5 years ago I spent the best 3 months of my life herping in the Amazon.
It was with a volunteer project called Fauna Forever Tambopata and its aims are (i) to understand the changes in wildlife species diversity and abundance over time and whether human activities are responsible for these changes; (ii) to understand the ecotourism industry in Tambopata and how it may be influencing both the wildlife populations and also the economic value of wild nature.
There is a project ever 5 years and a project is broken into 4 x 3month phases. There is a mammal, bird and of course a herp team.
For the herp team, it is basically, head out into the jungle everyday and catch, record data and release every herp you can in the study area.
Well the time has come for another project. They are currently accepting volunteers.
If you have the freedom to go away for a few months and have the experience off a lifetime, I can't recommend this enough.
http://www.faunaforevertambopata.org/
For those with facebook: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=695345586&ref=profile#/group.php?gid=3408512757&ref=mf
I was actually on Aussiepythons where myself and Basketcase found out about this. You may still be able to dig up some of the old forums.
It was with a volunteer project called Fauna Forever Tambopata and its aims are (i) to understand the changes in wildlife species diversity and abundance over time and whether human activities are responsible for these changes; (ii) to understand the ecotourism industry in Tambopata and how it may be influencing both the wildlife populations and also the economic value of wild nature.
There is a project ever 5 years and a project is broken into 4 x 3month phases. There is a mammal, bird and of course a herp team.
For the herp team, it is basically, head out into the jungle everyday and catch, record data and release every herp you can in the study area.
Well the time has come for another project. They are currently accepting volunteers.
If you have the freedom to go away for a few months and have the experience off a lifetime, I can't recommend this enough.
http://www.faunaforevertambopata.org/
For those with facebook: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=695345586&ref=profile#/group.php?gid=3408512757&ref=mf
I was actually on Aussiepythons where myself and Basketcase found out about this. You may still be able to dig up some of the old forums.