Back in January and February 2015 in the lush cloud forests and wetlands of Venezuela Royle Safaris ran our first and very successful Anacondas of Los Llanos Tour; below is the trip report from this trip. Overview Dates: 26th January – 4th February 2015 Guides: Martin Royle,
Back in 2016, during the peak of the African rhino poaching war, field rangers throughout Kruger National Park, South Africa saw sobering scenes day after day. The field reports showed just how bleak the situation was. With one log entry described discovery of “an adult female white
We have all been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and the impact is not confined to the human world. During the spring of 2020 the pandemic was gripping the United States. This was bad timing for one of the world’s most endangered species. It is the beginning
We interview Martin Royle about the vision behind his ecotour company Royle Safaris. We talk about how much work has gone into designing tours that actually see (rather than search for) Javan Rhinos and Siberian Tigers, plus the cascading conservation benefits that come from small scale ecotourism.
There has been recent successes in the huge archipelago of Indonesian in terms of tiger conservation as officials recently confiscated three tiger skins from a man in Sumatra. These skins are believed to be connected to a much larger wildlife trafficking ring. News from Banda Aceh in
Most people are familiar with the world’s “big cats”: Lions, tigers, leopards, jaguars, snow leopards, pumas, and cheetahs. But far fewer people know about the much larger number of small cat species, which range from the ancestors of domesticated house cats to the flat-headed cat to the
Back in May 2016 Royle Safaris ran one of our best and most successful wildlife watching trips to Uganda and Rwanda. One of the undisputed highlights of any wildlife trip to Uganda and or Rwanda is spending time with the mountain gorillas. The following is an excerpt
There are many species of gibbon in South and South-East Asia, and nearly all are endangered to some extent of another. Gibbons are a wonderful group of primates, often pictured and seen swinging lithely from branch to branch high up in the forest canopy they are in
We would usually be posting many pictures of many sightings across the range of wildlife watching holidays, safaris and specialist mammalwatching tours that we run around the world; but with the covid-19 pandemic meaning that travel is down around 95% there is a lack of trips currently.
Camera trap surveys in a remote national park in Cambodia (Virachey National Park) which is located in the northeast of Cambodia have recorded the country’s first sightings of a critically endangered large-antlered muntjac (Muntiacus vuquangensis). The species, also known as the giant muntjac, was first described nearly
Camera traps often hold the key to conserving remote and wild places, they offer a glimpse into the secret and hidden world of the forest and nature untouched by people. In Vietnam they are helping to protect some of the best remaining tracts of tropical forest. A
We would usually be posting many pictures of many sightings across the range of wildlife watching holidays, safaris and specialist mammalwatching tours that we run around the world; but with the covid-19 pandemic meaning that travel is down around 95% there is a lack of trips currently.
