News
August 21st, 2014
Life+ Cap DOM against Acacia mangium in the commune of Montsinéry
To follow on from the sections of land where techniques have been put in place to try to…
August 20th, 2014
French biodiversity overseas: action urgently needed!
Running from 2010 to 2015, the programme Life+ Cap DOM aims to design and test new methods to…
July 17th, 2014
Do you know about Kaw mountain in French Guiana?
An exceptional site for studying the Guianan Cock-of-the-rock Bernard Perrin, a representative…
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- Agami heron
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- Argos tracking
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- Bearded tachuri
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- Buffer zone of the National Park
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- Caravelle peninsula
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- French Guiana
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- French Guiana savannas
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- Guianan Cock-of-the-rock
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- Kaw Marshes
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- Kaw Mountain
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- Martinique
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- Roche-Ecrite Nature Reserve
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- Réunion
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- Réunion Cuckoo shrike
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- Réunion Harrier
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- Video
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- White-breasted trasher
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Latest fieldwork missions concerning Acacia mangium
Between April and June 2015 the most recent fieldwork studies concerning Acacia mangium took place in the four test areas along the littoral.
Verifying the species, pulling up plants or chopping them down, measuring heights and sometimes using geolocators, meant that the teams of volunteers spent several days surrounded by acacias!
It was an opportunity of study the species speed of growth, enough to overtake and smother the manioc plants if not regularly cleared by the farmers ...
Anna Stier
Project Leader, Life+ Cap DOM