Operation Wallacea is a biodiversity conservation research organisation. For more than 30 years it has run field expeditions to support the research of hundreds of academics and is funded by tuition fees paid by students.
More than 700 papers in peer reviewed journals have been published from the research programmes and 82 new species to science have been described by their work.
They run field sites during the summer in Croatia, Honduras, Indonesia, Madagascar, Mexico, Peru, Romania and South Africa. Students can join to help with the monitoring effort and gain first hand field experience living and working in remote and beautiful locations.
They also run a course in the United Kingdom, currently at the Knepp Estate in West Sussex. This course allows students to learn about current field techniques in UK ecology as well as networking with like-minded individuals.
Last updated: December 2025.