Peru- Volunteer Work

If you have 10 days or more to spare, you could take part in our volunteer programme, which offers a special daily rate in exchange for volunteer work. We ask you to work for us for four hours a day; the rest of your time is your own to enjoy bird watching, exploring the local forest trails, relaxing in a hammock...

Activities

Volunteering work is varied and can be arranged to suit your particular interests and abilities; no previous experience is necessary. Volunteer projects could include:

Trail clearing	Painting signs and displays
Animal Welfare	forestry
Mapping	Survey work
Tropical gardening	Cooking
Wildlife Monitoring & Research	Building bridges/ steps/ bird hides
Wildlife Rescue & Rehabilitation	Working on bird / mammal / plant checklists
Translating	Ecotourism

Basic Rate

The basic volunteer rate of USD300.00 (ten days) covers your food and accommodation at Wasai L & E- but does not include transport, guided tours, National Park entrance fees or insurance. If you want you can joint with any of our tourist groups for free as a member of the workers staff.

To get to Wasai L&E from Puerto Maldonado as a volunteer you can therefore time your arrival to coincide with a W. L&E supply boat trip (contact us).

National Park entrance fees: to enter the protected area you need a ticket issued by the Puerto Maldonado office of INRENA (Instituto Nacional de Recursos Naturales). This is important- without this you will not be able to stay at Wasai L&E. If you are traveling to Wasai L&E with a tourist boat their staff can help you with this. You should explain that you are going to Wasai Lodge as a "Voluntario" and you should sign in as such in the checkpoint registration book on your journey up-river. This allows you to enter for a fee currently set at 10 S/. (approx. 3 USD).

Contact

To arrange your volunteer project at Wasai L&E, please contact us any time. To arrange a visit at short notice if you are already in Peru we can be contacted from :

Current projects for 2009 - 2010

• The Oxbow Lake

• The giant river otter reintroduction

• The tapir reintroduction

• The Frog House

• The turtles house

• Macaw Parrot & Parakeet Monitoring

• Mammal Monitoring

• Birds Conservation

• Bio farms

• Forest Structure & Monitoring

• Tambopata Ethnobotany Programm

• Water supplies Pipe lines for the refuge

• Clean energies

• Ecotourism (design net path and Build up refuges and hidden places to observe wildlife)

• Native Fishes reintroduction.

• Monkey reintroduction