Saanjh Gupta, Sabrina Chui, Rohan Iyer and John Tallas of UWCSEA Dover were presented with their Certificate in Tropical Forest Restoration Practice this past week.
Saanj and Sabrina have been with the project for 4 years, gaining skills and knowledge on a long journey while Rohan and John joined in Grade 11 but got on the fast track by volunteering in their free periods on a Friday afternoon.
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| Our grads give Frazer Cairns a tour of the trees outside his office. |
The four students were assessed on a range of technical knowledge of species, ecology and policy as well as practical nursery and field techniques and personal skills for campaigning and outreach.
Head of Dover Campus Frazer Cairns was suitably impressed with the students' knowledge as they conducted a tour for him of the 'signature' South East Asian trees we have planted in the new plaza. However Saanjh put it well when she told Frazer that "all of us in the project realise that the more we learn, the more we realise there is to learn!" We remain real amateurs in the science of reforestation but luckily have been able to exploit the kindness and expertise of advisers such as David Neidel (Senior Research Fellow at Yale-NUS and parent volunteer) and Elango Velautham (Assistant Director Singapore Botanic Gardens).
So a special thanks to our experts for all their help and well done to our new graduates - we hope this is just the start of their lifelong commitment to native species reforestation wherever they end up!
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| Rohan, Saanjh and Sabrina (all of who achieved Distinctions level) with Frazer Cairns. John Tallas not pictured, unfortunately ill on the day. Get well soon John! |
