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A Dream Team of International Scientists Explore Uncharted
Wilderness in Guyana
Posted by Andrew Short of The University of Kansas in Explorers Journal on October 28, 2013
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Dr. Andrew Short is a National Geographic Explorer and an assistant professor of Ecology & Evolutionary
Biology at the University of Kansas. An entomologist by training, Short uses aquatic insects to study patterns of
freshwater biodiversity in South America to inform both science and conservation.
—Today, an international team arrived in southern Guyana, near the boarder with Brazil, to conduct a rapid
biological assessment of the Rupununi Savannah, a sprawling tropical grassland peppered with rock
outcroppings and forested mountains. Sponsored by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) with assistance from
Global Wildlife Conservation (GWC), our expedition will spend the next couple weeks capturing a snapshot of
the immense biodiversity that occurs in this poorly known region.
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A map Guyana and surrounding countries courtesy of National Geographic
Maps.
Our group has about 35 people, including scientists, students from the University of Guyana, and support staff (a
cook, drivers, representatives from local indigenous peoples). We have 10 scientific teams covering a broad
array of biodiversity: large mammals, small mammals, fishes, amphibians and reptiles, birds, plants, aquatic
insects, ants, water quality, and indigenous resource use (I’m in charge of the aquatic insects).
After assembling in Georgetown, we flew down to Lethem this morning, Tomorrow, we’ll load up into large
Bedford trucks (so we can ford the rivers) and head out into the savannah to our first site at the foot of the Kusad
Mountains.
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The Rupununi Savannah in Guyana from the air. Photo by Andrew Short.
The Lethem airport. Photo by Andrew Short.
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1. winston
atlanta ga.
October 30, 2013, 3:15 pm
I am so happy to know that there is some progress is coming to guyana my home the country that i love
the country that has so much to offer to the world if things and, government let the united states, and
countries with great technoliges to explore,and this beautiful count. “THE LAND OF MANY WATERS”.
2. Horace Elcock
Media, PA
October 29, 2013, 10:55 pm
Wow!! Mountains, savannahs, rain forests…we have it all. Guyana is one of the richest ecological gems in
our world. I still have some exploring to do! Here I come Kusad Mountains!! Never even heard of them!!
Thanks so much for sharing this!!!!
3. Patricia Felix
London,UK
October 29, 2013, 2:21 pm
Seeing these few pictures of my beautiful country makes me sad, as I don’t think. I’ll ever go there again
as I’m too unwell to travel now. Have never been to the interior, or indeed Kaiteur. Sad!!
4. Wayne persaud
St maarten
October 28, 2013, 7:32 pm
All ways wanted to see a study of my country on national geographic
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