A week long training on basic GPS and GIS training started tody with 21 participants from the Department of Forests and Park Services (DoFPS). The training is aimed at imparting basic skills to DoFPS front-line staff on how to use smartphone GPS, acquire/collect spatial data, import and overlay data to Google Earth, digitize and proces...
Posted on 11/02/2020
2020 spring semester of the School for Field Studies (SFS)-Bhutan Program has been started from January 27 with 24 undergraduate students from various colleges/universities of the US. The SFS-Bhutan is a joint program hosted by three organizations – the Ugyen Wangchuck Institute for Conservation and Environmental Research (UWICER) of the D...
Posted on 03/02/2020
Three days training on orchid propagation, growing and management is undergoing at Non-Wood Forest Products and Agroforestry Technology Sub-Centre Darla. The activity is funded by Resilient Mountain Solutions in Bhutan of ICIMOD. The participants are mostly flower growers, youth, housewives and forestry officials. The participants were trained s...
Posted on 08/12/2019
Official delegates from Central Washington University (United States of America) Dr. Tim Englund, Dean of the College of the Sciences, Professor Dr. Lisa Bliss and Professor Dr. Lori Sheeran visited the Nature Study Sub-Center from 9-11 November 2019. The delegates were at the center to gain insight into the suitability of the surrounding...
Posted on 13/11/2019
The Ugyen Wanghuck Institute for Conservation and Environmental Research (UWICER), Department of Forests and Park Services, Ministry of Agriculture and Forests, Royal Government of Bhutan and Central Washington University (CWU), US signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on 8th November 2019 in Thimphu to establish a research and education co...
Posted on 09/11/2019