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☰Legends of the Wild was created in 2013 to provide an incremental source of funding for scientific field research aimed at wildlife conservation. Our goal in establishing the company has been to create an intersection between the multi-billion dollar tourism industry and the consistently underfunded wildlife conservation efforts.
We offer our clients the opportunity to join small expeditions organized to monitor the status of wildlife species, most of which are endangered today. Each of our expeditions focuses on a specific field research project conducted by our naturalist guides. Our naturalist guides are professional biologists who are recognized as the top of their field in each of their respective locales. We donate a portion of the revenues of each trip to fund the specific research project. This incremental funding is essential to the sustainability of the research project. For our clients, we create exhilarating life experiences by offering them first-hand involvement in wildlife conservation, in extremely remote locates.
In July 2015, we organized and carried out an expedition to support the efforts of Ricardo Moreno who has been working with jungle wildcats in Panama and Costa Rica for over 15 years. Ricardo is using camera-trap technology to calculate the jaguar density in the Darien province area of Panama and to subsequently use this information to provide baseline data from which to begin a long-term population-monitoring program. Our objective for this expedition was to reopen the Darien Gap passage - from the end of the Pan American Highway to the Colombian border – to enable Ricardo to install a series of camera traps along the trail. Our company funded the expedition for Ricardo as well as the additional costs incurred to remove the camera traps from the jungle in March 2016.
In early 2015, we were introduced to Prabin Shrestha, of Nepal’s Ministry of Federal Affairs and Local Development, who has been carrying out snow leopard research with both the WCN and the WWF in the Api Nampa and Upper Dolpo regions of Nepal. One of Prabin’s colleagues had heard about our business model and contacted us to explore whether we could create a viable tourist experience around Prabin’s snow Leopard research to fund his camera trap activity.
We are currently marketing to our clients a research expedition to support Ricardo’s efforts to trap and equip a jaguar with a GPS collar. The trip is scheduled to take place in December 2016 and will be limited to 8 paying clients. Our tour revenues will finance the expedition as well as the purchase of the GPS collar and monitoring equipment (approx. $5,000).
We are also marketing to our clients a voyage called the “Snow Leopard Journey”, to the Upper Dolpo region of Nepal, scheduled for early 2017. This camera trap research project will be entirely funded through the revenues of our expedition.
Interested travelers can still sign up for direct involvement in either of these research expeditions.
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