Agusan River Basin Mangrove Wildlife Conservation Network

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Agusan River Basin Mangrove Wildlife Seminar Workshop

Date: September 4-5, 2006 Venue: Agusan National High School (Butuan) Facilitators: ANHS Apo_Ni_Einstein 1999, ANHS Science Explorers Club, Mrs. Ruth B. Villanueva

Schedule of Activities

4 September

AM – Registration / Opening

Lecture 1: The Agusan River Basin – Masao River Waterways

Lecture 2: Water Quality Situation of the Agusan River and Masao River

Resource person: Mrs. Ruth B. Villanueva

Lunch break

PM - Lecture 3: Mangroves of Butuan – Past, Present and Future

Resource person: Dr. Jurgenne H. Primavera

Lecture 4: The Bird and Mammalian Diversity of Agusan and Surigao (including Mt. Mayapay and Mt. Hilong-Hilong)

Resource person: Prof. Blas R. Tabaranza Jr.

Open Forum

5 September

AM – Mt. Mayapay Field Trip

Resource persons: Dr. Tabaranza Jr. and Mrs. Villanueva

Lunch break

PM – Masao River Field Trip (Mangrove Field Identification)

Resource person: Dr. Jurgenne H. Primavera

Closing

The Resource Speakers

Dr. Jurgenne H. Primavera, Ph.D. Senior Scientist Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center Tigbauan, Iloilo 5021 Philippines Award: Pew Fellows Program in Marine Conservation, Fellowship, 2005 Senior author of Handbook of Mangroves in the Philippines -Panay

Prof. Blas R. Tabaranza Jr. Haribon Foundation member since 1986 Secretary to the Haribon Board of Trustees (2006-2008) Author of Key Conservation Sites in the Philippines: A Haribon Foundation and Birdlife International Directory of Important Bird Areas

Mrs. Ruth B. Villanueva IC Villanueva and Sons (Aquaculture Products and Services) – Proprietor Grantee of Philippine-Australia Project in Basic Education (1998)