1. Dr Raquel Thomas-Caesar
Research and Training
Tree Species ID
Iwokrama-Guyana
Dr Raquel Thomas-Caesar
Iwokrama International Centre for Rain Forest Conservation and Development
Tonka Island, Suriname
September 2015

2. Iwokrama A protected area An intact tropical rain forest
One million acres (> 371,000 ha)
Named after a Mountain Range – 1000 m
Indigenous Makushi -‘Place of refuge’

3. River Lodge and Research Centre
@ Olivier Chassot 2014
River Lodge and Research Centre

4. Iwokrama International Centre for Rain Forest Conservation and Development
An international experiment in sustainable development – Guyana & Commonwealth 1989
An autonomous international multidisciplinary research and development centre
1 million acres -2% Guyana’s Forest
Governed by an Act (1996)
One of 4 established Protected Areas

5. Integrating Conservation with Sustainable Use
Wilderness Preserve (WP)
Sustainable Utilisation Area (SUA)

6. Research
Training
Management
Monitoring
Ecotourism
Sustainable Timber harvesting
Other Business Development Projects
We collaborate with 16 neighbouring Amerindian communities (visit and with key partners including Government, private sector, indigenous groups, NGOs, universities, research institutions, schools and zoos.

7. Research Biodiversity surveys/research Forest utilisation studies
Flora
Fauna
Forest utilisation studies
Timber
Non-timber forest products
Community Forestry
Volume and Decay Study
Biomass assessment
Bio-prospecting
Endophytic fungi
Wetlands research
Marketing research (Timber, NTFPs)
Social research
Community resource use mapping
Traditional ecological knowledge
IPR and benefit sharing
Impact of Iwokrama capacity building on community development
Ecosystem services
Alternative business development

8. Iwokrama River Lodge and Research Centre
Tourist Cabins
Iwokrama River Lodge and Research Centre
Fred Allicock Building

9. Atta Lodge –Canopy Walkway

10. Facilities for Researchers and Student groups

11. Turtle Mountain Camp

12. Tree ID related studies
D B Fanshawe (Forestry Dept)
Principal Timbers 1954
Vegetation of British Guyana, A prelim Review 1952
Checklist of Indig Woody Plants of British Guiana 1949
Tropenbos-Guyana (1989 – 2001)
Inventories/PSPs
Major Timber trees of Guyana, Field Guide 1992
Checklist of woody plants of Guyana 1988
Checklist of flowering plats of Mabura Hill 2003
Non Timber Forest Products –Field Guide
Smithsonian Institution
Checklist of plants of the Guianas

13. Tree ID related studies
Iwokrama
Inventories
PSPs (Timber related, Rainfor, Amazon Tree Diversity Gp)
Tree population studies in low-diversity forests, Floristic composition ….Johnston and Gillman 1995.
Plant Diversity of the Iwokrama Forest (Smithsonian) 2001)
Volume and Decay study (timber related)- Trevin 2009
Guyana Forestry Commission
PSPs (Moraballi, Chickabaru, Yarrokabra, Old tropenbos sites- Mabura Hill Forest Reserve, Pibiri )

14. Current institutions- Training in Tree ID
Iwokrama-
Forest Botany/Dendrology
Guyana Forestry Commission (internal)-
Dendrology
Forestry Training Centre (external)-

15. Dr Raquel Thomas-Caesar
Iwokrama International Centre for Rain Forest Conservation and Development
Request for Proposals for our Research and Science Programme
Dr Raquel Thomas-Caesar
Director for Resource Management and Training
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