Tours together with scientists, talks on board and conservation actions that transform the trip into an experience with purpose
Far to settle for looking at The vessels, The current traveler seeks experiences that really connect it with destinations. In Antarctica, this trend translates into proposals that combine exploration and active participation: tours with scientists, talks on board and conservation actions that transform the trip into a experience with purpose.
During the summer season, between the months of October and March, numerous boats with tourists from all over the world start from the port of Ushuaia to visit the Antarctic Peninsula. The companies that operate these trips offer their passengers a variety of activities, which include navigations in Zodiacs and Kayak, descents in colonies of penguins and historical sites, birds of birds, and camping, among others. Crews on board have expert guides such as polar, historians, photographers and biologists that contribute to enhance the experience of travelers with informative talks during the trip.
In this range of activities that displays Antarctic tourism, polar latitudes has among its proposals a program called Citizen Science, where tourists can observe, participate and collaborate with the work of scientists who perform important research tasks in Antarctica. The Seaveventure ship even has a scientific laboratory on board that can be visited during navigation. Passengers have the opportunity to know the work carried out by organizations such as Happywhale, Oceanities and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Happywhale.com is a global project that aims to identify and track whales around the world. To do this, they invite people to upload photographs such as their platform, where the images are analyzed with AI technology. Thanks to this initiative, in recent years it has been possible to collect a huge and invaluable amount of data that has allowed to implement concrete measures for the protection of marine mammals. Another of the entities that conducted research on humpback whales was Whoi, the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, one of the most important and recognized in its scope. In addition to whales, penguins are another of the most recognized attractions and admired by Antarctic travelers. The landing in Zodiac provides a unique opportunity to passengers to be able to observe closely the Há Bitat and behavior of species such as the Adelie, Papu A, and Barbijo. With respect to the state of these colonies, the Oceanities organization annually performs a penguin count to evaluate its adaptation to climate change in the Antarctic Peninsula. With a growing rise in temperature levels in the Antarctic region, the delicate ecosystem that allows the survival of penguins and their food source, the Krill, is at risk, which is why the monitoring of the colonies is vital to monitor this adaptive process and its consequences.
Although the Antarctic fauna captures much of the attention of tourists, studies related to climate change and the state of the oceans are not less important, such as cloud observation for the NASA Globe program to observe, and the bird’s sighting for the Ornithology Laboratory of Cornell and Ebird.
Source: Ambito
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