Banjarmasin, South Kalimantan (AntaranewsKalsel) - Germany through TU Dresden University sends it student to study about bekantan (Nasalis larvatus), an endemic species of Borneo.
TU Dresden University is in collaboration with the Center for the Study and Conservation of Biodiversity Indonesia University of Lambung Mangkurat (ULM) Banjarmasin in the study, said chairman of the center Amalia Rezeki here on Wednesday.
This cooperation, she explained, is to study the development of wetland ecosystems for conservation of proboscis monkeys (bekantan) which is also an icon of South Kalimantan. Their present is currently threatened by the destruction of forest, especially wetlands forest, which became the main habitat of bekantan.
Center for the Study and Conservation of Biodiversity Indonesia ULM through Sahabat Bekantan Indonesia (SBI) or Bekantan Friend Indonesia builds partnerships with TU Dresden University. Through the internship program, TU Dresden sends its student here.
She simultaneously examined bekantan in Bekantan Rescue Center which is under the auspice of the Centre for the Study and Conservation of Biodiversity Indonesia. She works with Sahabat Bekantan since September 5 to 30, 2016.
"The partnership that we have built with TU Dresden, especially the internship program, is also part of university's tridharma (three missions), in the field of education, research and community service." Amalia said.
"Today we received the TU Dresden University student doing an internship, and became an assistant lecturer at ULM Biology Laboratory and Bekantan Research Laboratory at the Bekantan Rescue Center," said Amalia again.
Amalia her self is also a lecturer of the Faculty of Biology ULM. She said Mary Ann Bellinda Davenport, a student of the Faculty of Biology, for a month in ULM and Bekantan Rescue Center.
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TU Dresden University is in collaboration with the Center for the Study and Conservation of Biodiversity Indonesia University of Lambung Mangkurat (ULM) Banjarmasin in the study, said chairman of the center Amalia Rezeki here on Wednesday.
This cooperation, she explained, is to study the development of wetland ecosystems for conservation of proboscis monkeys (bekantan) which is also an icon of South Kalimantan. Their present is currently threatened by the destruction of forest, especially wetlands forest, which became the main habitat of bekantan.
Center for the Study and Conservation of Biodiversity Indonesia ULM through Sahabat Bekantan Indonesia (SBI) or Bekantan Friend Indonesia builds partnerships with TU Dresden University. Through the internship program, TU Dresden sends its student here.
She simultaneously examined bekantan in Bekantan Rescue Center which is under the auspice of the Centre for the Study and Conservation of Biodiversity Indonesia. She works with Sahabat Bekantan since September 5 to 30, 2016.
"The partnership that we have built with TU Dresden, especially the internship program, is also part of university's tridharma (three missions), in the field of education, research and community service." Amalia said.
"Today we received the TU Dresden University student doing an internship, and became an assistant lecturer at ULM Biology Laboratory and Bekantan Research Laboratory at the Bekantan Rescue Center," said Amalia again.
Amalia her self is also a lecturer of the Faculty of Biology ULM. She said Mary Ann Bellinda Davenport, a student of the Faculty of Biology, for a month in ULM and Bekantan Rescue Center.
Editor : Hasan Zainuddin
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