Washington Slagbaai National Park - RESEARCH AND MONITORING

SCIENTISTS NEEDED!

We haven’t been able to do the research and monitoring we’d like for the Park, but things are changing.

In 2005, housing facilities for scientists and interns were completed. Now that we can house them, we just need to find the right experts to establish our baseline studies and implement monitoring programs for a variety of natural aspects of the Park.

Studies at the top of our priority list include:

• Baseline studies of flora and fauna.
• Salt pan studies, including inventories of life within the salt pans.
• The effect of exotic/introduced birds on local populations.
• Population trends of specific birds and bats.
• Species inventories of terrestrial arthropods (insects and spiders).
• The monitoring of changes as exotic mammal species are removed from the Park.
• Erosion agents.

Once the programs are established, Park staff will complete the data collecting and other tasks.

We are currently working to establish relationships with universities and other research institutions. Please contact the Manager of Washington Slagbaai National Park, Fernando Simal: by telephone at 599-717-8444 or 599-786-5229 or by e-mail at washingtonpark@stinapa.org.

Research requires funding. We would be delighted to hear from any persons or institutions interested in funding research and monitoring in Washington Slagbaai National Park: by telephone at 599-717-8444 or 599-786-5229 or by e-mail at washingtonpark@stinapa.org.