Doing forest research is so much more than publishing the plain figures and tables that you later find in scientific articles. Whenever we look on a graph or table in such a publication, we should never forget that someone went out deep into the forest to take the measurements and collect the data that we are analyzing and looking at. Many of us had such life-changing experiences as researchers and may still remember field work experiences (damn, why didn't anyone make a video…). After all the fund raising, project planning, preparation, effort and hardship and sweat you suddenly find yourself standing in a beautiful tropical forest and you know it was worth it. Our current PhD student Mary Mulligan is one of those adventurers who has set off and exposed herself to a foreign culture and the endeavors of forest inventory fieldwork in challenging conditions in the beautiful Lore Lindu landscape. Together with a very professional field team and with the support of the Lore Lindu National Park and our partners at the IPB in Bogor and the University of Tadulako in Palu, she has now completed almost a year of forest inventory fieldwork and can look back on unforgettable impressions.
This video is a side product of our project activities in context of the KfW funded Forest Programme III (www.youtube.com/@forestprogramme3sulawesi ). The video was produced by Carina Fischbach
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