Forest Canopy

The official invite to the symposium on canopy based ecotourism at the International Canopy Conference in Bangalore has been sent to the participants.

The symposium is entitled: “Conservation, community development, rainforest experience: The environmental, social and economic values of forest canopy based ecotourism”

Goal of symposium: For over 20 years now ecotourism has been understood as an approach to experience a resource like tropical forests sustainably. The aims of the ecotourism concept include benefits to conservation and local communities while avoiding negative ecological and socio-cultural effects. Another central aim of this approach is to raise environmental awareness in ecotourism destinations. And this is where ecotourism and canopy tourism are interconnected. Canopy tourism activities offer a special rainforest experience from a completely new perspective.

Therefore, the aim of the symposium is Read the whole article »

The 5th International Canopy Conference will be organized by ATREE in Bangalore, India, during the 25th to 31st of October 2009.

The theme for this conference is Forest Canopies: Conservation, Climate Change and Sustainable Use. The conference program will include keynote and plenary speakers on critical topics, invited and contributed scientific symposia, methods workshops, a student symposium, poster sessions, field trips, a canopy photo and film festival, and traditional canopy social events.

Please visit www.canopy2009.org for more information.

ATREE invited me to organize and chair a workshop on canopy ecotourism at the conference. More information about this session can be found here shortly…

The case study in Danum Valley in the Bornean state Sabah is finished and I am back in Kuala Lumpur for the last two weeks of my stay in Malaysia. Read the whole article »

I have spent one month now in Malaysia. The first case study in Taman Negara naional park is over and I am about to head to Sabah, Borneo for a second case study. Read the whole article »

Here you will find an account of my first two weeks in Malaysia. It is in German because it is written mainly to my German friends. Read the whole article »

For one week now I have been in Malaysia where I am going to conduct a study on the effects of canopy tourism. This study is conducted in cooperation with Institute of Tropical Forestry and Forest Products (INTROP) of Universiti Putra Malaya and Forest research Institute of Malaysia (FRIM). At this stage the study has the working title Canopy Tourism in tropical forests - an actor-oriented analysis within a political ecology framework . I will be in Malaysia for another six weeks to conduct research. Here you can find a project description… Read the whole article »

The report of my consultancy work on the socio-economic effects of canopy tourism im Peninsular Malaysia and Sabah is now published online at the publications website of the Global Canopy Programme (GCP). There you will find a short abstract of the paper or you can download the whole report.

The summary of my thesis on sustainable canopy tourism im Costa Rica is now published online at the publications website of the Global Canopy Programme (GCP). There you will find a short abstract of the thesis or you can download the whole summary.

Finally the funding for the PhD-project on canopy tourism is secured! From November 11 on I am getting a scholarship from Evangelisches Studienwerk e.V. Villigst. The scholarship lasts for 24 months and makes full-time research possible. A project description will be presented soon.

In September 2007 I did an expertise for Biosphärenhaus Pfälzerwald. It was the aim of the project to enhance the quality of their walkway regarding environmental education as well as looking at possibilities to extend the infrastructure of the facility.
Concerning environmental education, the visitors should… Read the whole article »