Building Skills and Communities through Conservation Action
Building Skills and Communities through Conservation Action
Scottish Wildlife Trust
Castle Douglas, United Kingdom
This activity is closed, you cannot apply.
Description de l’activité
This project will work with 10 long term volunteers from 4 countries (Spain, France, Portugal, Belgium) in protecting biodiversity on our nature reserves, broadening experience by offering the opportunity to work on and experience a broad range of habitats across Scotland. Volunteers will also be involved in enhancing access opportunities and raising awareness of Scotland's natural heritage, thus protecting biodiversity by encouraging local communities to value and conserve their local natural resources. We aim to make volunteers much more employable by providing 12 month placements with varied work experience and training. Examples of activities will be: - Meadow management - targeted cutting and raking of site, control of bracken - Control of non-native invasive species – cutting & hand pulling - Peat bog management - removal of scrub and including installation of plastic dams - Woodland management and restructuring - removal of non native species, felling of timber.Modalités d'hébergement, de restauration et de transport
We will rent private accommodation close to the project location. This may be shared with other volunteers. We will provide a monthly food and pocket money allowance for volunteers to purchase their own food. We provide transport from our project bases in Castle Douglas and Irvine to the worksite and back.Formation pendant l’activité
We provide a range of on the job learning opportunities such as: use of tools, working as part of a group, communication, health & safety awareness, aspects of nature reserve management, learning about different habitats, seeing wildlife in Scotland. There might be the opportunity for more formal certificated skills training.Profil du participant
We are looking for volunteers who are interested in conservation/the environment and who want to undertake outdoor practical work on different nature reserves in the South West and West of Scotland. A desire to work in the environment would be useful. We are looking for enthusiasm, desire, an easy going attitude and an ability to get on with others.Dates de l’activité
Un total de 52 semaine(s) entre 01/11/2021 et 30/11/2022
Lieu de l’activité
Unit 3 Station Road, DG7 1LA Castle Douglas United Kingdom
Nous recherchons des participants venus de
Belgique, France, Espagne, Portugal
Thèmes de l’activité
Environnement et protection de la nature
Date limite de dépôt des candidatures
Pas de date limite de dépôt de candidature