GBIF BIFA mentoring: Orientation Workshop on Mobilizing Biodiversity Data from ASEAN Protected Areas

GBIF BIFA mentoring in Los Banos, Philippines for the South-East Asian ASEAN Heritage Parks (AHP). * Camera trap setup, monitoring and data collection * Data publishing using the IPT. With Dr. Yu-Huang Wang, Dr. Po-Jen Chiang, and Guan-Shuo (Jason) Mai from TaiBIF the GBIF node of Taiwan (Chinese Taipei); and the Biodiversity Informatics team at ASEAN Centre For Biodiversity, Carmel Eje, Carlos Aurelio Callangan, Ecay Villavelez, Jerome Alano, Kit Elloran (ACB Node manager), Lilibeth Cabebe, and Dr. Sheila G Vergara (BIM Director). Participants included some of the ASEAN Heritage Park managers and staff from Brunei Darussalam (BR), Indonesia (ID), Laos PDR (LA), Malaysia (MY), Myanmar (MM), Philippines (PH), Singapore (SG), and Thailand (TH). Only Cambodia and Vietnam were absent at the workshop. The camera trap field work training was in the Mount Makiling Forest Reserve (MMFR) is an ASEAN Heritage Park located 14°8′ north and 121°12′ east and lies within the 65 km of Metro Manila. MMFR spans a total of 4,244 hectares.