Posted on April, 20 2019

From April 15-16th a training was conducted in Vayots Dzor region within the frameworks of WWF Armenia's Conservation of Caucasian Leopard and Eco-Corridors Fund programs.

Among 30 participants of the training were the employees of Khosrov Forest State Reserve, Zangezur Biosphere Complex, Inspectorate for Nature Protection and Mineral Resources as well as leopard and community protected area caretakers.

The topics of the training were the diversity and monitoring of large mammals occurring in the protected areas of Southern Armenia. A practical fieldwork was held in Arpa Protected Landscape where the participants learned to collect and report field monitoring data, use GPS equipment, install camera traps, etc.