Posts for November, 2005

Cheetahs (copyright ZSL)

Naturetrek has recently teamed up with the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) to offer a series of tours for Naturetrek clients and ZSL members focusing on the overseas conservation projects being run by ZSL. These include work on Cheetah conservation in the Serengeti, Black Rhinos in Kenya, the preservation [...]

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Long-finned Pilot Whales (copyright Paul Marshall)

In September the two Naturetrek tours to southern Spain recorded an impressive combined total of 23 species of birds of prey. Highlights included Spanish Imperial and Bonelli’s Eagle, Long-legged Buzzard and Black-shouldered Kite amongst thousands of migrating birds. Taking to the water both groups enjoyed superb [...]

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One of the most depressing and alarming of all conservation forecasts is the gloomy prediction that all the planet’s great apes may become extinct in the wild within the next ten years. For anyone with a love of wildlife it is unbelievable that mankind should so carelessly exterminate our closest living relatives but relentless destruction [...]

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