When our Forest Research and Monitoring (FRM) interns are not in the field measuring Permanent Sample Plots (PSP), they are facilitating workshops. In the photo above, intern Delwin Guevara explains the make-up of a leaf at a short workshop to introduce members of the university’s chapter of the International Forestry Student Association (IFSA) and Environmental Club to plant taxonomy and identification. The twelve (12) students in attendance were shown the basic vegetative c

Today, we bid adieu to German Lopez and Celso Cawich, two of our long time biologists. Both German and Celso have been awarded scholarship opportunities to pursue master levels studies. German is one of two Belizeans selected as recipients of scholarship awards under the European Union’s Erasmus Mundus program and is now in the United Kingdom completing a two-year master’s in Sustainable Forest and Nature Management at Bangor University. During his time at the ERI, German wor