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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: £1800 (as of Feb 2026) 5 day UK field course - £750 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. We can provide you for a full package quote on request.
£10,000,000
Operation Wallacea runs a series of biological and conservation management expeditions that operate in remote locations around the world.
Our 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 700 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 can join these biodiversity survey expeditions as part of groups lead by teachers for two weeks and help with real world conservation research and expand their knowledge outside of the classroom.
Your students will get the opportunity to work along side a range of field scientists and academics, and also will take part in a lecture series, covering many key concepts of biology, geography and environmental sciences and learn to dive. Our field sites run during the summer months and we work across the world: Bay Islands, Croatia, Honduras, Indonesia, Madagascar, Mexico, Peru, Romania and South Africa.
We also run a field courses in the United Kingdom at the Knepp Estate in West Sussex. This 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.
We can also offer shorter expeditions and bespoke itineraries, as well as classroom resources so all students can benefit.
For more information or to book a informational meeting, please email schools@opwall.com or call +44 1790 763194
View some of the most commonly asked questions by visitors.
The expeditions are two weeks long, and you generally spend one week at a terrestrial site and then a second week at a marine site. The dates of your expedition do not include travel time.
Yes, we can nearly always adjust the itinerary to suit your group. Please contact us for a chat about what we can do!
Yes - we can book your international flights and travel within the destination country. The only thing you have to worry about is getting to the airport in the UK!
Please contact us for a full package quote.
Nearly every student who attends an Operation Wallacea expedition has to raise part of the money needed to attend. We have a fundraising team who will be able to come and speak to your students about the best ways they can do this be it grant writing or running an event. We can provide as much support as you need!
For students that can't make it we also have a range of resources we can share with you, from data sets to free courses.
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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.
