Earlier this week, I completed an interview with herpetologist and rainforest explorer Dr Paul S. Hamilton of Reptile and Amphibian Ecology International (RAEI).
RAEI is a non-profit organisation that accepts volunteers and interns for scientific expeditions in the rainforests of Ecuador and runs various wildlife photography courses in the Amazon rainforest. Their website is www.reptilesandamphibians.org/ . RAEI has been in the news a lot lately because of this press release , which talks about new species they discovered on a recent trip to Ecuador. 30 new species of frog and a new snake species, to be precise.
Dr Hamilton told me about these new rain frogs and snail-eating snake that were discovered on his most recent trip to the Amazon, Ecuador's exceptional biodiversity and about RAEI's new study area- the Rio Bigal Biological Reserve- in the North West of the country.
I am happy to say that the interview is due to go on sale in the UK in Practical Reptile Keeping magazine in the next couple of days.
As usual for Practical Reptile Keeping, in the UK, you can get a copy in J. S. Sainsbury's supermarkets, W.H. Smiths and high street newsagents. International subscriptions are available from [here].
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I have seen this magazine in Smiths and have found your interviews really interesting.There are some very interesting people out there with some really unusual animals/pets. Makes keeping a dog or cat seem almost boreing.
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