I am now back in the UK reflecting on what has been a successful expedition, trying to adjust with a dramatic drop in temperature, being on solid dry land and wearing shoes. Since returning I have processing vast amounts of data and attended a course for multivariate analysis in ecology and environmental science for [...]

I would like to start with a big thank you to all those that have helped and been involved with the project so far. The staff from the Belize Fisheries Department based at South Water Caye Marine Reserve and Bachalar Chico Marine reserve for their assistance and hospitality David Placencia and his team of volunteers [...]

Hi, my name is Matthew, a postgraduate student at the University of Portsmouth. I have been in Belize on and off for the past 3 years devoting my time to local marine conservation and education initiatives, as well as assisting with monitoring programs in Belize. For the past few months I have been working on [...]

Gavan Cooke, expedition leader My name is Gavan Cooke. I am 31 year old PhD student at Bangor University, Wales. My supervisor (Prof. George Turner) made me aware of a grant available from the Zoological Society of London, he came up with an idea that might be appealing and agreed that it would be good [...]

Sitting here back in the UK reflecting on the Negros Interior Biodiversity Expedition (NIBE) is a strange experience and I’m not sure the real successes of the expedition have hit home yet. After catching up on sleep and food and the subsequent rounds of press conferences, things have got back to normal pretty quickly. The [...]

28/11/08 Well, we got the camera-traps back safe and sound. The results are modest but, considering we only had four cameras, and given the extremely low density of mammals in this forest, they are encouraging. We didn’t get a picture of an Abbott’s duiker, but we did record Harvey’s duikers and some other important animals [...]