Corporate Solutions are sponsoring places on a Biosphere Scientific research expedition, run in association with the Carpathian Wildlife Society.

The expedition to the Nizke Tatry mountain area of Slovakia, will monitor critically endangered chamois (mountain goat) populations and their interrelationship with large predators, such as wolves and bears. This is the first-ever concerted effort to ascertain how many chamois, wolves and bears live in the area and whether wolves and possibly bears are predating heavily on chamois. If the expedition's work can help to show that wolf and bear predation on chamois is not primarily responsible for the current chamois decline, then this is likely to help prevent large-scale hunting of wolves and bears in the area.

Managing Director, Dermot Browne, says of the expedition: "Corporate Solutions has been performing ethnographic studies in the workplace for many years. It will be interesting to see if our skills transfer to the wild. Our team members will survey chamois by direct observation on the alpine meadows and cliffs, and record their signs, such as tracks, scats and markings. They will also track and record the sign of wolves and bears in the high mountain habitat and forests below. Such opportunities are invaluable in reinforcing our commitment to the environment, and we are pleased to help our employees make a difference."

Watch this page for updates from the research team. More information on biosphere and its research can be found at www.biosphere-expeditions.org