Gretchen Coffmann & David McGuire ('ze famous' Shark Steward) of the San Francisco University visited again and were once more flabbergasted with the beauty and biodiversity of the place, and advised on our conservation & restoration efforts. David had a very unfortunate experience of Newton's first law. The unstable force being the planks of the top floor of the second ranger station that had given in to the rainy season stresses they had to endure over the years. We're very, very sorry and hope you'll recover 100% and be swimming with sharks again.
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| David at work |
School for Field Studies
Two groups of students from various US universities came to check the PNM through the Siem Reap office of the School for Field Studies.
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| A group SFS students with one of the rangers |
Royal University of Phnom Penh: camera traps
Research Officer Reth Thaung and students of the RUPP came, together with volunteer Vanessa Herrnaz to place camera traps. They (and we!) hope to see the Fishing Cat (Khlaa Trey) to be present and trip some cameras at night.
Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences
Dr. Patrick Grootaert, the Head of the Department of Entomology of this Belgian Institute had planned to do insect trapping in the PNM already for many years, and now finally his colleague Jerome Constant (specialist in Fulgoridae) who works in Vietnam could make time to come out for this with another colleague Vincent.
Dr. Grootaert is studying the insect population in mangroves in Singapore already for many years, and wants, through similar studies in Brunei, Shenzhen, Borneo, Vietnam and now also Cambodia to get a view how the fauna developed after the last ice-age, when the mangroves of Borneo and Vietnam were continuous, but under influence of the rising sea levels got fragmented till the present-day situation.
Jerome and Vincent came with four entomology students of the RUPP and placed Malaise traps which will be used to collect insects over a period of 3 months.
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| Waiting for the rain to stop |
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