Suddha Prem Travel

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WILDLIFE CONNECTION is a Mexican organization dedicated to the study and conservation of dolphins and whales. Apart of our research activities and educational efforts, specialized tours are organized to offer general public an opportunity to experience a close contact with nature and its wild animals. In the company of professional biologists you can observe whales and dolphins living in the waters of Banderas Bay, marine turtles laying eggs on its beaches and exotic birds inhabiting the lush tropical forest. These tours, apart of their educational purpose, represent a source of funds for our research and conservation programs. Wildlife Connection is lead by biologist Ma. Eugenia Rodríguez (Maru) and wildlife photographer Eduardo Lugo, who have been doing whale research since 1991 and eco tours and whale watching guides since 1995. 

 

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Maru is graduated from Universidad de Guadalajara and started her research on cetacean since 1994.
Her work and thesis have contributed to a major understanding of hunchback whales at Bahia de Banderas, this has promoted regulating standards of whale observing activities in the country. She did her master´s degree at Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada ( CISESE for its initials in Spanish). Her thesis is about  SPATIO-TEMPORAL ABUNDANCE AND DISTRIBUTION OF BOTTLENOSE DOLPHINS (Tursiops truncatus) UP NORTH OF BAHIA DE BANDERAS, JALISCO-NAYARIT, MEXICO. Nowadays she is the leader of Wildlife Connection and its research projects.

Photographer: Eduardo Lugo.
 
Eduardo Lugo did his studies as a photographer in Mexico City at AGFA institute, Kodak Mexicana and at the university center of cinematography studies where he had Doña Lola Álvarez Bravo as a teacher. He began his career as a photographer in 1982. For ten years he worked mostly for advertising photography and audiovisual production. Beginning in 1987 he also worked on naturalistic photography and he has photographed a remarkable number of species of the Mexican fauna ever since. Since 1989 he has specialized on the photograph and study of dolphins and whales; his work has been published on elementary and junior high school textbooks, in nature related books, several newspapers and the most important magazines of Mexico such as: Mexico Desconocido, Geomundo, Epoca, Amigo, Escala, Vuelo, Homes and Living, Lifestyle, Quo, Vacaciones, Amura and National Geographic. He has participated in more than 10 exhibitions, six out of them on his own and the rest with other photographers.