The excursion was organised by the Taita Research Station of the University of Helsinki in Kenya and namely by Prof. Petri Pellikka, who is the director of the station. To learn more about the Taita Research Station, please visit the station homepages at: http://blogs.helsinki.fi/taita-research-station/
The students learned about development issues, local education system, geoinformatics, physical geography, ecology, climatology, agriculture, forest management and society and culture of the Taita people. After the excursion each of the students received a certificate of participation indicating the lessons learned as following:
Mountain rain forest ecology
Ethnographical exposure to the traditional Taita skull caves
Agricultural practices of a small-scale farmer in the humid highlands and dry lowlands
Life of a farmer family in the Taita hills
Mapping routes and geographical locations using GPS receiver and preparing digital maps
Primary school and secondary school education practices
Group work with Kenyan secondary school pupils
Meteorological measurements carried out in the Taita hills and the lowlands
Large-scale sisal plantation land use practices
Landscape ecology and wildlife observation at a community wildlife sanctuary
Vegetation zone observation at an isolated mountain outcrop
Forest management in Kenya
Reporting on activities on a daily blog
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