“The pain of discipline is nothing like the pain of disappointment” ― Justin Langer
Prepare » The essentials: preparing to create anticipation and minimize our impact.
Preparing appropriately for your nature visit, travel, or volunteer mission is key. It involves some discipline but does not necessarily come with pain (or only if you want it to be). Quite the opposite! Knowing that we prepare diligently to maximize our experience and contribution is rewarding. It creates anticipation and excitement.
The EwA staff has a wealth of personal+professional experience and questions from nature/wildlife watchers and travelers. The guides are designed to help you gain nature and conservation awareness, simplify your journey preparation if you’re traveling, and ensure that you have all the basics (and security/safety criteria) covered. This increases your satisfaction when you’re over there – in your local park or wildlife facility and anywhere else, including in the boons in a faraway land. This accounts for the satisfaction that we will please our host(s) while minimizing our environmental impact. A win-win situation for all!
Our Prepare Guides
🔎 Travelers & Volunteers Essentials ⎆
The EwA Traveler & Volunteer Essentials is a guide to help us prepare diligently for our nature visit, volunteering journey, and/or wildlife travel. It focuses on our safety and the safety of the people and wildlife around us. It also helps to prepare “mind, body and travel-logistically” for this adventure of a lifetime. [ Goto Guide » ]
🔎 Conservation Fieldwork Essentials ⎆
The EwA Conservation Fieldwork Essentialshelp us scientists, wildlife managers, and anyone studying natural habitats fulfill our responsibilities to the scientific community, our duties to the public and wildlife welfare, and our obligations to species and ecosystems. [ Goto Guide » ]
🔎 Wildlife Documentation Photography Essentials ⎆
The EwA Wildlife Documentation Photography Essentials is a guide to help take pictures for the purpose of identifying species. This is different than taking souvenir pictures or producing a perfect art shot. To avoid the disappointment of not being able to identify later that amazing plant or creature you found because you did not photograph the correct part, here are a few tips to get the right identification shots… [ Goto Guide » ]
ⓘ iNaturalist is an online social network of naturalists. The platform can facilitate participatory science based on the concept of mapping and sharing observations of biodiversity across the globe. iNaturalist may be accessed via its website or from its mobile applications. [ Goto Guide » ]
🔎 Zoo Evaluation Essentials ⎆
The EwA Zoo Evaluation Guide is a comprehensive guide to help zoo and animal sanctuary enthusiasts, and animal rescue volunteers prepare for their visit to a facility hosting wild animals so that they can objectively evaluate the welfare of the hosted animal and push when necessary for better living conditions of animals in captivity. [ Goto Guide » ]
Prepare » The essentials: preparing to create anticipation and minimize our impact.