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Retrospective of our ecovolunteer missions in 2015
Kyrgyzstan, Tibet, Laos, let's discover the ecovolunteer trip on film with this retrospective of 2015. www.around-the-rock.com https://www.facebook.com/AroundTheRock/
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In the land of elephants, but also of Asian black bears.
We arrive in northern Laos on November 3 and head towards Luang Namtha which is within the area of the Golden Triangle, known for its opium traffic. We are surprised to see so many tourists and it does not really delight us. The north is famous for trekking...
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Ecovolunteer Expeditions Kyrgyzstan
We were very proud to be able to organize two expeditions and to have our French eco-volunteers-also supporters of our charity Around The Rock- travel over to Kyrgyzstan. The vice-president and the rangers of the Naryn and Song-Kul reserves were very...
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Winter in Kyrgyzstan
After spending January in Bishkek where we worked on our last film "On the tracks of the Gobi bear," it is time for us to start out again. Indeed, we want to visit reserves in winter, even if it is a period when the Rangers are not active because there...
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Kyrgyzstan - The country of snow leopards
We arrive in Bishkek, capital of Kyrgyzstan at the end of October. This small Central Asian country is renowned for the beauty of its mountainous scenery, Issyk-Kul Lake (which is about 1600 meters above sea level), but also for its wildlife, particularly...
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Wild Camels - Critically endangered specie - Meeting with John Hare
After leaving the team of the GOBI BEAR PROJECT who returned to Ulaanbaatar, we stay one more day in the village where is the administration of the Great Gobi A National Park. The rangers tell us that two French journalists come to the reserve in the...
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Ecovolunteer in Mongolia - Hustai National Park - Przewalski's horses
We arrive at Hustai National Park on July 30th and meet Munkhbat TARAV, responsible for research and communication, who we met previously in Ulan Bator. Bandi, the Director of the park receives us into his office to better understand what we thought with...
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Eco-volunteer program for the rehabilitation of brown bears in Karelia - Russia
When we arrived at Kostomuksha, Yuri, who is the assistant of the association Lupus Laetus, welcomed us and we went to the village of Voknavolok about 50km further north. After following different paths through the forest, we stopped the car on the banks...
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Happy birthday Céline
No big party for my 30 years old birthday, just a day spent in the middle of the russian taïga. In the morning, a group of 24 wild swans was on the river in front of our camp. In the evening, Iouri, my russian father and mother (because he takes very...
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Eco-volunteer program in Bialowieza National Park - Reserve of europeans bisons
We stayed five days in Bialowieza National Park, located east of Poland, near the border with Byelorussia. It has been designated by UNESCO as a World Heritage site. Białowieża Forest covers an area of about 150 000 ha located on the both sides of the...
