Discover new species

Combining workshops in the field, lectures, active wildlife collecting, and laboratory work, our experts will guide you through all the steps of scientific research.

Borneo

Brunei

7 – 16 September 2024

The Expedition will take place in the jungles of Borneo in the remote research centre of Ulu Temburong national park in Brunei.

You will have ten days of unique hands-on biological field work in a professional research center in one of the world’s biodiversity hotspots.

We will stay in the very heart of the tropical rainforest with large areas yet to be explored and documented. Ulu Temburong is one of the few remaining untouched wilderness areas in the world. The research station where we will be staying has modern labs with all the necessary equipment for scientific research that will be available to us.

Price : €3,600 for a shared room, €4,100 for a private room.

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Tuscany, potentino VALLEY

Italy

24 May – 1 June 2024

This Tuscan castle and valley are known for organic agriculture and a history of sustainably living and working with the environment, going back to the Etruscan times.

We will be based in Castello di Potentino, a castle for the 21st century that is living its own renaissance through organic wine and olive oil production, and explore the biodiversity in its surroundings. Potentino lies in a sheltered valley below Monte Amiata, an ancient volcano, and is home to centuries-old olive trees. Unlike much of the surrounding Tuscan farmland the soil of Potentino Valley has never been subjected to repeated use of chemical products. We will study the fauna of this majestic valley and compare its soil biota with conventional vineyards in Tuscany. This time we are adding something new to the program – participants will get to do their own mini research project on the biodiversity of the ancient olive trees and organic vineyards.

Price: €3,000 for students, €4,500 for others.

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Durmitor national park

Montenegro

11 – 20 July 2024

This breathtaking limestone massif will impress you with its extraordinary geological phenomena and wild beauty.

Formed by glaciers and traversed by rivers and underground streams, it harbors extraordinary biodiversity and includes 50 mountain peaks higher than 2000 m above sea level. This sublime mountain region, clothed in pine forests and fringed by the staggering Tara River Canyon, the second deepest gorge in the world, will impress you forever!  

Price: €3,900 

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Secret Canyon

Montenegro

22 – 30 July 2024

Explore the untouched wonders of Montenegro and join us in our mission to preserve this natural marvel for generations to come.

For the more adventurous-hearted, we offer a new destination: an almost unexplored 600-m-deep, 25-km-long canyon in Montenegro. Slated to be the site for a devastating hydropower dam, our expedition will document and help conserve the unique and endemic flora and fauna before it is too late. We will make daily excursions into the canyon and also to the many unexplored caves in the walls of the ravine. Using our field lab with microscopes and DNA equipment, we will document the flora and fauna of the canyon, in particular endemic species of wildlife that have evolved only here. It is these species that will be driven to extinction if the hydropower project should go ahead. Climbing or caving experience is not required, but a basic physical fitness is. We will work together with the local NGO Spasimo Komarnicu (Save Komarnica).

Price: €2,500

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