India
| country: | India |
| location: | Madhya Pradesh, Pench Tiger Reserve |
| departures: | 2007: 17 Nov 2008: 15 Mar, 29 Mar, 15 Nov |
| price: | From £2350 (12 days) including flights from the UK. This trip can also be booked without flights. Price includes domestic flight, transport, accommodation and meals, local guides and a contribution to the Travel Operators For Tigers campaign. Tailor made trips available |
the amazing things you'll be doing
A unique wildlife experience
There are a host of ways of seeing India’s wildlife but none can match that of walking and learning about the wondrous laws of nature and the daily struggle for survival in the wild. Our unique Ranger Safari enables you to do just that. A completely new programme, it provides you with a more diverse and interactive experience of Indian wildlife than the regular tours.
This exciting programme is an intensive and fun adventure, which involves learning through experience and more adventurous activities than conventional wildlife safaris.
Based out of a comfortable lodge in Pench Tiger Reserve, the programme includes learning about all the animal and plants, ecology, learning to track predators and their prey-with focus on the Tiger especially-and conservation and community, with discussions on the impact of humans on tigers and wildlife in India’s parks.
Staying in comfortable wilderness lodge accommodation and accompanied and taught by one of India’s leading ecologists you will spend time with the mahouts and their elephants; you will meet the local villagers and the forest guards and you should be lucky enough to witness the power of a tiger in the wild silently padding through its natural territory of forests and tall grasses or lying by a pool.
This course is aimed at giving you a broader appreciation of the wonders of India’s wildlife and includes a contribution to Travel Operators For Tigers. No previous experience of India or wildlife is required, just that you possess an interest, a sense of humour and are reasonably fit.
Field Expertise
Brij Sharma is eminently well qualified to guide this experience into India’s tiger land, as a respected field scientist with a masters degree in wildlife sciences and presently Executive Director of the Tiger Initiative Group in Delhi.
He has served as a researcher and director for a host of NGO’s over the last 15 years, conducted research into the status of Ttigers in Madhya Pradesh, investigated anti poaching operations for WPSI and serves with the Corbett Foundation. This position, straddling both the fields of scientific and the conservation NGO communities provides him with a unique perspective of Indian wildlife, its future and the singular problems of protecting and managing wild habitats and their inhabitants in an overcrowded landscape. But it is his knowledge and expertise in the field and his enthusiasm and ability to communicate that make him such a good instructor and guide in Pench.
There are a host of ways of seeing India’s wildlife but none can match that of walking and learning about the wondrous laws of nature and the daily struggle for survival in the wild. Our unique Ranger Safari enables you to do just that. A completely new programme, it provides you with a more diverse and interactive experience of Indian wildlife than the regular tours.
This exciting programme is an intensive and fun adventure, which involves learning through experience and more adventurous activities than conventional wildlife safaris.
Based out of a comfortable lodge in Pench Tiger Reserve, the programme includes learning about all the animal and plants, ecology, learning to track predators and their prey-with focus on the Tiger especially-and conservation and community, with discussions on the impact of humans on tigers and wildlife in India’s parks.
Staying in comfortable wilderness lodge accommodation and accompanied and taught by one of India’s leading ecologists you will spend time with the mahouts and their elephants; you will meet the local villagers and the forest guards and you should be lucky enough to witness the power of a tiger in the wild silently padding through its natural territory of forests and tall grasses or lying by a pool.
This course is aimed at giving you a broader appreciation of the wonders of India’s wildlife and includes a contribution to Travel Operators For Tigers. No previous experience of India or wildlife is required, just that you possess an interest, a sense of humour and are reasonably fit.
Field Expertise
Brij Sharma is eminently well qualified to guide this experience into India’s tiger land, as a respected field scientist with a masters degree in wildlife sciences and presently Executive Director of the Tiger Initiative Group in Delhi.
He has served as a researcher and director for a host of NGO’s over the last 15 years, conducted research into the status of Ttigers in Madhya Pradesh, investigated anti poaching operations for WPSI and serves with the Corbett Foundation. This position, straddling both the fields of scientific and the conservation NGO communities provides him with a unique perspective of Indian wildlife, its future and the singular problems of protecting and managing wild habitats and their inhabitants in an overcrowded landscape. But it is his knowledge and expertise in the field and his enthusiasm and ability to communicate that make him such a good instructor and guide in Pench.
this tourism business won an award
in our 2005 First Choice Responsible Tourism Awards - organised by responsibletravel.com in association with The Times, World Travel Market and Geographical Magazine.how this holiday makes a difference
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This trip supports the Global Tiger Patrol and Travel Operators for Tigers.
 The Travel Operators for Tigers campaign (TOFT) is a travel industry platform, in cooperation with Global Tiger Patrol, that aims to advocate and support a more responsible and sustainable approach to tourism in South Asia’s wildlife reserves, together with aiding specific conservation programmes which benefit the local communities and wildlife. Furthermore the extended duration of the stay in Pench allows us to explore the area, and get to know and meet the communities who live around the park, use their ‘machans’ and other services. This creates much wanted interaction by local people with visitors and the ‘tourism equation’ and its financial benefits – than the greater prercentage of ‘day tourism’ that visits the park today. |
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