Events

YELA hosts a number of educational events and work parties throughout the year. Here are photos of some of the recent gatherings that have been held in the Ka Forest.

KSL Tour, October 2021

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PIALA Tour, November 2018

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In December 2017, volunteers came to Yela to do forest maintenance
and to study some of the tree damage shown in the next set of photos below.

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YELA hosted a general maintenance party in August 2017

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These photos were taken during a pig hunt in August 2016.
The volunteers are putting out snares to capture feral pigs that damage the forest.

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In addition to the Ka trees, the ecosystem of the Yela forest includes the surrounding mangroves
as well as the seagrass beds on the adjacent reef flat. November 2014 and April 2015

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A scientific assessment of the mangrove swamp and the adjacent sea grass beds was done by KIRMA in November 2014

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In September 2014, RARE held an educational program attended by several Kosraeans.

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Much of the environmental work that went into creating YELA and the easement that protects the Ka Forest began
at the Micronesian In-Island Conservation Network meeting in January 2010.