Wildlife in the Changing Andorran Pyrenees

Highlights

• Survey and observe birds. You'll check nest boxes set up by the researchers throughout the mountains, and learn to identify birds by their songs.
• Track biodiversity. On your long-hike days, you will take note of all the plants and animals you see and monitor camera traps set up by the researchers.
• Monitor small mammals. Keep an eye on the health of vole, mouse, and shrew populations by capturing them, collects measurements, and safely releasing them.
• Survey bats. On some evenings, you will walk paths and count all the bats you see or detect with special sensors.
• Assess vegetation. In preset research plots, you will measure trees and record the timing of natural events like fruiting and flowering.

What's this trip about?

In the high slopes of the French Pyrenees, as in other mountain regions, climate change has already begun to alter the landscape. Some species are moving to higher latitudes, and some have begun to decline. The ways humans use the land also causes shifts in the natural order of things, but little research has been done on how people have impacted this particular place. Questions of how climate change and human encroachment continue to alter this alpine world need answers as local organizations work towards sustainable solutions.

What's excluded

• International Flights
• Passport and Visa Charges
• Personal Expenses

Accommodation