Field Notes

FIELD NOTES

Anskar Lenzen / Lea Milde

Half way through – what are we doing at WWCT

Although our focus was on the bird monitoring and butterfly surveys for the Patch Forest Project biodiversity research we ended up...

Anskar Lenzen / Lea Milde

Before WWCT

Anskar Lenzen & Lea Milde – Van Hall University, Netherlands April 2017 We both had a passion for animals, nature and wildlife lifelong....

WWCT Volunteer

My experience with WWCT - Briony Key

Working with the Wilderness and Wildlife Conservation Trust was an incredible experience in which I learnt so much in preparation for my...

WWCT Volunteer

My experience with WWCT - Sashini Fernando

Sashini Fernando – Ladies College, Colombo & Monash University, Australia Jan – March 2015 “During my time volunteering with the WWCT on...

Anskar Lenzen / Lea Milde

Expectations – met or not?

After a lot of e-mail contact before coming here we got different information and expectation of this place. We discussed that our focus...

Nimalka Sanjeewani

Becoming a Panther

My journey to becoming a Panther Diploma holder… It was a great surprise to hear I was selected as one of the panthers (what they call...

Jonathan Gnanapragasam

Bees, Bees and Bees!!

Our second field visit however was quite eventful. We left as usual early in the morning and checked a few camera traps. One of the...

Gyanada Acharya

The Leopard Project meets the tea estates

The WWCT and its Leopard Project was introduced to me while I was searching for potential research topics for my MSc dissertation...

Thushani Seneviratne

Biodiversity of forest fragments in the central highlands

Biodiversity of forest fragments in the central highlands: A comparison between an isolated forest fragment (Dunumadallawa) and one in...

Emad Sangani

Field Diary – Joining WWCT and The Leopard Project

I heard about WWCT and The Leopard Project through a friend, who had already enrolled himself with them and was all set to start work on...