Project Focus: Tanzania Wildlife Tracking and Community Adventure

Moving away from Fiji in the South Pacific, today we journey to East Africa to tell you about the amazing community and conservation work being carried out by Frontier in this beautiful part of the world. In this concluding day of our project focus week, you'll learn exactly what we've been up to on our fantastic Tanzania Wildlife Tracking and Community Adventure project and see what you could get involved in.

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Opinions: A Great Opportunity to Get Yourself Published

Are you a budding journalist? Do you have something to say about the environment or travel? Do you want to get published on a popular blog? Our brand new ‘Opinions’ feature could be just the opportunity you’re looking for.

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VOLUNTEER INTERVIEW: ALEX SHIELDS – COSTA RICA & FIJI

Today on Into the Wild we are continuing our focus on Frontier projects by speaking to Alex Shields, past and future volunteer with Frontier. Alex travelled to Costa Rica last year to take part in our popular Big Cats, Primates and Turtles project, featured on the blog on Monday. Alex is currently planning a trip to Fiji next year, to volunteer on our Medical Project in Suva.

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Frontier Style: Frontier-project runway

This week's Into the Wild blog has had us looking into the work of our main projects, but here on Style it's not so much a question of what they 'do' as it is a question of what to 'bring'...

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PROJECT FOCUS: FIJI MARINE CONSERVATION & DIVING

On Monday we told you all about the fantastic work going on in Costa Rica. Today we move away from Central America and into the South Pacific, home to the idyllic islands of Fiji and the Frontier Marine Conservation and Diving project. Read all about our work here, and find out why it’s one of our most popular project destinations.

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Valuing the Arc – How to Put a Financial Value on an Ecosystem

The research carried out by Frontier is frequently used in scientific studies. Today we speak to Neil Burgess, Programme Coordinator of the ‘Valuing the Arc’ project, which aims to attach a financial value to the ecosystem of the Eastern Arc Mountains in Tanzania, relying on data collected by Frontier since we started working there in 1989.

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PROJECT FOCUS: COSTA RICA BIG CATS, PRIMATES & TURTLE CONSERVATION

This week on Into the Wild we will be enlightening those interested on some of the important scientific research carried out on three of our main projects: Costa Rica, Fiji and Tanzania. Here at Frontier we pride ourselves for the high standard of survey work carried out in the field, and we thought this would be a great opportunity to let everyone know what we have recently discovered.

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Frontier Wildlife Photography Competition 2011: Winning Entries

Today is the day we’ve all been waiting for: the announcement of the winning entries to the Frontier Wildlife Photography Competition 2011. Thanks to everyone who submitted photos, we’ve enjoyed seeing your shots and really appreciate the hard work and skill that has gone into capturing them. A quick look through the entries on our Facebook page shows what a difficult task we were faced with in selecting the winners.

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ADRENALINE ADVENTURES: TOP FIVE ALTERNATIVE EXPERIENCES

Our Hox-Pop questions on Tuesday brought up some interesting adventure experiences: sky surfing, extreme ironing and freerunning were amongst the extraordinary activities people were eager to try out. To conclude our week of adventure sports, today we present our top five weird and wonderful experiences from around the world:

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FRONTIER STYLE: Thrill seek chic

With so many adrenaline junkies, hardcore hikers, thrill seekers, and so on, paying so little attention to their appearance, it is sometimes easy to slip into the common misconception that style and practicality aren’t the best of friends. It is our duty to reunite the two so that one day in the future we will have a world in which bungee puts the ‘jump’ in jumpsuit and skiing puts the ‘ski’ in skinny jeans.

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ADRENALINE ADVENTURES: ALAIN “SPIDERMAN” ROBERT

Today we are profiling extreme adventurer and environmentalist Alain Robert, dubbed as the ‘human spiderman’ for his love of climbing urban skyscrapers, usually without safety equipment or climbing aids.

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Adventure Sports - 5 Amazing Diving Experiences

Escaping into a submarine world is a truly amazing experience. With so many different types of dive available around the world, there's plenty to get excited about. Here's the Frontier guide to a few of our favourites.

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