Colleagues |
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My colleague Peter Leimgruber
at the campfire in Mindon Camp, AKNP. We captured and radio-collared
a cow elephant named “Silver
Moon” several days before this picture was taken. |
Drs. Thazin Lwin and Shirlee
Tan, collaborators and co-advisors of a graduate student
studying environmental contamination at Kyein, Chatthin Wildlife
Sanctuary |
Ye Htut, warden of Alaungdaw Kathapa
National Park , and leader of the national elephant survey
just initiated in Burma . |
Myint Aung, warden of Chatthin
Wildlife sanctuary, presenting a donation for books to school
children in a village bordering the park. |
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U Uga, retired Director of Wildlife and
Nature Conservation, and CW in Magalia , Calif. |
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Alaungdaw Katahapa National Park |
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Alaungdaw Katahapa National Park is where
we have studies wild elephants. Here is Potolong stream in
a mixed deciduous forest. |
A small waterfall (ye-tagone)
on Kauntin Chaung in early morning, with the ever-smiling
Moe Thi ("Hailstone")
of the AKNP staff giving perspective. AKNP, Sagaing Div.
, Myanmar . |
The entire team that participated in
the capture of Silver Moon (Dec. 2002). |
Alaungdaw Kathapa National Park . It
was in a side tunnel of this cave where Lord Buddhas's incarnation,
Alaungdaw Kathapa is said to have died. |
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The elephant caravan taking us out of
AKNP to Yinmabin (Daw Khin Lay Win, office staff-cook is
on the first elephant). AKNP, Sagaing Division, Myanmar . |
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Chatthin Wildlife Sanctuary |
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The endangered Eld's deer of thamin was
the first species we studied in Chatthin Wildlife sanctuary.
(Photo by Lisa Ware) |
Rice padi bordering Chatthin Wildlife
Sanctuary. San Myaung camp, the headquarters for our studies
and conservation work, lies to the right, bordering the forest. |
Chaung Mido, near Transect
line 3, Chatthin Wildlife Sanctuary. Myanmar |
Kye-in, Dagondai Camp, showing a manmade
wetland created by the British before WWII, Chatthin Wildlife
Sanctuary, Myanmar |
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Crematogaster sp. building nest about
2 feet above the ground, mixed deciduous forest, nr line
1, Chatthin Wildlife Sanctuary, Myanmar |
Tractors are the main mode of transport
during monsoon. (They begin driving at a tender age.) |
Chit Thein, a professional ratcatcher
living near the park. His wife, Ma Htwe cooks them to sell
at the market. |
Ma Htwe with a night's catch, piping
hot and ready to serve. |
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Earthworm Ecology |
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Khant Khant Chaw setting up a microclimate
monitoring station to measure soil temperature and moisture
in an earthworm mound. |
Khant Khant Chaw, Rangoon
University graduate student, behind an earthworm mound that
has been given a "Haircut" (=shorn
of vegetation), Chatthin Wildlife Sanctuary |
A soil casting of the indaing earthworm.
The knife gives an idea of amount of castings worms produce,
which become large mounds in Chatthin Wildlife Sanctuary. |
Measuring the mound of the indaing earthworm,
Chatthin Wildlife Sanctuary |
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Contaminants Study |
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My colleague Shirlee Tan, a specialist
on environment contaminants who is working with faculty of
Yangon University. |
Aung Moe, CWS staff, and Shirlee Tan
interviewing Kyein's fishermen about the use of pesticides
to kill fish for human consumption. |
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