Research and TrainingTree Species ID

Iwokrama-GuyanaDr Raquel Thomas-Caesar

Iwokrama International Centre for Rain Forest Conservation and DevelopmentTonka Island, Suriname

September 2015

Iwokrama

A protected areaAn intact tropical rain forestOne million acres (> 371,000 ha)Named after a Mountain Range – 1000 mIndigenous Makushi -‘Place of refuge’

@ Olivier Chassot 2014

River Lodge and Research Centre

Iwokrama International Centre for Rain Forest Conservation and Development

• An international experiment in sustainable development – Guyana & Commonwealth 1989

• An autonomous international multidisciplinary research and development centre

• 1 million acres -2% Guyana’s Forest

• Governed by an Act (1996)

• One of 4 established Protected Areas

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En mo re

We ld aa d

Ma ba rum a

Pila na w a

Ma rlb or oug h

MabarumaMorawhanna

BARAMANNI

Kwara

ArakakaKoriabo

Takutu

Towakaima

Waramuri Mission

Marlborough

Anna Regina

Suddie

Peter's Mine

Issano

Ebini

ApoteriAnnai

Mowasi

Potaro

LINDEN

NEW AMSTERDAM

BARTICA

Issoroso

Perth

Enmore

GEORGETOWN

PilanawaDadanawa Shea

Kurukukari

Parika

LETH EM

VENEZUELA

BRAZIL SURINAME

BRAZIL

GUYANA20 0 20 40 Kilometers

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Data Source1:1000 0000 CSBS

Iwokrama Forest

• Wilderness Preserve (WP)

• Sustainable Utilisation Area (SUA)

Integrating Conservation with Sustainable Use

• Research • Training • Management• Monitoring• Ecotourism • Sustainable Timber harvesting• Other Business Development Projects

• We collaborate with 16 neighbouring Amerindian communities (visit www.nrbbd.org) and with key partners including Government, private sector, indigenous groups, NGOs, universities, research institutions, schools and zoos.

Research Biodiversity surveys/research

FloraFauna

Forest utilisation studiesTimberNon-timber forest productsCommunity ForestryVolume and Decay StudyBiomass assessment

Bio-prospectingEndophytic fungi

Wetlands research Marketing research (Timber, NTFPs)

Social researchCommunity resource use mappingTraditional ecological knowledgeIPR and benefit sharingImpact of Iwokrama capacity building on community development

Ecosystem servicesAlternative business development

Tourist Cabins

Iwokrama River Lodge and Research Centre

Fred Allicock Building

Atta Lodge –Canopy Walkway

Facilities for Researchers and Student groups

Turtle Mountain Camp

Tree ID related studies

• D B Fanshawe (Forestry Dept)– Principal Timbers 1954 – Vegetation of British Guyana, A prelim Review 1952– Checklist of Indig Woody Plants of British Guiana 1949

• Tropenbos-Guyana (1989 – 2001)– Inventories/PSPs – Major Timber trees of Guyana, Field Guide 1992– Checklist of woody plants of Guyana 1988– Checklist of flowering plats of Mabura Hill 2003– Non Timber Forest Products –Field Guide

• Smithsonian Institution– Checklist of plants of the Guianas

Tree ID related studies• Iwokrama

– Inventories

– PSPs (Timber related, Rainfor, Amazon Tree Diversity Gp)

– Tree population studies in low-diversity forests, Floristic composition ….Johnston and Gillman 1995.

– Plant Diversity of the Iwokrama Forest (Smithsonian) 2001)

– Volume and Decay study (timber related)- Trevin 2009

• Guyana Forestry Commission– Inventories

– PSPs (Moraballi, Chickabaru, Yarrokabra, Old tropenbos sites- Mabura Hill Forest Reserve, Pibiri )

Current institutions- Training in Tree ID

• Iwokrama-– Forest Botany/Dendrology

• Guyana Forestry Commission (internal)-– Dendrology

• Forestry Training Centre (external)- – Dendrology

Iwokrama International Centre for Rain Forest Conservation and Development

www.iwokrama.orgRequest for Proposals for our Research and Science

Programmehttp://iwokrama.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/

2014/07/RFP-Research-July-2014-V1.pdf

Dr Raquel Thomas-CaesarDirector for Resource Management and Training

rthomas@iwokrama.org

Vanessa Bennvbenn@iwokrama.org

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