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| Organization | Madidi-Travel |
| website | http://www.madidi-travel.com |
| Country | Peru |
| Program Costs | $0 |
| Duration | 1 month + |
| Room & Board | $300 |
| Language Requirements | English and Spanish |
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Madidi Travel is an institution that emerged from Eco Bolivia Foundation,
creators of the Madidi National Park, please see the National Geographic
magazine cover story on Madidi of March 2000, a story for which we were the
exploratory team and which recognizes our contribution in creating Madidi
National Park, the protected area with the greatest biodiversity in the world.
Madidi Travel currently needs very motivated and committed volunteers to help
consolidate Serere, a 4000 hectare area in floodplain (varzea) rainforest, an
area on the Beni River (Amazon headwaters) with four lakes, and a wide variety
of eco systems, flora and fauna.
Volunteers are needed for the following:
1. Translation: our staff is made up of indigenous persons from the Madidi
Mosaic who have deep knowledge of the rainforest, but who do not speak foreign
languages. Translators are needed to accompany our guides in the tours to help
them transmit their knowledge. If the volunteer can commit for an extended
period, the volunteer could also teach English to the local staff.
2. Administration: volunteers are needed to help administer the lodges in the
protected area as well as our office in the town of Rurrenabaque from which
Serere is provided with all its needs. Volunteers rotate between Serere and
Rurrenabaque.
3. Marketing: Volunteers are needed to help us develop our marketing nationally
and internationally. We are particularly weak in the area of marketing through
internet, so people with these skills could contribute enormously.
4. Protection, monitoring and inventory of flora and fauna, and re-introduction
of fauna: volunteers are needed to monitor and inventory the flora and fauna of
the reserve. We are currently initiating a collaboration with the Senda Verde
animal refuge so that we can re-introduce the fauna that is in condition for
this to their natural habitat in Serere. Volunteers would get to know the
animals and their management in Senda Verde, and then bring them to Serere where
they would instruct our staff on their management and assist in their
re-introduction to the wild.
5. Cooks: we are establishing a café/cultural center in Rurrenabaque with the
objective of giving local youth more access to culture and healthier values, and
we have food services in our protected area of Serere. We seek cooks with
experience in the preparation of healthy food, leaning toward vegetarian. |
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