NHBS & Biosphere Expeditions

Our natural habitats and their wildlife are increasingly under threat. NHBS is proud to be combating the problem by working with Biosphere Expeditions. As their official book and research material supplier we supply them, their scientist and expedition team members with books and other research materials.

Conservation in action

Biosphere Expeditions is an award-winning, non-profit-making organisation offering hands-on wildlife conservation expeditions as an adventure with a purpose for everyone. Projects are not tours, photographic safaris or excursions, but genuine wildlife expeditions placing ordinary people with no research experience alongside scientists who are at the forefront of conservation work. Having said that, expeditions are not at all about playing the primitive, neither are they a military style 'boot-camp'. Biosphere Expeditions get the best out of their expedition teams by making them comfortable, safe and well fed. Expeditions are open to all, there are no special skills (biological or otherwise) required to join and there are no age limits whatsoever. Expedition team members are people from all walks of life, of all ages, looking for an adventure with a conscience and a sense of purpose.

Expeditions 

POLAND: Monitoring wolves of the East Carpathian Biosphere Reserve.

This expedition will take you to the winter mountains of the Carpathians to snow- and radio-track wolves in an urgent effort of preventing them from being declared legitimate hunting targets and thus being hunted into local extinction. You will be out on the hills counting tracks, scratch marks, kills and other signs of wolf presence, and tracking them using radio telemetry equipment. There may also be wolf trapping for radio collaring. The Carpathians are medium-sized mountains (up to 1346 m) covered in thick temperate forests and the climate will be wintery with snow cover expected. Base is on a comfortable mountain village farm, complete with log fire and modern amenities. 
> more info at www.biosphere-expeditions.org/poland 
> recommended NHBS reading list for this expedition

UKRAINE: Monitoring steppe wolves & bird migration on the Black Sea Kinburn peninsula.

This expedition will take you to the shores of the Black Sea as part of an effort to help local scientists declare the area a National Park. You will be studying, netting, handling and ringing birds using nets by the beach and in the interior. You will also be involved in the area's first ever wolf survey, tracking wolves through the sand and studying them from night hides using night vision goggles. The area is a stunning landscape of sand dune, mixed woodland and beach habitat on the Black Sea coast. The climate is warm Mediterranean (with time for sunbathing!). Our main base is a comfortable summer house. Bird and wolf research teams will stay in tent camps behind the beach (birds) and in the interior of the peninsula (wolves). Teams switch half-way.
> more info at www.biosphere-expeditions.org/ukraine 
> recommended NHBS reading list for this expedition

PERU: Surveying monkeys, macaws and other wildlife of the Peru Amazon.

This expedition will take you to the Peru Amazon rainforest as part of a comprehensive wildlife survey concentrating on macaws, monkeys and other large mammals to aid efforts of declaring the area protected and developing sustainable management strategies. You will be working from hides observing macaws feeding on riverside clay lick sites, and studying monkeys, tapirs, peccaries, deer and perhaps predatory cats from a hide inside the rainforest. You will also be walking along jungle paths trying to spot, identify and record the animals you come across. The climate is tropical (warm, humid, but not too wet because the expedition takes place during the dry season) and we will be working inside the forest and on riverbanks. Base camp is a large and comfortable riverside wooden jungle lodge with double rooms, showers and toilets.
> more info at www.biosphere-expeditions.org/peru
> recommended NHBS reading list for this expedition

NAMIBIA: Population ecology and long-term monitoring of the Namibian cheetah.

This expedition will take you to the African savannah as part of a comprehensive monitoring effort of the Namibian cheetah. You will be covering ground in Land Rovers, looking for tracks and scat samples, checking box traps, capturing and releasing cheetahs, making behavioural observations, and radio-tracking them. There may also be an opportunity to assist in immobilising and radio-collaring an animal. We will be working on African savannah farmland in hot but pleasantly dry weather. Our base is a small fixed camp of cottages with modern amenities.
> more info at www.biosphere-expeditions.org/namibia
> recommended NHBS reading list for this expedition

ALTAI: Surveying snow leopards and other animals in the mountains of the Altai Republic, Central Asia.

This expedition will take you to the high mountains of Central Asia to survey snow leopards, manuls (another cat predator) and their prey animals like the argali mountain sheep and the Altai ibex, as well as other animals like birds, butterflies and bats. You will be covering ground in Land Rovers and on foot, looking for tracks, kills, scats and the animals themselves. You will also be surveying the bird, bat, butterfly and small mammal fauna.  We will be working in high summer from our base camp set at 2200 m at the foot of a 3500 m mountain range and overlooking a vast area of open steppe framed by high mountains. Our base is a sophisticated tent camp of 2 person dome, mess and kitchen, as well as shower and toilet tents.
> more info at www.biosphere-expeditions.org/altai 
> recommended NHBS reading list for this expedition

Biosphere Expeditions is a non-profit-making company registered in England under no. 3906154.