Community rangers complete first wet-season biodiversity survey
Fourteen rangers from Lethem and Nappi finished a six-week survey covering nine forest blocks in the Kanukus.
Joel SimmonsForest Dispatch
A survey lead checking the day's tally before the transect walk. Kanuku Mountains, southern Guyana.
Fourteen community rangers from Lethem and Nappi completed the protected area's first full wet-season biodiversity survey, covering nine forest blocks between the Moco-Moco and Kumu systems.
The team recorded 112 bird species, twenty-one medium and large mammals, and a set of amphibian observations still being checked against the regional list.
The survey was designed around the rangers' own routes rather than a fixed grid, an approach the programme says produces better coverage of the gullies and creek heads that field teams rarely reach.
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