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Trip Report Regions		Syria
Africa Antarctica Arctic Asia Australasia Caribbean Central America Europe Middle East North America Pacific South America		Birds & Nature Tours ~ João Jara Birds & Nature Tours is the first and only Portuguese company specifically dedicated to birds and birding field tours... Our guided field tours are designed to offer you the best of Portuguese birding, with a specific emphasis on what you want to see. Tours are adapted to cover a wide range of ability, from novice to expert... For further information click here... Bird Guides Directory in assocation with GuidedBirding.com List yourself in the Directory of Bird Guides and reach an audience of over 13,000 birders every week! An inclusion for a full year costs only £60.00 ($115.00 US Dollars) per entry. This price entitles you to five* separate entries for the countries in which you are available to offer your services. Profile updates (as and when you wish) are also included within the price plus any additional photographs. How much is this in my local currency? Syria Palmyra Eco-Guiding (PEG) ~ Adeeb Al Assaed, Mahmud Abdallah, Ahmed Jeber Abdallah Contact details: e-mail: damurdoch@hotmail.com (Dave Murdoch, OSME) Tel: N/A Mobile: N/A Fax: N/A Link: (Under Construction) Profile: Palmyra Eco-Guiding (PEG) is a group of three motivated and well trained local guides recently created with the aim of ensuring an income to locals from biodiversity conservation. They have been trained for about 6 years in the framework of a UN-FAO project (GCP/SYR/009/ITA - Website under construction), during which they participated in a major surveying programme aimed at preparing a comprehensive fauna database and high-quality photographic archive. During this survey program encompassing the main four ecosystem of Palmyrean Al Badia (desertic steppe), 1 species of Amphibian was detected and identified, 22 Reptiles, 260 Birds, and 23 Mammals - the survey culminated in the discovery of the so-called lost colony of bald ibis of the Middle East in the Palmyrean Al Badia* The guides of PEG are registered with Transtour Co. Damascus Syria (the major tourist operator in the country), speak English, have experience in dealing with western tourists, operate 4x4 vehicles and have regular driving licence, know very well how to orientate and drive in the desert, have contacts and friends among Bedouin nomads of Palmyrean desert and within all around Syria, know common English names of birds, know major star constellations. Click here for visiting options *see: Surfbirds Wildlife News http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2117624.stm - http://www.osme.org/osme/ibis.html) Also available to Guide in: Syria Only