Discovery Initiatives

Steppes Discovery Blog July 10

Has There Ever Been a Better Time to Visit Zimbabwe? Has there ever been a better time to visit Zimbabwe? I doubt it, not if the reports we are getting from our partners in Zimbabwe are anything to go by. So why are things looking positive again for th... Read >

Steppes Discovery Blog Aug and Sep 10

Tourists Allowed to Patrol on Foot With the new wildlife season just around the corner the Park Authorities have confirmed plans to allow tourists to trek within the National Park forests. The plans come under a project known as "Patrolling the Tiger La... Read >

Steppes Discovery Blog Sep & Oct 10

Beauty & the Beast - Jane Goodall and the wild chimpanzees I watched a fascinating programme on BBC Four last night featuring the background behind one of the most important discoveries in primate behavioural study. This documentary covered the 50 year ... Read >

Nightwalk in the forests of Central Belize

As we headed up the mountain the jungle flora slowly gave way to pine trees and the air, thankfully, cooled down. We were entering the Mountain Pine Ridge area in the Cayo District of Central Belize, a vast area where jaguars roam, raptors soar and Mayan ... Read >

Wild West Africa - Journey to Extreme Northern Cameroon

As we drove through the lunar landscape of the Rhumsiki hills, in the Extreme North Province of Cameroon, the lone woman wrapped in bright red and yellow Kanga cloth stood out against the hazy horizon, which blurred the dusty earth and the clear blue sky.... Read >

A Close Encounter of the Silverback Kind

The first thing that struck me about Rwanada was the colour. The bright red and yellow fabrics wrapped around women with babies asleep on their backs, the rich blue school uniforms of children heading home past bicycles laden with bunches of yellow, ripe... Read >

Responsible Tourism – A Way of Life?

I was lucky enough to attend the Born Free Foundation recently at the Royal Geographical Society in London, where a panel of experts gathered to discuss the tourism industry's impact on wildlife and wildlife tourism. Given the tourism industry is the sing... Read >

Naturalists fear the worst is yet to come for Gulf of Mexico wildlife.

An unmitigated environmental disaster, an economic crisis and a personal tragedy, the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico continues to elicit more questions than environmentalists can be answer. President Obama's rhetoric on the matter is becoming increasin... Read >

The Loves of Lonesome George

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... Read >

The Future of the Huaorani

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... Read >

Seeing gorillas in the wild

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... Read >

New species of monkey discovered in the Amazon Basin

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... Read >

Costa Rica ranked the happiest country in the world

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... Read >

New colony of critically endangered Galapagos Petrels found.

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... Read >

Pink Galapagos Iguana Provides Evolutionary Case Study

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... Read >