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+ | <br/><span style="color:#ff0000"><span style="font-size: large">Para-ecologist training course in Wondo Genet / Ethiopia, 2014</span> | ||
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+ | | [[File:Para_Ecologist_Wondo_Genet_US14_0134_72_920.jpg|link=]]<br/><span style="font-size:x-small">Participants, from left to right: <br>Back: Teshome Gigi, Tamirat Gelaye, Gabrehiwot Woldeyohannes, Kefyalew Mulele, Tadele Zewdie, Fikadu Asseza, Peter Borchardt, Gemechu Koroso, Senait Desalegne <br>Front: Getachew Birhamu, Habtamu Elias, Bezashwork Melaku, Seblework Alemu, Habtamu Assaye, Abebe Mulu; squatting in front: Misasu Teshome | ||
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+ | | style="width: 460px; vertical-align: top" | <span style="color:#ff0000">'''From 20th to the 24th of January 2014'''</span>, a para-ecologist training workshop was held at the Wondo Genet College of Forestry and Natural Resources near Shashemene in Ethiopia. The trainees, mainly local tour guides but also college staff, were interested to get involved into future research and maintenance activities around the Wondo Genet College Arboretum. The para-ecologist training comprises topics like plant biology, plant identification, and taking photos of plants. | ||
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+ | | style="width: 460px; vertical-align: top"| The workshop forms part of the [http://www.nachhaltige.uni-hamburg.de/de/downloads/KNU-Praesentation-ARBORETUM-PROJECT-PBorchardt.pdf ARBOPRO] project of the University of Hamburg. | ||
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+ | For more information about ARBOPRO contact Peter Borchardt [mailto:borchardt@geowiss.uni-hamburg.de?subject=Arbopro_project borchardt@geowiss.uni-hamburg.de] | ||
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+ | For more information about the training course contact Ute Schmiedel [mailto:Ute.Schmiedel@uni-hamburg.de?subject=Para-ecologist Ute.Schmiedel@uni-hamburg.de]. | ||
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+ | <br/><span style="color:#ff0000"><span style="font-size: large">First Groen Sebenza para-ecologist training workshop <br>held in Grabouw / South Africa, October 2013</span><br/></span> | ||
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+ | [[File:Group_photo_US13_5169_72_900.jpg|link=]]<br/><span style="font-size:x-small">Back (from left to right): Mzukisi Beja, Marius Lombard, Landiso Mila, Someleze Mgcuwa, Hlengiwe Mtshali, Marcus de Goede, Mahlatse Mogale, Vathiswe Zikishe<br>Middle: Mluleki Nkosi, Anri Marais, Liezel Knight, Siphosethu Moshani, Khululwa Gxekwa, Areefa Tietis, Bettina Koelle, Bongeka Ntola<br>Front: Mxolisi Ngongoma, Sibusisu Mqadi, Mzamo Dlamini, Karen Herman </span><br> | ||
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+ | | valign="top" width="440"|'''The Workshop''' | ||
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+ | From 28th of October until 1st of November 2013 eighteen Groen Sebenza para-ecologists from the Eastern, Western and Northern Cape Province of South Africa participated in a training workshop held in Grabouw / Western Cape Province of South Africa. The para-ecologists are working for 2.5 years with various institutions and organisations in rural areas or small towns where they are involved in biodiversity assessment, monitoring and management. | ||
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+ | The workshop included topics like professional performance at the workplace, conflict resolution, reporting, facilitation of meetings and workshops, time management, budget management, team building but also the use of GPS, the taking of plant photos for scientific purposes, the value of scientific names for plants and animals etc. | ||
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+ | | valign="top" width="440"|'''Groen Sebenza''' | ||
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+ | Groen Sebenza is a Jobs Fund Partnership Project that aims at developing priority skills in the biodiversity sector to create sustainable job opportunities for 800 unemployed graduates and matriculants (for more info go to [http://www.sanbi.org/programmes/education-hcd/groen-sebenza www.sanbi.org/programmes/education-hcd/groen-sebenza]). | ||
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+ | Eighteen of the Groen Sebenza matriculants participated in the para-ecologist training workshop. | ||
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+ | | [[File:72_200_DSC06298.jpg|link=Biota exhibition 2011]] | ||
+ | | valign="top" | 2011 - 2012 <br>'''BIOTA exhibition the pyramids in the Botanical Garden, Hamburg''' | ||
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+ | <br>[[Biota exhibition 2011|see more]] | ||
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+ | <br/><span style="color:#ff0000"><span style="font-size: large">The first training workshop for the para-ecologists<br/>of the Future Okavango project is taking place in Mayana,<br/>Rundu / Namibia from 7th to 17th of August 2012.</span><br/></span> | ||
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+ | [[File:20120811 0247 Ausschnitt 72 900.jpg|20120811 0247 Ausschnitt 72 900.jpg|link=]]<br/>Vilho Snake Mtuleni (technician, Namibia), Miguel Hilario (Angola), Meshack Kwamovo (Botswana), Robert Mukuya (Namibia). | ||
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+ | | valign="top" | 14 - 17 June 2011 <br>'''International workshop on para-eologist programmes'''<br>'''held at the Biocentre Klein Flottbek, University of Hamburg / Germany''' | ||
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+ | <br>[[workshop_UHH_2011|more information]] | ||
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+ | | [[File:72_200_AZEF_talk_09.jpg|link=]] | ||
+ | | valign="top" | 2009 <br> Arid Zone Ecology Forum (AZEF) in South Africa<br>Best oral presentation by young scientists:<br>'''Second prize was awarded jointly to <br>the para-ecologists Richard Isaacks and Sebedeus Swartbooi''' | ||
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+ | <br>For more information see the [http://www.azef.co.za/awards/2009_awards.htm Arid Zone Ecology Forum website] | ||
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+ | | valign="top" | 2009 <br>'''BIOTA exhibition at the Loki Schmidt Haus, Hamburg''' | ||
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+ | <br>[[Biota exhibition 2009| more information]] | ||
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+ | | [[File:72_200_US08_4342.jpg|link=COP_9]] | ||
+ | | valign="top" | 2008<br>Side event at the CBD COP 9 in Bonn, Germany:<br>'''The Other Perspective: Visions of African Stakeholders <br>on Biodiversity Convention and Sustainable Develoment''' | ||
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+ | <br>[[COP_9|more information]] | ||
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Revision as of 07:56, 20 February 2014
News
OPEN CALL for researchers:
Training school on involvement of para-ecologists into dryland restoration and research
held in Hamburg in February 2014
A training school on Participation driven Science in Ecology and Hydrology: Implementation of para-ecology in dryland research and restoration will be held at the Botanical Garden of the University of Hamburg, Germany, from 17-19 February 2014.The training school aims to explore the role of para-ecologists in the sustainable management of drylands and restoration of degraded land.
For more information on the training school see: announcement.pdf
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Para-ecologist training course in Wondo Genet / Ethiopia, 2014
Participants, from left to right: Back: Teshome Gigi, Tamirat Gelaye, Gabrehiwot Woldeyohannes, Kefyalew Mulele, Tadele Zewdie, Fikadu Asseza, Peter Borchardt, Gemechu Koroso, Senait Desalegne Front: Getachew Birhamu, Habtamu Elias, Bezashwork Melaku, Seblework Alemu, Habtamu Assaye, Abebe Mulu; squatting in front: Misasu Teshome |
From 20th to the 24th of January 2014, a para-ecologist training workshop was held at the Wondo Genet College of Forestry and Natural Resources near Shashemene in Ethiopia. The trainees, mainly local tour guides but also college staff, were interested to get involved into future research and maintenance activities around the Wondo Genet College Arboretum. The para-ecologist training comprises topics like plant biology, plant identification, and taking photos of plants. | The workshop forms part of the ARBOPRO project of the University of Hamburg.
For more information about ARBOPRO contact Peter Borchardt borchardt@geowiss.uni-hamburg.de For more information about the training course contact Ute Schmiedel Ute.Schmiedel@uni-hamburg.de. |
First Groen Sebenza para-ecologist training workshop
held in Grabouw / South Africa, October 2013
Back (from left to right): Mzukisi Beja, Marius Lombard, Landiso Mila, Someleze Mgcuwa, Hlengiwe Mtshali, Marcus de Goede, Mahlatse Mogale, Vathiswe Zikishe
Middle: Mluleki Nkosi, Anri Marais, Liezel Knight, Siphosethu Moshani, Khululwa Gxekwa, Areefa Tietis, Bettina Koelle, Bongeka Ntola
Front: Mxolisi Ngongoma, Sibusisu Mqadi, Mzamo Dlamini, Karen Herman
The Workshop
From 28th of October until 1st of November 2013 eighteen Groen Sebenza para-ecologists from the Eastern, Western and Northern Cape Province of South Africa participated in a training workshop held in Grabouw / Western Cape Province of South Africa. The para-ecologists are working for 2.5 years with various institutions and organisations in rural areas or small towns where they are involved in biodiversity assessment, monitoring and management. The workshop included topics like professional performance at the workplace, conflict resolution, reporting, facilitation of meetings and workshops, time management, budget management, team building but also the use of GPS, the taking of plant photos for scientific purposes, the value of scientific names for plants and animals etc. |
Groen Sebenza
Groen Sebenza is a Jobs Fund Partnership Project that aims at developing priority skills in the biodiversity sector to create sustainable job opportunities for 800 unemployed graduates and matriculants (for more info go to www.sanbi.org/programmes/education-hcd/groen-sebenza).
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2011 - 2012 BIOTA exhibition the pyramids in the Botanical Garden, Hamburg |
The first training workshop for the para-ecologists
of the Future Okavango project is taking place in Mayana,
Rundu / Namibia from 7th to 17th of August 2012.
Vilho Snake Mtuleni (technician, Namibia), Miguel Hilario (Angola), Meshack Kwamovo (Botswana), Robert Mukuya (Namibia).
14 - 17 June 2011 International workshop on para-eologist programmes held at the Biocentre Klein Flottbek, University of Hamburg / Germany |
2009 Arid Zone Ecology Forum (AZEF) in South Africa Best oral presentation by young scientists: Second prize was awarded jointly to the para-ecologists Richard Isaacks and Sebedeus Swartbooi
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2009 BIOTA exhibition at the Loki Schmidt Haus, Hamburg
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2008 Side event at the CBD COP 9 in Bonn, Germany: The Other Perspective: Visions of African Stakeholders on Biodiversity Convention and Sustainable Develoment
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See also: