Operation Wallacea
Why choose Operation Wallacea?
Operation Wallacea, or Opwall, is an organization established in 1998 for conservation management programs. We organize a series of research in remote areas across the globe. Our expeditions and studies are designed with certain wildlife conservation goals in mind, from determining which habitats need protection to implementing the best conservation strategies. What makes Opwall different is t...
Operation Wallacea, or Opwall, is an organization established in 1998 for conservation management programs. We organize a series of research in remote areas across the globe. Our expeditions and studies are designed with certain wildlife conservation goals in mind, from determining which habitats need protection to implementing the best conservation strategies. What makes Opwall different is that we have a large team of scientists, ecologists, postgraduate researchers, and ecologists working in target sites and specializing in different areas of social and economic or biodiversity studies. If you’d like to volunteer and be a part of our team, we have student programs. Strengthen your resume or CV with us. Collect data for your undergraduate or Masters level thesis or dissertation.
Operation Wallacea Reviews
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Launchpad into Fieldwork
by: Amadahy Schultz - South AfricaProgram: Operation Wallacea - MexicoStarting the first year of my undergraduate program, it was daunting to see how theory and content-heavy the next few years looked, with no opportunity for field work or anything hands-on. But after finding Opwall I was immediately drawn into the opportunity of conservation fieldwork, especially in my home country of Mexico. The biggest obstacle was fundraising for the trip, but I was pleased with the advice and coaching that Opwall provided on fundraising as it was extremely helpful and made it...
Amazing experience of field work in conservation and ecology
by: Linda Lu - ChinaProgram: Operation Wallacea - United KingdomIn this amazing rewilding place, we got to know how nature evolved and recovered. I took the two-weeks field course, and every day we took different surveys and trainings ranging from birds, insects, reptiles, mammals, habitats and so on. All of them are really interesting and the ecologists leading us are all so knowledgeable and nice! I got to know how the conservation sector works and built connections with many like-minded people!
Cosplaying as David Attenborough for two weeks
by: Georgie Johnston - United KingdomProgram: Operation Wallacea - South AfricaBeing an Alevel biologist who is about to study Biological Sciences at University, I was thoroughly encouraged by my biology teacher to consider going on the trip, not because I would be spending two weeks off of TikTok...but because I had the opportunity to develop my knowledge that I had learnt in the classroom to real life scenarios. I was slightly apprehensive at first as ecology and conservation was of great interest to me, and I could not say no to a good documentary by Sir David Attenbor...
Operation Wallacea Programs
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The South Africa projects are dotted around a number of different reserves within the country, each focused on assessing the environmental impact...
Operation Wallacea is a research and environmental organisation, working alongside university and college academics to build long term datasets t...
The Mexico project has both marine and terrestrial components, being based in either Akumal Bay or the Calakmul biosphere reserves. The Calakmul ...
Operation Wallacea is a research and environmental organisation, working alongside university and college academics to build long term datasets t...
The Opwall Peru project is based in the Pacaya Samiria National Reserve, found deep in the forests of the Amazon basin—so deep that this project ...
The Madagascar project is spread between a terrestrial site in the Mahamavo forest and the marine site in Nosy Be – both in the northern part of ...
Interviews
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Iona Cunningham-Eurich
Participated in 2017
Iona Cunningham-Eurich lived in London when she was young, and then moved to France until she was 19, during which time she was a competitive horse ri...
Iona Cunningham-Eurich
Participated in 2017
Being a Zoology student and interested in travel, I decided that going abroad would be one of the best experiences I could offer myself to learn more about nature and seeing another part of the world that I had never visited before.
Max Bodmer
Interviewed in 2017
Max started working for Opwall in Honduras as a Scientific Divemaster in 2011. Throughout the course of his undergraduate degree at the University of ...
Max Bodmer
Interviewed in 2017
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What inspired you to join the Opwall team?
Dr. Heather Gilbert
Interviewed in 2018
Heather began her career in conservation biology in Costa Rica shortly after the completion of her PhD in Neuroscience from the University of Nottingh...
Dr. Heather Gilbert
Interviewed in 2018
What inspired you to travel abroad?
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