The Graduating Class

AUC Audubon Center biologists participate in US bird conservation programs.

Recent AUC graduate Anderson Jean, and Audubon Center volunteer Enold Louis-Jean spent three and six weeks respectively in Vermont and New York to explore US bird conservation programs and to learn valuable skills in conservation biology and ornithology. They participated with a group of conservation biologists from Haiti and the Dominican Republic, worked on projects at the Cornell University Laboratory of Ornithology, and the Vermont Center for Ecostudies, and visited the Peabody Museum at Harvard University and the Manomet Center for Conservation Studies. The trip was organized by Chris Rimmer, Director of the Vermont Center for Ecostudies, and Jim Goetz of the Cornell Laboratory. Robert Ortiz of the Dominican Republic, and Abdel Abellard of Haiti also participated in the visit.
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Requirements for Bachelor of Science in Agroforestry and the Environment

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Veterinarians Team up with AUC
AUC has been pleased to partner with Christian Veterinary Mission over the past five years. CVM volunteer Dr. Kelly Crowdis served Haiti by teaching courses, advising students, and helping with agricultural activities at AUC. In the past AUC has have co-hosted several teams of veterinarians and vet students visiting from the US. Activities have ranged from training AUC AgEnv students on animal health, to providing seminars for local veterinary agents, to working with local animal health groups.

Reforestation, One Community at a Time

A special “Thank You!” to all who helped support our 2008/9 reforestation effort. In south Haiti AUC launched a new project to help improve our devastated environment. 2008 did bring a greater challenge to the island in the form of storms and hurricanes. The loss of lives, farmland, livestock, schools and homes was overwhelming. Flooding was contributed to by the lack of trees on steep hillsides to temper torrential rains, by the lack of root systems that hold soil and fortify river banks How do we at AUC help change this sad state? The plan is simple: Each year many foreign groups visit Haiti - teams of medical personal, builders, educators, but most of all, everyday people who demonstrate the love and compassion of Jesus Christ. When invited, our Agroforestry and Environment students travel with these groups bringing trees purchased by the groups from the AUC nursery and a desire to teach in communities about caring for the land. Your support of this program will help us continue to plant trees and help us to bring back native trees that have become rare to our area. We thank you again for your courage to continue what God has started within you and your churches.

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