1. Biodiversity Initiative

Biodiversity Initiative is our NGO committed to rainforest exploration education, ecology and ecology in Equatorial Guinea and beyond. The Equatorial Guinea Bird Initiative is one several of our projects.

Check out our website: www.BiodiversityInitiative.org

The Biodiversity Initiative is featured on the cover of Audubon Magazine!

Audubon Magazine has half a million subscribers in print and 2 million online!

Our Kickstarter project was fully funded! Click the image below to view the video. Thanks to all the generous pledges. We'll be back doing research in EG again this winter.

Want to follow our progress?

Please "Like" us on Facebook! https://www.facebook.com/biodiversityinitiative

Our Facebook page is loaded with more information and sweet wildlife photos.

By "liking" us, you'll be tracking our progress on this exciting project.

Detail on Equatorial Guinea

Not to be confused with Guinea, New Guinea, or Guinea Bissau, Equatorial Guinea is a Massachusetts-sized Spanish-speaking country in the heart of the Congo Basin in West Africa. Can you see that little maroon rectangle between Cameroon and Gabon? That's it!

But why are we so interested in this place? Because the jungle wildlife there is absolutely spectacular, and poorly known by scientists. It's one of the few places on earth that you could still see an African Elephant run out of the jungle to take a bath in the ocean. On the other hand, because of recently-discovered offshore oil reserves, Equatorial Guinea has become the richest country in Africa by GDP - richer than South Korea, Russia and Brazil, which resulted in a massive wave of development of virgin rainforest - the home of Gorillas, Chimpanzees, and many, many spectacular birds. The birdlife in Equatorial Guinea is particularly poorly known; though the country's list of bird species stands close to 400, we estimate that the real number may be hundreds larger.