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About our cause

Operation Wallacea (Opwall) is a conservation research organisation that is funded by, and relies on, teams of student volunteers who join expeditions for the opportunity to work on real-world research programs alongside academic researchers. I will spend my first week in one of two forest camps located in the centre and east of the island and will be on site with an international team of academics who are collecting data on biodiversity of key taxa (birds, bats, various aquatic and terrestrial invertebrate groups) and examining the impact of invasive species (e.g. a Puerto Rican anole that has invaded the island and spread rapidly). The second week will be staying in student accommodation in a renovated British fort in the north of the island. I will be completing a PADI Open Water dive training cours. In addition I will learn about the whale research taking place just off the coast, as well as possibly seeing Sperm Whales and other marine mammals.