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Now it cant be all work and no play and in my spare time (we work 6 days a week here, so what I really mean is on Saturdays!) I have been participating in bird watching with the bird charity Bird Conservation Nepal (BCN). Now I will be the first to admit that birds have never really been my thing…In the UK I could just about identify a few garden birds and a red kite,...
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We have just held our first workshop for the Nepal Red Data Lists projects – this was specifically aimed at field staff and technicians. The workshop was held at NTNC Biodiversity Conservation Centre in Chitwan 30th-31st of January and covered a selected number of species that technicians would be aware of and are easily identifiable in the field. This workshop was...
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So with the New Year comes the busiest time for the Nepal Red List of Mammals. We are currently preparing for a technicians workshop which is being held at the National Trust for Nature Conservations Biodiversity Conservation Centre in one of my favourite places… CHITWAN! Preparations are in full swing. This workshop is an information collecting exercise and no species...
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Working on the National Red List of Nepal has not only given me a great opportunity to meet some brilliant researchers and field technicians, but also to truly experience Nepal and its culture. I am lucky that many of my colleagues and people I have met along the way I now consider to be good friends and for this reason (as well as for work related ones), I headed back to...
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For those of you who dont know what load sharing is… it is essentially a power cut for several hours everyday and starts in the winter time when the water tables get low. It can happen at any point in the day (though usually in the morning and evening when you most need it). This is definitely something I could not have appreciated back in London. The thought of...
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We are nearing our deadline for our species reports, which need to be ready for a technicians workshop in January and we seem to be running on time – with only bats and rodents left to complete. Unfortunately these make for long days as I don’t believe I’ve had any population estimates for a single rodent species out of the 40 that I’ve done. I...
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