Chantel holds degrees in Marketing and Environmental Economics from Wageningen University and consequently had a career in environmental and project management back in The Netherlands. Her 2nd career began in 2006, when she moved to Greece. During those first years she worked for Birdlife Greece, WWF Hellas and an inbound tour operator.
With her experience in nature conservation, fundraising, and the travel industry she started Natural Greece in 2013. Thus, creating a team of like-minded professionals who want to make a “nature positive” impact.
Vassia is the Travel Operations Specialist who keeps her cool in the turbulent world of travel! She focuses on handling reservations for tours, meticulously coordinating schedules, and ensuring a smooth booking process for clients. Leveraging her strong attention to detail and organizational skills, she streamlines procedures, manages resources effectively, and enhances overall efficiency in reservation management. With her expertise in tour logistics and client satisfaction, she plays a crucial role in upholding the company’s standards of excellence and contributes significantly to the success and growth of Natural Greece.
Armed with a Bachelor’s degree in Physics from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, she is also expanding her horizons with studies in Sociology at Panteion University, Athens.
Tasos was born and raised in Thessaloniki, the 2nd largest city of Greece. He is a local researcher who spent years exploring historical and natural sites, aiming to unravel mysteries and formulate new hypotheses. He has been working as a tour leader ever since 2011.
He finds joy in evoking emotions and fostering deep understanding among visitors. His favorite destination is Northern Greece, where nature and culture converge, always offering surprises. He considers his binoculars indispensable for wildlife and landscape observations.
Argyro is the purposeful Operations & Sustainability Coordinator of the office team. Her academic credentials include an MSc in Bioeconomy, Circular Economy & Sustainable Development, and a BA in International and European Studies, both from the University of Piraeus.
As a Sustainability Coordinator she is managing and improving our social and environmental impacts by complying with sustainability criteria. The ultimate goal is to become a Travelife Certified business and reach excellence in Sustainability.
Her career spans a variety of roles that include sustainability research, reporting, and participation in sustainability projects. She has significant experience in customer-oriented roles, reservations management, and content creation for various platforms.
David has a knowledge of Greece’s flora and fauna that is simply mind-blowing! Passionate naturalist with a travel bug. His career is spanning over 20 years. All these years he has been dedicated to promoting the wildlife of Greece. David is a versatile professional, as he is not only a journalist, he is also an illustrator, photographer, author, editor, and naturalist guide. He is the author of the scientific field guide “Fishes of Greece,” featuring his very own illustrations of over 500 fish species!
Furthermore, he is managing the online catalogue of Greek wildlife Natura Graeca, showcasing more than 6,000 images of flora and fauna. His travels have resulted in numerous discoveries published in 76 scientific papers.
Christos was born in Athens, in 1985. His passion for Nature started at a very early age, when he would spend hours snorkeling and observing the underwater world. Later he became a diver and started to study systematically the underwater world. Because of this passion of his, he slowly started delving into the work of Natural Photography, taking pictures and monitoring various underwater species.
Since then, he became interested in all Natural aspects, starting to photograph Birds, Reptiles and then Mammals, Insects and Wildflowers. Today, he is mostly interested in Mammals, Marine animals, Reptiles and particularly Nocturnal animals. He has been a diver for 9 years and an avid Birdwatcher for the past 6 years.
Dimitra was born in Athens, in 1993. She has had a fascination for Nature, be it flora or fauna, from a very early age. As a natural consequence, she completed her studies in Biology and graduated from the National Kapodistrian University of Athens, with an orientation towards the fields of Ecology and Zoology. In 2020 she obtained a Post-Graduate Diploma in International Wildlife Conservation Practice at the University of Oxford.
Dimitra has been volunteering for many environmental NGOs, both in Greece and abroad. She has participated in field monitoring of many species, having a keen interest in cetaceans and birds. Nowadays, she collaborates professionally with the Greek wildlife charity Callisto, that protects big land mammals like wolves and bears. Apart from field monitoring, she also offers environmental education for children of various ages.
Dimitra could share stories of Greek Nature with you in fluent Greek and English, as well as in good French and Italian. She is willing to give you some secrets in Spanish and in Portuguese but only if you are patient!
Lavrentis Sidiropoulos was born in Drama, N Greece, in 1981. He has been taken with birds since his childhood and after finishing a theology degree in Aristotle University in Thessaloniki he got a BSc in ecology and conservation in Manchester Metropolitan University, soon to be topped by an MRes from Imperial College London. He has been active in raptor monitoring and conservation in Northern Greece in the past 10 years from Evros to Epirus and has been part of the Egyptian Vulture Conservation Life+ program field team for Hellenic Ornithological Society. More recently he has been involved in the Lesser White Fronted goose program also, as well as bird monitoring in various National Parks in the North. He has a keen interest especially in raptors and particularly the golden eagle in North Greece. He is a Ph.D. Candidate at the Department of Biological Applications and Technologies, University of Ioannina.
He speaks Greek and English fluently.
George was born in Cyprus in 1988, where he first started birdwatching as a teenager. He was always fascinated by nature and wildlife, so just after the end of his army duty in Cyprus he moved to Thessaloniki to study forestry and environmental management, at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He has since travelled to many parts of Northern Greece, visiting most of the wetlands and mountains of the region. He now resides in Kerkini village, just next to Lake Kerkini, where he has become involved in the Lesser-White Fronted Goose conservation program and the monitoring of other birds and wildlife, in collaboration with the National Park Management Authorities. He also now leads birdwatching tours in Lake Kerkini National Park and to others parts of north Greece. He leads a couple of tours each year in Cyprus as well. George is an excellent birder and general naturalist, with a keen interest in mammals and reptiles.
Chantel holds degrees in Marketing and Environmental Economics from Wageningen University and consequently had a career in environmental and project management back in The Netherlands. Her 2nd career began in 2006, when she moved to Greece. During those first years she worked for Birdlife Greece, WWF Hellas and an inbound tour operator.
With her experience in nature conservation, fundraising, and the travel industry she started Natural Greece in 2013. Thus, creating a team of like-minded professionals who want to make a “nature positive” impact.
Vassia is the Travel Operations Specialist who keeps her cool in the turbulent world of travel! She focuses on handling reservations for tours, meticulously coordinating schedules, and ensuring a smooth booking process for clients. Leveraging her strong attention to detail and organizational skills, she streamlines procedures, manages resources effectively, and enhances overall efficiency in reservation management. With her expertise in tour logistics and client satisfaction, she plays a crucial role in upholding the company’s standards of excellence and contributes significantly to the success and growth of Natural Greece.
Armed with a Bachelor’s degree in Physics from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, she is also expanding her horizons with studies in Sociology at Panteion University, Athens.
Tasos was born and raised in Thessaloniki, the 2nd largest city of Greece. He is a local researcher who spent years exploring historical and natural sites, aiming to unravel mysteries and formulate new hypotheses. He has been working as a tour leader ever since 2011.
He finds joy in evoking emotions and fostering deep understanding among visitors. His favorite destination is Northern Greece, where nature and culture converge, always offering surprises. He considers his binoculars indispensable for wildlife and landscape observations.
Argyro is the purposeful Operations & Sustainability Coordinator of the office team. Her academic credentials include an MSc in Bioeconomy, Circular Economy & Sustainable Development, and a BA in International and European Studies, both from the University of Piraeus.
As a Sustainability Coordinator she is managing and improving our social and environmental impacts by complying with sustainability criteria. The ultimate goal is to become a Travelife Certified business and reach excellence in Sustainability.
Her career spans a variety of roles that include sustainability research, reporting, and participation in sustainability projects. She has significant experience in customer-oriented roles, reservations management, and content creation for various platforms.
David has a knowledge of Greece’s flora and fauna that is simply mind-blowing! Passionate naturalist with a travel bug. His career is spanning over 20 years. All these years he has been dedicated to promoting the wildlife of Greece. David is a versatile professional, as he is not only a journalist, he is also an illustrator, photographer, author, editor, and naturalist guide. He is the author of the scientific field guide “Fishes of Greece,” featuring his very own illustrations of over 500 fish species!
Furthermore, he is managing the online catalogue of Greek wildlife Natura Graeca, showcasing more than 6,000 images of flora and fauna. His travels have resulted in numerous discoveries published in 76 scientific papers.
Christos was born in Athens, in 1985. His passion for Nature started at a very early age, when he would spend hours snorkeling and observing the underwater world. Later he became a diver and started to study systematically the underwater world. Because of this passion of his, he slowly started delving into the work of Natural Photography, taking pictures and monitoring various underwater species.
Since then, he became interested in all Natural aspects, starting to photograph Birds, Reptiles and then Mammals, Insects and Wildflowers. Today, he is mostly interested in Mammals, Marine animals, Reptiles and particularly Nocturnal animals. He has been a diver for 9 years and an avid Birdwatcher for the past 6 years.
Dimitra was born in Athens, in 1993. She has had a fascination for Nature, be it flora or fauna, from a very early age. As a natural consequence, she completed her studies in Biology and graduated from the National Kapodistrian University of Athens, with an orientation towards the fields of Ecology and Zoology. In 2020 she obtained a Post-Graduate Diploma in International Wildlife Conservation Practice at the University of Oxford.
Dimitra has been volunteering for many environmental NGOs, both in Greece and abroad. She has participated in field monitoring of many species, having a keen interest in cetaceans and birds. Nowadays, she collaborates professionally with the Greek wildlife charity Callisto, that protects big land mammals like wolves and bears. Apart from field monitoring, she also offers environmental education for children of various ages.
Dimitra could share stories of Greek Nature with you in fluent Greek and English, as well as in good French and Italian. She is willing to give you some secrets in Spanish and in Portuguese but only if you are patient!
Lavrentis Sidiropoulos was born in Drama, N Greece, in 1981. He has been taken with birds since his childhood and after finishing a theology degree in Aristotle University in Thessaloniki he got a BSc in ecology and conservation in Manchester Metropolitan University, soon to be topped by an MRes from Imperial College London. He has been active in raptor monitoring and conservation in Northern Greece in the past 10 years from Evros to Epirus and has been part of the Egyptian Vulture Conservation Life+ program field team for Hellenic Ornithological Society. More recently he has been involved in the Lesser White Fronted goose program also, as well as bird monitoring in various National Parks in the North. He has a keen interest especially in raptors and particularly the golden eagle in North Greece. He is a Ph.D. Candidate at the Department of Biological Applications and Technologies, University of Ioannina.
He speaks Greek and English fluently.
George was born in Cyprus in 1988, where he first started birdwatching as a teenager. He was always fascinated by nature and wildlife, so just after the end of his army duty in Cyprus he moved to Thessaloniki to study forestry and environmental management, at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He has since travelled to many parts of Northern Greece, visiting most of the wetlands and mountains of the region. He now resides in Kerkini village, just next to Lake Kerkini, where he has become involved in the Lesser-White Fronted Goose conservation program and the monitoring of other birds and wildlife, in collaboration with the National Park Management Authorities. He also now leads birdwatching tours in Lake Kerkini National Park and to others parts of north Greece. He leads a couple of tours each year in Cyprus as well. George is an excellent birder and general naturalist, with a keen interest in mammals and reptiles.
