Having worked as field biologists and wildlife researchers in Botswana for the last 10 years, the directors of ESA have an extensive portfolio of contacts and friends in the research world. These contacts along with our own expertise, mean that we can provide you with, or put you in touch with, the right people to provide some of the best ecological advice in southern Africa. If you want to talk to, or get advice from, local experts in your field, then we can advise you as to whom these people might be and try to arrange for you to contact the best person.

We can provide you with details of the following experts

• In house advice from people with extensive research, guiding and filming experience.
• Local contacts including predator researchers, herbivore research, bird research, botanical and hydrological research to provide on the spot, detailed scientific advice.
• Cultural experts.
• Local characters without academic qualifications, but amazing and extensive ecological and local general knowledge.
• Reliable and up to date information on conditions in the parks related to wildlife movements, floods, access and seasonal highlights!
• Filming advice from local film makers with decades of experience filming within Botswana.
• Diving advice from local diving experts.
• Flying advice from some of the best bush pilots in Africa, many with extensive filming experience
• Driving and camping advice, where to and how to.