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Wildlife Rescue & Rehabilitation Center Volunteers Needed

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The experience

As a volunteer/intern at our Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation Center, you will get a hands-on experience with:

🔵 Generalized and specialized care of various native species of birds, mammals, and reptiles of Cyprus

🔵 Rehabilitation of injured wildlife

🔵 Monitoring of behavior and posture of animals in rehabilitation facilities and sanctuary

🔵 Animal health checkups, weighing, ringing, measuring

🔵 Updating admission protocols

What you offer

32 hours of help per week

Animal Care: Help look after and take care of animals.

Additional fee required

Amount: € 30 Per day

Fee pays for: Benefits for travelers, Materials for volunteer activities, and Donation to project

Description: There is no fee for participation in the program itself. Food, accommodation, and other services can be provided to interested participants for a flat fee of 30€ per day (accomodation, supplies for cooking, electricity, water, internet, the use of kitchen and laundry room incl.). Volunteers are also invited to join educational and capacity-building events (workshops, seminars, lectures, fairs), seasonal activities (beach clean-ups), field trips).

What you get

2 days off per week

Shared Dorm: You will have a bed in a shared room, which means you will share the same room with other travelers.

Breakfast: You are entitled to a free breakfast, every day of your stay.

Lunch: You are entitled to a free lunch, every day of your stay.

Dinner: You are entitled to a free dinner, every day of your stay.

Free Laundry: You can use our laundry room freely.

Use our equipped kitchen: Feel free to use our kitchen and make your own delicious food.

Basic Internet Access: Basic speed internet for you to work remotely

Requirements

Intermediate English

Between 18 and 40 years old

Welcomes solo volunteers, couples, and partners of volunteers

What's not included

Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa

Program Details

Each year, hundreds of wild animals are brought into Taşkent Nature Park due to being orphaned, sick, or injured. After the initial admission, they receive specialized, high-quality care, medical treatment, and physical rehabilitation to ensure their safe return to the wild. Our volunteers and interns are involved with multiple aspects related to this process.

As a volunteer/intern at our Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation Center, you will get a hands-on experience with:

🔵 Generalized and specialized care of various native species of birds, mammals, and reptiles of Cyprus

🔵 Rehabilitation of injured wildlife

🔵 Monitoring of behavior and posture of animals in rehabilitation facilities and sanctuary

🔵 Animal health checkups, weighing, ringing, measuring

🔵 Updating admission protocols

🔵 Designing and constructing animal enclosures and enrichments

🔵 Maintaining facilities and grounds to ensure smooth functioning and high standards

🔵 Attending wildlife releases

🔵 As part of the program, participants will join a weekly cleaning session of 1-2 hours, helping maintain the park and its surroundings, support a cleaner environment, and protect our local wildlife habitat through our small contribution.


Apart from native species, volunteers help with the daily care and regular health checks of farm animals and exotic species that are housed on our premises. These animals are frequently brought to our facility due to poor welfare conditions or illegal origin. Our volunteers help to ensure the best possible care to allow them to restore and maintain their species-specific behaviors and good levels of physical and psychological health.

Activities & Shift

This program accepts volunteers all year round. The placements within this program are full-time roles.





Volunteers from this program work 5 full days (8 hours) and have 2 full day offs every week. This schedule is flexible as it reflects the number of students at a given time and the amount of workload. As a standard criterion, students work maximum 40 hours a week.

Rules

The campus of CWRI is is located within Taşkent Nature Park, which is situated in Kyrenia district in northern Cyprus. Our volunteers are provided the accommodation, food, kitchen and laundry facilities, all within the walking distance of the facility’s campus.