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Volunteer Field Assistants Needed in Peru - 2010/02/10 06:26
Hi everyone on Trop Birds Forum,
As the Director of Fauna Forever (http://faunaforever.org) and the Principal Investigator of Fauna Forever Tambopata (FFT, http://faunaforevertambopata.org), I am happy to announce several more openings for people interested in assisting on this long-term environmental monitoring project based in the birding paradise of Tambopata in the Amazon rainforest of south-eastern Peru. Fauna Forever is a Peruvian not-for-profit organisation and FFT is one of its flagship projects that has been running since 1997 in intact forests associated with the Tambopata National Reserve and neighbouring buffer zones.
The Fauna Forever Tambopata project team, led by a dedicated group of biologists and conservationists from Peru, USA, UK and South Africa, are currently looking to take-on a number of volunteer research assistants to help with avifauna data collection (using mist-nets, banding/ringing, and timed point counts) and subsequent data analysis.
The following project phase dates are available:
Phase 10.2: 10 Mar - 18 Apr 2010 **
Phase 10.3: 24 Apr - 02 Jun 2010 **
Phase 10.4: 08 Jun - 17 Jul 2010
Phase 10.5: 23 Jul - 31 Aug 2010
Phase 10.6: 06 Sep - 15 Oct 2010
Phase 10.7: 21 Oct - 29 Nov 2010
Note: Volunteer assistants from the international community (outside of Peru) are requested to cover their in-country accommodation, food and transport costs. These costs vary slightly depending on the season, as accommodation is provided by privately-run ecolodges and research stations in Tambopata.
** Discounts available for Phases 10.2 and 10.3 (see website)
Aims
The overall aims of the FFT project are: (i) to understand and monitor the natural and human-mediated fluctuations in animal and plant populations in the Tambopata region of south-eastern Peru; (ii) to contribute to the conservation of the area's exceptional biodiversity; and (iii) to train the next generation of tropical rainforest wildlife and ecology experts.
Affiliations
The FFT project is also affiliated to TReeS-PERU, a Peruvian not-for-profit organisation, and to the Tambopata Reserve Society (TReeS), a UK charity (Charity No. 298054).
For more information about the project and associated costs and conditions, please visit our website: http://faunaforevertambopata.org
Alternatively, please feel free to email the project directly at:
faunaforevertambopata @ yahoo.com
mail @ faunaforevertambopata.org
[in each case, please delete the spaces before and after the @]
Please spread the word far and wide. Many thanks!
Chris Kirkby
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