The St Katherine Protectorate monitoring programme needs a lot of survey effort to complete the atlasing and teams of General Surveyors provide much needed manpower for this. The group will spend the first 3 days at the Fox Camp at St Katherine including trekking up Mount Sinai. There will also be training in how to dress and survive in the desert and the survey techniques that will be used. On the fourth day the groups will travel out to one of the remote wadis which they will access either in 4x4 vehicles, or by trekking with support from camels to carry the bags and water. For the next 3 days the group will survey the wadi, sleeping in a temporary Bedouin camp. Because this area of the Sinai is at altitude (1000m to 2000m) the temperature is pleasant in the evenings and mornings, and the group will sleep outside under the stars. During the days the groups will be completing quadrat surveys for plants, timed searches for reptiles, transect surveys for birds, mist netting for bats, and assessments of mammal populations from spoor and scat. This is an excellent opportunity to see some of the most spectacular scenery and wildlife in Egypt.

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