Read all about our trips and the most up-to-date news from our researchers in the field, our consultants own first hand experience and the most recent news relating to our tours.
| 01 July 2009 - | Galapagos raffle winners in 2008
"Thanks must go to Discovery Initiatives for donating the cruise in aid of GCT." (Galapagos Conservation Trust) |
| 18 June 2009 - | ENews - June 2009
June's ENews highlights our team's personal highlights, from gorillas in Congo, bears in Peru, Desert Elephants in Namibia, Galapagos and Tigers in India. |
| 18 May 2009 - | Congo article in Financial Times
Leading conservationist and all round adventurer, Stanley Johnson travelled with Discovery Initiatives recently to the wilds of the Congo to see the lowland gorillas. Read about his extraordinary adventure here!
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/2c324d98-40dc- |
| 15 May 2009 - | Mare Nostrum - a Motorcycle Journey Around the Med
Our Chairman, Nick Laing, is currently on a 10,000 mile motorcylce journey around the Mediterranean, with the aim of completing the journey in 40 days. Nick will be raising money for a small charity working in Russia, the Prince George Galitzine Memorial |
| 14 May 2009 - | ENews - May 2009
Welcome to our new look ENews. After 12 years of offering cutting edge conservation tours we are so confident that no other responsible tour operator can give you these experiences that we will price match our 8 highlighted trips here.
We are also cha |
| 13 May 2009 - | GCT Support
We have long been advocates of using tourism to support conservation and the Galapagos tours that we run are perhaps the best example of this. Just to show that your money really does make a difference, we have recently received a letter from Dr. J. Gabri |
| 12 May 2009 - | Ol Pejeta on TV!
Ol Pejeta, one of the camps which we use for our Kenya Group Programmes in the star of a new documentary show in ITV1. |
| 05 May 2009 - | National Geographic Traveler Magazine
Please open the following on line link
http://www.ngtraveler.co.uk/
and the online magazine will pop up, go to Page 128 to see our advert In Darwins Footsteps
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| 29 April 2009 - | Responsible Tourism Awards
This year's Responsible Tourism Awards are now open for voting and are designed to recognise those companies, organisations and individuals who make a positive impact through Tourism. |
| 21 April 2009 - | New Indian Walking Safari
Our ground breaking new trip offers a unique opportunity to explore one of the newest and least visited of India's National Parks, on foot! |
| 16 April 2009 - | The Finch Bay Eco Hotel on Santa Cruz Island
The Finch Bay Eco Hotel on Santa Cruz Island is a different and exciting way to discover the Galapagos Islands. The Hotel is an excellent alternative both for pre & post Galapagos cruise extensions, or for exclusive stays on its facilities, to fully enjoy |
| 16 April 2009 - | First in a list of ethical tour operators
We have recently come first in a list of ethical tour operators in this month's edition of Harpers Bazaar. |
| 15 April 2009 - | April in Baja Mexico with the Whales
April in Baja
Snorkelling in warm water, encountering blue whales at peak numbers, watching older gray whale calves with their mothers getting ready for the real world, enjoying sunny days and warm nights, must be April in Baja California's Sea of Cortez |
| 15 April 2009 - | Volcano trekking in the Galapagos
Volcano trekking in the Galapagos
By Rebecca Newman
Published: February 28 2009
When Herman Melville arrived on the Galapagos, he thought it an 'evilly enchanted ground...looking as the world might after a penal conflagration'. After a five-mile |
| 15 April 2009 - | Ecuador - Huaorani Ecolodge
Staying here was the highlight of our 4 1/2 weeks in Ecuador. Not even The Galapagos could compare! Poling in a canoe along the Shiripuno River, the only sounds the gurgle of water, the call of birds and the swish of paddles...heaven! Everything we did, f |
| 14 April 2009 - | FERNANDINA VOLCANO IN THE GALAPAGOS ERUPTS
The Ecuadorian Geophysics Institute informs that La Cumbre volcano on Fernandina Island in the Galapagos has started a new eruptive process. The island-volcano - 1476 meters high- is not inhabited and located 90 Kms. to the northwest of Puerto Villamil th |
| 14 April 2009 - | New orangutans found
A hitherto unknown population of orangutans numbering between 1-2,000 has been found on the island of Borneo, conservation researchers say. |
| 09 April 2009 - | Our World Newsletter April 2009
Our World Newsletter April 2009 |
| 02 April 2009 - | Snow Leopard Sighting
Our recent Snow Leopard Trek was another huge success with another leopard sighting, this time towards the end of the trek. |
| 27 March 2009 - | WOLF AND DARWIN DIVING TRIPS
The Galapagos National Park has granted a diving permit for the sailing boat M/S Alta to perform diving cruises to Wolf & Darwin Islands during peak season, book now! |
| 18 March 2009 - | Our World Newsletter March 2009
Our World for March 2009 contains a few of our personal favourite (and most popular) trips, which have a few spaces remaining. Over the next few months, where would you rather be? |
| 13 February 2009 - | The Whales have arrived in Baja Mexico
Today, February 13th 2009 the Search was offshore outside Bahia Magdalena, our Discovery Initiative clients had an excellent day whalewatching.
In the morning they saw 12 to 15 humpback whales, with a group of five and another group of three that |
| 13 February 2009 - | HAPPY BIRTHDAY DARWIN
February 2009 finds Galapagos well into the swing of things as we celebrate the 200th anniversary of Darwin's birth. |
| 13 February 2009 - | Jaguar photographed in central Mexico
February 2009. Mexican and Spanish scientists have photographed a male jaguar in central Mexico for the first time in a century. In recent decades the jaguar has become endangered due to the fragmentation and deterioration of its habitat, as well as hunti |
| 04 February 2009 - | Our World Newsletter February 2009
Our World for February 2009 contains a few of our personal favourite (and most popular) trips, which have a few spaces remaining. Over the next few months, where would you rather be? |
| 30 January 2009 - | New 7 Wonders of the World
Three preferred destinations in Ecuador and Peru have made it through the first stage to pick the New 7 Wonders of the World. The Tourism authorities of both countries were officially notified that Lake Titicaca, the Galapagos Islands and Amazonia (shared |
| 23 January 2009 - | SmartVoyager sustainable tourism certification
The SmartVoyager sustainable tourism certification was created in order to improve environmental, social and safety measures, and to reduce the environmental footprint that a tour operation could cause. |
| 22 January 2009 - | 2009 Year of the Gorilla
The UNEP Convention on Migratory Species (CMS), the UNEP/UNESCO Great Ape Survival Partnership (GRASP) and the World Association of Zoos and Aquariums (WAZA) have all joined hands to declare 2009 the Year of the Gorilla (YoG). |
| 08 January 2009 - | 2009 is a special year for Galapagos
2009 is a special year for Galapagos - a year of celebrations, for a variety of reasons:
The 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin in February
The 50th anniversaries of the founding of the Charles Darwin Foundation in Galapagos and the G |
| 06 January 2009 - | Galapagos Pink Iguana Rewrites Family Tree
A spectacular pink type of Galapagos iguana promises to rewrite the family's evolutionary history in the islands. Rosada was missed by Charles Darwin during his 1835 visit, but appears to indicate the earliest known divergence of land animals in the archi |
| 06 January 2009 - | Peru, Tambopata Research Centre Macaws and Jaguars
A German film crew led by Christian Baumeister, visited the Tambopata Research Centre in August and September. The focus was the world largest claylick which is visited by macaws on a daily basis. The crew also filmed the trapping of jaguars in the region |
| 04 January 2009 - | January 2009 Newsletter
Our latest newsletter includes features on our tiger study tour, elephant conservation in Sri Lanka and whale watching, along with the opportunity to win £250 of vouchers in our competition. |