16th September 2009
Following GCT's chief executive, Toni Darton, being interviewed by BBC Radio 4's Today programme about Lonesome George, we thought you might like to learn more about this "wrinkled octogenarian" and his attempts to produce offspring, as Henry Nicholls, ed...
30th August 2009
There is little doubt that you will be overwhelmed with your visit to this unique destination, as the Huaorani territory encompasses an exceptionally ecologically diverse area and unique culture. But this area and other parts of the Amazon are under poten...
30th August 2009
I could hear them long before I could see them, low rumbles, hoots and grunts, plus an unmistakeably loud fart. I could certainly smell them well enough and once our childish sniggering had died down, our guide pulled back the thick bamboo to reveal a sim...
29th August 2009
July 2009. A new species of tamarin monkey has been discovered in a remote region of the Amazon in Brazil according to the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS).
Weighs just 210 grams, the monkey is mostly gray and dark brown in colour, with a distinctl...
29th August 2009
Costa Rica is the happiest country in the world, followed by the Dominican Republic, according to a recent report of happiness and satisfaction in life, from a British organization, The Happy Planet Index published by the New Economics Foundation, based i...
29th August 2009
The Galapagos National Park has established a monitoring system in order to guarantee the survival of the new colony of Galapagos Petrels.
July 200. Park rangers from the Isabela Island in the Galapagos have confirmed the existence of a nest of a Gala...
20th March 2009
A spectacular pink type of Galapagos Iguana promises to rewrite the family's evolutionary history in the islands. Rosada was missed by Charles Darwin during his 1835 visit, but appears to indicate the earliest known divergence of land animals in the archi...
20th March 2009
February 2009. Mexican and Spanish scientists have photographed a male jaguar in central Mexico for the first time in a century. In recent decades the jaguar has become endangered due to the fragmentation and deterioration of its habitat, as well as hunti...
19th February 2009
When last my blog was done I was just arriving into Bandavgarh National Park. Here is a really beautiful park, with its tall sal trees, its leaves all beginning to turn yellow and fall like raindrops onto the forest floor with any breath of wind. The gras...
19th February 2009
Its 11pm and I am tired after a day of driving but finally got a signal from the top of an escarpment where we are staying near Pachmarhi on the map. Its an amazing view from the resthouse and we spent the late afternoon till dusk watching vultures flyin...
02nd January 2009
Julia Lloyd, our primate specialist, tour leader, jungle jane and all round advocate for all things DI has been updating us on her recent news...
I'm still doing trips with Discovery Initiatives - helps to pay my school fees and keep my eye on the mou...
02nd January 2009
My first impression of Costa Rica was the hustle and bustle of San Jose, followed by the mass tourism of Tourtugero. Just as I was beginning to think that I had made a big mistake coming to Costa Rica, I was bombarded by its sheer beauty, abundance of wi...
02nd January 2009
Just back after a somewhat whirlwind trip of Ecuador and Peru, but every time I visit these amazing places it just reiterates how remarkable they are.
I spent a week in Southern Ecuador arrived in the welcoming heat of Guayaquil after the cold UK summer...
02nd January 2009
I am bouncing around the vehicle like a disorientated ping-pong ball. We are spending more time off the main ‘road’ than on it in order to avoid the pot-holes, but before long we are travelling on the evocative burnt red earth that is synonymous with...
01st December 2008
It’s been a fascinating month as I have been in two separate worlds, the world of here and now, doing presentations on how to set up community based tourism enterprises in Sulawesi in Indonesia, and the world of the future for wildlife, forests and the ...
