Official account of the Ugyen Wangchuck Institute for Forest Research and Training. Previously UWICER #biodiversity #climatechange #water #wildlife
Lamai Goempa, Bhutan
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A rare photograph of the Pallas's cat from Bhutan. Least Concern globally,but in the Himalayas, Pallas's cat are rare and very elusive. After the cat was first reported in Bhutan in 2012,it went missing for nearly 10 years.Luckily, the cat is back in our camera traps once again โ at Bhutan
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Delighted to be part of three articles in the lastest winter issue of Cat News of the IUCN Cat Specialist Group-one on the felid diversity in the forests around Thimphu, and two on leopard cats. catsg.org/index.php?id=175 โ at Bhutan
Our colleague @_tashidhendup is featured across Nat Geo social media accounts in celebration of the year of the tiger โ at Bhutan
Itโs the #YearoftheTiger! Here, a tiger strolls through the snow in a remote part of Bhutan. #NatGeoExplorer @_tashidhendup notes, โAlthough belonging to the Bengal tiger subspecies, tigers in Bhutan traverse high elevations and long distances.โ
Photo by @UWICER #LunarNewYear
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Giving you the ghost of the mountains. shy and elusive, yet a top predator from the high mountains of JDNP โ at Bhutan
Training on sustainable utilization and management of canes and nursery practices of raising Calamus acanthopaghus conducted for Rukha Nagtshel Thuenken Tshogpa. 72 members participated over 4 days. 46 were women. @bhutanforlife โ at Bhutan
Anthropogenic landโuse change shapes bird diversity along the eastern Himalayan altitudinal gradient besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiโฆ โ at Bhutan
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One of worlds most elusive and lesser known wild cat species- the marbled cat. Here photographed in central Bhutan, probably looking up to the trees for a bird? a squirrel maybe? โ at Bhutan
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The balance between conservation and development is challenging, particularly for developing countries where resources are scarce.
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New paper out in Ecosystem Services
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Community perception of ecosystem services from commercially managed f... sciencedirect.com/science/arโฆ
We are now accepting applications for the one year certificate course in forestry at Lamai Goempa.
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Going places
Very excited to be featured on @Discovery's Instagram story to celebrate AAPI heritage month
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It's not everyday that you see three snow leopards in one frame. Camera trapped from my recent work on Pallas's cat in Jigme Dorji National Park @UWICER
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I created a citizen science project on @EpiCollect to collect information on mammals of Bhutan for documentation and research purposes. Kindly contribute observations if you are interested. five.epicollect.net/project/โฆ