Hiring Organization:
Volunteer Latin America
Date Posted:
2012-08-19
Position Description:
This
project rescues injured, orphaned, and displaced wild animals and
provides them immediate medical care, rehabilitation, and eventual
release into the wild.
Howler monkeys are a specialty and one of the serious problems they face
in Costa Rica is electrocution via unshielded power lines and
transformers.
The injuries resulting from the monkeys grasping the uninsulated
electrical lines or transformer leads are gruesome, painful, and often
fatal. If an animal does survive, it will be severely burned and likely
to lose a hand. Many females have babies in tow when injured. If the
infant doesn't die from electrocution, or the fall from the high lines,
then they have to try to survive, injured, orphaned, and abandoned in
the jungle.
In order to improve survival odds and prevent these injuries the project
is currently exploring ways of discouraging Howler Monkeys from coming
into contact with live and deadly power lines until they can be changed
to insulated ones.
What is needed right now is someone to oversee a small 'proof of
concept' project. In a nutshell, the organisations involved (Refugio
Animales de Nosara and SIBU Sanctuary) want to create silhouettes of
life sized turkey vultures out of recycled rubber which they would hang
on the guide wires of electric poles as they are a natural enemy of
Howler Monkeys.
The impact could be huge with communities all over the country
participating in the manufacture and placement of these silhouettes in
areas where the Howlers are being electrocuted.
Albeit, it's only a temporary fix but the organisations involved see
this as the best course of action outside changing the uninsulated power
lines and transformers to insulated ones.
Qualifications/Experience:
Anyone wanting to help with suitable skills
Comments:
If
you have any questions or want to apply please visit the Volunteer
Latin America Facebook page for the contact details:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Volunteer-Latin-America/473957055948018
Contact
Information:
Office 1728
London W1A 6US
United Kingdom
Telephone Number:
+44 (0)20 7193 9163
Website:
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