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ABOUT US |
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Ecotours de México is a small, family owned and operated
Eco- Travel and Adventure Tour company founded by Astrid Frisch and Karel Beets,
a young and enterprising Mexican couple interested in providing a different option
for traveling around Mexico. She's a biologist, he holds a degree in hotel management
and is currently working on his master's degree in sustainable development.
We
started operating in 1991, which makes us pioneers among the eco- tour operators
in the country, and we were also founding members of the Mexican Association of
Adventure Travel and Eco-tourism (AMTAVE).
We have led tours for international
associations such as the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), the American Museum of Natural
History in N.Y; the Saint Louis Zoo, and the National Wildlife Federation.
At
Ecotours de México, we offer a different option for people who are interested
in having a new and unique experience, who want to learn about the places they
visit and are concerned about nature and conservation.
In order to provide
this, we rely on a team of great guides; expert biologists and naturalists in
charge of offering personal and professional attention on every one of our Eco-
tours.
Our tours are run based on the premise that you can't love that
which you don't know, and we truly hope that after traveling with us you'll definitely
share in our knowledge and our love for nature.
We hope we can share our
next Ecotour with you!!.
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ECOTOURS & CONSERVATION |
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Being an authentic eco- tourism company, we have our own
ongoing Humpback Whale research project since 1997. We have been working on a
photo-identification project on the Humpback Whale population that visits the
Bay of Banderas each year. Also, Astrid is the person who represents whale watching
companies before the states of Jalisco and Nayarit at the Interstate Committee
for the Surveillance, Protection and Conservation of the Humpback Whale in Banderas
Bay. You go, girl! She works actively and fervently on the enforcement and dissemination
of the whale watching law in the area in collaboration with local and federal
authorities.
Ecotours is also involved in the Sea Turtle conservation
program. With more than three hundred sea turtle protection camps run by the government
all over the Mexican Pacific Coast, donations are very important to keep the camps
running. We have been working as volunteers at different turtle camps in Michoacán
and Oaxaca since 1990, and since 1998, we have been making donations and funding
scholarships for the volunteers working at the main Turtle Camp in Banderas Bay.
We believe education to be of utmost importance, and our staff frequently
takes part in seminars at schools and universities in the area. We have also been
invited to speak at several local, national and international tourism and eco-
tourism conventions, and we were the 2002 and 2003 organizers of the Banderas
bay Humpback Whale Symposiums, as well as helping to put together and lecturing
on humpback whales at the 2003 SOMEMMA (Mexican Society for the Study of Marine
Mammals) reunion.
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