Wildlife conservation in Tanzania
| country: | Tanzania |
| departures: | This trip can be tailor made at a time to suit you between August and November |
| price: | From £1795 - £1895 (10 days) excluding flights |
| vouchers: | Gift vouchers can be used with this holiday |
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introduction to Wildlife conservation in Tanzania
Working with experienced field team leaders, you will spend your days bumping along the dusty roads of Tarangire National Park and Manyara Ranch (dry season), or Simanjiro Plains (wet season), looking for zebras, giraffes, and wildebeest. In some locations, you will also do surveys on foot. Once a herd is found, you will note the location using GPS, record the number of adults and foals, and photograph each animal for identification. You'll also record the locations of kill sites and collect grass samples. Back at camp, you'll help download digital images, enter data, and match individual photographs of animals against a database of known animals. Your daily briefings will include short lectures on the ecology of the research site. In the evenings, you will have time to relax and enjoy the scenery at camp. On your recreational day, you might venture into town or visit open-air markets.
You will stay in a tented camp that has a kitchen, a communal dining area, sleeping quarters, solar-heated showers, and private toilets. Two volunteers will each share an upscale tent, outfitted with single beds, mosquito nets, chairs, and kerosene lighting. An experienced camp cook will prepare meals of local favourites and western-style meals, including meat stews, pastas, and sandwiches.
6:30 am: Wake up and eat breakfast
7:30 am: Prepare lunches to take into the field
8:00 am: Depart for the field and commence field activities
12:00 pm: Lunch in the field
12:45 pm: Continue field activities
5:30 pm: Return to camp
6:45 pm: Dinner
7:30 pm: Briefing for next day’s activities and/or lecture
You will stay in a tented camp that has a kitchen, a communal dining area, sleeping quarters, solar-heated showers, and private toilets. Two volunteers will each share an upscale tent, outfitted with single beds, mosquito nets, chairs, and kerosene lighting. An experienced camp cook will prepare meals of local favourites and western-style meals, including meat stews, pastas, and sandwiches.
a day in a life of a volunteer
Please be aware that schedules can and do fluctuate due to weather, research needs, etc. Your cooperation and understanding are appreciated. Below is an example of a typical work day.6:30 am: Wake up and eat breakfast
7:30 am: Prepare lunches to take into the field
8:00 am: Depart for the field and commence field activities
12:00 pm: Lunch in the field
12:45 pm: Continue field activities
5:30 pm: Return to camp
6:45 pm: Dinner
7:30 pm: Briefing for next day’s activities and/or lecture
volunteer travel - what's it all about?
Are you looking for an adventurous trip with a purpose, or on a gap year or career break? If you want to make a difference in some of the world’s most important conservation areas - and in community projects - then volunteer trips are for you! Volunteers tend to have a sense of adventure, and come from a range of different backgrounds and from all over the world. Edward Abbey said 'sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul'.
how this holiday makes a difference
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Tarangire National Park contains the highest known diversity of migratory ungulate species of any park in the world. Yet this spectacular migration is under severe threat. The field activities that you will be conducting are central to understanding why many migratory ungulate species are declining in the Tarangire. We hope that this research will provide a scientific basis for developing strategies to conserve this and other large migrations in this region.
There is an environmental policy for this expedition and sustainable practices are implemented wherever possible. These include addressing issues of resources, waste, water, energy, biodiversity, together with adhering to ‘leave no trace’ principles. This project employs local people and supports the local economy. We are a not-for-profit international environmental organisation committed to conserving the diversity of life on earth and the world’s natural resources in order to meet the needs of current and future generations. On any one of our many projects around the world you are certainly not a tourist. You will be working as a field assistant helping world renowned scientists on real environmental projects, and learning about conservation issues. We give people the knowledge and the motivation to do something positive towards helping the environment, regardless of experience and background. The data that you will help to collect will be used to inform conservation decision makers around the world. Since 1971 our research has led to: We are aware that many people travel to their project by air and recognise the impact of this on the environment. In an effort to minimise this, we have teamed up with an organisation that offsets emissions from your flights by funding renewable energy, energy efficient and forest restoration projects around the world. As an environmental organisation, we recognise that our day-to-day operations have an impact on the local, regional and global environment. We have an environmental policy which outlines our commitment to continuous improvements in our environmental performance. We have developed an Environmental Management System based on the guidelines and standards set out in ISO14001 and the Global Reporting Initiative, in order to measure our performance against agreed targets to deliver our environmental policy. These include: paper usage, recycling, responsible travel, carbon offsetting, green energy providers and many more environmental and social principles that form a continuous thread throughout our whole operations. Main image courtesy of Rowena Millard. |
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