Estación Biológica Las Guacamayas 

description
Estación Biológica en el Parque Nacional Laguna del Tigre (PNLT) en San Andrés, Petén 
categories
 
location
 
uses volunteers
Yes 
spanish level
 
minimum volunteer time
volunteer terms

1) VOLUNTEER COORDINATOR:
Salary: volunteer coordinator receives 10% of the money he/she brings into the station through promotion. Includes free boat and car trips.Food not included.
Responsibilities: Bringing new volunteers to the station and setting them up in a program of volunteer work in and around the station.

2) VOLUNTEER:
Cost: Q60 per day includes free boat and car trips. Food not included.
Free for long-term volunteers.
WORK AVAILABLE (Flexible itinerary):
- Monitoring of Guacamayas.
- Scientific study of the white tortoise.
- Water quality survey.
- Working with the communities within the National Park
- Maintenance of buildings, equipment and forest paths. 

During the non-breeding season, volunteers work with our park guards on trail maintenance and general maintenance of the station. They also work in our garden, catalog and label plants in and around the station, and clean our turtle and fish ponds. Further, volunteers are currently developing an interpretive trail and making a map of the station.

needed
 
available resources
 
regular events
 
email
email 2
estacionguacamayas@propeten.org
phone
7926-1370 
phone 2
7926-1141 
address
Calle Central, Flores, Petén 
website
www.propeten.org 
director
 
contacts
Lynn Stabenfeldt, Francisco Moya (cell: 811-3043) 
general information

Con alrededor de 338,000 hestáreas, el PNLT tiene como objectivo ecológico mantener la continuidad del ecosistema que permite la diversidad natural. Su objecto social es garantizar a los guatemaltecos el acceso a los beneficios generados por esa biodiversidad, a través de actividades compatibles con ella.

Programas:
- de investigación
- de capacitación y divulgación
- de establecimiento de convenios
- de recaudación de fondos
- de uso publico 

Generation of scientific data that will help further support the conservation work that is being threatened in the Maya Biosphere Reserve due to petroleum interests, ranching interests, and people seeking land for subsistence farming. Our scientific work includes collecting breeding data for the threatened scarlet macaw, which nests near the biological station (January through June).

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