Dr. Neville Winchester, our acclaimed micro-arthropod expert who managed not only to climb the church forest trees, but is harvesting many new records and (doubtless) species from this unexplored place on the planet, writes about his experiences so far: “On the boat and out into a monster of a lake… Lake Tana, the source of […]
Our sampling has been very exciting. It would appear from the scientific literature that almost no records exist about insect biodiversity in the Ethiopian church forests. So almost everything is new. We have beetles from the canopy and ants from the tree bark, and amazing micro-arthropods from tiny bits of soil up in the tree […]
It is now Day 3 and the internet was down for the entire town of Bahir Dar. But we are alive and well, and collecting amazing biodiversity in the church forest. Even the iPhone would not work from this town, despite the fact that I signed on for international connections. So we are working steadily, […]
