Field Assistants for research in St Lucia

Name of Organisation: Durrell
Volunteer Position: Field Assistants
Time Commitment: Six Months
Description of duties: * Detection and removal of an establishing population of invasive alien iguanas that have escaped into the wild in the South West of Saint Lucia and threaten the genetic integrity of Saint Lucia iguanas (in the North East of Saint Lucia) through hybridization and competition.
* Baseline research on community-based sustainable resin tapping from lansan, a globally threatened tree species endemic to the Eastern Caribbean.
* Management of a translocated meta-population of the endemic Saint Lucia whiptail lizards on several of Saint Lucia's offshore islets.
Contact details: Follow this link; http://www.durrell.org/How-to-help/Join/Recruitment/St-Lucia-Volunteer-Field-Assistant/