THE KING COBRA ECOLOGY AND CONSERVATION PROJECT

The Agumbe Rainforest Research Station (ARRS) is currently recruiting volunteers for the radio telemetry part of the King Cobra Ecology and Conservation project (KCEC). This project consists of implanting king cobras with transmitters and tracking them, using receivers, through their natural habitat to learn about the habits, biology, and conservation of these remarkable creatures.

The primary questions to be answered involve foraging patterns, home range, habitat utilization, diet, interaction with other king cobras and, hopefully, recording nest building, nest maintenance and attendance by the females.
There will also be spells of free time at the field station when field work won’t be continuous so the volunteers will use this time for other tasks. They will assist with other ongoing projects at ARRS, help in photo documentation of surrounding flora and fauna and help the ARRS staff with basic maintenance of the field station and so on.
Food and accommodation will be provided with basic amenities. The volunteers will be living at our field station near the village of Agumbe, in the midst of the rainforests of southern India’s Western Ghats.
Primary criteria for selection are that candidates should be physically fit for field work, willing to work during challenging weather conditions, passionate about conservation and willing to commit to a minimum volunteering period of 1 month.  

Slots are open from April 2018, onwards.



For Details Please mail
operations@agumberainforest.org