Our expedition training weekend on 2nd-4th May is one of the best events of the year. If you really want to know how our expeditions work without leaving the country then this one is for you. A complete 48 hour mock-up of the real thing!

If you are one of our 2009 team members or a past member of a team you will know this event is free but we want to lower the bar to encourage others to have a taster so here is a little incentive.

Book your place at half price before the end of March!

Just £99 for the weekend. If you want a full schedule of the programme then simply ask and we will send one to you.

If you subsequently join our team then the cost can contribute towards your place in the bush so the event becomes effectively free.

If you are not sure whether you can make it then you can still book later, subject to availability but the full advertised price applies.

Go for it! We hope you can join us.

Photo copyright David Bailey. Biosearch sponsors the Kestrel in the new Bird Atlas of Britain and Ireland

SPONSHORSHIP OF THE KESTREL (Falco tinnunculus)

Biosearch Expeditions has its roots in actively assisting wildlife conservation in the UK and also in the Nyika National Park in Malawi. Each year we take teams out to the remotest parts of the bush to camp and explore, recording data on all wildlife and assisting with monitoring poaching activity.

In the UK we have received the Lincolnshire Environmental Award for our farm, where we operate our training weekends and other events, which are open to all.

We have now set up a sponsorship agreement with the British Trust for Ornithology http://www.bto.org/ to support wild bird monitoring and the new Atlas of Breeding and Wintering Birds in the UK and Ireland.

The bird we are sponsoring for this atlas is the Common Kestrel. Kestrels have a wide distribution in Europe, Asia and Africa but are particularly well known in Britain, where they are frequently seen hovering over motorway verges or seen sitting on roadside posts. In Africa there are other subspecies of this iconic bird. In the Nyika National Park Falco tinnunculus rupicolis can be seen over the short grassland but it is far from common and we have not found evidence of breeding. We encourage those with an interest in birds and all wildlife to join our teams to help us research and explore the wildlife resources of Nyika. It is a beautiful upland wilderness, with fresh clear air, magnificent open skies and an absence of mosquitoes.

(Photo by permission of David Bailey)

Lincolnshire Lunch January 2009

Open to All

Do not miss:


The FREE

Lincolnshire speciality bush lunch – but held indoors next to a roaring fire!

hot and delicious!

Saturday 24th January at 12 noon

Hilltop Farm
Welbourn
Lincs LN5 0QH

Drive direct or if you can get to Newark station we can arrange to get you here and back again.

RSVP 01400 273323 or by email.

Congratulations Tooni!

CONGRATULATIONS TO TOONI!

I dont know whether you have been watching the BBC programme Oceans , which is showing on Wednesday evenings but it is worth seeing if you are interested in under water life and great photography.

Tooni Mahto, who features in this series, was a member of the 1999 September Biosearch Expedition team in the Juniper Forest area of Southern Nyika. She is seen here (from right) with Marianne Overton (Biosearch Expeditions), Mary Anne Bartlett (Wildlife artist) and David Bowden (Yachtmaster and Marine Biologist).

Toonis bubbly character was a strong support to our team and was clearly going to mark her out for a great career. We offer her our congratulations on landing a fascinating part in this series. She is not the first Biosearch expeditioner to go on to exciting new things after her Nyika expedition and we hope your experience will prove equally valuable.

I am off to London on Tuesday for the ‘In the footsteps of Laurens van der Post’ talk by Carl Bruessow. (www.biosearch.org.uk/noticeboard.htm). at the RGS

Hope you can get there but if not, come and do some real exploring with us in 2009. We are building our next team now.


Best wishes,

Peter Overton
Project Director
Biosearch Nyika

http://www.biosearch.org.uk/

Forthcoming lectures supported by Biosearch

Here is one for your diary:

For those who would like to meet up and discuss our unique expeditions in the Nyika National Park and can make this evening venue on 25th November at 18.45 at the Royal Geographical Society, please get in touch Tel: 01400 273323.

Sir Laurens van der Post was our early patron prior to his death at the age of 90.

Here are the details:

The Nyika-Vwaza (UK) Trust Annual Lecture

This year's lecture is titled "Venture To The Interior" Revisited and will be given by Carl Bruessow, Executive Director of the Mulanje Mountain Conservation Trust and also a Founder Trustee and the Hon. Secretary of the Nyika-Vwaza Trust (Malawi). He will talk about the conservation challenge on Mount Mulanje and the Nyika Plateau 60 years after Laurens van der Post. There will be a cash bar both before and after the lecture.There will also be an exhibition and sale of paintings by Malawian artists, with proceeds from the sale of these, and other products, being invested in the conservation of the Nyika National Park and the Vwaza Marsh Wildlife Reserve, both in northern Malawi.

Expedition Talk at University of Lincoln

RESPONSIBLE, PURPOSEFUL AND A GREAT EXPERIENCE

JOIN OUR TEAM
LIVING AND WORKING IN THE AFRICAN BUSH TO ENHANCE YOUR CV.

UNIVERSITY OF LINCOLN ARCHITECTURE BUILDING
LARGE LECTURE THEATRE AR0107

TUESDAY 28 OCTOBER 6.30 PM
FOR A TALK WITH SUPERB PHOTOS.

Biosearch Expeditions
http://www.biosearch.org.uk/

Supported by the Department of National Parks and Wildlife in Malawi

Gallery Photos

Hello,

We have started to upload some choice photographs from our recent Biosearch Expedition to Nyika and Vwaza.

You can take a look on our website at www.biosearch.org.uk/gallery_2008/index.htm

The new gallery will be updated from time to time and we shall notify you of any website changes if you Contact Us and join our supporters group (no charge)

The 2009 summer expedition dates are equivalent and the costs the same as in 2008.


Thanks for your interest and I hope you will be able to join us for one of our free events, or the 2009 training weekend or the expedition itself. All are available separately to members on our mailing list, so please don't be afraid to come along - even if you cannot join us in the bush to provide the much needed assistance to the local scouts and the Department of National Parks and Wildlife.

Biosearch is investing in your and their future - a very worthwhile investment indeed.

RESPONSIBLE, PURPOSEFUL AND A GREAT EXPERIENCE

Best wishes,

C Peter OvertonProject DirectorBiosearch ExpeditionsWayfarer LodgeWelbournLincs LN5 0QH

Tel: 01400 273323http://www.biosearch.org.uk/