ABOUT CONSERVATION WORK
Play a meaningful role in helping to preserve threatened
and endangered species.
You don’t need
any qualifications, just a love of animals and nature. You can help in
many, many ways, for example, by making a hammock for a monkey in captivity or sitting in a
hide in the bush observing the behaviours of the elusive leopard. Your
work might
involve washing an orphaned elephant under palm trees or walking the
African plains with baby lion cubs to help prepare them for eventual
release.
With around 25
very different conservation projects around the world, and over 11 years
of experience, Travellers can help you to make a direct and immediate
difference. Our projects are situated around Africa, Asia and South
America, and the
variety of projects is vast. You may want to work hands-on in
rehabilitation work such as with Orang-Utans in Borneo’s rainforests, or
you may want to learn the survival skills of the bush and get involved in
important conservation research. You might instead want to don some
flippers and head under the sea to explore precious marine life species.
The choice is
the hardest bit! You can work with monkeys,
elephants, horses, apes, crocodiles, frogs, plants, dolphins, the great
white shark, leopards, rhino, tortoise, coral, reptiles, birds, fish and,
well, pretty much any species you’re interested in - exciting stuff!!
The type of work varies
depending on the project and country you choose. We have projects which
include aspects of the following: interaction & play, field research,
safaris, washing, feeding, preparing food, observation, night watches,
creative psychological stimulation for the animals, cleaning duties,
enrichment projects, releases into the wild, diving, trekking, darting,
learning, educating, photographing, building, painting and much more
depending on the requirements of the project.
Whatever you find
yourself doing, it will be worthwhile and satisfying. The consequence of
your contribution, the bond you develop with nature and the memories that
you’ll take home with you, are immeasurable and they last a lifetime. Make
a difference - get involved!
CONSERVATION MATTERS… NOW!
Travellers appreciate the urgent need to
educate the people of today about our world’s endangered species and
eco-systems. The people who need educating on the importance of conservation
are consumers in the Western world, the local people who live close to
wildlife, and local authorities and councils who have the power to protect
their immediate environment but not the knowledge of how sacred our
endangered species are.
We are actively involved in many important
conservation initiatives around the world. We believe that protecting our
animal species and our planet is of vital necessity. Taking action and
increasing awareness now is necessary for our future generations. If action
is not taken immediately, the repercussions in a generation or two will be
cause for global emergency. By then, however, all of nature’s precious
resources will have been used up, destroyed by the fundamental problem of
human greed and a critical lack of awareness.
According to the World Conservation Union (IUCN),
15,589 species of animals and plants are threatened with extinction and many
ecosystems – wetlands, forests – are being degraded and destroyed…
The World Conservation Union, along with its
affiliates, is vigorously promoting scientific research into eco-systems.
What is needed urgently, however, is to spread awareness and to educate the
world. There is no better way to do this than to send motivated and
conscientious people like YOU out into the wilderness to absorb and
appreciate nature at its most glorious, and at it’s most vulnerable.
Travellers promotes and enables first-hand experience and education of
conservation issues for everyone and anyone who cares. Creating interest and
an awareness of conservation amongst people is critical… as critical as the
hands on help in research, rehabilitation and animal welfare development
that you physically provide on these placements.
TRAVELLERS' CONTRIBUTION TO WORLD
CONSERVATION:
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Identifying worthwhile conservation work around the
world that requires hands on assistance and/or funding assistance
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Implementing conservation projects around the world
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Continuously monitoring the work to ensure that it
provides adequate support, structure, comfort and satisfaction for the
volunteers
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Continuously seeking to ensure future development of a
worthwhile program.
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Providing structured and safe conservation projects for
inexperienced volunteers with an interest in conservation
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Marketing these opportunities to make people aware of
how they can help despite time or money restrictions
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Recruiting self-funding volunteers from around the
world
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Providing and arranging the opportunity of short-term
work in established conservation roles for paying volunteers (meaning no
cost at all to the projects, because their funds are limited and need to
be retained for purely conservation aims)
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Ensuring valuable, worthwhile work that develops the
volunteer, the animals and the local community (a win-win-win situation!)
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The Phil Perkes Trust, established
to honour Phil Perkes', Travellers' Co-Founder whose wish was to
help the less advantaged, provides valuable funding towards meaningful
projects in conservation for each and every volunteer that does a
Travellers’ placement.
Just some of Travellers donations to worthy conservation
causes (see also Making a Difference) include:
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Supporting the staff and the work of the Endangered
Species project in South Africa during a financially troubled time in
order to continue its valuable research into endangered species in Africa
and allowing volunteers to continue to help with this crucial work. - It’s
the little things that matter.
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Continuous donations per volunteer to Sepilok’s
Orang-Utan Rehabilitation Centre in Borneo, plus additional donations to
the Orang-Utan Appeal
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Enabling research and education by sponsoring the
Director + team of Sri Lanka’s Zoo to attend an international symposium in
the UK on zoological enrichment.
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Funding the medical care programme for all the staff at
Colombo Zoo.
If you care about Conservation, if you
would like to learn more or leave your mark on the earth...
Make a
Difference... Get involved!
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