Wildlife Rehabilitation Intern. (Boyce, Virginia), USA

Job Description: Three month summer internship rehabilitating rescued wildlife at the Blue Ridge Wildlife Center, a wildlife hospital and rehab center located in Boyce, VA.

Interns will:
1.Assist with care and feeding of injured and orphaned native wildlife.
2.Learn captive diets, husbandry, and handling techniques for a variety of native mammals, birds, and reptiles.
3.Learn threats to native wildlife in developed areas including those posed by humans, their pets, environmental toxins, and wildlife disease.
4. Keep records on all patients and enter data.
5. Assist with wildlife rescue and release.

Qualifications: College student or graduate with an interest in wildlife rehabilitation and conservation, human-wildlife conflict, and animal husbandry.

Must be physically fit and enthusiastic about hands-on experience working with wildlife.

Salary: none, housing available

Last Date to apply: March 15, 2012

Website: http://www.blueridgewildlife.org
Contact: Heather Sparks
E-mail: info@blueridgewildlife.org(Preferred)
Phone: 540-837-9000

Fund Raising Officer for Mediterranean Marine Research, Malaga, Spain

This position is open within the framework of a Convention, signed in May 2011 between the four following partners: ACCOBAMS (Agreement for the Conservation of Cetaceans of the Black and Mediterranean Seas), the Agency for Marine Protected Areas (France), the Regional Activity centre for Specially Protected Areas (RAC/SPA, UNEP-MAP) and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).

Unit: Centre for Mediterranean Cooperation
Location: Centre for Mediterranean Cooperation, Malaga, Spain
Reporting to: Marine Conservation Programme Manager
Expected start date: 01 January 2012
Type of contract: Fixed-term (until 31 December 2013)
Closing date: 25 December 2011


More detail: https://hrms.iucn.org/iresy/index.cfm?event=vac.show&vacId=301&lang=en

Oficial Técnico (Sixaola) - Unidad Gestión del Agua, Costa Rica

La Unidad de Gestión del Agua de la Oficina para Mesoamérica y la Iniciativa Caribe (ORMA-IC) de la Unión Internacional para la Conservación de la Naturaleza – UICN tiene como propósito promover la gestión integrada de cuencas hidrográficas, a través de la generación de capacidades y conocimientos, y motivando la implementación de buenas prácticas que mejoren la calidad de los ecosistemas e insten a la gobernanza del agua.

De esta forma, la Unidad ejecuta proyectos que buscan un equilibrio entre la conservación y el uso sostenible de los ecosistemas, tomando en cuenta las necesidades de las poblaciones y sus medios de vida. Uno de sus principales intereses es el de crear las condiciones sociales, políticas, institucionales y ambientales necesarias para que se garantice en la región el acceso justo y equitativo al recurso hídrico entre los diversos usuarios del agua; busca el empoderamiento de actores locales y motiven la conformación de plataformas de participación para la gestión integrada de las cuencas. En el tema de cambio climático se enfoca en el posicionamiento de la gestión integrada del agua como eje estratégico para la adaptación al cambio climático, resaltando las oportunidades de las soluciones basadas en los ecosistemas.

La unidad de Gestión del Agua implementa varias iniciativas concretas que le permiten avanzar en el cumplimiento de sus propósitos en relación al tema de gobernanza:
• Gobernanza del agua para la adaptación al cambio climático, financiado por la Iniciativa Internacional del Clima (ICI) del Ministerio de Ambiente y Seguridad Nuclear de Alemania (BMU)
• Hidrodiplomacia y gobernanza de aguas compartidas, financiado por la Agencia Suiza de Cooperación al Desarrollo (SDC)

Actualmente la Unidad de Gestión del Agua de ORMA-CI busca una persona para cubrir el puesto de Oficial Técnico para integrar su trabajo en la región mesoamericana y el Caribe y apoyar particularmente la implementación de los proyectos mencionados.


Infortmación detallada para la aplicación: https://hrms.iucn.org/iresy/index.cfm?event=vac.show&vacId=304&lang=sp

Field assistant hummingbird research Costa Rica

Job Description:
We are seeking highly motivated and qualified individuals for participating in a study on visual and acoustic signals and social status in the Neotropical hummingbird long-billed hermit (Phaethornis longirostris). This species forms leks (courtship assemblies) of 9-20 males, in which individuals interact using a variety of acoustic signals and visual displays (ww.youtube.com/watch?v=VeuzTytGwG8). The position will involve at least a 8 week period of full-time work during the spring-summer of 2012 (from Feb-Aug) at La Selva Biological Station, Costa Rica. Food and lodging but NO SALARY will be provided.
Field assistant will be responsible for their own travel costs. The assistant will work with mistnetting, song recording, playback experiments and behavioral observations, gaining hands-on experience working with birds. This position represents a good opportunity to improve knowledge and research skills for undergraduate students interested in tropical avian ecology and behavior research. Applicant must be self-motivated, responsible, adventurous, in good physical condition, like working in teams and independently, and be comfortable working in high temperature, mosquito clouds, and snake-inhabited dense vegetation areas. Interested students should submit 1) curriculum vitae, 2) contact information of two references and 3) a cover letter to Marcelo Araya-Salas: maraya AT nmsu.edu. The cover letter must describe any previous research and contain a brief statement explaining your interest in obtaining research experience in these areas.

Salary: NO SALARY

Last Date to apply: January 7, 2012

Contact: Marcelo Araya
E-mail: marceloa27@gmail.com(Preferred)
Phone: 5753121327