Help create a sustainable future for the Amazon rainforest - Become a 6 month Intern, OFFER
ORGANIZATION: crees foundation
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crees is a leading Educational Centre located in the Amazon Rainforest. We offer six month internships which are designed to help recent graduates, and career breakers develop specific career skills in Conservation Research and Project Management. Interns gain a wealth of knowledge and experience in scientific monitoring techniques and conservation research in a tropical forest. You also get the opportunity to work with local communities creating biogardens and agroforestry plots, which enable local people to live sustainably and in harmony with the forest. The internship is split into three phases. A 10 week volunteer phase where you will be introduced to all our projects and receive extensive training. A 2 week Cusco phase that involves a week of Spanish lessons and a homestay with a Peruvian family, followed by a free week to do as you wish. And a 12 week Work placement phase where you will gain theoretical knowledge and practical skills in Conservation Research. You will act as a field team member and will run your own project (assigned by the intern coordinator).
Skills you will gain:
* Knowledge and experience of a range of scientific monitoring techniques including camera trapping, visual encounter surveys, butterfly trapping, mammal and bird clay lick monitoring, mammal track identification, avian mist netting, amphibian and reptile pitfalling and lots more!
* Gain valuable leadership and management skills through running your own project
* Biological survey planning
* Assessment of risk and supervision of health and safety in the field
* Data management
* Species identification
* Handling and processing of specimens including amphibians, butterflies and reptiles
* Environmental impact assessment
* Emergency first aid training and certification
For further information please visit our website: http://www.crees-manu.org/internship/ and please email info@crees-manu.org to enquire about our current OFFER!
More opportunities with crees foundation
No additional volunteer opportunities at this time.
About crees foundation
Location:
7/8 Kendrick Mews, London, SW7 3HG, GB
Mission Statement
Our aim is to create a sustainable future for the Amazon rainforest by providing sustainable solutions to the environmental, social and economic issues faced by the Amazon and its people.
Description
We have a dual approach: Conservation Research with a focus on the rainforest, and Sustainable Initiatives to work with local communities.
Through our conservation research we seek to answer 2 key questions, how much could regenerating rainforest contribute to sustaining and conserving rainforest life in all its diversity? And what is needed to maximise the contribution of regenerating rainforest to sustainable futures for tropical forests in both in the Amazon and globally?
We strive to create a realistic long-term model for protecting the bio-diversity of the rainforest; one that fully involves the people who live here.
This means encouraging and providing support for sustainable ways of making a living from the rainforest. Rather than feeling the pressure to exploit their environment, we want the local communities to realise its importance as a long-term resource, vital to their prosperity.
This has to be a collaborative effort. On the one hand developing education programmes, on the other, building up enterprises that involve local know-how and harness global concern.
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
Manu Learning CentreAlto Madre de DiosCusco, B5Peru
DATE POSTED
February 17, 2017
SKILLS
- Environmental Education
- Environmental Science
GOOD FOR
N/A
REQUIREMENTS
- 6 months