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From Dev's Desk

July/August 2008

If we would have the time we would write a column every week as so many things are happening in the nature of Langkawi that we would like to share with you. And even after being almost 20 years on the island I am very happy to discover for me new animals. Last month we did teambuilding with various groups. The kayak trip in the mangroves is a great teambuilding activity and one of the groups requested for some extra caving during the kayak trip. In preparation on this activity we thoroughly inspected the cave ourselves and we saw 2 amazing animals. The first was the tailless whip scorpion. This animal may range from 5 to 40mm and their very thin modified legs can extend several times the length of body. This non venomous scorpion is often moving sideways. I was breathless seeing this scorpion for the first time.

Tailless Whip Scorpion	Tailless Whip Scorpion

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May/June 2008

Saving lives has been the order of the last weeks; lives of animals, lives of trees and even lives of human beings. It started a few weeks ago with the commonly heard but very hard to spot blue-winged pitta. This beautifully colored bird is one of Langkawi's residents and lives in the forest. The bird did not see the window of the building I was in and crashed into the window, completely dazed. After a few minutes the bird was ok and could go on and the dizzy minutes gave me the opportunity to make a photo of this bird.

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March/April 2008

In the last weeks we have been extremely busy designing new walks on an island south of Langkawi. Many things are involved in designing a walk, e.g. safety aspects, inventory of animals, mainly birds, studying the flora in the area, etc. But this new challenge is exciting and we hope to succeed in highlighting the environmental aspects here.

More and more requests are coming through Internet and our website which means that our website is well received by a lot of people. We also experience that people tend more to be on an eco-based trip instead of the more commercialized trips. Being in nature and learning more about it, seems to be more popular and that is exactly what our company is providing. All our guides are real nature lovers and we realize that they are a very big asset to our company and a very important factor for our guests to make the trips a success. As we have been growing quite fast in the last months, we are now working with more team members and I would like to take the opportunity to introduce all of them in this column.

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