VOLUNTEERING PROGRAM WITH MARINE MAMMALS IN ECUADOR
BACKGROUND: FEMM (Fundación Ecuatoriana para el estudio de Mamíferos Marinos), is a private, non-profit and volunteering organization. We have been working on research and conservation for 30 years to benefit Marine mammals: bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) and humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) mainly and in recent years with marine-coastal protected areas to preserve their habitats.
We need volunteers to help us to support projects and activities related these marine mammals and marine coastal protected areas. The main areas of work are related to research, conservation, sustainable management, environmental education, ecotourism and policies. We expect that volunteers could be involved in conservation, education, administrative, social media/web, and fundraising work and other activities.
The volunteers collaborate in the marine mammals researchs in both field work (photo-identification, measure of parameters, gps, collect the behaviour, group size, etc.) and office work (data collection, edition and analyse the data that we got). Beside volunteers help in the networking promotion, fundraising for the research projects and the administrative work.
Volunteers will live and work together so they will share accomodation, house tasks different ways of thinking, different cultures and experiences.
WHERE: Santa Elena and Posorja, Ecuador
WHEN: The bottlenose dolphins of the area that we study they are always in their habitats so we do field trips during all the year. The humpback whale season is between June and Septembre. Beside we have office work to analyze all this data all the year.
FEES: There are two different volunteering pograms:
- Paid volunteering: a minimum of 1 month is required. Is More information in the link below.
- Free volunteering: for those volunteers who want to stay more than 6 months.
The benefits in both programs are the same: accommodation on special requirements and condition basis, two meals per day (lunch and dinner) and the field trips. With part of the money of the paid volunteering we can do this field work trips. We have a donation program as well for the people who would like to help.
PROCEDURES: applicants can check all the information of FEMM and apply here: https://www.givingway.com/organization/femmecuador
When this application is done is required a CV and a cover letter (why do you want to come, which are your personal and professional interests). Once this process is done we will check all the information and we will proceed to make a videoconference interview by Skype.
Contact:
· email: femmecuador@gmail.com
· Phone/ Whatsapp: +593 999892591
· Skype: pedro.ecuador peterjoe01@yahoo.es
· Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FEMMECUADOR/
· Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/femmecuador/
· Twitter: https://twitter.com/FEMMECUADOR