Science Seminar
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On September 13th we were invited to attend the science seminar
presented by group of students led by Professor Joseph Oyugi from the
Department of Biology. They shared their experience during research field trip to
the forest preservation located on eastern coast of Kenya. The seminar
coincided with viewing of the documentary movie segment “Planet in peril” later
that day In our Biology class. It might happened accidentally, but these two
events have important common idea of focusing the attention of the public on
the very disturbing fact: the increasingly negative impact of human activities on
the surrounding natural environment.
The presentation quickly brought the audience to the Arabuko Sokoke
national forest. The forest is the most valuable resource in the area in regard of
income, food ,clean air for the local communities. The increasingly popular eco-
tourism,in which Kenya has leading place, rises concerns for its damaging effect
to the nature. Uncontrolled logging also alters the forest structure and affects
its biodiversity. Poaching is the illegal taking of wild plants or animals contrary
to local and international conservation and wildlife management laws. It
reduces and threatens rare species.
The group of students worked with help from local naturalists on the
thesis to examine the effect of habitat modification on bird communities which
consist of more than 270 species. As the presentation progressed we reinforced
our knowledge from chapter one for the steps of the scientific method.
Observations and data were gathered and recorded using specific for
this project methods: time species count, fixed mist points count- making
comparison with habitat variables around each point, mist netting-four points in
disturbed habitat areas and four points in undisturbed habitat areas, feeding
observation. The specific terminology came to the attention of the...
presented by group of students led by Professor Joseph Oyugi from the
Department of Biology. They shared their experience during research field trip to
the forest preservation located on eastern coast of Kenya. The seminar
coincided with viewing of the documentary movie segment “Planet in peril” later
that day In our Biology class. It might happened accidentally, but these two
events have important common idea of focusing the attention of the public on
the very disturbing fact: the increasingly negative impact of human activities on
the surrounding natural environment.
The presentation quickly brought the audience to the Arabuko Sokoke
national forest. The forest is the most valuable resource in the area in regard of
income, food ,clean air for the local communities. The increasingly popular eco-
tourism,in which Kenya has leading place, rises concerns for its damaging effect
to the nature. Uncontrolled logging also alters the forest structure and affects
its biodiversity. Poaching is the illegal taking of wild plants or animals contrary
to local and international conservation and wildlife management laws. It
reduces and threatens rare species.
The group of students worked with help from local naturalists on the
thesis to examine the effect of habitat modification on bird communities which
consist of more than 270 species. As the presentation progressed we reinforced
our knowledge from chapter one for the steps of the scientific method.
Observations and data were gathered and recorded using specific for
this project methods: time species count, fixed mist points count- making
comparison with habitat variables around each point, mist netting-four points in
disturbed habitat areas and four points in undisturbed habitat areas, feeding
observation. The specific terminology came to the attention of the...