We opened our Brown Bear watching hide on the 15th April and the first week has been quite good. Our camera traps near the hides have captured Brown Bears, Foxes, …
Alutaguse Forest Camera – live!
As people from all over the world are told to stay at home, we may actually have a relief for boredom and not being able to go out. There’s now …
Our new sister company ActivEST and many new tours in 2020
Since last year, we divided our tours into 2 parts. The ones that are emphasizing on nature tours (e.g birdwatching) are run by NatourEST, and more active- and family-oriented tours …
Bear Forest project and how NaTourEst offsets your flight emissions
Our touring season ended in October and now it’s a good time to make some conclusions and write a bit more about our Alutaguse Bear Forest project. In 2019, 177 …
Brown Bears are waking up from hibernation
The first migrating birds, such as Cranes, Starlings, Northern Lapwings and Greylag Geese, arrived some weeks ago and today morning, the air was already filled with Woodlark songs. In most …
Grouse in Estonian autumn
The year of the Western Capercaillie is ending in about a week. Now it’s a good time to look back at some of the encounters we had with this forest …
Some positive notes for Estonian forests and biodeviersity
Today it was announced that the Estonian Naturalist’s Society (LUS) is leading a project which aims to carry out the inventory of Woodland Key Habitats (WKH) in Estonia and to …
Alutaguse – Estonia’s youngest national park
We are happy to announce that Estonia has now one more national park – Alutaguse. The idea of establishing Alutaguse National Park was already considered at the beginning of 1920s, …
New winter guests have arrived
The thermometer has shown degrees below zero now for more than a month. One night the thermometer on one of our tracking cameras even showed -31°C. This means that all the …
A rare encounter with the Western Capercailllie
The first month of the year has flown by, bringing snow and temperatures below zero. Watching the snowstorm behind the windows of our NaTourEst office in Tallinn, it feels a …
