In order to fortifying the interinstitutional cooperation and to offer professional and technical advising, Sentido Natural carried out on November 23, 2005 the course “Rise Techniques and Research in the Canopy” in the reserve Bosque Macanal. It was directed to students of the National University of Colombia of the program of master in Conservation and Management of Wildlife and of the program of Bsc in Management and Sustainable Management of Wildlife.
The course was accomplished thanks to the initiative of the professors Olga Montenegro and Pedro Sánchez of the Institute of Natural Sciences of the National University of Colombia, whom worried about including inside the plan of studies of both programs, subject related to the scientific investigation in one of the ecosystems less studied as the canopy is.
Indications for the use of the equipment to rise with the method of simple rope.
By means of the recognition of the climbing equipment used to rise and descend tress, the knowledge of the safety regulations to work on the platforms of observation located to 18 m of height and the execution of a workshop about the different techniques and employed methodologies for the investigation in the canopy such as the observation from platforms, techniques of collection of resident fauna and methods for the quantification of contribution of nutrients of the canopy to the forest among others; the students found in this course an additional tool with whichthey complement their know-how to propose investigation projects such as ecology, biodiversity and conservation.
Student arriving at the platform to 18 m from the ground.
