The Swaziland Team are hard at work in Mbuluzi game reserve at the moment, undertaking giraffe surveys and building predator passageways to allow predators to move easily within the reserve. The team have another week left at their Mbuluzi camp, baking fresh bread over their fire – all very domesticated – before heading to Mlawula […]

Always doing our best to keep our teams on their toes, our expedition staff have been exploring new routes for our teams this year, and what a treat there is in store for them. Our once intrepid trekking routes have more recently become well trodden highways so it was time to head off the beaten […]

  With the imminent departure of our first Bolivia 2010 going overseas we are awash in the office with excitement. Not only will they be learning the language and the culture but they will be providing much needed help in the new animal park of Jacj Cuisi. Followed by heading off into the great unknown […]

Tree of the week“Deforestation is one of the gravest threats to ecological stability and food production in Africa”. Paul Harrison in ‘The Greening of Africa’ Life depends on trees – particularly in Africa. 80% of Africa’s total energy use is fulfilled by trees – with electricity only contributing 6%. My aim is to promote as […]

Congratulations to Sam O’Kane and his father Pat who completed the Hasewater half marathon last  Sunday, raising over £1,000 for Quest4Change.  100% of the money they raised will support projects which improve the lives of children and poor families living in the shanty town of Villa Maria, Peru. Sam and Pat before starting the Hasewater […]

A few films I found from the quest overseas archive, you might recognize a few familiar faces.  Rob just look at you with your cherub like features, you’ve not changed a bit!     If you want to know more about our work in Kenya then click on the blue Kenya!

Written by team member Nicholas Hirschfeld, worthy of a Booker prize perhaps???! On Wednesday, the third of February, we arrived in Potosi and acclimatized to the 4300 meter altitude. The following morning we donned green jumpsuits, Wellies and helmets with headtorches and went to the miner´s market. There, we drank 96% alcohol and chewed coca […]

This video was put together by the guys over in Bolivia, a harsh reminder of the problems that the park faces, the stupidity and the power of the local government and the help that you can give by offering your support.  If you wish to volunteer at the park please click on the link CIWY […]

We’ve been promised an update is on its way. In the meantime however, here are a couple of images of their weekend in the Ecuador countryside. The waterfall was a bit strong to brave a dip, it looks as if they were getting wet enough from there anyway… So was that camera balanced on top […]

This takes me back. Darwin did you ever wash all that black paint out your hair? Nick your bum cheeks are forever immortalized on the car roof, Symon can you still move like that for the ladies sake I hope not? Ruben you beast, Piers your side step belongs on strictly and finally Dan you […]