Field exercises included vegetation analyses and sampling techniques for beetles, butterflies, birds, small mammals and tropical ungulates. The course involved instructors from the projects in Guatemala and Mexico. Claudio M ndez discussed the general theme of inventories and monitoring and techniques for monitoring butterflies. Demand for the workshop has increased year by year. Three years ago, there were only 14 participants whereas this year there were 36.
Students pay their own expenses to attend the course.
Park warden training. Claudio M ndez also ran a monitoring workshop for park wardens. The workshop took place in Tikal Research assistant training. The workshop was organized by The Nature Conservancy during April 1995 in Tela, Honduras. Claudio M ndez's Internship.