Guyana – The Opwall Blog

Guyana – What big EARS you have!

September 1, 2017September 5, 2017

Written by Burton Lim, Royal Ontario Museum Photo Courtesy of Justin Isip Bat netting began with a bang at Turtle Mountain for the start of the 2017 Opwall monitoring at Iwokrama Forest in Guyana. The first night we caught 10 bats representing 9 species – that’s almost the highest species diversity measure possible. But then the rain and mud took... Read More

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Guyana – We liked it, so we put a ring on it

November 11, 2016November 24, 2016

Written by Brian O’Shea Photos Courtesy of Scott Sveiven The Opwall Guyana bird team had a very successful season, logging more than 2000 net-hours and capturing 307 birds of 59 species. Our ringing protocol, initiated in 2014, is starting to pay off with some interesting data, since our recapture rate more than doubled from 2015 to this year! This will... Read More

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Guyana – Hanging with Bats

February 19, 2016February 19, 2016

Written by Thomas Horsley Photos Courtesy of Thomas Horsley & Andrew Snyder The Iwokrama Forest in central Guyana is a truly beautiful place. Walking through this pristine, previously untouched swath of habitat, you are inundated with an incredible diversity of wildlife. If you’ve managed to walk a transect or conduct a river survey without encountering some of the more common... Read More

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Guyana – St Stephen’s Science Success

July 20, 2015November 29, 2016 0 comment

Written by Johnny Wilson, St Stephen’s Episcopal School Photos Courtesy of Alex Tozer My group of 9 students and one teacher just departed for Georgetown to return to the US after spending two weeks in the rainforest at OpWall’s Guyana site. What an amazing experience they had. What a thrill to wake up in your hammock to the sounds of... Read More

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Guyana – Reduced Impact Logging – is this a workable concept for biodiversity protection?

June 19, 2015November 30, 2016 0 comment

Written by Dr Tim Coles Protecting forests from any form of exploitation as National Parks, Wildlife Preserves or any of a number of conservation categories, is a key component of forest and wildlife protection in most countries. However, this strategy is never going to affect more than around 10% of the forests in a country (note there are exceptions to... Read More