📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Caucasus Nature Reserve is a Russian ’zapovednik’ (strict ecological reserve) covering a heavily mountainous section of the Northwest Caucasus Mountains. It is the largest and oldest in the territory of specially protected natural area in the Caucasus, having been created in 1924 as the Caucasian Bison Reserve. In 1979, the site was named a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve, and in 1999 included in a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The area is situated in the Mostovsky District of Krasnodar Krai, covering an area of 280,335 ha
💼 What the programme involves
Preparation of a tourist shelter "Fisht" and tourist route "Through the mountains to the Black sea" for the summer field season:
- coloring and installation of information signs, markings, and enhancing trails;
- refreshing and installation of the tourist infrastructure (pergolas, decks for tents, picnic areas and other landscaping).
Before the start of each tour season state inspectors and reserve staff are on all routes and shelters and prepare them for the reception of tourists. But this is a large amount of work that requires time and human costs. That is why the help of volunteers will be very important and necessary.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Campground and mountain huts. Bathhouse on all cordons: showers at the shelter "Fisht", outdoor toilets, there is NO running water and hot water. At different points the food is organized in different ways: a fire, a gas stove; volunteers prepare according to the schedule. Food and utensils are provided.
📍 About the location
Volunteers will have opportunity to go on a legendary route through the mountains to the sea; access to radial exits to the mountains, glaciers and Alpine meadows.
A visit to the Laura cordon – rope Park, the area zoo, the nature Museum; excursion to the yew-boxwood grove; bathing in the Black sea; tour of the tea plantations.
ℹ️ Additional information
Volunteers have to be in good physical condition, motivated to work in mountain conditions