The same as last year we cooperate with Philippine Science High School in Cebu. It is an elite school focused on science and it’s attended by students from Cebu and neighbouring islands including Bohol. A group of students of the last grade was chosen and sent to Bohol to join the Tarsius project for ten days. Student stayed in a farm close to the forest, where we have our field station. As last year we tried to involve them in all parts of the project. We shared with them not only information about tarsiers and our project but also basis of conservation and the role of conservation centres and zoological gardens. Read more »
Because of their cute appearance tarsiers are often victims of a black market and end up as a tourist attraction. We experienced such a terrible event by ourselves. One morning at the end of May a couple brought tarsiers to the Simply Butterfly Conservation Centre which is a partner of Tarsius project and where I stay. They offered them for sale.
Quite a long time passed since I informed you about the lastest news from the field. I took a break and returned home for one month at the end of March. Two volunteers took care of the project and its smooth running during that time. They worked consciously and monitored all three animals that were radio-collared so far…
Exclusive reportage of professional wildlife photographer Petr Slavík which appeared in September 2009 in travel magazine Koktejl, partner of the Tarsius project, including the title page photograph was translated to English and published on author`s website.
“Do you think it is usual for two adult people to voluntarily go around in a jungle in the middle of the rainy night?” I ask the darkness next to me. The darkness is quiet for a while and all I can hear is the rain. The darkness finally answers:”Of course it is not!” I feel the darkness is smiling and find out I am smiling, too. Two crazy people. Me and the darkness. The darkness` flash-light twinkles. “Let`s go!” orders the darkness getting a shape of a young woman in the light. She resembles a will-o’-the-wisp in her raincoat and with a small light on her forehead. I follow Dr. Mili to the jungle to become part of her world of night pixies for few days…..
The Tarsius Project got its second award form Expeditionary fund. Expeditionary fund supports travel, climber, speleological or other expeditions and humanitarian or research project – only if they include adventure and discovering.
We very much appreciate following support and award that we got. The project continues successfully during this year and you can look forward to reports from the field or presentations (in Czech or in the Philippines).
It is crucial for every conservation project to attract local people that are responsible for nature protection to join the conservation efforts. Therefore, when I was choosing a locality for our next research during this year, the possibility of cooperation with local organizations played an important role. There are two protected landscapes around Bilar so this area attracts interests of conservationists. We got great support in Simply Butterflies Conservation Centre which belongs to highly visited tourist spots here on Bohol island for several years. It brought us possibility to share information about tarsiers and our project with visitors.
Another important institution involved in the project is Bohol Island State University here in Bilar. In fact, our research is being done in forest managed by the university. We would be very happy if local researchers and student join our project and get practical experiences and hopefully continue in conservation activities in the future. So we were pleased when we were asked to prepare presentation for students and teachers of all subject related to research and nature conservation. On 24th February we had the presentation Radiotelemetry and conservation of threatened species of the world together with Lubomír Peške. Lubomír introduced the use of various technologies in research of different behavioural aspects especially in birds and then we followed with presentation about the Tarsius project. The audience was interested in the presentation. This semester is ending here in the Philippines, so we hope to attract some students of pre-final year to join us during or after the holidays.
We were lucky yesterday again and with help of skilful local hunter we succeed to catch another tarsier female and radio-collar her. This female unfortunately does not have the adoptive parent yet and also the name. Join our tarsier adoption and support radio-tracking of the Philippine tarsier. Your contribution of 4 thousand CZK (150 euro) will help us to pay the cost of one radio-collar. As a reward you will receive detail information about life of this animal, colourful picture of the Philippine Tarsier, video and audio recordings and actual information about movements of “your” tarsier that we will collect in the field. The lifespan of battery in the radio-collar is lesser then one year, so we will have to change the radio-collars. However, you can enjoy the benefits of an adoptive parent during the whole period of study of “your” tarsier! Tarsius Project account.
We are happy to inform you that a first tarsier caught for the research purpose wears a radio-collar. We caught a young female last week with the help of local hunters. This female has already an adoptive parent and he named her Theia. We follow Theia every night since the last Sunday and we hope that we will catch more tarsiers soon. Unfortunately, we do not have adoptive parents for them yet. If you want to support our project, this is a way how to do it. Please find more information here.
After a few months spent in the Czech Republic I returned back to the Philippines at the end of the year to kick-off next fieldwork period of the Tarsius Project.
The same as last year we cooperate with Philippine Science High School in Cebu. It is an elite school focused on science and it’s attended by students from Cebu and neighbouring islands including Bohol. A group of students of the last grade was chosen and sent to Bohol to join the Tarsius project for ten days. Student stayed in a farm close to the forest, where we have our field station. As last year we tried to involve them in all parts of the project. We shared with them not only information about tarsiers and our project but also basis of conservation and the role of conservation centres and zoological gardens. Read more »
The Tarsius Project got its second award form Expeditionary fund. Expeditionary fund supports travel, climber, speleological or other expeditions and humanitarian or research project – only if they include adventure and discovering.
