Upcoming Events

Training on Remote Sensing and GIS

One Week Training Programme on Remote Sensing and GIS is being planned at the GIS lab of Aaranyak in January 2008. The training programme is designed for graduate and post graduate students and in service personals. In each training programme a maximum of 10 participants are accepted. For more details, please contact Mr. Pranjit Kumar Sarma at pranjit@aaranyak.org

Field training on WILDLIFE Conservation WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO Hoolock Gibbon from 15^th December to 26^th December 2007

Gibbon Conservation Centre and Aaranyak in collaboration of the Assam Forest Department is organizing 12days field training for the conservation of wildlife with special reference to Hoolock Gibbon from 15^th December to 26^th December 2007 at Gibbon Conservation Centre, Gibbon Wildlife Sanctuary, Assam. The centre will bear the expenditure of course fee, Food and Accommodation including reimbursement of travel costs by sleeper class train/bus for selected trainees. The trainees will have to bring all field kits (sleeping bag, mosquito net, raincoats, hunting shoe, cap, leech guards and water bottle) to the said training.

Interested person can send their application along CV and Letter of interest by post or email on or before 9^th December2007, to Director, Gibbon Conservation Centre, Gibbon Wildlife Sanctuary, Mariani, Assam. Pin: 785634. Email: dilip@aaranyak.org and in Phone No: 03771244553 (O)

PROPOSED COURSE CONTENTS:

• Biodiversity in Northeast India

• Primates Conservation in Northeast India and Hoolock gibbon

• Techniques of Primate Census or Population estimation

• Primates Data collection, maintaining & reporting

• Techniques of Floristic study

• Gibbon habitat characteristic and restoration.

• Population and Habitat Monitoring

• Population estimation of Tiger and Elephant

• Birds and Birding

• Role of butterfly in Conservation of Forest

• Wet land and its Conservtion

• Basic GPS and GIS Training

• Role of public in Wildlife protection

• Human- animal conflicts and their mitigation

• Wild-life rescue and rehabilitation.