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[post_content] => Spring semester is drawing to a close and the students have just submitted their Directed Research (DR) papers. Three months have now passed since they arrived and trod the hallowed ground at Angkor Wat. Many classroom hours, field trips, and guest speakers later, the adventure is drawing to a close. With the hectic schedule of DR, presentations and community presentations, the long trip around Cambodia and Vietnam, just one month past, now seems a distant memory.
All of the experiences in the past three months brought the students into contact with SFS partners and community members. The community presentations at the end of the semester are the opportunity for these people to see the work that the students have done and also an opportunity for the students to meet these people one last time.
Our community of stakeholders here, as at other SFS Centers, are local people, government officials, and representatives from other non-governmental organizations. We are fortunate to be engaged with people that are working on a wide range of issues from fishers, government agencies and social development groups looking at biodiversity and policy on the great lake of Tonle Sap, to conservationists at a butterfly center that promotes alternative livelihoods through butterfly farming.
Our students have had a myriad of contacts and experiences across the spectrum of environment, conservation, and cultural issues. These vary from a visit to the local municipality's waste dump, to walking in the forest and looking at livelihoods on Mount Kulen, to seeing the mélange of large water birds nesting and residing at Prek Toal on the Tonle Sap Lake, probably the single most important breeding ground in Southeast Asia for many of endangered species of large water birds. Culturally, students also experienced two New Year celebrations: Chinese New Year and Khmer New Year. The community evening is a time to reflect and relive some of those moments spent in close companionship of fellow students the new friends made along the way.
→ River Ecosystems & Environmental Ethics Semester Program in Cambodia
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[post_content] => In addition to a stay in Stung Treng, this semester we added a visit the Ramsar Site on the Mekong River further upstream. This site is a 40 km stretch with a mixture of narrow islands (sometimes submerged), flooded forests, small and large channels with shallow and deep pools which are important as fish breeding areas. Once a refuge to such important species as the Giant Mekong Catfish (Pangasianodon gigas), the Irrawaddy Dolphin (Orcaella brevirostris), and a breeding population of the critically endangered White-shouldered Ibis (Pseudibis davisoni) it is under threat from many sides, not least because of the dams constructed and under construction up-river. The Mekong dolphin may have disappeared already from this area.
We left for Kampot from Phnom Penh where we celebrated P’chum Ben, the festival of the dead, a time when Cambodian people remember their dead and make merit by donating food to the monks or give food directly to the spirits of past ancestors to ease their suffering or improve their circumstances in the afterlife. On arrival in Kampot we started on a much awaited (new) overnight stay with a community mangrove project, where our students met the local Cham (Islamic) community and learnt about their project to plant, grow, and protect mangroves. They also visited the Prey Nup mangrove restoration project, two contrasting efforts to ensure the return and stability of mangroves on the Kampot River.
We travelled on to Vietnam where we were hosted by Can Tho University in the south and then on to Saigon for one night before finishing in another new destination Cat Tien National Park. Cat Tien is a place of natural beauty and wildlife, home to one of the largest areas of surviving lowland tropical forests in Vietnam, grasslands, and riparian areas. Our students found many different species of exotic birds and learnt about some primate species such as gibbon that live there, as well as the struggles the park still faces on a daily basis.
At my time of writing our students are finishing off their Directed Research projects, having completed their final exams, and still talk at the dinner table of the many experiences they have shared. Next semester we welcome our new students to experience our ever-adapting and challenging (but fun!) monthlong trip around Cambodia and Vietnam, and hope they will enjoy it as much as our plucky band of students did this semester.
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[post_content] => Spring semester is drawing to a close and the students have just submitted their Directed Research (DR) papers. Three months have now passed since they arrived and trod the hallowed ground at Angkor Wat. Many classroom hours, field trips, and guest speakers later, the adventure is drawing to a close. With the hectic schedule of DR, presentations and community presentations, the long trip around Cambodia and Vietnam, just one month past, now seems a distant memory.
All of the experiences in the past three months brought the students into contact with SFS partners and community members. The community presentations at the end of the semester are the opportunity for these people to see the work that the students have done and also an opportunity for the students to meet these people one last time.
Our community of stakeholders here, as at other SFS Centers, are local people, government officials, and representatives from other non-governmental organizations. We are fortunate to be engaged with people that are working on a wide range of issues from fishers, government agencies and social development groups looking at biodiversity and policy on the great lake of Tonle Sap, to conservationists at a butterfly center that promotes alternative livelihoods through butterfly farming.
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→ River Ecosystems & Environmental Ethics Semester Program in Cambodia
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[post_content] => In addition to a stay in Stung Treng, this semester we added a visit the Ramsar Site on the Mekong River further upstream. This site is a 40 km stretch with a mixture of narrow islands (sometimes submerged), flooded forests, small and large channels with shallow and deep pools which are important as fish breeding areas. Once a refuge to such important species as the Giant Mekong Catfish (Pangasianodon gigas), the Irrawaddy Dolphin (Orcaella brevirostris), and a breeding population of the critically endangered White-shouldered Ibis (Pseudibis davisoni) it is under threat from many sides, not least because of the dams constructed and under construction up-river. The Mekong dolphin may have disappeared already from this area.
We left for Kampot from Phnom Penh where we celebrated P’chum Ben, the festival of the dead, a time when Cambodian people remember their dead and make merit by donating food to the monks or give food directly to the spirits of past ancestors to ease their suffering or improve their circumstances in the afterlife. On arrival in Kampot we started on a much awaited (new) overnight stay with a community mangrove project, where our students met the local Cham (Islamic) community and learnt about their project to plant, grow, and protect mangroves. They also visited the Prey Nup mangrove restoration project, two contrasting efforts to ensure the return and stability of mangroves on the Kampot River.
We travelled on to Vietnam where we were hosted by Can Tho University in the south and then on to Saigon for one night before finishing in another new destination Cat Tien National Park. Cat Tien is a place of natural beauty and wildlife, home to one of the largest areas of surviving lowland tropical forests in Vietnam, grasslands, and riparian areas. Our students found many different species of exotic birds and learnt about some primate species such as gibbon that live there, as well as the struggles the park still faces on a daily basis.
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→ River Ecosystems & Environmental Ethics Semester Program in Cambodia
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In addition to a stay in Stung Treng, this semester we added a visit the Ramsar Site on the Mekong River further upstream. This site is a 40 km stretch with a mixture of narrow islands (sometimes submerged), flooded forests, small and large channels with shallow and deep pools which are important as fish breeding areas. Once a refuge to such important species as the Giant Mekong Catfish (Pangasianodon gigas), the Irrawaddy Dolphin (Orcaella brevirostris), and a breeding population of the critically endangered White-shouldered Ibis (Pseudibis davisoni) it is under threat from many sides, not least because of the dams constructed and under construction up-river. The Mekong dolphin may have disappeared already from this area.
We left for Kampot from Phnom Penh where we celebrated P’chum Ben, the festival of the dead, a time when Cambodian people remember their dead and make merit by donating food to the monks or give food directly to the spirits of past ancestors to ease their suffering or improve their circumstances in the afterlife. On arrival in Kampot we started on a much awaited (new) overnight stay with a community mangrove project, where our students met the local Cham (Islamic) community and learnt about their project to plant, grow, and protect mangroves. They also visited the Prey Nup mangrove restoration project, two contrasting efforts to ensure the return and stability of mangroves on the Kampot River.
We travelled on to Vietnam where we were hosted by Can Tho University in the south and then on to Saigon for one night before finishing in another new destination Cat Tien National Park. Cat Tien is a place of natural beauty and wildlife, home to one of the largest areas of surviving lowland tropical forests in Vietnam, grasslands, and riparian areas. Our students found many different species of exotic birds and learnt about some primate species such as gibbon that live there, as well as the struggles the park still faces on a daily basis.
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Our community of stakeholders here, as at other SFS Centers, are local people, government officials, and representatives from other non-governmental organizations. We are fortunate to be engaged with people that are working on a wide range of issues from fishers, government agencies and social development groups looking at biodiversity and policy on the great lake of Tonle Sap, to conservationists at a butterfly center that promotes alternative livelihoods through butterfly farming.
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→ River Ecosystems & Environmental Ethics Semester Program in Cambodia
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