Borneo Pygmy Elephant and Orangutan Conservation Tour

This is an essential project helping to conserve the highly endangered Pygmy Elephant. Whilst helping out on this programme, you will enjoy an excellent safari-style experience and stay at a very comfortable eco-friendly lodge.

Volunteer Role

You will help to monitor the pygmy elephants movement patterns along the river; investigate elephant/human conflicts and elephant behaviour near to local villages; and make locals aware of the fact that the pygmy elephant is an important tourist attraction and part of their region’s natural heritage.

If you join the Pygmy Elephant Conservation project you will make a significant contribution to the preservation efforts of keeping this species alive by doing the following tasks:

Collecting crucial data on the migration patterns of Pygmy elephants (Elephas maximus borneensis)
Come into close proximity with Pygmy elephants and see proboscis monkeys, wild orang-utans, hornbills and other enthralling birds and animals found almost entirely in Borneo.
Visit an orangutan haven and observe their feeding periods.
Take a trip to Kinabalu National Park at the bottom of the highest mountain summit in South East Asia, Mount Kinabalu.
Help with talks on issues related to pygmy elephant conservation.
Enjoy the experience of a river safari, learn survival skills for the jungle
Offset the CO2 travel emissions you created by helping with a tree planting program as part of a local forest renewal programme
Help to encourage local eco-tourism and generate the local economy

Location

The project is located on the Lower Kinabatangan, at Sabah, Borneo.

Accommodation and meals

For the first night you will stay in dorm-style hostel accommodation in Kota Kinabalu. For the last two nights of the project you will stay in similar accommodation based in Sandakan.. During the volunteer placement, your accommodation facilities will be at a peaceful and serene eco-lodge, situated along the river of Lower Kinabatangan, Sabah. Your meals at the co-lodge will be buffet style, normally delicious Malay cuisine.

Programme Overview

Duration: 2 weeks £999 (optional extra beach week - £289)

How to book & pay:
£195 deposit, the balance is due 12 weeks before departure.

What is included?
Being met at Kota Kinabalu Airport
All accommodation and meals
All transfers
Visit orangutan rehabilitation
Trip to the Mount Kinabalu
English speaking guides
9 nights Elephant Conservation
Presentation and Talks

What is not included?
International flights
Local flights
Traveller’s insurance
Alcoholic beverages
Personal expenses
Optional extra beach week

Programme Summary
The Kinabatangan rain forest, is home to sunbears, hornbills, orang-utans, proboscis monkeys and the pygmy elephant. The programme is focused on conserving the pygmy elephant
Other voluntary work in Malaysia

Programme dates: The start date is the 6th of selected months: February, March, April, June, September, October & December 2009.

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