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Expeditions > Peru > Options > General surveyors |
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Projects for General surveyors The General Surveyor teams are normally based on their own ship with separate lecturers and accompanying academics (depending on group size). General Surveyor groups select one of the 2 week expeditions (A or B in the high water season or starting weeks 1 - 7 in low water season). All the expeditions are in the Pacaya Samiria National Park.During the 2 weeks onsite groups will spend part of the time completing an Amazonian Wildlife and Conservation course. This consists of a series of lectures and trainings sessions during surveys to demonstrate the different techniques being used and to learn to identify the commoner species. In addition lectures are given on successful conservation initiatives in Amazonia. For the second week the group joins the surveys and will rotate between the different projects. A whiteboard system operates with each of the Peruvian biologists identifying their departure time, activity and the volunteers who will help with the project that day. Projects include transect counts for river dolphins, gill net surveys for fish, spotlight and noose surveys for caimans, macaw counts, and forest transects for primates, large mammal and game bird numbers. Surveyors will take part in a different project each day so by the end of the expedition they will have learned a number of forest biodiversity survey techniques as well as having seen many Amazonian species. |
