The project will conduct inventories of the flora and vegetation in an area of the tropics where botany has not previously been studied in detail. The objective is to prioritize areas for conservation and to reach a better understanding of the area’s phytogeography.

The work will include the following steps:

– in situ collection of wild plant material;
– preparation of dried herbarium specimens;
– taxonomic identification of plants using reference herbarium specimens and molecular techniques;
– the sending of collected plant material to specialists in different countries for the purpose of identification.

This species-level work will yield an inventory of the analysed region. It is expected that several new species will be discovered.

Surveys of vegetation will be conducted in the field and will include analysis of satellite images. GIS vegetation maps will be drawn.

In accordance with general practice, it was agreed to deposit identified duplicate samples in a herbarium of the country in which the plant collection occurs.