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Cameroon
There is no let-up in the rain for us today! Cameroon is one of the wettest lands on earth! Indeed, one of the wettest locations in the world is the village of Debundscha (with an average annual rainfall of around 10,300 mm) which we passed on our journey today!
This little village lies at the foot of Mount Cameroon, the highest peak in West Africa. Although watch your step here, Mount Cameroon is actually an active volcano and has the most frequent eruptions of any West African volcano. A lava flow from a 1999 south-flank eruption stopped 200 m (660 ft) from the sea, cutting the coastal highway!
This is the last time we will be by the sea before we arrive in Bulawayo. As we leave the coast and head inland it’s important to reflect on the ecology of this coastline. Cameroon had lost 40% of its mangroves in recent years which has had a devastating impact on its coastal fisheries. Mangroves globally act as a nursery habitat for a suite of commercially important marine species.
However, all is not lost, I am sure you will all be reassured to know the presence of the West African manatee (Trichechus senegalensis) all along this coast would suggest that the regions seagrass meadows are still in decent condition – seagrass is the favoured food for these wonderful sea cows!
Republic of Congo
A team from National Geographic magazine, who visited the fledgling Parc National Nouabalé-Ndoki in the mid-1990s, called this northern corner of The Republic of the Congo the world’s ‘Last Eden’, and they chose their words wisely.
Parc National Nouabalé-Ndoki deserves the name of ‘Last Eden’. It is actually the last natural habitat on earth where you can find a rich flora and fauna that remains undisturbed by global changes.
Its uniqueness is characterised by its availability of the both the world’s largest carnivores (the big cats), the biggest herbivores (elephants, buffalos, rhinos), and rare apes (bonobos, and gorillas). It is also home to world’s second largest river after Amazon – the River Congo, which has the reputation of being the deepest river in the world and second-longest river in Africa (after River Nile).
For any of my A Level students reading this, it has been suggested that the Congo River's formation may have led to the allopatric speciation of the Bonobo (Pan paniscus) and the Common Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) from their most recent common ancestor.
January
The Big Owls Learn All About Emotions
Owls Swoop into Visit Primary 1!
Primary 5 Documentaries Premiere
Primary 6 Junior Duke Bike Workshop
Inspiring Digital Enterprise Award
Primary 3 Rainforest Explorers
Primary 5 Assembly Celebrating Burns Night
Easter Tennis Camps with the Judy Murray Foundation
Primary 4 Learn about Life as an Evacuee
U6 Ball – A Former Boarder’s Visit
Seeing Frozen 2 at Fountain Park
February
Careers News Round-up February 2020
St George's U15 Lacrosse Team win Loretto Tournament!
Author Ross MacKenzie Visits Junior School
Trip to the Surgeons’ Hall Museums
Honey Pot Creative Café – Ceramics Painting
Meet 12 Scottish Boarding Schools
Primary 2 Learn How to Care for Their Teeth
Raindrops Make Rainbows - Australian Wildfire Fundraising
Primary 4 Study Electrical Circuits With Makey Makeys
Young Engineers Visit a French Navy Frigate
March
Careers News Round-up March 2020
L4 East District Hockey Tournament
Lower 5 'A' Hockey - S3 Scottish Cup Semi-Final
Travelling Book Fair Visits Lower School
Independent Women Magazine - 2020 Moving Forward
World of Work Day - Forth Bridges Education Centre
World of Work Day - Home Store + More
World of Work Day - Sainsbury's
The TCS Oxford Computing Challenge
Primary 6 Robot Programming Competition
Primary 3 Visit the Rainforest
High School of Glasgow 7s Tournament
Boarding Trip to Deep Sea World
St George's Win Junior Schools Hockey Cup!
St George's Moves to Supported Home Learning
Teaching online with Distance Learning
'We're Better Prepared for Distance Learning Than Ever'
An Outstanding Achievement at the Big Bang Engineering Competition
April
Physical Education Distance Learning in Action
Supported Distance Learning in Junior School
Careers News Round-up April 2020
Former Student Co-authors Ovarian Cancer Research Paper
Careers News Round-up April 2020
Caring for the Children of Key Workers Over Easter
Distance Learning and Critical Childcare Within Nursery and Junior School
May
U6 Graduation Recruitment School Virtual Event s
Careers News Round-up May 2020
Young Enterprise Awards - Collecti
U6 Graduate Recruitment Distance Learning Programme
Raising Money for 'Our Neighbours': Join us on a Virtual Trip From Edinburgh to Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
June
U4 North American Exchange Goes Digital
House Event: Race Across the World!
St George’s Library – Remote Learning
Update from the Public Relations Prefects
Primary 1’s Butterflies Have Flown
Online Life-Long Learning Conference, 8 June 2020
U6 Project: Perspectives on the Pandemic
Edinburgh to Bulawayo - Day 10
Independent Women Magazine - Summer Issue 2020
Edinburgh to Bulawayo - Day 11
Edinburgh to Bulawayo - Day 12&13
Careers News Round-up June 2020
Edinburgh to Bulawayo - Final Day!
U6 Guest Speaker - Jane Turton
L.S. Lowry: Primary 3 Art Project
Ditching Shakespeare Would be a Real Tragedy
Upper 6 Leavers' Fortnight - Week 2
Will there also be singing? …Independent Women in Lockdown
August
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