To compliment a growing demand for outreach and environmental education training Earthcorps is now offering a 12-month training course in Seattle, Washington, USA. This program will bring together the emerging environmental leaders of international organizations to learn advanced skills in habitat restoration, environmental education and community outreach. EARTHCORPS CHARGES NO FEES for its training and in fact supplies insurance, individual homestay families, food, gear, and a monthly stipend to all international participants. Earthcorps provides additional support in acquiring US J-1 Trainee visas.

ANSAB (Asia Network for Sustainable Agriculture and Bioresources) is organizing a Forest Certification Assessors' Training from May 1 to 4 2007, that will be held at Dolakha, Nepal for professionals from environmental conservation, sociology and economics background and who are involved with programs or projects in which an understanding of sustainable forest management and forest certification fo

Forest Action is pleased to announce the international training course, "Introducing Community Forestry: Innovative Ideas, Practices and Methodologies", which will be held from 9 to 20 October 2006 to be held in Kathmandu, Nepal. The training course is jointly organized by ForestAction, Nepal and RECOFTC, Thailand.

The course in October will build upon the very successful training held in March 2006 that identified and analyzed key community forestry concepts, practices and methodologies. The course in October 2006 will again utilize the extensive experience of community forestry in Nepal as a building block to explore the issues and supplement this with further case studies and experiences from throughout the region. The experiences from the training will be both exciting and enriching.

Resource and Environmental Conservation Society (RES-Nepal) is pleased to announce a training on “Philippine Style Bamboo Furniture Processing”, which will be held from 20 to 29 April, 2006.   RES-Nepal and International Network of Bamboo and Rattan (INBAR) have collaborated to design the training. The training will take place in the premises of The Himalayan Bamboo Private Limited at the Industrial district, Hetauda.

SANDEE is organizing a three-week introductory training course in Environmental and Natural Resource Economics for Economists from April 22-May 10, 2006. The course is meant for economists interested in upgrading their skills and learning related to
Environmental and Natural Resource Economics.  The course will cover economic issues underlying sustainable development, poverty-environment interactions, and natural resource use and pollution management. Participants will be exposed to basic theoretical issues and economic tools and methodologies for analyzing environmental problems in developing countries.

Background and Rationale

It has been very much essential to know the spatial as well as temporal distribution of the resource if they are to be properly mananged in a sustainable manner because that helps to assess the status of the resources at different geography, which has a very strong management implication. Based on the resource base situation, certain management prescriptions can be recommended. But the question is reliability and validity of the data collected. The Remote Sensing (RS), Geographic Information System (GIS) and Global Positioning System (GPS) are such technologies that are much more reliable, precise and efficient as well than any other resource assessment technology. These technologies give a visual impression of the landscape that helps to make quick decision in resource management.