Reserve Managers
Positions: 2016
Ecuador: Reserva Las
Tangaras
Seeking qualified
couples for:
January through March, 2016
April through June,
2016
Life Net seeks a
capable couple with backgrounds in wildlife management, property management,
ecotourism, conservation biology, or related fields to steward and live at
Reserva Las Tangaras, a private cloud-forest protected natural area in western
Ecuador. Dates are somewhat flexible, but must overlap with out-going stewards
by at least two days. An 88 day commitment is typical due to the readily
available visa of 90 days. Longer service is an option, but stewards must to
obtain appropriate visas on their own. The next openings are apx: January 6 -
April 4, 2016 and April 2 to June 29, 2016.
Applicants with
skills in leadership, nature interpretation, and avian field biology are
prefered along with being handy at carpentry, home repairs, and applied natural
area stewardship skills. Managers maintain trails, signs, make repairs and
maintain the reserve cabin and its water system, sustain small organic gardens
and agroforestry, and further what previous managers have done including
conservation research, ecotourism promotion and services, and outreach to the
local community.
Las Tangaras is a
49-hectare natural area purchased to provide habitat for native plants and
animals, especially protecting them from illegal hunting and collecting. As a
buffer property on the edge of the Mindo-Namibillo Bosque Protector, Reserva
Las Tangaras provides additional habitat for wildlife at elevations typically
deforested for agriculture, and more recently, development for poorly regulated
and designed adventure tourism.
At Las Tangaras we
encourage light levels of visitation by bird-watchers, nature enthusiasts,
photographers, and conservation biology researchers/students. Contributions
from visitors partially sustain the reserve. Managers should be capable with:
1. Hosting
nature-oriented guests and visitors
2. Hosting volunteer
programs and student trainings related to nature reserve stewardship
3. Maintaining all
trails on the reserve and entrance bridge
4. Improving
trail(s) and signage from Nambillo Road to Las Tangaras (with local
landowner's permission).
5. Sustaining
gardens and orchards, including and doing tree planting to attract birds and
for human use.
6. Writing monthly
reports, basic financial accounting, updating and recording data
7. Managing and
contributing to a blog, completing Excel data sheets, and doing emails
regularly
Life Net seeks
well-educated, mature, very physically fit, and responsible couples with strong
interests and/or educational backgrounds in reserve management, nature
conservation, tropical ecology, birding, sustainable agriculture, ecotourism,
environmental education (all or some) to steward the very bio-diverse nature
reserve.
The reserve is an
incredible place to live, and research and photographic opportunities abound.
Life Net monitors and researches bird communities, and stewards and visiting
scientists and students continue to describe plants, insects, hummingbird
community dynamics, avian community structure in different forest types, and
avian indicator species in mature tropical montane forest.
Duties include,
reserve improvements and stewardship, care of trails, marking of trails, water
system upkeep, septic system upkeep, managing mule transport of gas tanks,
maintenance of a large cabin, care and use of tools, equipment, research
materials, and inventory and upkeep of a small library. Options exist to
develop visitation and earn additional income providing services to visitors.
Qualifications include ability to communicate well in Spanish, one person with
a university degree in a topic related to the position, related experiences
with wilderness biology field work in the tropics, interests in research and
nature interpretation, experience with guiding nature or birding tours, simple
bio-regional living experiences, wilderness, leave no trace camping ethics,
carpentry, plumbing, and building skills, financial management experience,
business sense, etc.
Next position begins
around January 6, 2016.
Send cover letter,
resume, and 3 easily contactable references to Dr. Dusti Becker at
dbecker@lifenetnature.org
Life Net Nature |
520-384-3886 | dbecker@lifenetnature.org| http://lifenetnature.org
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