(2) - 1 ACB バリ実施概要

Summary Report on the Advanced Course on Taxonomic Capacity Building
for Bryophytes and Pteridophytes
Universitas Dhayana Pura, Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia
25 November – 02 December 2014

The training was participated in by 39 persons from the AMS as participants, resource
persons and organizers/facilitators. There were 4 resource persons from Japan’s Biodiversity
Center, Ministry of the Environment and ESABII, three (3) resource persons from the AMS (onefrom Singapore Botanic Garden, one from the RCB-LIPI Indonesia, and one from the Bali
Botanic Garden, LIPI Indonesia). All participants from the AMS totaled 28, the breakdown ofwhich is as follows: Brunei Darussalam – 2; Cambodia – 2; Lao PDR-0; Indonesia – 10; Malaysia– 2; Myanmar – 2; Philippines – 3; Singapore – 3; Thailand – 2; Viet Nam – 2. Annex 1 shows thelist of delegates.
The course ran for 5 days from 25 – 30 November 2014 and followed up by the Dataorganizing and mapping group of the BIM unit of ACB until 02 December. The Opening
Program was attended by the Rector of the UDP and the Deputy Director of the Biodiversity
Center of Japan. Local faculty of the university also attended the opening program.
The closing program and Turn Over Ceremony to the next stage of the training was done in theASTON Denpasar Hotel, where the participants and organizers were staying. On the 4th day, thecourse had a field trip to the Bali Botanic Garden where everybody met the Director of the BBG
and his staff. The participants went around the BBG where the ferns and mosses collections were
found and thoroughly briefed by the Staff of the BBG.
After the turn over ceremony, the staff of the BIM took over the lectures and the participants
while the PDI group went back to Manila on the 5th day (30 Nov).
VIPs met during the training:
1. Dr. Made Nyandra, Rector, Univeristas Dhayana Pura, Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia
2. Dr. Gusti Bagus Rai Utama, Vice Rector, Univeristas Dhayana Pura, Denpasar, Bali,Indonesia
3. Dr. Dedy Darnaedi, Lecturer and Former Director of the Research Center for Biology,
LIPI, Indonesia
4. Dr. Ho Boon Chuan, Lecturer and Bryophyte taxonomist, Singapore Botanic Garden
5. Dr. Bayu Adjie, Department Head for Conservation, Bali Botanic Garden,Bali, Indonesia
6. Mr. I Nyoman Lugrayasa, Director, Bali Botanic Garden
7. Mr. Ryo Mabuchi, Deputy Director, Biodiversity Center of Japan
8. Dr. Hidetsugu Miwa, ESABII Secretariat, Biodiversity Center of Japan, MOE-J
9. Dr. Junko Kawai, Lecturer and Scientist, University of Tokyo, Japan
10.Mr. Norihiro Matsushima, Unit Director, OMC

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(2) - 2 ACB チェンマイ実施概要

Summary Report on the Internship Programme on the Taxonomy ofBryophytes and Pteridophytes
Queen Sirikit Botanic Garden, Chiang Mai, Thailand
20 - 30 January 2015
The training workshop capacitated participants in the rigors of taxonomy especially on theterrestrial plants group on Bryophytes and Pteridophytes. Specifically, the training
workshop aimed to:
1. Introduce the participants to the taxonomy of terrestrial plants particularly themosses and ferns
2. Familiarize the participants to the general biology of these plants
3. Provide the opportunity for the participants to apply their taxonomic skills on thefollowing:i. Methods of morphological observationii. Sample collection, processing and identification
4. Develop a draft Field Guide Book on Mosses and Ferns
The training was participated in by Brunei Darussalam (2); Cambodia (3); Lao PDR (3);Indonesia (3); Malaysia (3); Myanmar (3); Philippines (3); Singapore (3); Thailand (4); VietNam (3). As organizers: ACB (3); MOE-Japan (2); QSBG (3). Trainers for the course werethe following:
1. Dr. Benito C. Tan, Expert on Bryophytes, University of California – Berkeley, USA
2. Dr. Boon-Chuan Ho, Bryophyte Taxonomy Expert, Singapore Botanic Gardens,NParks, Singapore
3. Dr. Edwino S. Fernando, Taxonomy Expert, University of the Philippines Los Banos
4. Dr. Dedy Darnaedi, Expert on Ferns and Fern Allies, Research Center Biologi, LIPI,Indonesia
5. Dr. Bayu Adjie. Taxonomy Expert of Ferns and Fern Allies, Bali Botanic Garden, Bali,Indonesia
Other resource persons were Dr. Junko Kawai of the University of Tokyo, Japan and Dr.
Chan-Ho Park, Fern expert of the NIBR, Korea.
The field work was conducted in the Doi Inthanon National Park, two hours by car fromChiang Mai.
Taken from the evaluation forms filled out by the participants, the level of satisfaction
ranged from very good to excellent with outliers of dissatisfaction coming from first time
participants. Most of the participants attended the previous workshop trainings on thesame topic hence they knew what was expected of them.
Feedback from experts and resource persons ranged from satisfactory to highly
satisfactory in terms of running the internship. However, there were some observations

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regarding the quality of the participants where some participants, being in the supervisoryor managerial level, were not cooperative in joining the others do hands-on work in thelaboratory and in field collections. This annoyed the experts / trainers.
An added value to the internship programme was that during the field collections in Doi
Inthanon National Park, the participants collected moss species thateventually wereidentified in the laboratory processing two (2) new records for Tropical Asia and Indochina,
respectively, and one potentially new species, which requires more intensive study /research. There was also one new record of fern for Thailand that was collected by theparticipants and identified.
Attached is the daily programme of activities as it unfolded.

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