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Educational Tours Australia

Educational Tours Australia (ETA) runs nature-based and other educational tours and programmes for schools, universities, colleges, and various special interest groups.

students at a waterhole

Tours and programmes include our 3, 7 & 10 day biology & ecosystems study programme , and our more holiday based activity & sightseeing tour . There are also some "Trip reports" of our previous tours and programmes.

We are a small company with biology and ecotourism qualified staff . When you make enquiries, you will be dealing with the guides directly. Apart from our set itineraries, given enough lead time we can also develop an itinerary for your group that focuses on many different special interest subjects, including ecotourism, birdwatching and geological study. We also hire out Damon Ramsey and Jane Moores to tour companies and organizations as Biology and Ecotourism guides & lecturers.

ETA is based in Cairns (North Queensland) and specializes in what we think is the best part of Australia. However, our itineraries have also included other parts of the country.

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Study Tours

  • Accompanying our biology programmes and tours are the Ecosystem Guide Books. The first in the series, "Rainforest of tropical Australia", has been released. It is available in all good bookstores in Cairns and in souvenir shops and info centres throughout the rainforest areas of North Queensland. If they haven't got it, ask them to order it in! It's RRP is $35.

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Plants

Melstomids
The family includes the genus Tibouchina, which provides the popular garden Lasiandras. Most species are found in the neotropics of South and Central America, but the family is distributed throughout the tropics of the world including Australia.
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Birds

Raptors
There are over 300 different species of diurnal birds of prey, and they are among the most admired of all birds. They feed on other animals by killing or scavenging. 
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Mammals

Bats - general
A group well represented in the tropical rainforests of Australia are the bats. This is one of the most successful groups of mammals in the world, and in Australia there are at least 70 species; almost a quarter of this continent's mammals.
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