WILDLIFE & ECOSYSTEMS
OUR EXPEDITIONS
WILDLIFE & ECOSYSTEMS
WHY DO SOME FROG SPECIES THRIVE? 3. AUSTRALIA’S VANISHING FROGS
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Earthwatch volunteers have discovered a number of new species and continue to investigate the issues facing wildlife in today’s evolving landscape.
S CIENTIST: Dr
Michael Mahony, University of Newcastle
LOCATION: Barrington DURATION: 7
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£1,650
SCIENTIST: Dr
Richard Bodmer, Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology Samiria, Peru
days
2. ANIMALS OF MALAWI IN THE MAJETE WILDLIFE RESERVE
March, August, September, November, December
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FROM:
£2,300
Poaching, logging, and burning have destroyed the fragile ecosystem of today’s Majete Wildlife Reserve in Malawi. As a volunteer, you’ll help answer critical questions about the outcomes of a major animal reintroduction program. Your work will include animal tracking and counting, camera trapping, assessing predator–prey relationships, and even game capture and release.
4. BLAZING THE BIODIVERSITY TRAIL IN BRAZIL
Alison Leslie, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa
LOCATION: Majete
Leandro Silveira, Jaguar Conservation Fund
Wildlife Reserve, Malawi
LOCATION: Araguaia DURATION: 12
FIELDING MONTHS: June,
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£1,875
SCIENTIST: Dr
days
July, August, September, October, November, December
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The Araguaia River connects the Amazonian rainforest with the Cerrado grasslands. Along the river lies Emas National Park, where jaguars, pumas, maned wolves, tapirs, and giant anteaters roam. Help determine whether expanding sugarcane plantations create barriers for these animals as they move across the land. Record and map species, help install camera traps, and work with trained dogs to seek out animal tracks.
SCIENTIST: Dr
DURATION: 12
FIELDING MONTHS: January,
8
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FIELDING MONTHS: January
Travel aboard a restored and remodelled river boat while working alongside a team of skilled Peruvian biologists. During your journey along the Amazon River, you’ll collect information about the wildlife populations in the Pacaya Samiria National Reserve. You’ll also spend time in a motorized canoe surveying dolphins, fish, and turtles while counting macaws and conducting land surveys of monkeys, tapirs, deer, and game birds. At night, safely search for caimans (alligator cousins) with a spotlight.
LOCATION: Pacaya
and Watagan Ranges,
NSW, Australia
Where will you inspire change?
DURATION: 8–15
£1,450
Along the pristine east coast of Australia in World Heritage temperate rainforests, nine species of frogs—about 5% of all Australian frog species—have disappeared in the past two decades, while 20 species have declined alarmingly. You will monitor frogs to determine why these populations are declining, camping alongside mountain streams and working into the night when most frog species are active. Four past Earthwatchers even discovered new species!
You can conserve lions in Africa, think with elephants in Thailand, and rescue baby turtles in Costa Rica.
1. AMAZON RIVERBOAT EXPLORATION
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FROM:
£1,850
One of the most ferocious predators on Earth, the cat-like fosa is found only in Madagascar. Its habits and population status are virtually unknown and its habitat is nearly gone. Help preserve the fosa and its habitat by hiking up to 12 miles a day through the forests of Madagascar while setting fosa traps, checking trap lines, and measuring trapped and sedated carnivores. You’ll stay at a tented research station in Ankarafantsika National Park. SCIENTIST: Dr
Luke Dollar, Duke University
River, Central Brazil
days
FIELDING MONTHS: July,
5. CARNIVORES OF MADAGASCAR
LOCATION: Ankarafantsika, DURATION: 13
October, November
Madagascar
days
FIELDING MONTHS: July,
December
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