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17 reviews
Wallace House, Keal Hill, Old Bolingbroke, Lincolnshire, PE23 4EX
Monday - Friday: 9:00am - 5:30pm During expedition season office phone is manned 24hours
Overall costs vary depending on the where your group is based and where you want to go, size of group and the week you want to travel. 2 week expedition cost: £1785 (as of Nov 2024) 5 day UK field course - £685 This covers all food, accommodations, transfer around the sites, participation in the research projects, training (excluding canopy access), diving, dive training and medical support on site. There is a free teacher expedition place for a group of every 8 students, and this is worked out on a pro-rata basis. On top of the expedition cost you will need to add costs of international flights, travel within your destination to the expedition start point, park fees, dive equipment hire, insurance and the costs of travel for the accompanying teachers. Operation Wallacea can help to arrange your flights and in-country travel as part of your package.
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Operation Wallacea - Expeditions Like No Other
Operation Wallacea is an organisation that runs a series of biological and conservation management research programmes that operate in remote locations around the world. These expeditions are designed with specific wildlife conservation aims in mind - from identifying areas needing protection, through to implementing and assessing conservation management programmes. The surveys have resulted in over 670 publications in peer-reviewed journals and led to the discovery of over 80 new species to science and $2 million levered from funding agencies to set up best practice management examples at study sites.
Groups of sixth form/high school students in their last two years before going on to university can join these biodiversity survey expeditions as long as they are accompanied by a teacher. The groups will collect data for at least part of their expedition which will help the research objectives and publications for that site.
During a two week expedition the school groups also have the opportunity to work along side a range of field scientists and academics, and also will take part in a lecture series, which covers many key concepts of biology, geography and environmental sciences and learn to dive. We are currently running field sites during the summer in Bay Islands, Croatia, Honduras, Indonesia, Madagascar, Mexico, Peru, Romania and South Africa.
Five day field courses are available at our United Kingdom site, currently running at the Knepp Estate in West Sussex. This five day field course allows students to learn about current field techniques as well as networking with like minded individuals. This site is open to groups lead by teachers or individual students.
For more information or to book a informational meeting, please email schools@opwall.com or call +44 1790 763194
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30th Sep 2024
A working conservation trip where students collected lots of data alongside scientists who were all specialists in their fields.
6th Aug 2024
The organisation of the trip from Opwall was excellent. We were well looked after throughout and our students had an outstanding experience.
24th Sep 2023
OPWALL have provided another great trip and experience for our pupils. Their staff are excellent and the facilities were exactly as we expected.
7th Jan 2020
Excellent provider.
29th Aug 2019
Excellent trip, very well organised by Opwall.
