self-reinforcing taxonomic literacy and an improved awareness of biodiversity’s. This project was the first initiative to involve formally identified and course-trained parataxonomists into scientific biodiversity inventories.<br />
<br />
|}<br />
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'''Creative Conservation Alliance (CCA), Bangladesh'''<br />
<br />
{| style="text-align: left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
| [[File:CCA.jpg|link=https://www.conservationalliance.org/]]<br />
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| style="vertical-align: top; width: 40px" |<br />
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| valign="center" | [https://www.conservationalliance.org/ https://www.conservationalliance.org/]<br />
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|}<br />
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{| style="width: 500px" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
|The Creative Conservation Alliance (CCA) is a government registered non-profit organization, dedicated to ecological and cultural preservation within Bangladesh’s last remaining wild places. Through our grassroots efforts we empower local people to become stakeholders in their own landscapes. As a critical part of the international Indo-Burma Biodiversity Hotspot-the most threatened Biodiversity Hotspot in the world-these remaining forests offer a refuge for over 26 globally threatened species. Through our comprehensive approach, we empower local people to become stakeholders in their own landscapes.<br />
<br />
|}<br />
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'''Gran Chaco paraecologist project, Bolivia and Paraguay'''<br />
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[https://whitleyaward.org/winners/conservation-chaco-bolivia-paraguay/ https://whitleyaward.org/winners/conservation-chaco-bolivia-paraguay/]<br />
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'''Kakamega Environmental Education Program (KEEP)'''<br />
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{| style="text-align: left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
| [[File:72 280 Keep logo.jpg|72 280 Keep logo.jpg|link=http://www.columbia.edu/cu/e3b/conservation/KEEP/index.htm]]<br />
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| style="vertical-align: top; width: 40px" |<br />
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| valign="center" | [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/e3b/conservation/KEEP/index.htm http://www.columbia.edu/cu/e3b/conservation/KEEP/index.htm]<br />
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|}<br />
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{| style="width: 500px" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
|KEEP is a grass-roots organization, working to save one of the last remaining rainforests in Kenya, through environmental education and creation of awareness among local communities, and development and / or implementation of economic alternatives to the exploitation of forest resources.<br />
<br />
|}<br />
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'''Mitsinjo Association'''<br />
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{| style="text-align: left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
| [[File:72 200 mitsinjo.jpg|link=https://associationmitsinjo.wordpress.com/]]<br />
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| style="vertical-align: top; width: 40px" |<br />
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| [https://associationmitsinjo.wordpress.com/ Association Mitsinjo]<br />
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|}<br />
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{| style="width: 500px" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
|A Malagasy NGO that started as a grassroots community initiative founded in 1999, Association Mitsinjo works in conservation, nature-based tourism, and development (including agriculture and health). Located in Andasibe, one of the biodiversity hotspots of the eastern Madagascar rainforest corridor, Mitsinjo integrates the protection of prime habitat and the generation of sustainable income for the local population living in and around these areas.<br />
<br />
We host visitors and researchers from all around the world, thus encouraging our local staff to stay on top of scientific discovery and have a constant interest in the ecology of the forest they manage. Over the years, Mitsinjo has collected a wealth of knowledge on a wide range of the area’s biodiversity. It is our goal to standardise this large expanse of information and make it scientifically streamlined.<br />
<br />
|}<br />
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<br/>'''The New Guinea Binatang Research Center'''<br />
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{| style="text-align: left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
| [[File:72 200 BRClogo.jpg|72 200 BRClogo.jpg|link=http://www.entu.cas.cz/png/index.html]]<br />
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| style="vertical-align: top; width: 40px" |<br />
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| valign="center" | [http://www.entu.cas.cz/png/index.html www.entu.cas.cz/png/index.html]<br />
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|}<br />
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{| style="width: 500px" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
|This paraecologist initiative was started in Madang (Papua New Guinea, PNG) in 1994 as a small team of permanently employed paraecologists assisting studies of plant–herbivore interactions in rainforest ecosystems. The programme has expanded over the past 20 years to include ecological research on plants, insects and vertebrates. Several large research projects have been completed under this programme, including the study of plant–herbivore food webs in tropical forests, monitoring >250,000 individual plants in a 50-ha forest plot, and studies of invertebrate and vertebrate biodiversity and ecosystem change along an altitudinal gradient. The paraecologist team also assists PNG and overseas postgraduate students, works with indigenous landowners on rainforest conservation, and participates in the country’s biodiversity and environmental quality surveys for the PNG government and local industry. The paraecologist team is established as a non-profit organisation (New Guinea Binatang Research Center, BRC) registered in PNG, and working in collaboration with national and overseas academic institutions.<br />
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|}<br />
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'''Tesoro Escondido Reserve, Ecuador'''<br />
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| [[File:Logo_Tesoro_Reserve.png]]<br />
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|link=https://tesororeserve.org/en/research-projects-and-parabiologists-programme/]]<br />
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| valign="center" | [https://tesororeserve.org/en/research-projects-and-parabiologists-programme/ https://tesororeserve.org/en/research-projects-and-parabiologists-programme/]<br />
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Scientific research generated from within the reserve is a priority and a permanent activity for all the staff. Research projects are carried out by students, researchers and by our parabiologists.<br />
<br />
A parabiologist is a person from a local community who is trained to become a research assistant. They undergo a process of permanent tutoring and ends up specializing in one or two topics. Results from research are published and presented by scientists and parabiologists in different national and international forums and journals.<br />
<br />
For long term projects we offer research groups the possibility to collect and send data by our parabiologist group (with training in the specific topic). <br />
<br />
Some permanent projects we carry out:<br />
<br />
– Biodiversity monitoring using camera traps<br><br />
– Monitoring of a harpy eagle’s nest (Harpia harpyja)<br><br />
– Amphibian monitoring in different habitats and altitudes<br><br />
– Propagation of critically endangered trees Magnolia dixonii and M.canandeana<br><br />
– Primate monitoring focused on the critically endangered Ateles fusciceps fusciceps<br><br />
<br />
|}<br />
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<br><br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
<span style="color:#ff0000"><span style="font-size:large">'''B) Overview of programmes, initiatives and organisations <br>that involved paraecologists in the past:'''</span></span><br />
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<br><br />
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{| style="text-align: left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
| '''Project ALAS, Arthropods of La Selva, Costa Rica'''<br/><br />
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| style="vertical-align: top; width: 40px" |<br />
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| valign="center" | [http://viceroy.eeb.uconn.edu/ALAS/ALAS.html http://viceroy.eeb.uconn.edu/ALAS/ALAS.html]<br />
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|}<br />
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{| style="text-align: left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
| '''BIOTA Southern Africa'''<br />
<br />
[[File:Biota logo.gif|Biota logo.gif|link=http://www.biota-africa.org/reg_south_paraecol_ba.php]]<br />
<br />
| style="vertical-align: top; width: 40px" |<br />
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| valign="center" | [http://www.biota-africa.org/reg_south_paraecol_ba.php http://www.biota-africa.org/reg_south_paraecol_ba.php]<br />
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|}<br />
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{| style="width: 500px" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
|BIOTA AFRICA has been jointly invented by African and German researchers aiming at the establishment of research supporting sustainable use and conservation of biodiversity in Africa. From October 2004 until March 2010, the regional network BIOTA Southern Africa employed and trained eight paraecologists. They worked at different sites within the BIOTA Southern Africa research area in Namibia and South Africa.<br />
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|}<br />
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'''The Future Okavango'''<br />
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{| style="text-align: left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
| [[File:72 70 TFO Logo.jpg|72 70 TFO Logo.jpg|link=http://www.future-okavango.org]]<br />
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| style="vertical-align: top; width: 40px" |<br />
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| valign="center" | [http://www.future-okavango.org www.future-okavango.org]<br />
<br />
|}<br />
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{| style="width: 500px" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
|The Okavango basin in southern Africa with its variety of savannah woodlands and wetland ecosystems linked by the central lifeline of the Okavango River is a global hot-spot of accelerating change and land use conflicts. The river has its source in the rainy highlands of Angola and terminates in the Okavango Delta, the world's largest inland delta and the largest freshwater swamp south of the equator. The Future Okavango project analyses ecosystem functions and services within this trans-boundary basin of high international visibility and high potential transferability of results to other tropical and sub-tropical regions.<br><br />
<br />
The Future Okavango project employs and trains three paraecologists, based in Angola, Botswana and Namibia, respectively.<br />
<br />
|}<br />
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'''Groen Sebenza Paraecologists'''<br />
<br />
[https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.658468030841124.1073741840.205627006125231&type=3 BotSoc Groen Sebenza Paraecologist training camp]<br />
<br />
[https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.785980601423199.1073741848.205627006125231&type=3 BotSoc Groen Sebenza paraecologist training workshop 2]<br />
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<br/>[[Para-ecologist programmes#top seitenanfang|Top]]<br />
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<br><br />
<br />
<br></div>Till Krausehttp://www.paraecologist.org/index.php?title=Para-ecologist_programmes&diff=2739Para-ecologist programmes2022-02-18T12:09:19Z<p>Till Krause: </p>
<hr />
<div>=== Research projects with paraecologists ===<br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
<span style="color:#ff0000"><span style="font-size:large">'''A) Overview of programmes, initiatives and organisations <br>that are currently involving paraecologists:'''</span></span><br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br>'''Area de Conservación Guanacaste (ACG), Costa Rica'''<br />
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{| style="text-align: left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
| [[File:logo-acg-sombra.jpg|link=http://www.acguanacaste.ac.cr/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=59&Itemid=218&lang=es]]<br />
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| style="vertical-align: top; width: 40px" |<br />
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| valign="center" | [http://www.acguanacaste.ac.cr/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=59&Itemid=218&lang=es programme of the Area de Conservación Guanacaste (ACG)]<br />
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|}<br />
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{| style="width: 500px" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
|The Costa Rican parataxonomist programme in the Area de Conservacion Guanacaste (ACG) was initiated in 1989 from a partnership between the non-governmental, non-profit organisation INBio ([http://www.inbio.ac.cr/en/ www.inbio.ac.cr]) and the administrative authorities of ACG ([http://www.acguanacaste.ac.cr/ www.acguanacaste.ac.cr]). The programme implements INBio’s goal of conducting an ambitious national species inventory of Costa Rica’s wildland biodiversity, to try to ensure its conservation through non-damaging uses by society. An important, albeit not principal, use of biodiversity information was bioprospecting, undertaken by a specific team within INBio. This is developed in parallel with the work of conducting the national inventory. Between them, a broad offering of educational projects is aimed at all sectors of society to help promote rapid, self-reinforcing taxonomic literacy and an improved awareness of biodiversity’s. This project was the first initiative to involve formally identified and course-trained parataxonomists into scientific biodiversity inventories.<br />
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|}<br />
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'''Creative Conservation Alliance (CCA), Bangladesh'''<br />
<br />
{| style="text-align: left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
| [[File:CCA.jpg|link=https://www.conservationalliance.org/]]<br />
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| style="vertical-align: top; width: 40px" |<br />
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| valign="center" | [https://www.conservationalliance.org/ https://www.conservationalliance.org/]<br />
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|}<br />
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{| style="width: 500px" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
|The Creative Conservation Alliance (CCA) is a government registered non-profit organization, dedicated to ecological and cultural preservation within Bangladesh’s last remaining wild places. Through our grassroots efforts we empower local people to become stakeholders in their own landscapes. As a critical part of the international Indo-Burma Biodiversity Hotspot-the most threatened Biodiversity Hotspot in the world-these remaining forests offer a refuge for over 26 globally threatened species. Through our comprehensive approach, we empower local people to become stakeholders in their own landscapes.<br />
<br />
|}<br />
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<br />
<br />
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'''Gran Chaco paraecologist project, Bolivia and Paraguay'''<br />
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[https://whitleyaward.org/winners/conservation-chaco-bolivia-paraguay/ https://whitleyaward.org/winners/conservation-chaco-bolivia-paraguay/]<br />
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'''Kakamega Environmental Education Program (KEEP)'''<br />
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{| style="text-align: left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
| [[File:72 280 Keep logo.jpg|72 280 Keep logo.jpg|link=http://www.columbia.edu/cu/e3b/conservation/KEEP/index.htm]]<br />
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| style="vertical-align: top; width: 40px" |<br />
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| valign="center" | [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/e3b/conservation/KEEP/index.htm http://www.columbia.edu/cu/e3b/conservation/KEEP/index.htm]<br />
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|}<br />
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{| style="width: 500px" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
|KEEP is a grass-roots organization, working to save one of the last remaining rainforests in Kenya, through environmental education and creation of awareness among local communities, and development and / or implementation of economic alternatives to the exploitation of forest resources.<br />
<br />
|}<br />
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<br />
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'''Mitsinjo Association'''<br />
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{| style="text-align: left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
| [[File:72 200 mitsinjo.jpg|link=https://associationmitsinjo.wordpress.com/]]<br />
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| style="vertical-align: top; width: 40px" |<br />
<br />
| [https://associationmitsinjo.wordpress.com/ Association Mitsinjo]<br />
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|}<br />
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<br />
{| style="width: 500px" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
|A Malagasy NGO that started as a grassroots community initiative founded in 1999, Association Mitsinjo works in conservation, nature-based tourism, and development (including agriculture and health). Located in Andasibe, one of the biodiversity hotspots of the eastern Madagascar rainforest corridor, Mitsinjo integrates the protection of prime habitat and the generation of sustainable income for the local population living in and around these areas.<br />
<br />
We host visitors and researchers from all around the world, thus encouraging our local staff to stay on top of scientific discovery and have a constant interest in the ecology of the forest they manage. Over the years, Mitsinjo has collected a wealth of knowledge on a wide range of the area’s biodiversity. It is our goal to standardise this large expanse of information and make it scientifically streamlined.<br />
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|}<br />
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<br/>'''The New Guinea Binatang Research Center'''<br />
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{| style="text-align: left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
| [[File:72 200 BRClogo.jpg|72 200 BRClogo.jpg|link=http://www.entu.cas.cz/png/index.html]]<br />
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| style="vertical-align: top; width: 40px" |<br />
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| valign="center" | [http://www.entu.cas.cz/png/index.html www.entu.cas.cz/png/index.html]<br />
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|}<br />
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<br />
{| style="width: 500px" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
|This paraecologist initiative was started in Madang (Papua New Guinea, PNG) in 1994 as a small team of permanently employed paraecologists assisting studies of plant–herbivore interactions in rainforest ecosystems. The programme has expanded over the past 20 years to include ecological research on plants, insects and vertebrates. Several large research projects have been completed under this programme, including the study of plant–herbivore food webs in tropical forests, monitoring >250,000 individual plants in a 50-ha forest plot, and studies of invertebrate and vertebrate biodiversity and ecosystem change along an altitudinal gradient. The paraecologist team also assists PNG and overseas postgraduate students, works with indigenous landowners on rainforest conservation, and participates in the country’s biodiversity and environmental quality surveys for the PNG government and local industry. The paraecologist team is established as a non-profit organisation (New Guinea Binatang Research Center, BRC) registered in PNG, and working in collaboration with national and overseas academic institutions.<br />
<br />
|}<br />
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<br />
'''Tesoro Escondido Reserve, Ecuador'''<br />
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{| style="text-align: left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
| [[File:Logo_Tesoro_Reserve.png|link=https://tesororeserve.org/en/research-projects-and-parabiologists-programme/]]<br />
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| style="vertical-align: top; width: 40px" |<br />
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| valign="center" | [https://tesororeserve.org/en/research-projects-and-parabiologists-programme/ https://tesororeserve.org/en/research-projects-and-parabiologists-programme/]<br />
<br />
|}<br />
<br />
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{| style="width: 500px" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
<br />
Scientific research generated from within the reserve is a priority and a permanent activity for all the staff. Research projects are carried out by students, researchers and by our parabiologists.<br />
<br />
A parabiologist is a person from a local community who is trained to become a research assistant. They undergo a process of permanent tutoring and ends up specializing in one or two topics. Results from research are published and presented by scientists and parabiologists in different national and international forums and journals.<br />
<br />
For long term projects we offer research groups the possibility to collect and send data by our parabiologist group (with training in the specific topic). <br />
<br />
Some permanent projects we carry out:<br />
<br />
– Biodiversity monitoring using camera traps<br><br />
– Monitoring of a harpy eagle’s nest (Harpia harpyja)<br><br />
– Amphibian monitoring in different habitats and altitudes<br><br />
– Propagation of critically endangered trees Magnolia dixonii and M.canandeana<br><br />
– Primate monitoring focused on the critically endangered Ateles fusciceps fusciceps<br><br />
<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
<span style="color:#ff0000"><span style="font-size:large">'''B) Overview of programmes, initiatives and organisations <br>that involved paraecologists in the past:'''</span></span><br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
{| style="text-align: left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
| '''Project ALAS, Arthropods of La Selva, Costa Rica'''<br/><br />
<br />
| style="vertical-align: top; width: 40px" |<br />
<br />
| valign="center" | [http://viceroy.eeb.uconn.edu/ALAS/ALAS.html http://viceroy.eeb.uconn.edu/ALAS/ALAS.html]<br />
<br />
|}<br />
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{| style="text-align: left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
| '''BIOTA Southern Africa'''<br />
<br />
[[File:Biota logo.gif|Biota logo.gif|link=http://www.biota-africa.org/reg_south_paraecol_ba.php]]<br />
<br />
| style="vertical-align: top; width: 40px" |<br />
<br />
| valign="center" | [http://www.biota-africa.org/reg_south_paraecol_ba.php http://www.biota-africa.org/reg_south_paraecol_ba.php]<br />
<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<br />
{| style="width: 500px" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
|BIOTA AFRICA has been jointly invented by African and German researchers aiming at the establishment of research supporting sustainable use and conservation of biodiversity in Africa. From October 2004 until March 2010, the regional network BIOTA Southern Africa employed and trained eight paraecologists. They worked at different sites within the BIOTA Southern Africa research area in Namibia and South Africa.<br />
<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
'''The Future Okavango'''<br />
<br />
{| style="text-align: left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
| [[File:72 70 TFO Logo.jpg|72 70 TFO Logo.jpg|link=http://www.future-okavango.org]]<br />
<br />
| style="vertical-align: top; width: 40px" |<br />
<br />
| valign="center" | [http://www.future-okavango.org www.future-okavango.org]<br />
<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<br />
{| style="width: 500px" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
|The Okavango basin in southern Africa with its variety of savannah woodlands and wetland ecosystems linked by the central lifeline of the Okavango River is a global hot-spot of accelerating change and land use conflicts. The river has its source in the rainy highlands of Angola and terminates in the Okavango Delta, the world's largest inland delta and the largest freshwater swamp south of the equator. The Future Okavango project analyses ecosystem functions and services within this trans-boundary basin of high international visibility and high potential transferability of results to other tropical and sub-tropical regions.<br><br />
<br />
The Future Okavango project employs and trains three paraecologists, based in Angola, Botswana and Namibia, respectively.<br />
<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Groen Sebenza Paraecologists'''<br />
<br />
[https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.658468030841124.1073741840.205627006125231&type=3 BotSoc Groen Sebenza Paraecologist training camp]<br />
<br />
[https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.785980601423199.1073741848.205627006125231&type=3 BotSoc Groen Sebenza paraecologist training workshop 2]<br />
<br />
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<br />
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<br />
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<br/>[[Para-ecologist programmes#top seitenanfang|Top]]<br />
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<br></div>Till Krausehttp://www.paraecologist.org/index.php?title=Para-ecologist_programmes&diff=2738Para-ecologist programmes2022-02-18T12:08:28Z<p>Till Krause: </p>
<hr />
<div>=== Research projects with paraecologists ===<br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
<span style="color:#ff0000"><span style="font-size:large">'''A) Overview of programmes, initiatives and organisations <br>that are currently involving paraecologists:'''</span></span><br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br>'''Area de Conservación Guanacaste (ACG), Costa Rica'''<br />
<br />
{| style="text-align: left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
| [[File:logo-acg-sombra.jpg|link=http://www.acguanacaste.ac.cr/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=59&Itemid=218&lang=es]]<br />
<br />
| style="vertical-align: top; width: 40px" |<br />
<br />
| valign="center" | [http://www.acguanacaste.ac.cr/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=59&Itemid=218&lang=es programme of the Area de Conservación Guanacaste (ACG)]<br />
<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<br />
{| style="width: 500px" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
|The Costa Rican parataxonomist programme in the Area de Conservacion Guanacaste (ACG) was initiated in 1989 from a partnership between the non-governmental, non-profit organisation INBio ([http://www.inbio.ac.cr/en/ www.inbio.ac.cr]) and the administrative authorities of ACG ([http://www.acguanacaste.ac.cr/ www.acguanacaste.ac.cr]). The programme implements INBio’s goal of conducting an ambitious national species inventory of Costa Rica’s wildland biodiversity, to try to ensure its conservation through non-damaging uses by society. An important, albeit not principal, use of biodiversity information was bioprospecting, undertaken by a specific team within INBio. This is developed in parallel with the work of conducting the national inventory. Between them, a broad offering of educational projects is aimed at all sectors of society to help promote rapid, self-reinforcing taxonomic literacy and an improved awareness of biodiversity’s. This project was the first initiative to involve formally identified and course-trained parataxonomists into scientific biodiversity inventories.<br />
<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Creative Conservation Alliance (CCA), Bangladesh'''<br />
<br />
{| style="text-align: left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
| [[File:CCA.jpg|link=https://www.conservationalliance.org/]]<br />
<br />
| style="vertical-align: top; width: 40px" |<br />
<br />
| valign="center" | [https://www.conservationalliance.org/ https://www.conservationalliance.org/]<br />
<br />
|}<br />
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{| style="width: 500px" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
|The Creative Conservation Alliance (CCA) is a government registered non-profit organization, dedicated to ecological and cultural preservation within Bangladesh’s last remaining wild places. Through our grassroots efforts we empower local people to become stakeholders in their own landscapes. As a critical part of the international Indo-Burma Biodiversity Hotspot-the most threatened Biodiversity Hotspot in the world-these remaining forests offer a refuge for over 26 globally threatened species. Through our comprehensive approach, we empower local people to become stakeholders in their own landscapes.<br />
<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Gran Chaco paraecologist project, Bolivia and Paraguay'''<br />
<br />
[https://whitleyaward.org/winners/conservation-chaco-bolivia-paraguay/ https://whitleyaward.org/winners/conservation-chaco-bolivia-paraguay/]<br />
<br />
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'''Kakamega Environmental Education Program (KEEP)'''<br />
<br />
{| style="text-align: left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
| [[File:72 280 Keep logo.jpg|72 280 Keep logo.jpg|link=http://www.columbia.edu/cu/e3b/conservation/KEEP/index.htm]]<br />
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| style="vertical-align: top; width: 40px" |<br />
<br />
| valign="center" | [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/e3b/conservation/KEEP/index.htm http://www.columbia.edu/cu/e3b/conservation/KEEP/index.htm]<br />
<br />
|}<br />
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{| style="width: 500px" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
|KEEP is a grass-roots organization, working to save one of the last remaining rainforests in Kenya, through environmental education and creation of awareness among local communities, and development and / or implementation of economic alternatives to the exploitation of forest resources.<br />
<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Mitsinjo Association'''<br />
<br />
{| style="text-align: left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
| [[File:72 200 mitsinjo.jpg|link=https://associationmitsinjo.wordpress.com/]]<br />
<br />
| style="vertical-align: top; width: 40px" |<br />
<br />
| [https://associationmitsinjo.wordpress.com/ Association Mitsinjo]<br />
<br />
|}<br />
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{| style="width: 500px" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
|A Malagasy NGO that started as a grassroots community initiative founded in 1999, Association Mitsinjo works in conservation, nature-based tourism, and development (including agriculture and health). Located in Andasibe, one of the biodiversity hotspots of the eastern Madagascar rainforest corridor, Mitsinjo integrates the protection of prime habitat and the generation of sustainable income for the local population living in and around these areas.<br />
<br />
We host visitors and researchers from all around the world, thus encouraging our local staff to stay on top of scientific discovery and have a constant interest in the ecology of the forest they manage. Over the years, Mitsinjo has collected a wealth of knowledge on a wide range of the area’s biodiversity. It is our goal to standardise this large expanse of information and make it scientifically streamlined.<br />
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|}<br />
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<br/>'''The New Guinea Binatang Research Center'''<br />
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| [[File:72 200 BRClogo.jpg|72 200 BRClogo.jpg|link=http://www.entu.cas.cz/png/index.html]]<br />
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| valign="center" | [http://www.entu.cas.cz/png/index.html www.entu.cas.cz/png/index.html]<br />
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{| style="width: 500px" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
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|This paraecologist initiative was started in Madang (Papua New Guinea, PNG) in 1994 as a small team of permanently employed paraecologists assisting studies of plant–herbivore interactions in rainforest ecosystems. The programme has expanded over the past 20 years to include ecological research on plants, insects and vertebrates. Several large research projects have been completed under this programme, including the study of plant–herbivore food webs in tropical forests, monitoring >250,000 individual plants in a 50-ha forest plot, and studies of invertebrate and vertebrate biodiversity and ecosystem change along an altitudinal gradient. The paraecologist team also assists PNG and overseas postgraduate students, works with indigenous landowners on rainforest conservation, and participates in the country’s biodiversity and environmental quality surveys for the PNG government and local industry. The paraecologist team is established as a non-profit organisation (New Guinea Binatang Research Center, BRC) registered in PNG, and working in collaboration with national and overseas academic institutions.<br />
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|}<br />
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'''Tesoro Escondido Reserve, Ecuador'''<br />
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| [[File:Logo_Tesoro_Reserve.jpg|link=https://tesororeserve.org/en/research-projects-and-parabiologists-programme/]]<br />
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| valign="center" | [https://tesororeserve.org/en/research-projects-and-parabiologists-programme/ https://tesororeserve.org/en/research-projects-and-parabiologists-programme/]<br />
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Scientific research generated from within the reserve is a priority and a permanent activity for all the staff. Research projects are carried out by students, researchers and by our parabiologists.<br />
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A parabiologist is a person from a local community who is trained to become a research assistant. They undergo a process of permanent tutoring and ends up specializing in one or two topics. Results from research are published and presented by scientists and parabiologists in different national and international forums and journals.<br />
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For long term projects we offer research groups the possibility to collect and send data by our parabiologist group (with training in the specific topic). <br />
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Some permanent projects we carry out:<br />
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– Biodiversity monitoring using camera traps<br><br />
– Monitoring of a harpy eagle’s nest (Harpia harpyja)<br><br />
– Amphibian monitoring in different habitats and altitudes<br><br />
– Propagation of critically endangered trees Magnolia dixonii and M.canandeana<br><br />
– Primate monitoring focused on the critically endangered Ateles fusciceps fusciceps<br><br />
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|}<br />
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<br><br />
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<span style="color:#ff0000"><span style="font-size:large">'''B) Overview of programmes, initiatives and organisations <br>that involved paraecologists in the past:'''</span></span><br />
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<br><br />
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{| style="text-align: left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
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| '''Project ALAS, Arthropods of La Selva, Costa Rica'''<br/><br />
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| style="vertical-align: top; width: 40px" |<br />
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| valign="center" | [http://viceroy.eeb.uconn.edu/ALAS/ALAS.html http://viceroy.eeb.uconn.edu/ALAS/ALAS.html]<br />
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|}<br />
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| '''BIOTA Southern Africa'''<br />
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[[File:Biota logo.gif|Biota logo.gif|link=http://www.biota-africa.org/reg_south_paraecol_ba.php]]<br />
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| style="vertical-align: top; width: 40px" |<br />
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| valign="center" | [http://www.biota-africa.org/reg_south_paraecol_ba.php http://www.biota-africa.org/reg_south_paraecol_ba.php]<br />
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|}<br />
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{| style="width: 500px" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
|BIOTA AFRICA has been jointly invented by African and German researchers aiming at the establishment of research supporting sustainable use and conservation of biodiversity in Africa. From October 2004 until March 2010, the regional network BIOTA Southern Africa employed and trained eight paraecologists. They worked at different sites within the BIOTA Southern Africa research area in Namibia and South Africa.<br />
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|}<br />
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'''The Future Okavango'''<br />
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|-<br />
| [[File:72 70 TFO Logo.jpg|72 70 TFO Logo.jpg|link=http://www.future-okavango.org]]<br />
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| valign="center" | [http://www.future-okavango.org www.future-okavango.org]<br />
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|}<br />
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{| style="width: 500px" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
|The Okavango basin in southern Africa with its variety of savannah woodlands and wetland ecosystems linked by the central lifeline of the Okavango River is a global hot-spot of accelerating change and land use conflicts. The river has its source in the rainy highlands of Angola and terminates in the Okavango Delta, the world's largest inland delta and the largest freshwater swamp south of the equator. The Future Okavango project analyses ecosystem functions and services within this trans-boundary basin of high international visibility and high potential transferability of results to other tropical and sub-tropical regions.<br><br />
<br />
The Future Okavango project employs and trains three paraecologists, based in Angola, Botswana and Namibia, respectively.<br />
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|}<br />
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'''Groen Sebenza Paraecologists'''<br />
<br />
[https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.658468030841124.1073741840.205627006125231&type=3 BotSoc Groen Sebenza Paraecologist training camp]<br />
<br />
[https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.785980601423199.1073741848.205627006125231&type=3 BotSoc Groen Sebenza paraecologist training workshop 2]<br />
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<br/>[[Para-ecologist programmes#top seitenanfang|Top]]<br />
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<br></div>Till Krausehttp://www.paraecologist.org/index.php?title=Para-ecologist_programmes&diff=2737Para-ecologist programmes2022-02-18T12:03:47Z<p>Till Krause: </p>
<hr />
<div>=== Research projects with paraecologists ===<br />
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<br><br />
<br />
<span style="color:#ff0000"><span style="font-size:large">'''A) Overview of programmes, initiatives and organisations <br>that are currently involving paraecologists:'''</span></span><br />
<br />
<br />
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<br>'''Area de Conservación Guanacaste (ACG), Costa Rica'''<br />
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{| style="text-align: left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
| [[File:logo-acg-sombra.jpg|link=http://www.acguanacaste.ac.cr/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=59&Itemid=218&lang=es]]<br />
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| style="vertical-align: top; width: 40px" |<br />
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| valign="center" | [http://www.acguanacaste.ac.cr/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=59&Itemid=218&lang=es programme of the Area de Conservación Guanacaste (ACG)]<br />
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|}<br />
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{| style="width: 500px" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
|The Costa Rican parataxonomist programme in the Area de Conservacion Guanacaste (ACG) was initiated in 1989 from a partnership between the non-governmental, non-profit organisation INBio ([http://www.inbio.ac.cr/en/ www.inbio.ac.cr]) and the administrative authorities of ACG ([http://www.acguanacaste.ac.cr/ www.acguanacaste.ac.cr]). The programme implements INBio’s goal of conducting an ambitious national species inventory of Costa Rica’s wildland biodiversity, to try to ensure its conservation through non-damaging uses by society. An important, albeit not principal, use of biodiversity information was bioprospecting, undertaken by a specific team within INBio. This is developed in parallel with the work of conducting the national inventory. Between them, a broad offering of educational projects is aimed at all sectors of society to help promote rapid, self-reinforcing taxonomic literacy and an improved awareness of biodiversity’s. This project was the first initiative to involve formally identified and course-trained parataxonomists into scientific biodiversity inventories.<br />
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|}<br />
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'''Creative Conservation Alliance (CCA), Bangladesh'''<br />
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{| style="text-align: left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
| [[File:CCA.jpg|link=https://www.conservationalliance.org/]]<br />
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| style="vertical-align: top; width: 40px" |<br />
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| valign="center" | [https://www.conservationalliance.org/ https://www.conservationalliance.org/]<br />
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|}<br />
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{| style="width: 500px" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
|The Creative Conservation Alliance (CCA) is a government registered non-profit organization, dedicated to ecological and cultural preservation within Bangladesh’s last remaining wild places. Through our grassroots efforts we empower local people to become stakeholders in their own landscapes. As a critical part of the international Indo-Burma Biodiversity Hotspot-the most threatened Biodiversity Hotspot in the world-these remaining forests offer a refuge for over 26 globally threatened species. Through our comprehensive approach, we empower local people to become stakeholders in their own landscapes.<br />
<br />
|}<br />
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'''Gran Chaco paraecologist project, Bolivia and Paraguay'''<br />
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[https://whitleyaward.org/winners/conservation-chaco-bolivia-paraguay/ https://whitleyaward.org/winners/conservation-chaco-bolivia-paraguay/]<br />
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'''Kakamega Environmental Education Program (KEEP)'''<br />
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{| style="text-align: left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
| [[File:72 280 Keep logo.jpg|72 280 Keep logo.jpg|link=http://www.columbia.edu/cu/e3b/conservation/KEEP/index.htm]]<br />
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| style="vertical-align: top; width: 40px" |<br />
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| valign="center" | [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/e3b/conservation/KEEP/index.htm http://www.columbia.edu/cu/e3b/conservation/KEEP/index.htm]<br />
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|}<br />
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{| style="width: 500px" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
|KEEP is a grass-roots organization, working to save one of the last remaining rainforests in Kenya, through environmental education and creation of awareness among local communities, and development and / or implementation of economic alternatives to the exploitation of forest resources.<br />
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|}<br />
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'''Mitsinjo Association'''<br />
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{| style="text-align: left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
| [[File:72 200 mitsinjo.jpg|link=https://associationmitsinjo.wordpress.com/]]<br />
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| style="vertical-align: top; width: 40px" |<br />
<br />
| [https://associationmitsinjo.wordpress.com/ Association Mitsinjo]<br />
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|}<br />
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<br />
{| style="width: 500px" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
|A Malagasy NGO that started as a grassroots community initiative founded in 1999, Association Mitsinjo works in conservation, nature-based tourism, and development (including agriculture and health). Located in Andasibe, one of the biodiversity hotspots of the eastern Madagascar rainforest corridor, Mitsinjo integrates the protection of prime habitat and the generation of sustainable income for the local population living in and around these areas.<br />
<br />
We host visitors and researchers from all around the world, thus encouraging our local staff to stay on top of scientific discovery and have a constant interest in the ecology of the forest they manage. Over the years, Mitsinjo has collected a wealth of knowledge on a wide range of the area’s biodiversity. It is our goal to standardise this large expanse of information and make it scientifically streamlined.<br />
<br />
|}<br />
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<br/>'''The New Guinea Binatang Research Center'''<br />
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{| style="text-align: left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
| [[File:72 200 BRClogo.jpg|72 200 BRClogo.jpg|link=http://www.entu.cas.cz/png/index.html]]<br />
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| style="vertical-align: top; width: 40px" |<br />
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| valign="center" | [http://www.entu.cas.cz/png/index.html www.entu.cas.cz/png/index.html]<br />
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|}<br />
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{| style="width: 500px" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
|This paraecologist initiative was started in Madang (Papua New Guinea, PNG) in 1994 as a small team of permanently employed paraecologists assisting studies of plant–herbivore interactions in rainforest ecosystems. The programme has expanded over the past 20 years to include ecological research on plants, insects and vertebrates. Several large research projects have been completed under this programme, including the study of plant–herbivore food webs in tropical forests, monitoring >250,000 individual plants in a 50-ha forest plot, and studies of invertebrate and vertebrate biodiversity and ecosystem change along an altitudinal gradient. The paraecologist team also assists PNG and overseas postgraduate students, works with indigenous landowners on rainforest conservation, and participates in the country’s biodiversity and environmental quality surveys for the PNG government and local industry. The paraecologist team is established as a non-profit organisation (New Guinea Binatang Research Center, BRC) registered in PNG, and working in collaboration with national and overseas academic institutions.<br />
<br />
|}<br />
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<br><br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
<span style="color:#ff0000"><span style="font-size:large">'''B) Overview of programmes, initiatives and organisations <br>that involved paraecologists in the past:'''</span></span><br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
{| style="text-align: left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
| '''Project ALAS, Arthropods of La Selva, Costa Rica'''<br/><br />
<br />
| style="vertical-align: top; width: 40px" |<br />
<br />
| valign="center" | [http://viceroy.eeb.uconn.edu/ALAS/ALAS.html http://viceroy.eeb.uconn.edu/ALAS/ALAS.html]<br />
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|}<br />
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{| style="text-align: left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
| '''BIOTA Southern Africa'''<br />
<br />
[[File:Biota logo.gif|Biota logo.gif|link=http://www.biota-africa.org/reg_south_paraecol_ba.php]]<br />
<br />
| style="vertical-align: top; width: 40px" |<br />
<br />
| valign="center" | [http://www.biota-africa.org/reg_south_paraecol_ba.php http://www.biota-africa.org/reg_south_paraecol_ba.php]<br />
<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<br />
{| style="width: 500px" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
|BIOTA AFRICA has been jointly invented by African and German researchers aiming at the establishment of research supporting sustainable use and conservation of biodiversity in Africa. From October 2004 until March 2010, the regional network BIOTA Southern Africa employed and trained eight paraecologists. They worked at different sites within the BIOTA Southern Africa research area in Namibia and South Africa.<br />
<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
'''The Future Okavango'''<br />
<br />
{| style="text-align: left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
| [[File:72 70 TFO Logo.jpg|72 70 TFO Logo.jpg|link=http://www.future-okavango.org]]<br />
<br />
| style="vertical-align: top; width: 40px" |<br />
<br />
| valign="center" | [http://www.future-okavango.org www.future-okavango.org]<br />
<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<br />
{| style="width: 500px" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
|The Okavango basin in southern Africa with its variety of savannah woodlands and wetland ecosystems linked by the central lifeline of the Okavango River is a global hot-spot of accelerating change and land use conflicts. The river has its source in the rainy highlands of Angola and terminates in the Okavango Delta, the world's largest inland delta and the largest freshwater swamp south of the equator. The Future Okavango project analyses ecosystem functions and services within this trans-boundary basin of high international visibility and high potential transferability of results to other tropical and sub-tropical regions.<br><br />
<br />
The Future Okavango project employs and trains three paraecologists, based in Angola, Botswana and Namibia, respectively.<br />
<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Groen Sebenza Paraecologists'''<br />
<br />
[https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.658468030841124.1073741840.205627006125231&type=3 BotSoc Groen Sebenza Paraecologist training camp]<br />
<br />
[https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.785980601423199.1073741848.205627006125231&type=3 BotSoc Groen Sebenza paraecologist training workshop 2]<br />
<br />
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<br />
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<br />
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<br/>[[Para-ecologist programmes#top seitenanfang|Top]]<br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
<br></div>Till Krausehttp://www.paraecologist.org/index.php?title=Para-ecologist_programmes&diff=2736Para-ecologist programmes2022-02-18T08:26:52Z<p>Till Krause: </p>
<hr />
<div>=== Research projects with paraecologists ===<br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
<span style="color:#ff0000"><span style="font-size:large">'''A) Overview of programmes, initiatives and organisations <br>that are currently involving paraecologists:'''</span></span><br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br>'''Area de Conservación Guanacaste (ACG), Costa Rica'''<br />
<br />
{| style="text-align: left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
| [[File:logo-acg-sombra.jpg|link=http://www.acguanacaste.ac.cr/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=59&Itemid=218&lang=es]]<br />
<br />
| style="vertical-align: top; width: 40px" |<br />
<br />
| valign="center" | [http://www.acguanacaste.ac.cr/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=59&Itemid=218&lang=es programme of the Area de Conservación Guanacaste (ACG)]<br />
<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<br />
{| style="width: 500px" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
|The Costa Rican parataxonomist programme in the Area de Conservacion Guanacaste (ACG) was initiated in 1989 from a partnership between the non-governmental, non-profit organisation INBio ([http://www.inbio.ac.cr/en/ www.inbio.ac.cr]) and the administrative authorities of ACG ([http://www.acguanacaste.ac.cr/ www.acguanacaste.ac.cr]). The programme implements INBio’s goal of conducting an ambitious national species inventory of Costa Rica’s wildland biodiversity, to try to ensure its conservation through non-damaging uses by society. An important, albeit not principal, use of biodiversity information was bioprospecting, undertaken by a specific team within INBio. This is developed in parallel with the work of conducting the national inventory. Between them, a broad offering of educational projects is aimed at all sectors of society to help promote rapid, self-reinforcing taxonomic literacy and an improved awareness of biodiversity’s. This project was the first initiative to involve formally identified and course-trained parataxonomists into scientific biodiversity inventories.<br />
<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Creative Conservation Alliance (CCA), Bangladesh'''<br />
<br />
{| style="text-align: left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
| [[File:CCA.jpg|link=https://www.conservationalliance.org/]]<br />
<br />
| style="vertical-align: top; width: 40px" |<br />
<br />
| valign="center" | [https://www.conservationalliance.org/ https://www.conservationalliance.org/]<br />
<br />
|}<br />
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<br />
{| style="width: 500px" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
|The Creative Conservation Alliance (CCA) is a government registered non-profit organization, dedicated to ecological and cultural preservation within Bangladesh’s last remaining wild places. Through our grassroots efforts we empower local people to become stakeholders in their own landscapes. As a critical part of the international Indo-Burma Biodiversity Hotspot-the most threatened Biodiversity Hotspot in the world-these remaining forests offer a refuge for over 26 globally threatened species. Through our comprehensive approach, we empower local people to become stakeholders in their own landscapes.<br />
<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Kakamega Environmental Education Program (KEEP)'''<br />
<br />
{| style="text-align: left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
| [[File:72 280 Keep logo.jpg|72 280 Keep logo.jpg|link=http://www.columbia.edu/cu/e3b/conservation/KEEP/index.htm]]<br />
<br />
| style="vertical-align: top; width: 40px" |<br />
<br />
| valign="center" | [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/e3b/conservation/KEEP/index.htm http://www.columbia.edu/cu/e3b/conservation/KEEP/index.htm]<br />
<br />
|}<br />
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<br />
{| style="width: 500px" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
|KEEP is a grass-roots organization, working to save one of the last remaining rainforests in Kenya, through environmental education and creation of awareness among local communities, and development and / or implementation of economic alternatives to the exploitation of forest resources.<br />
<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Mitsinjo Association'''<br />
<br />
{| style="text-align: left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
| [[File:72 200 mitsinjo.jpg|link=https://associationmitsinjo.wordpress.com/]]<br />
<br />
| style="vertical-align: top; width: 40px" |<br />
<br />
| [https://associationmitsinjo.wordpress.com/ Association Mitsinjo]<br />
<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<br />
{| style="width: 500px" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
|A Malagasy NGO that started as a grassroots community initiative founded in 1999, Association Mitsinjo works in conservation, nature-based tourism, and development (including agriculture and health). Located in Andasibe, one of the biodiversity hotspots of the eastern Madagascar rainforest corridor, Mitsinjo integrates the protection of prime habitat and the generation of sustainable income for the local population living in and around these areas.<br />
<br />
We host visitors and researchers from all around the world, thus encouraging our local staff to stay on top of scientific discovery and have a constant interest in the ecology of the forest they manage. Over the years, Mitsinjo has collected a wealth of knowledge on a wide range of the area’s biodiversity. It is our goal to standardise this large expanse of information and make it scientifically streamlined.<br />
<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br/>'''The New Guinea Binatang Research Center'''<br />
<br />
{| style="text-align: left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
| [[File:72 200 BRClogo.jpg|72 200 BRClogo.jpg|link=http://www.entu.cas.cz/png/index.html]]<br />
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| style="vertical-align: top; width: 40px" |<br />
<br />
| valign="center" | [http://www.entu.cas.cz/png/index.html www.entu.cas.cz/png/index.html]<br />
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|}<br />
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{| style="width: 500px" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
|This paraecologist initiative was started in Madang (Papua New Guinea, PNG) in 1994 as a small team of permanently employed paraecologists assisting studies of plant–herbivore interactions in rainforest ecosystems. The programme has expanded over the past 20 years to include ecological research on plants, insects and vertebrates. Several large research projects have been completed under this programme, including the study of plant–herbivore food webs in tropical forests, monitoring >250,000 individual plants in a 50-ha forest plot, and studies of invertebrate and vertebrate biodiversity and ecosystem change along an altitudinal gradient. The paraecologist team also assists PNG and overseas postgraduate students, works with indigenous landowners on rainforest conservation, and participates in the country’s biodiversity and environmental quality surveys for the PNG government and local industry. The paraecologist team is established as a non-profit organisation (New Guinea Binatang Research Center, BRC) registered in PNG, and working in collaboration with national and overseas academic institutions.<br />
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|}<br />
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<br><br />
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<span style="color:#ff0000"><span style="font-size:large">'''B) Overview of programmes, initiatives and organisations <br>that involved paraecologists in the past:'''</span></span><br />
<br />
<br><br />
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{| style="text-align: left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
| '''Project ALAS, Arthropods of La Selva, Costa Rica'''<br/><br />
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| style="vertical-align: top; width: 40px" |<br />
<br />
| valign="center" | [http://viceroy.eeb.uconn.edu/ALAS/ALAS.html http://viceroy.eeb.uconn.edu/ALAS/ALAS.html]<br />
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|}<br />
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{| style="text-align: left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
| '''BIOTA Southern Africa'''<br />
<br />
[[File:Biota logo.gif|Biota logo.gif|link=http://www.biota-africa.org/reg_south_paraecol_ba.php]]<br />
<br />
| style="vertical-align: top; width: 40px" |<br />
<br />
| valign="center" | [http://www.biota-africa.org/reg_south_paraecol_ba.php http://www.biota-africa.org/reg_south_paraecol_ba.php]<br />
<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<br />
{| style="width: 500px" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
|BIOTA AFRICA has been jointly invented by African and German researchers aiming at the establishment of research supporting sustainable use and conservation of biodiversity in Africa. From October 2004 until March 2010, the regional network BIOTA Southern Africa employed and trained eight paraecologists. They worked at different sites within the BIOTA Southern Africa research area in Namibia and South Africa.<br />
<br />
|}<br />
<br />
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'''The Future Okavango'''<br />
<br />
{| style="text-align: left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
| [[File:72 70 TFO Logo.jpg|72 70 TFO Logo.jpg|link=http://www.future-okavango.org]]<br />
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| style="vertical-align: top; width: 40px" |<br />
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| valign="center" | [http://www.future-okavango.org www.future-okavango.org]<br />
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|}<br />
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<br />
{| style="width: 500px" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
|The Okavango basin in southern Africa with its variety of savannah woodlands and wetland ecosystems linked by the central lifeline of the Okavango River is a global hot-spot of accelerating change and land use conflicts. The river has its source in the rainy highlands of Angola and terminates in the Okavango Delta, the world's largest inland delta and the largest freshwater swamp south of the equator. The Future Okavango project analyses ecosystem functions and services within this trans-boundary basin of high international visibility and high potential transferability of results to other tropical and sub-tropical regions.<br><br />
<br />
The Future Okavango project employs and trains three paraecologists, based in Angola, Botswana and Namibia, respectively.<br />
<br />
|}<br />
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'''Groen Sebenza Paraecologists'''<br />
<br />
[https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.658468030841124.1073741840.205627006125231&type=3 BotSoc Groen Sebenza Paraecologist training camp]<br />
<br />
[https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.785980601423199.1073741848.205627006125231&type=3 BotSoc Groen Sebenza paraecologist training workshop 2]<br />
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<br/>[[Para-ecologist programmes#top seitenanfang|Top]]<br />
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<br></div>Till Krausehttp://www.paraecologist.org/index.php?title=Para-ecologist_programmes&diff=2735Para-ecologist programmes2022-02-18T08:21:26Z<p>Till Krause: </p>
<hr />
<div>=== Research projects with paraecologists ===<br />
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<br><br />
<br />
<span style="color:#ff0000"><span style="font-size:large">'''A) Overview of programmes, initiatives and organisations <br>that are currently involving paraecologists:'''</span></span><br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br>'''Area de Conservación Guanacaste (ACG), Costa Rica'''<br />
<br />
{| style="text-align: left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
| [[File:logo-acg-sombra.jpg|link=http://www.acguanacaste.ac.cr/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=59&Itemid=218&lang=es]]<br />
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| style="vertical-align: top; width: 40px" |<br />
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| valign="center" | [http://www.acguanacaste.ac.cr/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=59&Itemid=218&lang=es programme of the Area de Conservación Guanacaste (ACG)]<br />
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|}<br />
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{| style="width: 500px" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
|The Costa Rican parataxonomist programme in the Area de Conservacion Guanacaste (ACG) was initiated in 1989 from a partnership between the non-governmental, non-profit organisation INBio ([http://www.inbio.ac.cr/en/ www.inbio.ac.cr]) and the administrative authorities of ACG ([http://www.acguanacaste.ac.cr/ www.acguanacaste.ac.cr]). The programme implements INBio’s goal of conducting an ambitious national species inventory of Costa Rica’s wildland biodiversity, to try to ensure its conservation through non-damaging uses by society. An important, albeit not principal, use of biodiversity information was bioprospecting, undertaken by a specific team within INBio. This is developed in parallel with the work of conducting the national inventory. Between them, a broad offering of educational projects is aimed at all sectors of society to help promote rapid, self-reinforcing taxonomic literacy and an improved awareness of biodiversity’s. This project was the first initiative to involve formally identified and course-trained parataxonomists into scientific biodiversity inventories.<br />
<br />
|}<br />
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'''Creative Conservation Alliance (CCA), Bangladesh'''<br />
<br />
{| style="text-align: left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
| [[File:CCA_Creative_Conservation_Alliance.jpg|link=https://www.conservationalliance.org/]]<br />
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| style="vertical-align: top; width: 40px" |<br />
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| valign="center" | [https://www.conservationalliance.org/ https://www.conservationalliance.org/]<br />
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|}<br />
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{| style="width: 500px" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
|The Creative Conservation Alliance (CCA) is a government registered non-profit organization, dedicated to ecological and cultural preservation within Bangladesh’s last remaining wild places. Through our grassroots efforts we empower local people to become stakeholders in their own landscapes. As a critical part of the international Indo-Burma Biodiversity Hotspot-the most threatened Biodiversity Hotspot in the world-these remaining forests offer a refuge for over 26 globally threatened species. Through our comprehensive approach, we empower local people to become stakeholders in their own landscapes.<br />
<br />
|}<br />
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<br />
<br />
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'''Kakamega Environmental Education Program (KEEP)'''<br />
<br />
{| style="text-align: left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
| [[File:72 280 Keep logo.jpg|72 280 Keep logo.jpg|link=http://www.columbia.edu/cu/e3b/conservation/KEEP/index.htm]]<br />
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| style="vertical-align: top; width: 40px" |<br />
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| valign="center" | [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/e3b/conservation/KEEP/index.htm http://www.columbia.edu/cu/e3b/conservation/KEEP/index.htm]<br />
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|}<br />
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{| style="width: 500px" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
|KEEP is a grass-roots organization, working to save one of the last remaining rainforests in Kenya, through environmental education and creation of awareness among local communities, and development and / or implementation of economic alternatives to the exploitation of forest resources.<br />
<br />
|}<br />
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'''Mitsinjo Association'''<br />
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{| style="text-align: left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
| [[File:72 200 mitsinjo.jpg|link=https://associationmitsinjo.wordpress.com/]]<br />
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| style="vertical-align: top; width: 40px" |<br />
<br />
| [https://associationmitsinjo.wordpress.com/ Association Mitsinjo]<br />
<br />
|}<br />
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<br />
{| style="width: 500px" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
|A Malagasy NGO that started as a grassroots community initiative founded in 1999, Association Mitsinjo works in conservation, nature-based tourism, and development (including agriculture and health). Located in Andasibe, one of the biodiversity hotspots of the eastern Madagascar rainforest corridor, Mitsinjo integrates the protection of prime habitat and the generation of sustainable income for the local population living in and around these areas.<br />
<br />
We host visitors and researchers from all around the world, thus encouraging our local staff to stay on top of scientific discovery and have a constant interest in the ecology of the forest they manage. Over the years, Mitsinjo has collected a wealth of knowledge on a wide range of the area’s biodiversity. It is our goal to standardise this large expanse of information and make it scientifically streamlined.<br />
<br />
|}<br />
<br />
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<br/>'''The New Guinea Binatang Research Center'''<br />
<br />
{| style="text-align: left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
| [[File:72 200 BRClogo.jpg|72 200 BRClogo.jpg|link=http://www.entu.cas.cz/png/index.html]]<br />
<br />
| style="vertical-align: top; width: 40px" |<br />
<br />
| valign="center" | [http://www.entu.cas.cz/png/index.html www.entu.cas.cz/png/index.html]<br />
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|}<br />
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{| style="width: 500px" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
|This paraecologist initiative was started in Madang (Papua New Guinea, PNG) in 1994 as a small team of permanently employed paraecologists assisting studies of plant–herbivore interactions in rainforest ecosystems. The programme has expanded over the past 20 years to include ecological research on plants, insects and vertebrates. Several large research projects have been completed under this programme, including the study of plant–herbivore food webs in tropical forests, monitoring >250,000 individual plants in a 50-ha forest plot, and studies of invertebrate and vertebrate biodiversity and ecosystem change along an altitudinal gradient. The paraecologist team also assists PNG and overseas postgraduate students, works with indigenous landowners on rainforest conservation, and participates in the country’s biodiversity and environmental quality surveys for the PNG government and local industry. The paraecologist team is established as a non-profit organisation (New Guinea Binatang Research Center, BRC) registered in PNG, and working in collaboration with national and overseas academic institutions.<br />
<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
<span style="color:#ff0000"><span style="font-size:large">'''B) Overview of programmes, initiatives and organisations <br>that involved paraecologists in the past:'''</span></span><br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
{| style="text-align: left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
| '''Project ALAS, Arthropods of La Selva, Costa Rica'''<br/><br />
<br />
| style="vertical-align: top; width: 40px" |<br />
<br />
| valign="center" | [http://viceroy.eeb.uconn.edu/ALAS/ALAS.html http://viceroy.eeb.uconn.edu/ALAS/ALAS.html]<br />
<br />
|}<br />
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{| style="text-align: left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
| '''BIOTA Southern Africa'''<br />
<br />
[[File:Biota logo.gif|Biota logo.gif|link=http://www.biota-africa.org/reg_south_paraecol_ba.php]]<br />
<br />
| style="vertical-align: top; width: 40px" |<br />
<br />
| valign="center" | [http://www.biota-africa.org/reg_south_paraecol_ba.php http://www.biota-africa.org/reg_south_paraecol_ba.php]<br />
<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<br />
{| style="width: 500px" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
|BIOTA AFRICA has been jointly invented by African and German researchers aiming at the establishment of research supporting sustainable use and conservation of biodiversity in Africa. From October 2004 until March 2010, the regional network BIOTA Southern Africa employed and trained eight paraecologists. They worked at different sites within the BIOTA Southern Africa research area in Namibia and South Africa.<br />
<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
'''The Future Okavango'''<br />
<br />
{| style="text-align: left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
| [[File:72 70 TFO Logo.jpg|72 70 TFO Logo.jpg|link=http://www.future-okavango.org]]<br />
<br />
| style="vertical-align: top; width: 40px" |<br />
<br />
| valign="center" | [http://www.future-okavango.org www.future-okavango.org]<br />
<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<br />
{| style="width: 500px" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
|The Okavango basin in southern Africa with its variety of savannah woodlands and wetland ecosystems linked by the central lifeline of the Okavango River is a global hot-spot of accelerating change and land use conflicts. The river has its source in the rainy highlands of Angola and terminates in the Okavango Delta, the world's largest inland delta and the largest freshwater swamp south of the equator. The Future Okavango project analyses ecosystem functions and services within this trans-boundary basin of high international visibility and high potential transferability of results to other tropical and sub-tropical regions.<br><br />
<br />
The Future Okavango project employs and trains three paraecologists, based in Angola, Botswana and Namibia, respectively.<br />
<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Groen Sebenza Paraecologists'''<br />
<br />
[https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.658468030841124.1073741840.205627006125231&type=3 BotSoc Groen Sebenza Paraecologist training camp]<br />
<br />
[https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.785980601423199.1073741848.205627006125231&type=3 BotSoc Groen Sebenza paraecologist training workshop 2]<br />
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<br/>[[Para-ecologist programmes#top seitenanfang|Top]]<br />
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<br></div>Till Krausehttp://www.paraecologist.org/index.php?title=Para-ecologist_programmes&diff=2734Para-ecologist programmes2022-02-18T08:20:59Z<p>Till Krause: </p>
<hr />
<div>=== Research projects with paraecologists ===<br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
<span style="color:#ff0000"><span style="font-size:large">'''A) Overview of programmes, initiatives and organisations <br>that are currently involving paraecologists:'''</span></span><br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br>'''Area de Conservación Guanacaste (ACG), Costa Rica'''<br />
<br />
{| style="text-align: left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
| [[File:logo-acg-sombra.jpg|link=http://www.acguanacaste.ac.cr/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=59&Itemid=218&lang=es]]<br />
<br />
| style="vertical-align: top; width: 40px" |<br />
<br />
| valign="center" | [http://www.acguanacaste.ac.cr/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=59&Itemid=218&lang=es programme of the Area de Conservación Guanacaste (ACG)]<br />
<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<br />
{| style="width: 500px" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
|The Costa Rican parataxonomist programme in the Area de Conservacion Guanacaste (ACG) was initiated in 1989 from a partnership between the non-governmental, non-profit organisation INBio ([http://www.inbio.ac.cr/en/ www.inbio.ac.cr]) and the administrative authorities of ACG ([http://www.acguanacaste.ac.cr/ www.acguanacaste.ac.cr]). The programme implements INBio’s goal of conducting an ambitious national species inventory of Costa Rica’s wildland biodiversity, to try to ensure its conservation through non-damaging uses by society. An important, albeit not principal, use of biodiversity information was bioprospecting, undertaken by a specific team within INBio. This is developed in parallel with the work of conducting the national inventory. Between them, a broad offering of educational projects is aimed at all sectors of society to help promote rapid, self-reinforcing taxonomic literacy and an improved awareness of biodiversity’s. This project was the first initiative to involve formally identified and course-trained parataxonomists into scientific biodiversity inventories.<br />
<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Creative Conservation Alliance (CCA), Bangladesh'''<br />
<br />
{| style="text-align: left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
| [[File:CCA_Creative_Conservation_Alliance.png|link=https://www.conservationalliance.org/]]<br />
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| style="vertical-align: top; width: 40px" |<br />
<br />
| valign="center" | [https://www.conservationalliance.org/ https://www.conservationalliance.org/]<br />
<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<br />
{| style="width: 500px" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
|The Creative Conservation Alliance (CCA) is a government registered non-profit organization, dedicated to ecological and cultural preservation within Bangladesh’s last remaining wild places. Through our grassroots efforts we empower local people to become stakeholders in their own landscapes. As a critical part of the international Indo-Burma Biodiversity Hotspot-the most threatened Biodiversity Hotspot in the world-these remaining forests offer a refuge for over 26 globally threatened species. Through our comprehensive approach, we empower local people to become stakeholders in their own landscapes.<br />
<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Kakamega Environmental Education Program (KEEP)'''<br />
<br />
{| style="text-align: left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
| [[File:72 280 Keep logo.jpg|72 280 Keep logo.jpg|link=http://www.columbia.edu/cu/e3b/conservation/KEEP/index.htm]]<br />
<br />
| style="vertical-align: top; width: 40px" |<br />
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| valign="center" | [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/e3b/conservation/KEEP/index.htm http://www.columbia.edu/cu/e3b/conservation/KEEP/index.htm]<br />
<br />
|}<br />
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<br />
{| style="width: 500px" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
|KEEP is a grass-roots organization, working to save one of the last remaining rainforests in Kenya, through environmental education and creation of awareness among local communities, and development and / or implementation of economic alternatives to the exploitation of forest resources.<br />
<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Mitsinjo Association'''<br />
<br />
{| style="text-align: left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
| [[File:72 200 mitsinjo.jpg|link=https://associationmitsinjo.wordpress.com/]]<br />
<br />
| style="vertical-align: top; width: 40px" |<br />
<br />
| [https://associationmitsinjo.wordpress.com/ Association Mitsinjo]<br />
<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<br />
{| style="width: 500px" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
|A Malagasy NGO that started as a grassroots community initiative founded in 1999, Association Mitsinjo works in conservation, nature-based tourism, and development (including agriculture and health). Located in Andasibe, one of the biodiversity hotspots of the eastern Madagascar rainforest corridor, Mitsinjo integrates the protection of prime habitat and the generation of sustainable income for the local population living in and around these areas.<br />
<br />
We host visitors and researchers from all around the world, thus encouraging our local staff to stay on top of scientific discovery and have a constant interest in the ecology of the forest they manage. Over the years, Mitsinjo has collected a wealth of knowledge on a wide range of the area’s biodiversity. It is our goal to standardise this large expanse of information and make it scientifically streamlined.<br />
<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<br />
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<br/>'''The New Guinea Binatang Research Center'''<br />
<br />
{| style="text-align: left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
| [[File:72 200 BRClogo.jpg|72 200 BRClogo.jpg|link=http://www.entu.cas.cz/png/index.html]]<br />
<br />
| style="vertical-align: top; width: 40px" |<br />
<br />
| valign="center" | [http://www.entu.cas.cz/png/index.html www.entu.cas.cz/png/index.html]<br />
<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<br />
{| style="width: 500px" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
|This paraecologist initiative was started in Madang (Papua New Guinea, PNG) in 1994 as a small team of permanently employed paraecologists assisting studies of plant–herbivore interactions in rainforest ecosystems. The programme has expanded over the past 20 years to include ecological research on plants, insects and vertebrates. Several large research projects have been completed under this programme, including the study of plant–herbivore food webs in tropical forests, monitoring >250,000 individual plants in a 50-ha forest plot, and studies of invertebrate and vertebrate biodiversity and ecosystem change along an altitudinal gradient. The paraecologist team also assists PNG and overseas postgraduate students, works with indigenous landowners on rainforest conservation, and participates in the country’s biodiversity and environmental quality surveys for the PNG government and local industry. The paraecologist team is established as a non-profit organisation (New Guinea Binatang Research Center, BRC) registered in PNG, and working in collaboration with national and overseas academic institutions.<br />
<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
<span style="color:#ff0000"><span style="font-size:large">'''B) Overview of programmes, initiatives and organisations <br>that involved paraecologists in the past:'''</span></span><br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
{| style="text-align: left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
| '''Project ALAS, Arthropods of La Selva, Costa Rica'''<br/><br />
<br />
| style="vertical-align: top; width: 40px" |<br />
<br />
| valign="center" | [http://viceroy.eeb.uconn.edu/ALAS/ALAS.html http://viceroy.eeb.uconn.edu/ALAS/ALAS.html]<br />
<br />
|}<br />
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<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
{| style="text-align: left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
| '''BIOTA Southern Africa'''<br />
<br />
[[File:Biota logo.gif|Biota logo.gif|link=http://www.biota-africa.org/reg_south_paraecol_ba.php]]<br />
<br />
| style="vertical-align: top; width: 40px" |<br />
<br />
| valign="center" | [http://www.biota-africa.org/reg_south_paraecol_ba.php http://www.biota-africa.org/reg_south_paraecol_ba.php]<br />
<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<br />
{| style="width: 500px" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
|BIOTA AFRICA has been jointly invented by African and German researchers aiming at the establishment of research supporting sustainable use and conservation of biodiversity in Africa. From October 2004 until March 2010, the regional network BIOTA Southern Africa employed and trained eight paraecologists. They worked at different sites within the BIOTA Southern Africa research area in Namibia and South Africa.<br />
<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
'''The Future Okavango'''<br />
<br />
{| style="text-align: left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
| [[File:72 70 TFO Logo.jpg|72 70 TFO Logo.jpg|link=http://www.future-okavango.org]]<br />
<br />
| style="vertical-align: top; width: 40px" |<br />
<br />
| valign="center" | [http://www.future-okavango.org www.future-okavango.org]<br />
<br />
|}<br />
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The Future Okavango project employs and trains three paraecologists, based in Angola, Botswana and Namibia, respectively.<br />
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'''Groen Sebenza Paraecologists'''<br />
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[https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.658468030841124.1073741840.205627006125231&type=3 BotSoc Groen Sebenza Paraecologist training camp]<br />
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[https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.785980601423199.1073741848.205627006125231&type=3 BotSoc Groen Sebenza paraecologist training workshop 2]<br />
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<div>=== Research projects with paraecologists ===<br />
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<span style="color:#ff0000"><span style="font-size:large">'''A) Overview of programmes, initiatives and organisations <br>that are currently involving paraecologists:'''</span></span><br />
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<br>'''Area de Conservación Guanacaste (ACG), Costa Rica'''<br />
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|The Costa Rican parataxonomist programme in the Area de Conservacion Guanacaste (ACG) was initiated in 1989 from a partnership between the non-governmental, non-profit organisation INBio ([http://www.inbio.ac.cr/en/ www.inbio.ac.cr]) and the administrative authorities of ACG ([http://www.acguanacaste.ac.cr/ www.acguanacaste.ac.cr]). The programme implements INBio’s goal of conducting an ambitious national species inventory of Costa Rica’s wildland biodiversity, to try to ensure its conservation through non-damaging uses by society. An important, albeit not principal, use of biodiversity information was bioprospecting, undertaken by a specific team within INBio. This is developed in parallel with the work of conducting the national inventory. Between them, a broad offering of educational projects is aimed at all sectors of society to help promote rapid, self-reinforcing taxonomic literacy and an improved awareness of biodiversity’s. This project was the first initiative to involve formally identified and course-trained parataxonomists into scientific biodiversity inventories.<br />
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'''Creative Conservation Alliance (CCA), Bangladesh'''<br />
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|The Creative Conservation Alliance (CCA) is a government registered non-profit organization, dedicated to ecological and cultural preservation within Bangladesh’s last remaining wild places. Through our grassroots efforts we empower local people to become stakeholders in their own landscapes. As a critical part of the international Indo-Burma Biodiversity Hotspot-the most threatened Biodiversity Hotspot in the world-these remaining forests offer a refuge for over 26 globally threatened species. Through our comprehensive approach, we empower local people to become stakeholders in their own landscapes.<br />
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'''Kakamega Environmental Education Program (KEEP)'''<br />
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|KEEP is a grass-roots organization, working to save one of the last remaining rainforests in Kenya, through environmental education and creation of awareness among local communities, and development and / or implementation of economic alternatives to the exploitation of forest resources.<br />
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'''Mitsinjo Association'''<br />
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|A Malagasy NGO that started as a grassroots community initiative founded in 1999, Association Mitsinjo works in conservation, nature-based tourism, and development (including agriculture and health). Located in Andasibe, one of the biodiversity hotspots of the eastern Madagascar rainforest corridor, Mitsinjo integrates the protection of prime habitat and the generation of sustainable income for the local population living in and around these areas.<br />
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We host visitors and researchers from all around the world, thus encouraging our local staff to stay on top of scientific discovery and have a constant interest in the ecology of the forest they manage. Over the years, Mitsinjo has collected a wealth of knowledge on a wide range of the area’s biodiversity. It is our goal to standardise this large expanse of information and make it scientifically streamlined.<br />
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<br/>'''The New Guinea Binatang Research Center'''<br />
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|This paraecologist initiative was started in Madang (Papua New Guinea, PNG) in 1994 as a small team of permanently employed paraecologists assisting studies of plant–herbivore interactions in rainforest ecosystems. The programme has expanded over the past 20 years to include ecological research on plants, insects and vertebrates. Several large research projects have been completed under this programme, including the study of plant–herbivore food webs in tropical forests, monitoring >250,000 individual plants in a 50-ha forest plot, and studies of invertebrate and vertebrate biodiversity and ecosystem change along an altitudinal gradient. The paraecologist team also assists PNG and overseas postgraduate students, works with indigenous landowners on rainforest conservation, and participates in the country’s biodiversity and environmental quality surveys for the PNG government and local industry. The paraecologist team is established as a non-profit organisation (New Guinea Binatang Research Center, BRC) registered in PNG, and working in collaboration with national and overseas academic institutions.<br />
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<span style="color:#ff0000"><span style="font-size:large">'''B) Overview of programmes, initiatives and organisations <br>that involved paraecologists in the past:'''</span></span><br />
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[[File:Biota logo.gif|Biota logo.gif|link=http://www.biota-africa.org/reg_south_paraecol_ba.php]]<br />
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|BIOTA AFRICA has been jointly invented by African and German researchers aiming at the establishment of research supporting sustainable use and conservation of biodiversity in Africa. From October 2004 until March 2010, the regional network BIOTA Southern Africa employed and trained eight paraecologists. They worked at different sites within the BIOTA Southern Africa research area in Namibia and South Africa.<br />
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'''The Future Okavango'''<br />
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The Future Okavango project employs and trains three paraecologists, based in Angola, Botswana and Namibia, respectively.<br />
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'''Groen Sebenza Paraecologists'''<br />
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[https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.658468030841124.1073741840.205627006125231&type=3 BotSoc Groen Sebenza Paraecologist training camp]<br />
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[https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.785980601423199.1073741848.205627006125231&type=3 BotSoc Groen Sebenza paraecologist training workshop 2]<br />
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<br></div>Till Krausehttp://www.paraecologist.org/index.php?title=Reginald_Christiaan_personal_profile&diff=2732Reginald Christiaan personal profile2022-02-17T19:02:12Z<p>Till Krause: </p>
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<div>=== Reginald Christiaan ===<br />
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Email: [mailto:Reginald.Christiaan@gmail.com?subject=Paraecologist Reginald.Christiaan@gmail.com]<br/>Mobile: +27 72 4829617<br />
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<u>Where am I from</u><br />
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South Africa<br />
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<u>Languages</u><br />
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Afrikaans 1st<br/>English 2nd<br />
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<u>I live in</u><br />
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Soebatsfontein & Springbok, Northern Cape Province, South Africa<br />
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<u>Current activities</u><br />
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Self-employed as paraecologist<br />
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Co-worker of the [http://www.arc.agric.za/arc-ppri/Pages/Biosystematics/SANSA.aspx South African National Survey of Arachnida (SANSA)]<br />
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Conducting of scorpion workshops (for more information see [[Reginald_Christiaan_Scorpion_Workshops|scorpion workshops website]]) <br />
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Collecting scorpions in Namaqualand for the scientific collection and research activities at the [https://www.amnh.org/ American Museum of Natural History] in New York, USA<br />
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Assisting the Arachnida assessment as part of the [http://karoobiogapsproject.blogspot.com/2017/06/biogaps-scorpions-fieldtrip.html Karoo BioGaps project] run by SANBI<br />
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Assisting (since 2002 until today) in the ongoing long-term vegetation monitoring programme of BIOTA Southern Africa and SASSCAL <br />
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<u>Organisations I worked for</u><br />
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'''''SANParks'''''<br />
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Oct.-Nov. 2014 and 2017: Kids in Parks Programme at Namaqua National Park<br />
*Offering activities for school children as part of the Kids in Parks programme <br />
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Aug.-Sept 2012: Namaqua National Park, Groenrivier, Coastal Section, Tourism Assistant<br> <br />
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Aug.-Sept 2015: Namaqua National Park, Skilpad, Tourism Assistant<br> <br />
*Assisting tourists<br> <br />
*Issuing entry permits for tourists<br />
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<br/>'''''Conservation South Africa (CSA)'''''<br />
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2011-2012: Internship at Springbok office, South Africa<br><br />
*Scorpion workshops (for more information see [[Reginald_Christiaan_Scorpion_Workshops|'''scorpion workshops website''']])<br />
*Weather stations installations<br />
*Downloading of data from weather stations<br />
*Capturing climate data<br />
*Co-ordinate participatory research activities in the Namakwa District with 15 EcoRangers on at least 1 communal farm, 4 private farms, and 1 national park<br />
*Collect, capture and analyse EcoRanger data from 15 EcoRangers<br />
*Communicate outcomes of data analysis to all research participants; all relevant CSA staff members; 2 meetings with local stakeholders; in 3 Veepos articles; and 1 article in a local newspaper.<br />
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<br/>'''''Ditsong National Museums of Natural History, Pretoria, South Africa'''''<br />
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2011: Internship as paraecologist and trainee<br><br />
*Curation and rebottling of Buthidae scorpions of the Lower Invertebrate collection<br />
*Sorting of spiders<br />
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<br/>'''''BIOTA Southern Africa, international research project'''''<br />
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2002-2010: Employed as a paraecologist (Soebatsfontein / South Africa)<br><br />
*Documentation of biodiversity data (plants and arthropods)<br />
*Monitoring of plant phenology (monthly)<br />
*Downloading of data from automatic weather stations<br />
*Environmental awareness projects with school children<br />
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<u>My skills and expertise</u><br />
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Computer skills: Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Power Point, Internet Explorer, email<br />
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Entering phenological plant data into MS Excel database<br />
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G.P.S (Global Positioning System)<br />
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Installment and maintenance of automatic weather stations<br />
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Monitoring and collection of plants and insects<br />
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Use of digital photo and video cameras<br />
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Taking of plant pictures for scientific purposes<br />
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Identification of plants and plant names<br />
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Ecology of succulents on quartz fields<br />
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Facilitation of workshops<br />
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Conflict management<br />
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<u>Awards</u><br />
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In November 2017, I won the Kudu Award "Youth in Conservation" from South African National Parks (SANParks) for my contribution to conservation through my scorpion project that raises awareness on the diversity and ecology of this understudied Arachnida fauna of the Namaqualand.<br>(Read more about the Kudu Awards 2017: [http://www.traveller24.com/Explore/Green/sanparks-kudu-awards-2017-honours-conservation-heroes-20171124 Sanparks Kudu Awards2017]) <br>[http://www.paraecologist.org/images/1/17/Die_Plattelander_Reginald_Christiaan_1_Desember_2017.pdf Read article]<br />
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<u>Special interests</u><br />
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Habitat requirements of scorpions<br />
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Collecting and identifying scorpions<br />
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Habitat requirements of different plant species<br />
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Botany and photography<br />
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<u>Ambitions and dreams</u><br />
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During my work in BIOTA as paraecologist my interest in nature and natural science has been strongly fostered. My particular interest lies in the collecting and identification of scorpions. I closely cooperate with Dr Lorenzo Prendini from the New York Museum of Natural History who kindly identifies the specimens for us and incorporated them into his scientific collection, and in the near future I want to specialize in the identification of Southern African scorpions. The experience gained during the internship with ARC/Ditsong has further increased my need to want to learn more about these creatures. I hope to continue to build my relationships with the researchers at these institutes. I feel the next step will be to be employed at one of these institutes in order to learn more and possible expand my knowledge into research.<br />
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<u>Publications</u><br />
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For publications by and about Reginald Christiaan click [[Reginald_Christiaan_publications|'''here''']] <br />
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<u>Contact for references</u><br />
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Dr. Ute Schmiedel (paraecologist programme coordinator and supervisor from 2003 until 2010)<br/>Biocentre Klein Flottbek & Botanical Garden<br/>University of Hamburg<br/>Ohnhorststrasse 18<br/>D-22609 Hamburg<br/>Tel. +49 - (0)40 - 42816-548<br/>Fax +49 - (0)40 - 42816-539<br/>Email: [mailto:Ute.Schmiedel@uni-hamburg.de?subject=Paraecologist Ute.Schmiedel@uni-hamburg.de]<br />
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Ronald Newman (Conservation South Africa, Manager, Namaqualand Green Economic Demonstration)<br/>Conservation South Africa<br/>Springbok<br/>Tel: +27 27 718 1577<br/>Email: [mailto:r.newman@conservation.org?subject=Paraecologist r.newman@conservation.org]<br />
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[[File:Reginald_Christiaan_Kudu_Award_2017_with_Parkmanager_e_555.jpg|link=]]<br><sup><span style="font-size:xx-small">Reginald Christiaan wins the Kudu Award "Youth in Conservation" from South African National Parks (SANParks), 2017. [http://www.paraecologist.org/images/1/17/Die_Plattelander_Reginald_Christiaan_1_Desember_2017.pdf '''Read article''']</span><br />
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[[File:Soil samples.jpg|Soil samples.jpg|link=]]<br><sup><span style="font-size:xx-small">soil sampling</span><br />
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<br></div>Till Krausehttp://www.paraecologist.org/index.php?title=Reginald_Christiaan_personal_profile&diff=2731Reginald Christiaan personal profile2022-02-17T19:01:44Z<p>Till Krause: </p>
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<div>=== Reginald Christiaan ===<br />
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Email: [mailto:Reginald.Christiaan@gmail.com?subject=Paraecologist Reginald.Christiaan@gmail.com]<br/>Mobile: +27 72 4829617<br />
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<u>Where am I from</u><br />
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South Africa<br />
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<u>Languages</u><br />
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Afrikaans 1st<br/>English 2nd<br />
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<u>I live in</u><br />
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Soebatsfontein & Springbok, Northern Cape Province, South Africa<br />
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<u>Current activities</u><br />
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Self-employed as paraecologist<br />
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Co-worker of the [http://www.arc.agric.za/arc-ppri/Pages/Biosystematics/SANSA.aspx South African National Survey of Arachnida (SANSA)]<br />
<br />
Conducting of scorpion workshops (for more information see [[Reginald_Christiaan_Scorpion_Workshops|scorpion workshops website]]) <br />
<br />
Collecting scorpions in Namaqualand for the scientific collection and research activities at the [https://www.amnh.org/ American Museum of Natural History] in New York, USA<br />
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Assisting the Arachnida assessment as part of the [http://karoobiogapsproject.blogspot.com/2017/06/biogaps-scorpions-fieldtrip.html Karoo BioGaps project] run by SANBI<br />
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Assisting (since 2002 until today) in the ongoing long-term vegetation monitoring programme of BIOTA Southern Africa and SASSCAL <br />
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<u>Organisations I worked for</u><br />
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'''''SANParks'''''<br />
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Oct.-Nov. 2014 and 2017: Kids in Parks Programme at Namaqua National Park<br />
*Offering activities for school children as part of the Kids in Parks programme <br />
<br />
Aug.-Sept 2012: Namaqua National Park, Groenrivier, Coastal Section, Tourism Assistant<br> <br />
<br />
Aug.-Sept 2015: Namaqua National Park, Skilpad, Tourism Assistant<br> <br />
*Assisting tourists<br> <br />
*Issuing entry permits for tourists<br />
<br />
<br/>'''''Conservation South Africa (CSA)'''''<br />
<br />
2011-2012: Internship at Springbok office, South Africa<br><br />
*Scorpion workshops (for more information see [[Reginald_Christiaan_Scorpion_Workshops|'''scorpion workshops website''']])<br />
*Weather stations installations<br />
*Downloading of data from weather stations<br />
*Capturing climate data<br />
*Co-ordinate participatory research activities in the Namakwa District with 15 EcoRangers on at least 1 communal farm, 4 private farms, and 1 national park<br />
*Collect, capture and analyse EcoRanger data from 15 EcoRangers<br />
*Communicate outcomes of data analysis to all research participants; all relevant CSA staff members; 2 meetings with local stakeholders; in 3 Veepos articles; and 1 article in a local newspaper.<br />
<br />
<br/>'''''Ditsong National Museums of Natural History, Pretoria, South Africa'''''<br />
<br />
2011: Internship as paraecologist and trainee<br><br />
*Curation and rebottling of Buthidae scorpions of the Lower Invertebrate collection<br />
*Sorting of spiders<br />
<br />
<br/>'''''BIOTA Southern Africa, international research project'''''<br />
<br />
2002-2010: Employed as a paraecologist (Soebatsfontein / South Africa)<br><br />
*Documentation of biodiversity data (plants and arthropods)<br />
*Monitoring of plant phenology (monthly)<br />
*Downloading of data from automatic weather stations<br />
*Environmental awareness projects with school children<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<u>My skills and expertise</u><br />
<br />
Computer skills: Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Power Point, Internet Explorer, email<br />
<br />
Entering phenological plant data into MS Excel database<br />
<br />
G.P.S (Global Positioning System)<br />
<br />
Installment and maintenance of automatic weather stations<br />
<br />
Monitoring and collection of plants and insects<br />
<br />
Use of digital photo and video cameras<br />
<br />
Taking of plant pictures for scientific purposes<br />
<br />
Identification of plants and plant names<br />
<br />
Ecology of succulents on quartz fields<br />
<br />
Facilitation of workshops<br />
<br />
Conflict management<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<u>Awards</u><br />
<br />
In November 2017, I won the Kudu Award "Youth in Conservation" from South African National Parks (SANParks) for my contribution to conservation through my scorpion project that raises awareness on the diversity and ecology of this understudied Arachnida fauna of the Namaqualand.<br>(Read more about the Kudu Awards 2017: [http://www.traveller24.com/Explore/Green/sanparks-kudu-awards-2017-honours-conservation-heroes-20171124 Sanparks Kudu Awards2017]) <br>[http://www.paraecologist.org/images/1/17/Die_Plattelander_Reginald_Christiaan_1_Desember_2017.pdf Read article]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<u>Special interests</u><br />
<br />
Habitat requirements of scorpions<br />
<br />
Collecting and identifying scorpions<br />
<br />
Habitat requirements of different plant species<br />
<br />
Botany and photography<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<u>Ambitions and dreams</u><br />
<br />
During my work in BIOTA as paraecologist my interest in nature and natural science has been strongly fostered. My particular interest lies in the collecting and identification of scorpions. I closely cooperate with Dr Lorenzo Prendini from the New York Museum of Natural History who kindly identifies the specimens for us and incorporated them into his scientific collection, and in the near future I want to specialize in the identification of Southern African scorpions. The experience gained during the internship with ARC/Ditsong has further increased my need to want to learn more about these creatures. I hope to continue to build my relationships with the researchers at these institutes. I feel the next step will be to be employed at one of these institutes in order to learn more and possible expand my knowledge into research.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<u>Publications</u><br />
<br />
For publications by and about Reginald Christiaan click [[Reginald_Christiaan_publications|'''here''']] <br />
<br />
<br />
<u>Contact for references</u><br />
<br />
Dr. Ute Schmiedel (paraecologist programme coordinator and supervisor from 2003 until 2010)<br/>Biocentre Klein Flottbek & Botanical Garden<br/>University of Hamburg<br/>Ohnhorststrasse 18<br/>D-22609 Hamburg<br/>Tel. +49 - (0)40 - 42816-548<br/>Fax +49 - (0)40 - 42816-539<br/>Email: [mailto:Ute.Schmiedel@uni-hamburg.de?subject=Paraecologist Ute.Schmiedel@uni-hamburg.de]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Ronald Newman (Conservation South Africa, Manager, Namaqualand Green Economic Demonstration)<br/>Conservation South Africa<br/>Springbok<br/>Tel: +27 27 718 1577<br/>Email: [mailto:r.newman@conservation.org?subject=Paraecologist r.newman@conservation.org]<br />
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<br/>[[File:Parabuthus_capensis_RC_P7102297_Soebatsfontein_400.jpg|link=]]<br><sup><span style="font-size:xx-small">Photo: Reginald Christiaan</span><br />
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<br/>[[File:Foto_Reginald_Christiaan_IMG_0339_400.jpg|link=]]<br><sup><span style="font-size:xx-small">Photo: Reginald Christiaan</span><br />
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<br/>[[File:Community_Choice_Award_2019_Reginald_Christiaan.jpg|link=]]<br><sup><span style="font-size:xx-small">Nomination Community Choice Awards 2019</span><br />
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<br/>[[File:At field work 72 555.jpg|At field work 72 555.jpg|link=]]<br />
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<br/>[[File:Foto_Reginald_Christiaan_10_0985_555.jpg|link=]]<br><sup><span style="font-size:xx-small">Photo: Reginald Christiaan</span><br />
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[[File:Reginald_Christiaan_Kudu_Award_2017_with_Parkmanager_e_555.jpg|link=]]<br><sup><span style="font-size:xx-small">Reginald Christiaan wins the Kudu Award "Youth in Conservation" from South African National Parks (SANParks), 2017. [http://www.paraecologist.org/images/1/17/Die_Plattelander_Reginald_Christiaan_1_Desember_2017.pdf '''Read article''']</span><br />
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[[File:Soil samples.jpg|Soil samples.jpg|link=]]<br><sup><span style="font-size:xx-small">soil sampling</span><br />
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[[File:P1010794_72_275.jpg|link=]][[File:Reginald_US12_3611_72_280.jpg|link=]]<br />
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<br/>[[File:Reginald_Christiaan_Scorpion_P1030305_555.jpg|link=]]<br><sup><span style="font-size:xx-small">Photo: Reginald Christiaan</span><br />
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<div>=== Reginald Christiaan ===<br />
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<u>Contact details:</u><br />
<br />
Email: [mailto:Reginald.Christiaan@gmail.com?subject=Paraecologist Reginald.Christiaan@gmail.com]<br/>Mobile: +27 72 4829617<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<u>Where am I from</u><br />
<br />
South Africa<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<u>Languages</u><br />
<br />
Afrikaans 1st<br/>English 2nd<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<u>I live in</u><br />
<br />
Soebatsfontein & Springbok, Northern Cape Province, South Africa<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<u>Current activities</u><br />
<br />
Self-employed as paraecologist<br />
<br />
Co-worker of the [http://www.arc.agric.za/arc-ppri/Pages/Biosystematics/SANSA.aspx South African National Survey of Arachnida (SANSA)]<br />
<br />
Conducting of scorpion workshops (for more information see [[Reginald_Christiaan_Scorpion_Workshops|scorpion workshops website]]) <br />
<br />
Collecting scorpions in Namaqualand for the scientific collection and research activities at the [https://www.amnh.org/ American Museum of Natural History] in New York, USA<br />
<br />
Assisting the Arachnida assessment as part of the [http://karoobiogapsproject.blogspot.com/2017/06/biogaps-scorpions-fieldtrip.html Karoo BioGaps project] run by SANBI<br />
<br />
Assisting (since 2002 until today) in the ongoing long-term vegetation monitoring programme of BIOTA Southern Africa and SASSCAL <br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<u>Organisations I worked for</u><br />
<br />
'''''SANParks'''''<br />
<br />
Oct.-Nov. 2014 and 2017: Kids in Parks Programme at Namaqua National Park<br />
*Offering activities for school children as part of the Kids in Parks programme <br />
<br />
Aug.-Sept 2012: Namaqua National Park, Groenrivier, Coastal Section, Tourism Assistant<br> <br />
<br />
Aug.-Sept 2015: Namaqua National Park, Skilpad, Tourism Assistant<br> <br />
*Assisting tourists<br> <br />
*Issuing entry permits for tourists<br />
<br />
<br/>'''''Conservation South Africa (CSA)'''''<br />
<br />
2011-2012: Internship at Springbok office, South Africa<br><br />
*Scorpion workshops (for more information see [[Reginald_Christiaan_Scorpion_Workshops|'''scorpion workshops website''']])<br />
*Weather stations installations<br />
*Downloading of data from weather stations<br />
*Capturing climate data<br />
*Co-ordinate participatory research activities in the Namakwa District with 15 EcoRangers on at least 1 communal farm, 4 private farms, and 1 national park<br />
*Collect, capture and analyse EcoRanger data from 15 EcoRangers<br />
*Communicate outcomes of data analysis to all research participants; all relevant CSA staff members; 2 meetings with local stakeholders; in 3 Veepos articles; and 1 article in a local newspaper.<br />
<br />
<br/>'''''Ditsong National Museums of Natural History, Pretoria, South Africa'''''<br />
<br />
2011: Internship as paraecologist and trainee<br><br />
*Curation and rebottling of Buthidae scorpions of the Lower Invertebrate collection<br />
*Sorting of spiders<br />
<br />
<br/>'''''BIOTA Southern Africa, international research project'''''<br />
<br />
2002-2010: Employed as a paraecologist (Soebatsfontein / South Africa)<br><br />
*Documentation of biodiversity data (plants and arthropods)<br />
*Monitoring of plant phenology (monthly)<br />
*Downloading of data from automatic weather stations<br />
*Environmental awareness projects with school children<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<u>My skills and expertise</u><br />
<br />
Computer skills: Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Power Point, Internet Explorer, email<br />
<br />
Entering phenological plant data into MS Excel database<br />
<br />
G.P.S (Global Positioning System)<br />
<br />
Installment and maintenance of automatic weather stations<br />
<br />
Monitoring and collection of plants and insects<br />
<br />
Use of digital photo and video cameras<br />
<br />
Taking of plant pictures for scientific purposes<br />
<br />
Identification of plants and plant names<br />
<br />
Ecology of succulents on quartz fields<br />
<br />
Facilitation of workshops<br />
<br />
Conflict management<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<u>Awards</u><br />
<br />
In November 2017, I won the Kudu Award "Youth in Conservation" from South African National Parks (SANParks) for my contribution to conservation through my scorpion project that raises awareness on the diversity and ecology of this understudied Arachnida fauna of the Namaqualand.<br>(Read more about the Kudu Awards 2017: [http://www.traveller24.com/Explore/Green/sanparks-kudu-awards-2017-honours-conservation-heroes-20171124 Sanparks Kudu Awards2017]) <br>[http://www.paraecologist.org/images/1/17/Die_Plattelander_Reginald_Christiaan_1_Desember_2017.pdf Read article]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<u>Special interests</u><br />
<br />
Habitat requirements of scorpions<br />
<br />
Collecting and identifying scorpions<br />
<br />
Habitat requirements of different plant species<br />
<br />
Botany and photography<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<u>Ambitions and dreams</u><br />
<br />
During my work in BIOTA as paraecologist my interest in nature and natural science has been strongly fostered. My particular interest lies in the collecting and identification of scorpions. I closely cooperate with Dr Lorenzo Prendini from the New York Museum of Natural History who kindly identifies the specimens for us and incorporated them into his scientific collection, and in the near future I want to specialize in the identification of Southern African scorpions. The experience gained during the internship with ARC/Ditsong has further increased my need to want to learn more about these creatures. I hope to continue to build my relationships with the researchers at these institutes. I feel the next step will be to be employed at one of these institutes in order to learn more and possible expand my knowledge into research.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<u>Publications</u><br />
<br />
For publications by and about Reginald Christiaan click [[Reginald_Christiaan_publications|'''here''']] <br />
<br />
<br />
<u>Contact for references</u><br />
<br />
Dr. Ute Schmiedel (paraecologist programme coordinator and supervisor from 2003 until 2010)<br/>Biocentre Klein Flottbek & Botanical Garden<br/>University of Hamburg<br/>Ohnhorststrasse 18<br/>D-22609 Hamburg<br/>Tel. +49 - (0)40 - 42816-548<br/>Fax +49 - (0)40 - 42816-539<br/>Email: [mailto:Ute.Schmiedel@uni-hamburg.de?subject=Paraecologist Ute.Schmiedel@uni-hamburg.de]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Ronald Newman (Conservation South Africa, Manager, Namaqualand Green Economic Demonstration)<br/>Conservation South Africa<br/>Springbok<br/>Tel: +27 27 718 1577<br/>Email: [mailto:r.newman@conservation.org?subject=Paraecologist r.newman@conservation.org]<br />
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<br/>[[File:Parabuthus_capensis_RC_P7102297_Soebatsfontein_400.jpg|link=]]<br><sup><span style="font-size:xx-small">Photo: Reginald Christiaan</span><br />
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[[File:72 400 IMG 1057.jpg|72 400 IMG 1057.jpg|link=]]<br />
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<br/>[[File:Foto_Reginald_Christiaan_IMG_0339_400.jpg|link=]]<br><sup><span style="font-size:xx-small">Photo: Reginald Christiaan</span><br />
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<br/>[[File:Community_Choice_Award_2019_Reginald_Christiaan.jpg|link=]]<br />
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<br/>[[File:Foto_Reginald_Christiaan_10_0985_555.jpg|link=]]<br><sup><span style="font-size:xx-small">Photo: Reginald Christiaan</span><br />
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[[File:Reginald_Christiaan_Kudu_Award_2017_with_Parkmanager_e_555.jpg|link=]]<br><sup><span style="font-size:xx-small">Reginald Christiaan wins the Kudu Award "Youth in Conservation" from South African National Parks (SANParks), 2017. [http://www.paraecologist.org/images/1/17/Die_Plattelander_Reginald_Christiaan_1_Desember_2017.pdf '''Read article''']</span><br />
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[[File:Soil samples.jpg|Soil samples.jpg|link=]]<br><sup><span style="font-size:xx-small">soil sampling</span><br />
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[[File:P1010794_72_275.jpg|link=]][[File:Reginald_US12_3611_72_280.jpg|link=]]<br />
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<br/>[[File:Reginald_Christiaan_Scorpion_P1030305_555.jpg|link=]]<br><sup><span style="font-size:xx-small">Photo: Reginald Christiaan</span><br />
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<div>=== Reginald Christiaan ===<br />
<br />
{| width="1000" border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"<br />
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<u>Contact details:</u><br />
<br />
Email: [mailto:Reginald.Christiaan@gmail.com?subject=Paraecologist Reginald.Christiaan@gmail.com]<br/>Mobile: +27 72 4829617<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<u>Where am I from</u><br />
<br />
South Africa<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<u>Languages</u><br />
<br />
Afrikaans 1st<br/>English 2nd<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<u>I live in</u><br />
<br />
Soebatsfontein & Springbok, Northern Cape Province, South Africa<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<u>Current activities</u><br />
<br />
Self-employed as paraecologist<br />
<br />
Co-worker of the [http://www.arc.agric.za/arc-ppri/Pages/Biosystematics/SANSA.aspx South African National Survey of Arachnida (SANSA)]<br />
<br />
Conducting of scorpion workshops (for more information see [[Reginald_Christiaan_Scorpion_Workshops|scorpion workshops website]]) <br />
<br />
Collecting scorpions in Namaqualand for the scientific collection and research activities at the [https://www.amnh.org/ American Museum of Natural History] in New York, USA<br />
<br />
Assisting the Arachnida assessment as part of the [http://karoobiogapsproject.blogspot.com/2017/06/biogaps-scorpions-fieldtrip.html Karoo BioGaps project] run by SANBI<br />
<br />
Assisting (since 2002 until today) in the ongoing long-term vegetation monitoring programme of BIOTA Southern Africa and SASSCAL <br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<u>Organisations I worked for</u><br />
<br />
'''''SANParks'''''<br />
<br />
Oct.-Nov. 2014 and 2017: Kids in Parks Programme at Namaqua National Park<br />
*Offering activities for school children as part of the Kids in Parks programme <br />
<br />
Aug.-Sept 2012: Namaqua National Park, Groenrivier, Coastal Section, Tourism Assistant<br> <br />
<br />
Aug.-Sept 2015: Namaqua National Park, Skilpad, Tourism Assistant<br> <br />
*Assisting tourists<br> <br />
*Issuing entry permits for tourists<br />
<br />
<br/>'''''Conservation South Africa (CSA)'''''<br />
<br />
2011-2012: Internship at Springbok office, South Africa<br><br />
*Scorpion workshops (for more information see [[Reginald_Christiaan_Scorpion_Workshops|'''scorpion workshops website''']])<br />
*Weather stations installations<br />
*Downloading of data from weather stations<br />
*Capturing climate data<br />
*Co-ordinate participatory research activities in the Namakwa District with 15 EcoRangers on at least 1 communal farm, 4 private farms, and 1 national park<br />
*Collect, capture and analyse EcoRanger data from 15 EcoRangers<br />
*Communicate outcomes of data analysis to all research participants; all relevant CSA staff members; 2 meetings with local stakeholders; in 3 Veepos articles; and 1 article in a local newspaper.<br />
<br />
<br/>'''''Ditsong National Museums of Natural History, Pretoria, South Africa'''''<br />
<br />
2011: Internship as paraecologist and trainee<br><br />
*Curation and rebottling of Buthidae scorpions of the Lower Invertebrate collection<br />
*Sorting of spiders<br />
<br />
<br/>'''''BIOTA Southern Africa, international research project'''''<br />
<br />
2002-2010: Employed as a paraecologist (Soebatsfontein / South Africa)<br><br />
*Documentation of biodiversity data (plants and arthropods)<br />
*Monitoring of plant phenology (monthly)<br />
*Downloading of data from automatic weather stations<br />
*Environmental awareness projects with school children<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<u>My skills and expertise</u><br />
<br />
Computer skills: Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Power Point, Internet Explorer, email<br />
<br />
Entering phenological plant data into MS Excel database<br />
<br />
G.P.S (Global Positioning System)<br />
<br />
Installment and maintenance of automatic weather stations<br />
<br />
Monitoring and collection of plants and insects<br />
<br />
Use of digital photo and video cameras<br />
<br />
Taking of plant pictures for scientific purposes<br />
<br />
Identification of plants and plant names<br />
<br />
Ecology of succulents on quartz fields<br />
<br />
Facilitation of workshops<br />
<br />
Conflict management<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<u>Awards</u><br />
<br />
In November 2017, I won the Kudu Award "Youth in Conservation" from South African National Parks (SANParks) for my contribution to conservation through my scorpion project that raises awareness on the diversity and ecology of this understudied Arachnida fauna of the Namaqualand.<br>(Read more about the Kudu Awards 2017: [http://www.traveller24.com/Explore/Green/sanparks-kudu-awards-2017-honours-conservation-heroes-20171124 Sanparks Kudu Awards2017]) <br>[http://www.paraecologist.org/images/1/17/Die_Plattelander_Reginald_Christiaan_1_Desember_2017.pdf Read article]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<u>Special interests</u><br />
<br />
Habitat requirements of scorpions<br />
<br />
Collecting and identifying scorpions<br />
<br />
Habitat requirements of different plant species<br />
<br />
Botany and photography<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<u>Ambitions and dreams</u><br />
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During my work in BIOTA as paraecologist my interest in nature and natural science has been strongly fostered. My particular interest lies in the collecting and identification of scorpions. I closely cooperate with Dr Lorenzo Prendini from the New York Museum of Natural History who kindly identifies the specimens for us and incorporated them into his scientific collection, and in the near future I want to specialize in the identification of Southern African scorpions. The experience gained during the internship with ARC/Ditsong has further increased my need to want to learn more about these creatures. I hope to continue to build my relationships with the researchers at these institutes. I feel the next step will be to be employed at one of these institutes in order to learn more and possible expand my knowledge into research.<br />
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For publications by and about Reginald Christiaan click [[Reginald_Christiaan_publications|'''here''']] <br />
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<u>Contact for references</u><br />
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Dr. Ute Schmiedel (paraecologist programme coordinator and supervisor from 2003 until 2010)<br/>Biocentre Klein Flottbek & Botanical Garden<br/>University of Hamburg<br/>Ohnhorststrasse 18<br/>D-22609 Hamburg<br/>Tel. +49 - (0)40 - 42816-548<br/>Fax +49 - (0)40 - 42816-539<br/>Email: [mailto:Ute.Schmiedel@uni-hamburg.de?subject=Paraecologist Ute.Schmiedel@uni-hamburg.de]<br />
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Ronald Newman (Conservation South Africa, Manager, Namaqualand Green Economic Demonstration)<br/>Conservation South Africa<br/>Springbok<br/>Tel: +27 27 718 1577<br/>Email: [mailto:r.newman@conservation.org?subject=Paraecologist r.newman@conservation.org]<br />
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[[File:Reginald_Christiaan_Kudu_Award_2017_with_Parkmanager_e_555.jpg|link=]]<br><sup><span style="font-size:xx-small">Reginald Christiaan wins the Kudu Award "Youth in Conservation" from South African National Parks (SANParks), 2017. [http://www.paraecologist.org/images/1/17/Die_Plattelander_Reginald_Christiaan_1_Desember_2017.pdf '''Read article''']</span><br />
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Further activities by Reginald Christiaan: [[Reginald_Christiaan|click here]]<br />
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