Oman Expedition 2013
- At 20/01/2013
- By Lordy
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Oman Expedition 2013
On the 29th January I will depart for the Empty Quarter of Oman, where I’ll lead a team of Members from The British Exploring Society deep into the desert. Our objective is to follow on from the success of last year’s expedition, locating stone age scatter sites, believed to be Nubian Complex, and conducting small mammal surveys in the desert.
After time spent in the desert we will travel across the Dhofar Mountains to Wadi Sayq. There we will continue with our mammal diversity study and the Arabian Leopard Project, working in close collaboration with the Oman Office of Conservation.
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Oman 2012
- At 08/11/2012
- By Lordy
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Oman Expedition 2012 – This was a BSES science expedition in conjunction with the Oman Office of Conservation and the Envionment. The expedition’s aim was to survey the biodiversity of two uniquely different areas and the expedition was therefore split into two
phases.
Phase 1 would be desert based. Our area of exploration would be deep within the Rub Al Khali desert (The Empty Quarter) approximately 20km north of Al Hashman.
Phase 2 would be based in the western Dhofar area where we would establish ourselvesin Wadi Saiq. Whilst there we hoped to conduct a research survey on the critically endangered Arabian Leopard, of which the numbers are reported to be less than 200 spread over the mountainous western Dhofar region and into Yemen.
