Reader Kirsten Joy Harma sent me this volunteer opportunity in Costa Rica.
Good time to go. Hurricane season is over.
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The volunteer opportunity is to learn more about tropical fish and stream ecology in one of the world’s great biodiversity hot spots. The volunteer will learn from ANAI staff and trained parataxonomists from the Cabecar, Bribri, Naso and Ngobe tribes, while participating in hands-on stream surveys and conducting environmental education in Spanish.
Minimum requirements are:
· Availability during all or most of the period Feb. 15 – May 15.
· Functional capability in Spanish.
· Good health and physical condition.
· Own insurance
· Ability to work long hours in a hot climate.
· Work well both in a group and independently.
We provide:
· Lodging at our field station in Hone Creek, Talamanca
and in our San Jose office dormitory
(nights of arrival and departure.)
· Essential in-country transportation
· Food and lodging on multi-day field trips
We don’t provide food, but there are cooking facilities at Hone Creek, and one can live fairly economically.
To apply, write to: billmclarney@gmail.com. If you feel comfortable writing in Spanish, you can also try emailing my colleague Maribel Mafla: mmafla@anaicr.org.
Interested but not sure? Feel free to find out more about the position from a past volunteer: write to kirsten.joy.harma@gmail.com
Check out our website www.anaicr.org for more information.
Thanks!
Dr. William O. McLarney
Director, Stream Biomonitoring Program
”Don’t knock the weather. If it didn’t change once in a while, nine out of ten people couldn’t start a conversation.” - Kin Hubbard (thanks to Faruck Morcos)
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