We leave St. Louis on Saturday, March 10 and arrive in Africa on March 12. We meet up with our "team" at a hotel in Nairobi. This Earthwatch team is comprised of several zookeepers from across the United States. We'll be able to do field work with other animal experts - a rare and exciting opportunity. At some point we will stay in Wamba, a communally owned area in the Samburu District in Kenya for a week. And at some point we will stay at the Lewa Wildlife Conservancy in Kenya for a week. We just don't know where we go first, if we'll be able to stay together or exactly what field work we will be doing. We do know we leave Africa on Sunday, March 25 and arrive back in St. Louis on March 26. The two weeks in between is up in the air. We received a packet of information from Earthwatch that clued us in to a few things:
Sounds like a relaxing vacation, doesn't it? Actually, for animal nuts like us, it's right up our alley.
Not so bad, eh? Africa sounds great on paper. :)
Sounds better than our regular diet of frozen dinners!
We'll be helping with larger projects that the Saint Louis Zoo already has an established connection with. Learn more about the Zoo's WildCare Institute and its conservation center in the Horn of Africa.
And now our favorite part: the other animals we may see. YES!
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