Daniels Faculty students traveled to Ecuador this summer, where they visited a wide variety of forests (from high elevation forests to the Amazon lowland).

The trip, part of the Master of Forest Conservation (MFC) International Field Course, fully immersed students into forest conservation and management issues in Latin America — and exposed them to a different cultures, in particular Andean Indigenous cultures — providing important experiential learning applicable to both  international work and in Canada.

Between seminars, lectures, site visits, and research excursions, professional-stream forest conservation students were brought in contact with conversation professionals from a wide variety of viewpoints (NGOs, government, industry, academic, indigenous).

Field courses are approximately two weeks long and are offered early in the summer session, with past iterations visiting destinations such as China, Ghana, Costa Rica, and Brazil. A lower-cost Urban Forestry field course visiting locations throughout Ontario and Quebec is also offered to students in the summer.

Photography by Liam Douglas.