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Ever listened to a lecture or watched Discovery channel and thought i would like to do that.
Well now is your chance, Paul Grieg Smith runs Partnership Travel ltd
and has put together 12 day trip 7-12 September to the Western Ghats in India. The trip costs £1974 and includes all flights, accomodation, taxes, transfers, sightseeing tours, fees, boathire, train fares and meals.
If this is too short notice he will be organising other trips, and will put together trips for groups of friends.
Below is the email Paul sent me.
Dear Chris,
I am emailing you to see if you or members of your society might be interested in going on a specialized wildlife trip in search of arachnids and insects to India or Sri Lanka?
I have attached a copy of our next expedition to the Western Ghats region in India – The Western Ghats are an ancient mountain range and run along almost the entire stretch of the Western Coast of Peninsular India and rank amongst the most biodiverse places on the planet with an extraordinary level of endemic species.
We will stay at the Madras Croc Bank and also at Romulus Whitakers Rainforest Research Station in Agumbe and we will trek through some of the most biodiverse regions in Southern India. Along the way we will explore all different kinds of habitat from farm and scrubland to rivers and tropical montane rainforests to the coastline and sea in search of India’s rich and intriguing herpetofauna including such species as King Cobras, spectacled cobras, common kraits, russells & saw scaled vipers as well as a range of pit vipers, vine snakes, monitor lizards, mugger crocodiles, chameleons and various theraphosid spiders such as peocilitheria sp as well as giant scolopendra centipedes and scorpions such as Hetrometrus swammmerdami and Mesobuthus tamulus and much, much more.
If you couldn’t make this trip then perhaps I could put together a trip specifically for your society?
I am a member of both the British Tarantula Society as well as the International Herpetological Society as well as the British Herpetological Society and have been involved in the keeping of spiders, snakes and various other reptiles, arachnids, insects and amphibians for over 23 years and am keen to promote ecologically sensitive wildlife tourism which utilizes local knowledge and promotes conservation.
I have been a tour operator for over four years specializing in India but from my own experiences on commercial trips I felt that most wildlife trips did not cater for the hardcore wildlife enthusiast. I wanted therefore to devise my idea of a perfect expedition and create a trip where people could look for wildlife with the very best naturalists and trackers, improve their field skills and learn from those involved with pioneering research and conservation. By working with conservation institutions such as Romulus Whitaker's, Agumbe Rain Forest Research Station (ARRS) and the Madras Crocodile Bank, valuable funds go directly towards important research and conservation efforts. Furthermore by enlisting the help of indigenous tribes such as the snake tracking tribe – The Irula’s, we help provide valuable income for poorer communities.
Each trip is devised over several months of preparation and collaboration with herpetologists in the field and the result is a genuine eco tourist experience which positively benefits wider conservation movements. The trips are always incredibly rewarding for all those involved and for many, they prove to be a once in a lifetime experience.
Please feel free to check out our herp homepage for additional information together with client feedback
http://www.partnershiptravel.co.uk/H..._Holidays.aspx
I look forward to hearing from you
Kind Regards
Ever listened to a lecture or watched Discovery channel and thought i would like to do that.
Well now is your chance, Paul Grieg Smith runs Partnership Travel ltd
and has put together 12 day trip 7-12 September to the Western Ghats in India. The trip costs £1974 and includes all flights, accomodation, taxes, transfers, sightseeing tours, fees, boathire, train fares and meals.
If this is too short notice he will be organising other trips, and will put together trips for groups of friends.
Below is the email Paul sent me.
Dear Chris,
I am emailing you to see if you or members of your society might be interested in going on a specialized wildlife trip in search of arachnids and insects to India or Sri Lanka?
I have attached a copy of our next expedition to the Western Ghats region in India – The Western Ghats are an ancient mountain range and run along almost the entire stretch of the Western Coast of Peninsular India and rank amongst the most biodiverse places on the planet with an extraordinary level of endemic species.
We will stay at the Madras Croc Bank and also at Romulus Whitakers Rainforest Research Station in Agumbe and we will trek through some of the most biodiverse regions in Southern India. Along the way we will explore all different kinds of habitat from farm and scrubland to rivers and tropical montane rainforests to the coastline and sea in search of India’s rich and intriguing herpetofauna including such species as King Cobras, spectacled cobras, common kraits, russells & saw scaled vipers as well as a range of pit vipers, vine snakes, monitor lizards, mugger crocodiles, chameleons and various theraphosid spiders such as peocilitheria sp as well as giant scolopendra centipedes and scorpions such as Hetrometrus swammmerdami and Mesobuthus tamulus and much, much more.
If you couldn’t make this trip then perhaps I could put together a trip specifically for your society?
I am a member of both the British Tarantula Society as well as the International Herpetological Society as well as the British Herpetological Society and have been involved in the keeping of spiders, snakes and various other reptiles, arachnids, insects and amphibians for over 23 years and am keen to promote ecologically sensitive wildlife tourism which utilizes local knowledge and promotes conservation.
I have been a tour operator for over four years specializing in India but from my own experiences on commercial trips I felt that most wildlife trips did not cater for the hardcore wildlife enthusiast. I wanted therefore to devise my idea of a perfect expedition and create a trip where people could look for wildlife with the very best naturalists and trackers, improve their field skills and learn from those involved with pioneering research and conservation. By working with conservation institutions such as Romulus Whitaker's, Agumbe Rain Forest Research Station (ARRS) and the Madras Crocodile Bank, valuable funds go directly towards important research and conservation efforts. Furthermore by enlisting the help of indigenous tribes such as the snake tracking tribe – The Irula’s, we help provide valuable income for poorer communities.
Each trip is devised over several months of preparation and collaboration with herpetologists in the field and the result is a genuine eco tourist experience which positively benefits wider conservation movements. The trips are always incredibly rewarding for all those involved and for many, they prove to be a once in a lifetime experience.
Please feel free to check out our herp homepage for additional information together with client feedback
http://www.partnershiptravel.co.uk/H..._Holidays.aspx
I look forward to hearing from you
Kind Regards
