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Volunteering opportunity for students: come to the home of the orangutan, Indonesian Borneo

Volunteers join us for seven weeks to gain first-hand experience of a tropical forest environment, working alongside enthusiastic Indonesian researchers, and receiving practical training in field survey skills and project planning. Our volunteer placements are challenging, rigorous and fully-participative. You’ll also be bound to see some of the incredible wildlife that inhabits this special part of the world, from sun bears to flying lizards and of course the charismatic orangutan in its natural habitat.

Volunteers also have the opportunity to travel to at least one other field site on expedition for a few days, where you will put into practice the survey skills you have learned.
Each year we offer a limited number of students the opportunity to carry out their own research projects for their BSc or MSc dissertations. Many of our previous volunteers have returned as long-term research assistants or gone on to careers and further research in biodiversity conservation.
OuTrop works at the forefront of primate research in tropical forest environments. We are affiliated to the Indonesian University of Palangka Raya, and British universities of Oxford, Leicester and Exeter. We carry out scientific research on many aspects of orangutan, gibbon and red langur ecology and on tropical peat-swamp forest biodiversity, productivity, regeneration and restoration ecology.
To apply and find out more, visit our website outrop.com, or e-mail info@outrop.com.
 
Regular updates on our work in the field can also be found on our project blog outrop.blogspot.com. And you can follow us at fb.com/outrop and twitter.com/outrop. 
The Orangutan Tropical Peatland Project
Mon 16 Dec 2013, 09:22

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