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The module is located in the Zor Communuity Forest in Nimba County near the city of Sanniquellie in the east of the country on the border with Côte d'Ivoire.
In February, a team from CENBAM / PPBio / INPA, lead by Dr. William Magnusson and assisted by researchers Ramiro D. Melinski and Rafael Rabelo went to Liberia, to present a training course on biodiversity monitoring using the RAPELD method. The course was supported by the Liberian Forest Service and
FIFES (Forest Incomes for Environmental Sustainability), who are funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Dr. John Fa is
herpetologist Luca Luiselli. The objective of the trip was to demonstrate the RAPELD method and to train the various parties involved in the monitoring of the Zor Community Forest.
Monrovia. Photo by Ramiro Melinski
After two days in the capital, Monrovia, where the team met with local FIFES boss Glenn Lines, the researchers went to Sanniquellie where they would stay during the practical activities of the course.
The group visited Ganta market where there were several types of game meat, primates and antelope for sale.
Ganta. Photos by Ramiro Melinski.
On February 15th there were meetings with all involved in the project.
- local FIFES staff
- FIFES members from Sanniquellie and Monrovia
- the Community Forest Monitoring Body (CFMB)
- Community Forest Guards (CFG).
Photos: Ramiro M.
Later that day, and during the 16th, teams of Liberians learned how to start the module and more than 2kms of trails were opened in the Zor Community Forest.
On February 17, training in the monitoring of trees of commercial interest was carried out.
This is a very important activity since this forest is a protected conservation unit for the benefit of the community and the ability to estimate the value of the forest gives them the power to negotiate funding from government or private, regional or international, conservation programs and also with logging companies that may have interest in the area and perhaps to implement a management plan of their own, by the counting and measurement of the growth of species of interest.
February 18/19. Training in monitoring frugivorous butterflies and understory birds.
Photos: Ramiro M.
Birds captured in Zor Community Forest.
| Scientific name |
Common name |
Family |
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Chamaetylas poliocephala poliocephala
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Grey-headed Alethe
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Muscicapidae
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Dyaphorophyia concreta
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Rufous-bellied Wattle-eye |
Platysteiridae |
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Alethe diademata
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White-tailed Alethe |
Muscicapidae |
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Eurilla virens erythroptera
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Little Greenbul |
Pycnonotidae |
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Sheppardia cyornithopsis houghtoni
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Lowland Akalat |
Muscicapidae
|
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Corythornis leucogaster bowdleri
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White-bellied Kingfisher |
Alcedinidae |
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List of participants in the RAPELD training course Zor Community Forest, Liberia, February 2018.
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Name
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Instituition
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William E. Magnusson
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PPBio/CENBAM/INPA
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Ramiro D. Melinski
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PPBio/CENBAM/INPA
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Rafael M. Rabelo
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PPBio/CENBAM/INPA
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John E. Fa
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CIFOR/Manchester Metropolitan University
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Luca M. Luiselli
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Rivers State University of Science and Technology
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Soko Koryon
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FIFES
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Gonkarnue B. Tiatun
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FIFES
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Korkorlie E. Dongbo
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FIFES
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David B. Carl Jr.
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FIFES
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Mulbah V. Gibson
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FIFES
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Nathaniel Kermon
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CFMB
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James Warway
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CFMB
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Festus G. Zain
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CFMB
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Anna Geh
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CFMB
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Washington Baleah
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CFG
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Gabriel Woto
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CFG
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Wilson Towa
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CFG
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Ericson Gonkarnue
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CFG
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Thomas Paye
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CFG
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Princess Bestman
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FIFES
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Alexander K. Blete
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FIFES
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Morris R. Brach
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FIFES
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