Overview

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Overview

• Tropical scientific expeditions at 14 main sites
  in 7 countries
• 130 academics running more than 100 projects
• 25 papers submitted to peer reviewed journals
  each year
• 30 new vertebrate species discovered already
• Opportunity to work with university academics to
  gain practical field experience and skills
• Data used to assess the performance of
  conservation management programmes

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Global Research and Conservation Strategy

• Stage 1 - Assessing ecosystem diversity and
  function
• Stage 2 - Monitoring ecosystem change
• Stage 3 - Monitoring socio-economic change
• Stage 4 - Establishing monitoring the
  effectiveness of conservation
  management programs

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Team Members

Principal Researchers Assistant
Researchers Visiting Academics Dissertation
Students Research Assistants General
Surveyors Operations Staff Medical Staff
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Wallacea Region of Indonesia
Named after Alfred Russel Wallace Wallace
contemporary of Darwin Letter from Wallace in
Halmahera to Darwin resulted in publication of
theory of natural selection Isolated from main
continents High numbers of unique species
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Travel to Site
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Jetboat from Kendari to Bau Bau
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Why save the forest?

• Tree diversity maximal for Sulawesi and good
  remaining forest cover
• Good cross section of butterflies, birds, snakes,
  bats and small mammals
• 21 new species of vertebrate discovered
• Numerous threatened species of herpetofauna,
  birds and bats
• Flagship species such as macaques, anoa and
  Sulawesi palm civet

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Threats to the Forest Deforestation
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Threats to Forest Hunting Selective Logging
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Labundo Bundo
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Getting to Know the Local People

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Jungle Training
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Canopy Access Indonesia, Honduras
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OPERATION WALLACEA 2002 KAKENAUWE GRID
Study Grids Forest Disturbance Gradient
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Node Camps
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Forest structure training
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Group 1 Position team
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Group 2 Vegetation cover
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Group 3 Tree taggers
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Group 4 Regeneration and exploitation
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Herpetofauna Communities
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Small Mammal Surveys
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Civet Population Ecology
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Bat Communities
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Tarsier Macaque Monitoring
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Fresh Water Fish Surveys
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Forest Transects
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Biodiversity Monitoring Butterflies Birds
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Anoa and Macaque Populations Rattan Extraction
Surveys

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Fitness levels required
Level 1 Trekking over rough ground with 15kg
rucksack for 5 hours (bleep level 10 and
above) Level 2 Trekking over rough ground with
15kg rucksack for 3 hours (bleep level 9 and
above) Level 3 Trekking on paths with 15kg
rucksack for 2 hours (bleep level 8 and
above) Level 4 Lower fitness levels than above
or medical condition that might reduce ability in
field or require evacuation (bleep level 6 and
above
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• Formed in 2000 and launched in House of Commons
• Chaired by Rt Hon Kenneth Clarke QC MP
• Trustees drawn from academia and business worlds
• Mission is to establish best practice examples of
  conservation management where local communities
  have a direct financial benefit from conservation
  of the target sites

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World Bank/GEF Lambusango Project

• Established to be best practice example of forest
  conservation
• Lambusango Forum established
• Wildlife Crime Unit formed
• Environmental education programme completed
• Biodiversity monitoring skills training
• Key driver is village contract scheme

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Income Source 1 Wildlife Conservation Products
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Income Source 2 - Ecotourism
Local homestays Lawane Ecotone formed Sourcing of
local supplies
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Income Source 3 Carbon Credits

• 19 objective targets established to monitor
  success
• 5 targets being exceeded e.g.
• stopping forest clearances
• reducing hunting
• increasing awareness of forests
• 3 criteria are off target and need additional
  work
• Remaining criteria on target or data deficient

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Week 1 Schedule
Wednesday Arrive Kendari Thursday Take ferry to
Bau Bau and transfer to Labundo. Friday Fitness
assessment / jungle training Saturday to Tuesday
Work based in and around Labundo Bundo / LBB
Lapago / Node Camp Wednesday Depart LBB for
marine site

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Bintang Sedang Research Ship
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Wakatobi National Park
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Kaledupa Island Hoga
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Hoga Island Research Centre
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Hoga Lodge
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Wetlab Lecture Theatre
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Accommodation
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Dive Training Course
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Coral Reef Ecology Course

• Acropora spp. - Characterised by having enlarged
  terminal or axial corallites occurring at the end
  of each branch and with many obvious radial
  corallites with well developed walls that project
  from the sides of the branches. The shape and
  orientation of these radial corallites is used to
  identify down to the species level.

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Sampela Bajo Village
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Kaledupa Island
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Example Diving Research Projects
Patterns of soft coral diversity Reef fish
associated with coral colonies Abundance
diversity of bivalve molluscs Sponges as reef
quality indicators Effectiveness of No Take
Zone Comparison of reef survey methodologies Butte
rfly fish as indicators of reef diversity
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Example Non Diving Research
Seagrass beds as fish nursery habitat Fish
communities on coral outcrops Niche separation in
fiddler crabs Shell selection by hermit
crabs Bivalve fauna of sand flats Sea level
change Niche partitioning in cleaner
fish Cheating behaviour in cleaner
fish Damselfish territorial behaviour Temperature
response of stingrays Mangrove invertebrates Hypox
ia tolerance of fiddler crabs
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Why save the Wakatobi reefs?

• Centre of triangle of reefs in eastern Indonesia
  with greatest diversity of corals in the World
• Highest number of sponge species recorded from
  any site in the World
• Islands contain at least one new species of bird

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Is the Kaledupa fishery about to collapse?

• Lines of evidence
• High percentage of immature fish caught
• Fish and coral biological surveys
• Illegal activity
• Increase in fishing effort to maintain catches
• Increased commercialisation of fisheries
• Commercial extinction of some fisheries
• Population growth

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Increased Fishing Pressure Chasing the last few
fish
2002 10 fish fences on Kaledupa 2003
60 fish fences on Kaledupa 2005
100 fish fences on Kaledupa
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Darwin Initiative / COREMAP Management Programme
Registration of fishing boats, gear and
middlemen Handing power to control of fishery to
island communities Buy outs of fishing licences
to reduce fishing pressure
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Alternative Income Development for Licence Holders

Red shrimp and Giant Clam culture for
aquaria Better prices for agar and carrageena
products Wildlife Conservation Products Carbon
offsets
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Week 2 Schedule
Wednesday to Thursday Bus from Labundo to Bau
Bau, dinner and boats to Hoga Friday to
Tuesday Dive training or reef ecology Wednesday
to Thursday Travel back to Bau Bau and Kendari
arriving about 1300hrs FridayFly from Kendari to
UK

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Health Safety
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HEALTH SAFETY ISSUES

• Training of students in safety procedures

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HEALTH SAFETY ISSUES

• Training of students in safety procedures

• Risk assessments

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HEALTH SAFETY ISSUES

• Training of students in safety procedures

• Risk assessments

• Medical cover

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HEALTH SAFETY ISSUES

• Training of students in safety procedures

• Risk assessments

• Medical cover

• Communications

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HEALTH SAFETY ISSUES

• Training of students in safety procedures

• Risk assessments

• Medical cover

• Communications

• Threat of violence

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HEALTH SAFETY ISSUES

• Training of students in safety procedures

• Risk assessments

• Medical cover

• Communications

• Threat of terrorism

• Dive safety procedures

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HEALTH SAFETY ISSUES

• Training of students in safety procedures

• Risk assessments

• Medical cover

• Communications

• Threat of terrorism

• Dive safety procedures

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Conclusions

• 975 for 2 weeks
• Includes all transportation costs on site, food,
  accommodation, joining all research projects.
• Should aim to raise AT LEAST 1000pp from
  fund-raising
• Opportunity to go to remote locations and see
  wildlife with experts
• Chance to contribute to real conservation
  projects

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Questions ?