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The Society for
Environmental Exploration
Established in 1989, the Society for Environmental Exploration (SEE) is an
international environmental research and conservation non-governmental
organisation (NGO). We have a successful track record of wildlife conservation,
forest and coastal zone conservation and management, artisanal fishery research,
and community based development.
The Society is a registered not-for-profit company, number 02374609.
We are a member of IUCN, the
World Conservation Union, and work with a variety of local partners; community
resource user groups, government departments, private sector companies,
international agencies and other NGOs. You can find all of our partners, funders,
sponsors and collaborators on the links page, these include Darwin
Initiative, the Community
Fund, and Olympus. We
are also a Founder Member of the Year
Out Group formed to promote the concept and benefits of well-structured year
out programmes.
Frontier Programmes and Expeditions
The Society works in collaboration with tropical developing countries in
some of the most valuable and threatened ecosystems in the world. These
collaborations between the Society and other institutions form Frontier
Expeditions, that are widely advertised. Frontier expeditions initiate
baseline data collection and then participate in the subsequent establishment of
long-term monitoring programmes. The 4 week expeditions also go to remote and
challenging environments, combining training in expedition and research skills
with the conservation of endangered wildlife and threatened habitats. Whilst
providing diverse training opportunities, the expeditions also carry out
reconnaissance treks to isolated areas to conduct exploratory work for future
Frontier programmes.
Since 1989, Frontier programmes have been
established in Madagascar, Mozambique, Tanzania, Uganda and Vietnam. Frontier is
currently active in Madagascar, Tanzania and Vietnam; researching conservation
and management issues in tropical forests, savanna, and coral reef systems. The
programmes are managed locally by our established country headquarters in
Toliara (Madagascar), Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) and Hanoi (Vietnam).
Frontier - the Field University
Frontier programmes provide the ideal locations for field research of the
highest calibre. This is achieved by Frontier staff, visiting research
associates from institutes and universities of excellence both within our host
countries and from across the globe. The quality of our research outputs and
staff led to the society becoming a sponsoring establishment of the Open
University in March 1999. This 'field university' status means the Society
is able to award its own higher degrees (BPhil, MPhil, PhD) to staff and
research associates working on Frontier expeditions.
Frontier's international
volunteers
International volunteers
participate in data collection on expeditions.
Volunteers participating on 4 week expeditions work alongside Expedition Leaders
and highly qualified science staff to execute low impact, rapid biodiversity
assessments.
Volunteers participating on 10 or 20 week expeditions work as Research
Assistants alongside local natural resource officers, students and scientists
from host countries.
Comprehensive internationally-accredited
full tuition in survey and monitoring techniques is provided . Research
Assistants make an invaluable contribution to scientific data collection as well
as contributing towards the funding of expedition operations; thus are essential
to the long-term running of Frontier programmes.
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