Ecosystem Guides website

This website has gone through a lot of changes.

It took a while, but I originally settled on a website that had reports and pictures of places to see wildlife, such as lodges and nationals parks.  It was a fairly random selection of spots around the world that I just happened to 'get around to'. However, one of the reasons for stopping that direction was that there were many people and websites doing ecotourism and travel. and it didn't require as much specialised knowledge, so anyone could write it, really. I haven't thrown all that work and those pages out, but have kept them here in the 'back of the website' through the 'where to see wildlife page'. Much of it is a few years old now, and travel information tends to go out of date, the spots getting crowded or closed, or lodges or tours shutting down. 

The current focus of this website is now as a field guide to the various ecosystems around the world. This was the original concept of ecosystem guides, as I loved everything within an ecosystem, not just one group, such as the birds or the insects or the flowers, but everything. I also find it so fascinating that unrelated species in seperate parts of the world, but in similar habitats, have evolved in parallel convergent evolution to fill similar niches (and they often even end up looking similar). This field guide approach was put into a series of books, but due to the expense of producing them, and the logistics of moving them around, I have started publishing these as e-books.

The website also includes my paid work related information, including my schedule, and the subjects of lectures and talks I present, mostly on ships. There are also some pages on the more behind the scenes and technical aspects of this website, including the formatting of the taxonomic headings and some of the the reference books used.