by Allison Mullen, University of Vermont January 30-February 7 Team Condor For three weeks, Team Condor lived on a campo rented by a Patagón named Marcelo. To get there we drove eight hours south from Cochrane, left the cars at a…
Written by Allison Summerly (University of Vermont) 17 February, 2017 Team Aguila On February 3rd Team Aguila travelled southwest from our base camp in Cochrane to a campo (a farm) in the lower Pascua River Valley. This valley is…
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Getting Down to Business in Xai Xai
By Mary Sellars (Northland College) February 18, 2017 Dumela from Xai Xai! We’ve arrived at our second field camp after a seven hour journey from Maun. Xai Xai is situated near the Botswanan/Namibian border and everyone has been excited…
Written by Stacie Wright (University of Vermont) We’ve spent the last week in the bush in Sankuyo. Here we did some bird monitoring and practice herbivore drives. In the mornings we woke up around sunrise and left to do…
Written by Henry (Hank) Dodge, (Colby College) Hello world! The students of the 2017 spring semester arrived in Maun on February 2nd after over 20 exhausting hours of travel. As we were greeted by our enthusiastic (and awesome!) instructors…