📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
THE GREEN LOIN
💼 What the programme involves
The focus is purely orangutan conservation and research. Enrichment, husbandry, organic planting as food source, construction, and maintenance of the sanctuary.
The project site is located on a 35-acre island nestled within a 7000-acre freshwater lakeside. It has progressed from being a sanctuary, where visitors experienced first-hand awareness and education on the orangutan, to a recognised ex-situ conservation facility and referral centre for the endangered Bornean orangutan.
The internship project is catered for participants with relevant academic knowledge/study in the fields of veterinary science, animal science, or conservation biology where they are either undergraduates from 2nd year onwards, fresh graduates in the relevant fields, or already started working in animal conservation elsewhere but would like to have an experience in Orangutan Conservation. Activities in the internship are very different as you will be involved in periodical health check, behavioral observation/research, laboratory tests etc. These activities are conducted periodically or at regular intervals.
There are two type of internships:
🏠 Accommodation on site
About the Accommodation
Accommodation in Perak is a hostel dormitory.
Furthermore, there is a refrigerator which you are welcome to use to store food and beverages.
Food Arrangements
Malaysian food is tasty and diverse and you can expect to experience a myriad of flavors and meals during their stay. Typical dishes include wanton noodles (noodles and pork dumplings either dry or soup), nasi goreng (fried rice and vegetables) or roti canai (is a type of Indian influenced flatbread found in Malaysia. Breakfasts are varied and and include toast, cereals, etc. Tea, coffee and purified water is available at the house. We do not recommend that you drink water straight from the tap.
📍 About the location
Taiping is a town located in Larut, Matang and Selama District, Perak, Malaysia. With a population of 217,647, it is the second largest town in Perak after Ipoh, the state capital.
Taiping is a town located in Larut, Matang and Selama District, Perak, Malaysia. Taiping took over Kuala Kangsar”™s role as the state capital from 1876 to 1937, but was then replaced by Ipoh. Its growth slowed down after that, but in recent years the town has been developing rapidly again. Perak State Museum is located in the town.
Taiping also receives some limelight for being the wettest town in Peninsular Malaysia. The average annual rainfall is about 4,000mm in Taiping while the peninsula”™s average is 2,000mm 2,500mm. Its unusual rainfall has also led to a fertile collection of flora and century-old rain trees in the Taiping Lake Gardens.
ℹ️ Additional information
PROGRAMME fee is 630 € for 2 weeks, min duration: 2 weeks -see calendar of starting dates in project description.