Lion tracks November 4, 2012 By Kristen Valerio (University of Vermont ’13) Saturday morning was our last in the Sesfontein Conservancy, where we had spent the past three nights in the Hoanib riverbed.We packed up camp early that morning and…
October 23, 2012 By Molly Talbert (Middlebury College ’14) Aileen was scared. Something was outside her tent trying to eat her and no one believed her, thinking that she was just overly paranoid, which she kind of is. Then it…
By Margaret Finch (Oberlin College ’13) October 14th, 2012 They say that time flies when you’re having fun, but in Namibia time has adopted a peculiar new identity. We have seen and done and learned so many new things, and…
Oct. 14, 2012 – Oct. 20, 2012 By Kelly Reilly (UMass Amherst ’14) Hello once again from sunny Patagonia! This week we got the real feeling of summer at our “vacation” spot at the confluence of the Baker and Chacabuco…
By Adele Daniel (Carleton College ’14) Hello from Cochrane, Chile! We are in town today for a food re-supply. Thirteen people eat a lot of food. Our last, celebratory night in Cristián’s Geosur Lodge in Monreál was over a week…
October 9-15 By Berrett Walter (University of Vermont ’14) On Tuesday evening after a day of lectures in out the field we drove into Cochrane to gather supplies for our up coming camping trip. The plan for the next 4…
October 8, 2012 By Molly Talbert (Middlebury College ’14) Students take in the view near Wereldsend Traveling in Namibia is like planet hopping, the landscape changes so quickly and so drastically.Every bend in the road isn’t the turn of a…
¡Bienvenidos! The students all arrived at the Balmaceda airport over a week ago, tired from travel but buzzing with excitement about the weeks ahead. After meeting the three trip leaders, Fernando, Kari and Ryan, everyone piled into the trucks and…
October 1st, By Miles Pulsford (Oberlin ’13) Hello! We’ve been here at Wereldsend (pronunciation: vair-elds-end, meaning: world’s end) for just a week, and I already feel like there’s too much to write about. Tent life, canned food life, off-road driving…
It is so nice to be back in Namibia! Vehi says hi to all our students past and we have had a wonderful time reminiscing about past programs. We have been very busy this week preparing for the next program. Wereldsend, our…
The beauty of Patagonia is immune to the passage of time but it is often seen through different lenses. The three of us come to these frozen expanses with different perspectives. For Ryan, everything is novel and mysterious, for this…
Video Link Taku River Wildlife Conservation Program Montage This is a montage of images and video from northern British Columbia.
Kuthai Lake, southeast of Atlin, BC On some level I have always understood the importance of conserving an ecosystem as a whole. But I realize now that the farther into “academia” I get, the more the conservation hair gets…
May 10, 2012 Team Botswana! (from left: Molly, Sara, Sarah, Drew, Lindsey, Vince, Eoghan, Jordan, Ben, Elena, Amanda) We went back to NG-29 (a wilderness area in the Okavango Delta) during the final week of the program to finish final…