Description
Join our volunteer group in 2014, in the home of the orangutan, the Sabangau forest in Indonesian Borneo.
Our 1st group is full but we have spaces in our 7 September-25
October Group. Visit outrop.com/volunteer to apply. These places will be
attributed first come first serve so apply early.
The Orangutan Tropical Peatland Project is looking for volunteers to
help with our conservation and research work in 2014. Our first group
for 2014 is already full and only the second group, 7 Sept- 25 Oct has
spaces left, so apply now to avoid missing out.
OuTrop is a research and conservation organisation based in the
Sabangau forest in the heart of Indonesian Borneo, home to the world’s
largest populations of orangutans and Southern Bornean gibbons.
Volunteers join us for seven weeks to gain first-hand experience of a
tropical forest environment, working alongside enthusiastic Indonesian
researchers, and receiving practical training in field survey skills and
project planning. Our volunteer placements are challenging, rigorous
and fully-participative. You’ll also be bound to see some of the
incredible wildlife that inhabits this special part of the world, from
sun bears to flying lizards and of course the charismatic orangutan in
its natural habitat.
Volunteers also have the opportunity to travel to at least one other
field site on expedition for a few days, where you will put into
practice the survey skills you have learned.
Each year we offer a limited number of students the opportunity to
carry out their own research projects for their BSc or MSc
dissertations. Many of our previous volunteers have returned as
long-term research assistants or gone on to careers and further research
in biodiversity conservation.
OuTrop works at the forefront of primate research in tropical forest
environments. We are affiliated to the Indonesian University of Palangka
Raya, and British universities of Oxford, Leicester and Exeter. We
carry out scientific research on many aspects of orangutan, gibbon and
red langur ecology and on tropical peat-swamp forest biodiversity,
productivity, regeneration and restoration ecology.
How to Apply
Visit our website by clicking on the "view and apply online"
button below to download an application form. Once completed, please
submit this to info@outrop.com and follow the instructions to send us a deposit.
