As I boated down the Manu River last summer with Dr. Miles Silman, Prof. Justin Catanoso, and other Wake Forest students, we left one world and entered another. Just 10 minutes prior, within Manu National Park’s borders, a lush canopy filled the river shoreline, and long forest-green vines hung down kissing the river’s edge. Now, pieces.
A three-hour plane ride from Wake Forest and a ride down an unpaved dirt road will bring you to a secluded haven in Eleuthera, Bahamas: Lighthouse Point. The beach, located on the island of southern Eleuthera, isn’t your typical tourist destination. But for some students at Wake Forest, this small island was their home for.
Nose-to-nose with a reef shark, Wake Forest students got to experience biology textbook material in the wild during a spring break trip to Belize with their biology class. BIO 311: Ecology and Conservation of Coral Reefs, is a four-hour spring course taught by Dr. Miles Silman, a Wake Forest biology professor, ecologist, and avid researcher.